FCPS Boundary Review - New Maps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

They aren't getting rid of AAP in middle school. They could have AAP at every middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

So presumably you'd then support the newly transferred WS kids immediately transferring back out to continue their AP classes somewhere else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

Preach!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

So presumably you'd then support the newly transferred WS kids immediately transferring back out to continue their AP classes somewhere else?

I'd rather we have AP county-wide than do what you're proposing, which would force kids to attend an IB school for their freshman year even if they want to take AP courses.

If we are going to continue to have AP and IB schools, and WS kids are moved to an IB school, they should be allowed to transfer to an AP school with capacity if they plan to take AP courses. So it might be Lake Braddock or South County rather than West Springfield, but they could attend those schools for all four years of HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

So presumably you'd then support the newly transferred WS kids immediately transferring back out to continue their AP classes somewhere else?

I'd rather we have AP county-wide than do what you're proposing, which would force kids to attend an IB school for their freshman year even if they want to take AP courses.

If we are going to continue to have AP and IB schools, and WS kids are moved to an IB school, they should be allowed to transfer to an AP school with capacity if they plan to take AP courses. So it might be Lake Braddock or South County rather than West Springfield, but they could attend those schools for all four years of HS.

PP here. I'm not the person proposing that- should've been clear about that in my post.

I deliberately chose an AP school for my kids and did not buy in Robinson or LB pyramids because I didn't want my kids going to an IB and/or secondary school.

[Anonymous]

With all this talk of Lewis and WS again, does someone know something new thats being proposed or is this all just new speculation and ongoing debate of some people wanting to move WS kids to Lewis for equity reasons. Otherwise Tru's maps dont mention any of this. And this is just getting people spun up all over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

Why are you so against the idea of Lewis dropping IB and converting to a full slate of AP classes?

IB is a complete waste of taxpayers dollars.

The single digits of IB diploma awarded at most of the IB schools and the hundreds of transfers out of IB schools is a reason for FCPS to scrap IB and switch everyone to AP.

It is a 2 year phase out. Why don't they do it now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all this talk of Lewis and WS again, does someone know something new thats being proposed or is this all just new speculation and ongoing debate of some people wanting to move WS kids to Lewis for equity reasons. Otherwise Tru's maps dont mention any of this. And this is just getting people spun up all over again.

Both Reid and others have said repeatedly in public that the next round of maps that are expected in October will be substantially different from the Thru Consulting maps in May/June. Reid also called the earlier maps "drafty drafts" to stress their preliminary nature.

Depending on your perspective, those comments can either inspire concern or hope. Some think they've known all along what they want to do with boundaries and have been hiding the ball so far. Others think they've been given another bite at the apple to advocate for changes not previously proposed. There's also a feeling that some local School Board allies are trying to "socialize" changes at schools like West Springfield and Langley that weren't previously proposed by now suggesting they'd be appropriate.

As far as I'm aware, no new maps have actually been published, nor have they leaked. Any "leaked" maps should be taken with a giant grain of salt, because there were posters on this forum who previously claimed to know about leaked maps that bore no resemblance to the May/June maps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

Why are you so against the idea of Lewis dropping IB and converting to a full slate of AP classes?

IB is a complete waste of taxpayers dollars.

The single digits of IB diploma awarded at most of the IB schools and the hundreds of transfers out of IB schools is a reason for FCPS to scrap IB and switch everyone to AP.

It is a 2 year phase out. Why don't they do it now?

Because IB was left at those schools to give MC/UMC kids an easy way to pupil place out. If you shut that down, those kids will have to stay at those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No transfer until 10th grade when AP classes start.

No more AAP in middle.

If you're stuck at an IB school, and you know you'll want to take AP courses, you should be allowed to transfer starting in 9th grade.

What you propose is punitive to a lot of kids.

Not every damn thing in the county has to be reverse-engineered to keep WS kids from ever getting moved to Lewis.

Why are you so against the idea of Lewis dropping IB and converting to a full slate of AP classes?

IB is a complete waste of taxpayers dollars.

The single digits of IB diploma awarded at most of the IB schools and the hundreds of transfers out of IB schools is a reason for FCPS to scrap IB and switch everyone to AP.

It is a 2 year phase out. Why don't they do it now?

I support that idea. What I don't support is keeping Lewis and other schools IB and then telling kids they can't transfer to an AP school until they are sophomores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all this talk of Lewis and WS again, does someone know something new thats being proposed or is this all just new speculation and ongoing debate of some people wanting to move WS kids to Lewis for equity reasons. Otherwise Tru's maps dont mention any of this. And this is just getting people spun up all over again.

I think it is what you suggest, except that Reid, Anderson and thru all said there were errors with the maps for the WSHS pyramid, specifically the ones showing Hunt Valley getting rezoned into a split feeder to South County, and that the real maps released this fall will be different from the ones released last spring.

That could mean a lot of things, from HV staying at WSHS and moves to Lewis coming from the Daventry end of WSHS, to a few HV neighborhoods at the end of Gambrill moved entirely to a new elementary school in the SoCo pyramid, with most of Hunt Valley including the closest part of Gambril staying at HV and WSHS, to all of Hunt Valley getting moved to another pyramid, possibly Lewis, to the Gambril neighborhoods getting moved to Lewis, not South County.

FCPS and Thru publicly stated that the maps showing HV turning into a split feeder between SoCo and WSHS were an error and that the real plan for them is very different.

When you end with that kind of statement from FCPS, the speculation is going to be fairly broad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all this talk of Lewis and WS again, does someone know something new thats being proposed or is this all just new speculation and ongoing debate of some people wanting to move WS kids to Lewis for equity reasons. Otherwise Tru's maps dont mention any of this. And this is just getting people spun up all over again.

I think it is what you suggest, except that Reid, Anderson and thru all said there were errors with the maps for the WSHS pyramid, specifically the ones showing Hunt Valley getting rezoned into a split feeder to South County, and that the real maps released this fall will be different from the ones released last spring.

That could mean a lot of things, from HV staying at WSHS and moves to Lewis coming from the Daventry end of WSHS, to a few HV neighborhoods at the end of Gambrill moved entirely to a new elementary school in the SoCo pyramid, with most of Hunt Valley including the closest part of Gambril staying at HV and WSHS, to all of Hunt Valley getting moved to another pyramid, possibly Lewis, to the Gambril neighborhoods getting moved to Lewis, not South County.

FCPS and Thru publicly stated that the maps showing HV turning into a split feeder between SoCo and WSHS were an error and that the real plan for them is very different.

When you end with that kind of statement from FCPS, the speculation is going to be fairly broad.

It's been an incredibly inefficient, divisive process, and Reid gets an "F" for her oversight of Thru Consulting and execution to date of the SB's policy. And Rachna Sizemore-Heizer should get a "D-" for her role in pushing through a revised policy that bears so little resemblance to what FCPS families actually want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all this talk of Lewis and WS again, does someone know something new thats being proposed or is this all just new speculation and ongoing debate of some people wanting to move WS kids to Lewis for equity reasons. Otherwise Tru's maps dont mention any of this. And this is just getting people spun up all over again.

I think it is what you suggest, except that Reid, Anderson and thru all said there were errors with the maps for the WSHS pyramid, specifically the ones showing Hunt Valley getting rezoned into a split feeder to South County, and that the real maps released this fall will be different from the ones released last spring.

That could mean a lot of things, from HV staying at WSHS and moves to Lewis coming from the Daventry end of WSHS, to a few HV neighborhoods at the end of Gambrill moved entirely to a new elementary school in the SoCo pyramid, with most of Hunt Valley including the closest part of Gambril staying at HV and WSHS, to all of Hunt Valley getting moved to another pyramid, possibly Lewis, to the Gambril neighborhoods getting moved to Lewis, not South County.

FCPS and Thru publicly stated that the maps showing HV turning into a split feeder between SoCo and WSHS were an error and that the real plan for them is very different.

When you end with that kind of statement from FCPS, the speculation is going to be fairly broad.

It's been an incredibly inefficient, divisive process, and Reid gets an "F" for her oversight of Thru Consulting and execution to date of the SB's policy. And Rachna Sizemore-Heizer should get a "D-" for her role in pushing through a revised policy that bears so little resemblance to what FCPS families actually want.

DP, but that should read "...Sizemore-Heizer and Sandy Anderson..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The multi parcel sale to FX SB of the 4 parcels including what was the KAA site was booked as 8/15/25 on the county tax website. Utilities on the 4 parcels:
Water - only available on the vacant land between the parcel with main structure and Carson MS.
Sewer - available
Gas NA

So public water was NA at KAA. Maybe owners didn't want to pay to connect? I assume FX SB will connect and it will show up as a project on Fairfax Water
https://www.fairfaxwater.org/active-construction-projects

This is a stupid post. Of course they had water going into the building, don't be an idiot.