FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone answer why Woodson has three community representatives on the BRAC, when the school has about the same number of students as McLean and South Lakes? If any school should have three representatives, it seems like it should be Chantilly, not Woodson.

I asked FCPS through the website and got no response. You could ask the FCPS office of the Ombudsman, but that office is overseen by Lisa Youngblood Hall who was involved with the manipulated process for selecting BRAC members, so good luck.

Crazy retelling of that story. Those great falls Nextdoor people are unhinged.

DP. Can you explain it then? If you are going to assert it is crazy, please let us know what happened with #35.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Not just on Nextdoor anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Online AP classes for kids forced to attend IB is not equitable. Online is an inferior option and should not be the option offered kids who have no say in what their school offers.

I agree with AP online. I’m saying if they made all AP available at ALL schools, that would decrease the transfer loophole.

The language could be online for those with smaller interest groups vs again, using that as an excuse to transfer out of an undesirable school.

Bring valued base education to all schools, offer online options for niche languages.

This is a problem. Giving families a little flexibility should not be seen as a de facto provision of an "escape route."

If FCPS shuts down this flexibility out of a desire to "trap" children in their zoned schools/pyramids, perhaps they should ask themselves why a kid would want to "escape."

This flexibility is what has caused an exodus at lower performing schools. Bring equitable programming to all. Besides, staying at your home base helps “keep communities together”

FCPS could certainly standardize offerings across all schools. No schools with more AP classes than the others, different languages etc.

Make each school exactly the same as the others.

We don't want any school to be "better," "worse," or at all different from any other.

I agree. And we are at an 8/10 school. I would like to see standardization across the board.

Great, then we can just have a whole bunch of 5/10 schools. Yay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone answer why Woodson has three community representatives on the BRAC, when the school has about the same number of students as McLean and South Lakes? If any school should have three representatives, it seems like it should be Chantilly, not Woodson.

I asked FCPS through the website and got no response. You could ask the FCPS office of the Ombudsman, but that office is overseen by Lisa Youngblood Hall who was involved with the manipulated process for selecting BRAC members, so good luck.

Crazy retelling of that story. Those great falls Nextdoor people are unhinged.

DP. Can you explain it then? If you are going to assert it is crazy, please let us know what happened with #35.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Not just on Nextdoor anymore.

And, there are other activists selected besides Rigby and Hall. One has an awful social media site with over the top comments on political and social issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone answer why Woodson has three community representatives on the BRAC, when the school has about the same number of students as McLean and South Lakes? If any school should have three representatives, it seems like it should be Chantilly, not Woodson.

I asked FCPS through the website and got no response. You could ask the FCPS office of the Ombudsman, but that office is overseen by Lisa Youngblood Hall who was involved with the manipulated process for selecting BRAC members, so good luck.

Crazy retelling of that story. Those great falls Nextdoor people are unhinged.

DP. Can you explain it then? If you are going to assert it is crazy, please let us know what happened with #35.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Not just on Nextdoor anymore.

Kyle McDaniel, quoted in the article, is such a slimy little toad. He minimizes every FCPS screw-up as some type of rounding error. I wonder if he’d be similarly tolerant of errors by flight engineers before he flies his airplane.

The guy has no absolutely business serving on the School Board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Online AP classes for kids forced to attend IB is not equitable. Online is an inferior option and should not be the option offered kids who have no say in what their school offers.

I agree with AP online. I’m saying if they made all AP available at ALL schools, that would decrease the transfer loophole.

The language could be online for those with smaller interest groups vs again, using that as an excuse to transfer out of an undesirable school.

Bring valued base education to all schools, offer online options for niche languages.

This is a problem. Giving families a little flexibility should not be seen as a de facto provision of an "escape route."

If FCPS shuts down this flexibility out of a desire to "trap" children in their zoned schools/pyramids, perhaps they should ask themselves why a kid would want to "escape."

This flexibility is what has caused an exodus at lower performing schools. Bring equitable programming to all. Besides, staying at your home base helps “keep communities together”

FCPS could certainly standardize offerings across all schools. No schools with more AP classes than the others, different languages etc.

Make each school exactly the same as the others.

We don't want any school to be "better," "worse," or at all different from any other.

I agree. And we are at an 8/10 school. I would like to see standardization across the board.

Great, then we can just have a whole bunch of 5/10 schools. Yay.

If you knew anything about the current GS methodology, that prospect likely would not concern you at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone answer why Woodson has three community representatives on the BRAC, when the school has about the same number of students as McLean and South Lakes? If any school should have three representatives, it seems like it should be Chantilly, not Woodson.

Hampton? They managed to find one of the few Langley parents who has spent years arguing in favor of changing Langley’s boundaries and stuck her on the BRAC along with Hall and Rigby.

I asked FCPS through the website and got no response. You could ask the FCPS office of the Ombudsman, but that office is overseen by Lisa Youngblood Hall who was involved with the manipulated process for selecting BRAC members, so good luck.

Crazy retelling of that story. Those great falls Nextdoor people are unhinged.

DP. Can you explain it then? If you are going to assert it is crazy, please let us know what happened with #35.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/area-residents-ask-what-happened-to-mother-no-35/article_b904ab6c-faac-11ef-9d3c-c3bb6b474982.html

Not just on Nextdoor anymore.

And, there are other activists selected besides Rigby and Hall. One has an awful social media site with over the top comments on political and social issues.

[Anonymous]

Hampton? They managed to find one of the few Langley parents who has spent years arguing in favor of changing Langley’s boundaries and stuck her on the BRAC along with Hall and Rigby.

[Anonymous]

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Hampton? They managed to find one of the few Langley parents who has spent years arguing in favor of changing Langley’s boundaries and stuck her on the BRAC along with Hall and Rigby.

No. That's not the one I was talking about. I forgot about Hampton. The one I am talking about is the single rep of one of the organizations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Online AP classes for kids forced to attend IB is not equitable. Online is an inferior option and should not be the option offered kids who have no say in what their school offers.

I agree with AP online. I’m saying if they made all AP available at ALL schools, that would decrease the transfer loophole.

The language could be online for those with smaller interest groups vs again, using that as an excuse to transfer out of an undesirable school.

Bring valued base education to all schools, offer online options for niche languages.

This is a problem. Giving families a little flexibility should not be seen as a de facto provision of an "escape route."

If FCPS shuts down this flexibility out of a desire to "trap" children in their zoned schools/pyramids, perhaps they should ask themselves why a kid would want to "escape."

This flexibility is what has caused an exodus at lower performing schools. Bring equitable programming to all. Besides, staying at your home base helps “keep communities together”

FCPS could certainly standardize offerings across all schools. No schools with more AP classes than the others, different languages etc.

Make each school exactly the same as the others.

We don't want any school to be "better," "worse," or at all different from any other.

I agree. And we are at an 8/10 school. I would like to see standardization across the board.

Great, then we can just have a whole bunch of 5/10 schools. Yay.

If you knew anything about the current GS methodology, that prospect likely would not concern you at all.

I agree that GS is skewed and doesn’t tell the full story. However, that’s how many target neighborhoods to buy in. And its furthered caused the disproportion in SES. Or people buy in lower scored schools for a better price but then transfer in. And then we wind up here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh! Where’s the Reddit threat about this?

Interesting it would be Monday, haven’t they been Friday’s historically?

Based on the dates they have been all over the place. Two Mondays, one Wednesday, Two Fridays

https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/1i4kriu/new_fcps_boundaries_2025/

“ As a member of the BRAC, we have not looked at any boundary changes yet. No decisions have been made. We will begin looking at scenarios at either our next meeting on Feb 21st or March 10th.”

Alright, get ready for FCPS to publicly post these scenarios as they should or FairFACTS will be ready to submit a FOIA.

BRAC will be making suggestions headed on CURRENT and past FCPS enrollment, but:

- large numbers of parents in FCPS are federal employees or federal-adjacent;

- a sizable percentage of parents in FCPS are unlawfully present in the United States;

The likely effects of President Trump’s policies enacted since his inauguration in January weigh heavily in favor of postponing any boundary changes for at least one full year.

You are probably right, since future enrollments may be in flux, but this comes across as if the biggest MAGA supporters are now urging the all-Democratic School Board to slow down because of Trump’s policies. That is going to produce the exact opposite effect.

Spot on. And this SB is going to want on this on their resumes and not risk losing the next election cycle without deploying it.

Though they risking losing BECAUSE of it, at least they can walk away with the bullet point.

[Anonymous]

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Hampton? They managed to find one of the few Langley parents who has spent years arguing in favor of changing Langley’s boundaries and stuck her on the BRAC along with Hall and Rigby.

Her own kid wasn't going to be affected, so

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Online doesn't work for all children. A child whose parents can arrange transportation for them to learn in person should not be blocked by the school board. ...

So the privileged few should be allowed transfers when it suits them? I would think getting rid of that type of inequity would be one of the first action items of the review process.

It's that kind of purposeful reading of malice aforethought that makes people side eye this whole "equity" thing.

Nevertheless, I am in full support of this 100% Democrat school board going all in on it. The voting public chose them, and they would be wrong to back down.

[Anonymous]

Never forget: this slimy toad McDaniel was Republican until he realized it was advantageous to his political career to change.
https://readthinkact.com/kyle-mcdaniel/

Everytime he talks he sounds terribly disingenuous and is overthinking "What can I say to sound as wise as possible to my audience?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never forget: this slimy toad McDaniel was Republican until he realized it was advantageous to his political career to change.
https://readthinkact.com/kyle-mcdaniel/

Everytime he talks he sounds terribly disingenuous and is overthinking "What can I say to sound as wise as possible to my audience?"

McDaniel is the ginger version of JD Vance, I can see why he grew the beard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never forget: this slimy toad McDaniel was Republican until he realized it was advantageous to his political career to change.
https://readthinkact.com/kyle-mcdaniel/

Everytime he talks he sounds terribly disingenuous and is overthinking "What can I say to sound as wise as possible to my audience?"

It's not working. He comes across as a craven apologist for every mistake FCPS makes. He tries to make it sound like he's got his eyes on the bigger picture, but it's not convincing. It just comes across as "if other Democrats or their hand-picked superintendent screw up, it's my job to make light of it."