February 26 School Board Vote on Providing Transportation for Rezoned Students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the school board members realize how they wasted two years and ended up making things worse.

Some are too stupid to recognize it, some recognize it and are too stubborn to admit it, and a few tried to prevent it.

McElveen is in the last category, and he consistently opposed the utter stupidity of Frisch, Lady, and others, but he could have been more vocal about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson, Seema Dixit, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, Kyle McDaniel, and Marcia St. John-Cunning vote as a block and control this School Board. They are the hard-core Reid supporters who provide cover for all her missteps and demand no accountability from her. They do not give a crap about kids or families, they will do whatever the FCPS unions want them to do, and they are destroying FCPS.

Replacing them next year with normal people should be a top priority.

You’re welcome to go to private or move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are providing transportation to every student - to their in bounds school. If kids want to stay at their grandfathered school they need to provide their own transportation. I think that's reasonable and though we weren't moved this time, we are on a boundary that was highly talked about for switching high schools, and I still think this.

They’ve provided transportation to grandfathered kids affected by boundary changes for decades, including as far back as the prior county-wide studies in the 80s.

They can change their policy now, but it will further erode trust in FCPS. It’s absurd that they’d spend over $200 million on a new high school and $85 million on a new elementary school for which the need is certainly debatable, and then refuse to spend a much smaller amount to make sure kids have the option to complete high school at their current schools.

Rich SAHM mommies from Vienna who fought off a boundary change to Marshall probably could provide transportation if their kids were redistricted, but families now actually getting moved to Falls Church and Mount Vernon may not be in the same position.

Give it a rest, we know that you are upset because your child was moved from a highly rated HS to a lower rated HS. Deal with it.

Wrong. I'm upset because it's inequitable and the School Board had their collective heads up their asses when they approved boundary changes without simultaneously addressing transportation needs.

Boundaries could be going away completely.

I would rather sell my house and move than have my kid schlepp across this county and start commuting long distances at a young age. They can learn about that in adulthood.

Good riddance

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the school board members realize how they wasted two years and ended up making things worse.

How so? I’m happy with where things landed.

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[Anonymous]

One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

[Anonymous]

It’s funny to me to see them talk about cost of transportation when during the boundary review our area requested to have our elementary students walk to school and it was denied with no reason given.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson, Seema Dixit, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, Kyle McDaniel, and Marcia St. John-Cunning vote as a block and control this School Board. They are the hard-core Reid supporters who provide cover for all her missteps and demand no accountability from her. They do not give a crap about kids or families, they will do whatever the FCPS unions want them to do, and they are destroying FCPS.

Replacing them next year with normal people should be a top priority.

You’re welcome to go to private or move.

Are you the one that started that new moving thread? If so, you are being hypocritical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny to me to see them talk about cost of transportation when during the boundary review our area requested to have our elementary students walk to school and it was denied with no reason given.

This is something I don’t understand. Why not move people like this ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

Whoever it was, I'll vote for them again. THIS is absolutely what they should have done. What a clusterf*.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

Whoever it was, I'll vote for them again. THIS is absolutely what they should have done. What a clusterf*.

I don’t recall who said it last night but Meren, Moon, and Dunne have all said this at various times.

One really cannot understate how awful the bloc now in control of the school board (Sandy Anderson, Seema Dixit, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, Kyle McDaniel, and Marcia St. John-Cunning) is. They blunder their way into every decision, refuse to engage seriously on the merits of any issue, and spend most of their time just coming up with excuses for their own stupidity and Michelle Reid’s incompetence. They need to go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

Whoever it was, I'll vote for them again. THIS is absolutely what they should have done. What a clusterf*.

I don’t recall who said it last night but Meren, Moon, and Dunne have all said this at various times.

One really cannot understate how awful the bloc now in control of the school board (Sandy Anderson, Seema Dixit, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, Kyle McDaniel, and Marcia St. John-Cunning) is. They blunder their way into every decision, refuse to engage seriously on the merits of any issue, and spend most of their time just coming up with excuses for their own stupidity and Michelle Reid’s incompetence. They need to go.

It was Dunne. Meren voted for the boundary change without things in place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

Whoever it was, I'll vote for them again. THIS is absolutely what they should have done. What a clusterf*.

I don’t recall who said it last night but Meren, Moon, and Dunne have all said this at various times.

One really cannot understate how awful the bloc now in control of the school board (Sandy Anderson, Seema Dixit, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, Kyle McDaniel, and Marcia St. John-Cunning) is. They blunder their way into every decision, refuse to engage seriously on the merits of any issue, and spend most of their time just coming up with excuses for their own stupidity and Michelle Reid’s incompetence. They need to go.

It was Dunne. Meren voted for the boundary change without things in place.

And then Meren acted all flabbergasted and indignant when she found out transportation wasn’t included which was careless and irresponsible of her when she voted to move such a large chunk of students within her district.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

Whoever it was, I'll vote for them again. THIS is absolutely what they should have done. What a clusterf*.

I don’t recall who said it last night but Meren, Moon, and Dunne have all said this at various times.

One really cannot understate how awful the bloc now in control of the school board (Sandy Anderson, Seema Dixit, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, Kyle McDaniel, and Marcia St. John-Cunning) is. They blunder their way into every decision, refuse to engage seriously on the merits of any issue, and spend most of their time just coming up with excuses for their own stupidity and Michelle Reid’s incompetence. They need to go.

It was Dunne. Meren voted for the boundary change without things in place.

Meren got so invested in backing the Madison parents who wanted to stay at Madison and the Marshall parents who wanted to move to Madison that she dug herself into a hole, and had to support the boundary changes to save face, even when other issues remained unresolved. But at least she engages regularly with those she represents and tries to do the right thing. The same can’t be said for most of these brain-dead idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

That’s called boiling the ocean. This community hates change, and the only way to accomplish any change is incremental. What you propose would be seismic and would cause even more of the disruption people here are complaining about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One school board member made the point last night , they should not have voted on the boundary changes without all the parts on the table evaluated at the same time. That should have included transportation, AAP centers , middle school start times everything should have been comprehensive.

That’s called boiling the ocean. This community hates change, and the only way to accomplish any change is incremental. What you propose would be seismic and would cause even more of the disruption people here are complaining about.

I think PP misunderstood. What Dunne wanted in the “total package” was what impacts Reid’s boundary recommendations would have on things like transportation. Before voting on the changes they should have been presented with a phasing plan and the costs associated with it.