FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

Let them change lots of boundaries and they’ll see Fairfax flip to red in 2027 just the way so many other disgruntled parts of the country have turned their backs on Democrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let them change lots of boundaries and they’ll see Fairfax flip to red in 2027 just the way so many other disgruntled parts of the country have turned their backs on Democrats.

Now that, that would be an utter shock.

You're forgetting how many people in Fairfax County don't have kids in the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let them change lots of boundaries and they’ll see Fairfax flip to red in 2027 just the way so many other disgruntled parts of the country have turned their backs on Democrats.

What would be the red platform post-boundary changes? Campaigning to once again segregate Black and Brown kids to mostly a few pyramids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I filled out the application form for the boundary review advisory committee and noticed that there were a bunch of questions at the bottom that they didn’t even ask me? Wtf?? It only asked my name, school pyramid, and a few basic questions and confirmed if I could attend meetings in person. Then they sent me an automated email reply and there were a bunch of questions at the bottom about my experience which I didn’t even see??? Is this how they stack the deck against parents and pick who they want?

I’m pretty sure they intended to have more questions in the survey but then removed them, and they’re still showing up in the submission summary. I noticed the extra questions when I originally submitted, so went back in to fill it out again and the questions never appear anywhere.

What bothers me is that they’re vague on the time commitment. They ask if you’re available to serve for two years and whether you’ll attend all the meetings, but then don’t give any indication of the meeting frequency or what times they’ll be held.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let them change lots of boundaries and they’ll see Fairfax flip to red in 2027 just the way so many other disgruntled parts of the country have turned their backs on Democrats.

What would be the red platform post-boundary changes? Campaigning to once again segregate Black and Brown kids to mostly a few pyramids?

Apart from Langley, every pyramid has lots of Hispanic kids. Fairfax doesn't have a sizable Black population.

Even if the boundaries weren't changed again, those responsible for whatever changes might be made in the next year or two would be politically neutered.

People vote for what they perceive to be their own interests, as this election made clear. The Fairfax Democrats have a majority now, but they don't have a mandate, and they could get turned out on a dime if they piss off the people who bother to vote in local elections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I filled out the application form for the boundary review advisory committee and noticed that there were a bunch of questions at the bottom that they didn’t even ask me? Wtf?? It only asked my name, school pyramid, and a few basic questions and confirmed if I could attend meetings in person. Then they sent me an automated email reply and there were a bunch of questions at the bottom about my experience which I didn’t even see??? Is this how they stack the deck against parents and pick who they want?

I’m pretty sure they intended to have more questions in the survey but then removed them, and they’re still showing up in the submission summary. I noticed the extra questions when I originally submitted, so went back in to fill it out again and the questions never appear anywhere.

What bothers me is that they’re vague on the time commitment. They ask if you’re available to serve for two years and whether you’ll attend all the meetings, but then don’t give any indication of the meeting frequency or what times they’ll be held.

Super vague. I probably won’t be picked and would have a lot of questions if I was before I committed to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let them change lots of boundaries and they’ll see Fairfax flip to red in 2027 just the way so many other disgruntled parts of the country have turned their backs on Democrats.

What would be the red platform post-boundary changes? Campaigning to once again segregate Black and Brown kids to mostly a few pyramids?

Apart from Langley, every pyramid has lots of Hispanic kids. Fairfax doesn't have a sizable Black population.

Even if the boundaries weren't changed again, those responsible for whatever changes might be made in the next year or two would be politically neutered.

People vote for what they perceive to be their own interests, as this election made clear. The Fairfax Democrats have a majority now, but they don't have a mandate, and they could get turned out on a dime if they piss off the people who bother to vote in local elections.

At least where I live the people who vote in local elections are parents of young adults who remember the FCPS heydays of the 2010s and vote for whoever's on the blue sample ballot regardless of what happens. Why do we think boundary changes will effect those people? I really don't think home values are changing substantially.

[Anonymous]

Wake up babe, new Mateo Dunne email just dropped. Not going to copy the whole thing here because it’s quite long, but specific situations are called out by name in the Mount Vernon district including the Whitman/Sandburg situation and the Halley attendance island. https://www.fcps.edu/aggregator/sources/19?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up babe, new Mateo Dunne email just dropped. Not going to copy the whole thing here because it’s quite long, but specific situations are called out by name in the Mount Vernon district including the Whitman/Sandburg situation and the Halley attendance island. https://www.fcps.edu/aggregator/sources/19?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#

Could give zero Fs about what he has to say. He waited until his own area HS (West Potomac) got a massive expansion to 3000 students that the rest of us paid for before weighing in on any of these issues. Now school expansions are a problem? F this guy.

Just let these miserable little toads try and change everyone's boundaries. We'll be waiting and doing everything we can to make sure their political careers come to an end.

[Anonymous]

I hate to say, but I think the democrats will be in the wilderness for a long time until they put this equity agenda to bed. Voters support equality, not equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate to say, but I think the democrats will be in the wilderness for a long time until they put this equity agenda to bed. Voters support equality, not equity.

Trump’s re-election should be a wake-up call to every politician who pushes an ill-defined equity agenda that inflicts unwanted changes on their constituents.

Inflicting boundary changes that aren’t wanted is, from a political perspective, like insisting that people use “they/them” and “ze” pronouns rather than “he” and “she.” It tries to shame people into feeling like they are Neanderthals for not jumping on a progressive bandwagon and embracing changes they didn’t want.

If Matt Dunne, Karl Frisch, Robyn Lady, and the rest of this crowd on the SB doesn’t figure that out they are in for a very rude awakening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up babe, new Mateo Dunne email just dropped. Not going to copy the whole thing here because it’s quite long, but specific situations are called out by name in the Mount Vernon district including the Whitman/Sandburg situation and the Halley attendance island. https://www.fcps.edu/aggregator/sources/19?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#

This is what I found interesting:

"Over 100 students who live within walking distance of Mount Vernon Woods ES are assigned to attend Fort Hunt ES. They ride the bus every day past multiple elementary schools to arrive at Fort Hunt ES."

Removing those kids from Fort Hunt eliminates all of their FARMS students and sends them to a high FARMS school, so I don't see that happening.

I don't see how Whitman/Sandburg is solvable without creating more problems. If you give Sandburg to MVSH and Whitman to WPHS, the the walkable neighborhoods to Sandburg (in the Stratford Landing Boundary, across the street from Waynewood, both separated from MVHS by Ft Hunt) then you move more kids to MVHS than MVHS has capacity for. Moving Hollin Meadows to MVHS so Whitman is in the boundary Creates another island unless you move Stratford Landing as well, but then Sandburg outside of its boundaries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake up babe, new Mateo Dunne email just dropped. Not going to copy the whole thing here because it’s quite long, but specific situations are called out by name in the Mount Vernon district including the Whitman/Sandburg situation and the Halley attendance island. https://www.fcps.edu/aggregator/sources/19?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#

This is what I found interesting:

"Over 100 students who live within walking distance of Mount Vernon Woods ES are assigned to attend Fort Hunt ES. They ride the bus every day past multiple elementary schools to arrive at Fort Hunt ES."

Removing those kids from Fort Hunt eliminates all of their FARMS students and sends them to a high FARMS school, so I don't see that happening.

I don't see how Whitman/Sandburg is solvable without creating more problems. If you give Sandburg to MVSH and Whitman to WPHS, the the walkable neighborhoods to Sandburg (in the Stratford Landing Boundary, across the street from Waynewood, both separated from MVHS by Ft Hunt) then you move more kids to MVHS than MVHS has capacity for. Moving Hollin Meadows to MVHS so Whitman is in the boundary Creates another island unless you move Stratford Landing as well, but then Sandburg outside of its boundaries

He also complained about Holmes MS, which isn't in his district, being a split feeder to Annandale and Edison.

That betrays a lack of understanding of the area, because there's been a surplus of middle schools relative to high schools there ever since Jefferson got closed and converted to TJ.

So they can either have two very small middle schools (Poe and Holmes) that feed entirely to Annandale, or two small middle schools that are split feeders (in Poe's case to Annandale and Falls Church and in Holmes's case to Annandale and Edison). Alternatively, you kick the Falls Church kids out of Poe, make Poe the only MS feeder to Annandale, and shut down Holmes, which has a smaller capacity than Poe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake up babe, new Mateo Dunne email just dropped. Not going to copy the whole thing here because it’s quite long, but specific situations are called out by name in the Mount Vernon district including the Whitman/Sandburg situation and the Halley attendance island. https://www.fcps.edu/aggregator/sources/19?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#

This is what I found interesting:

"Over 100 students who live within walking distance of Mount Vernon Woods ES are assigned to attend Fort Hunt ES. They ride the bus every day past multiple elementary schools to arrive at Fort Hunt ES."

Removing those kids from Fort Hunt eliminates all of their FARMS students and sends them to a high FARMS school, so I don't see that happening.

I don't see how Whitman/Sandburg is solvable without creating more problems. If you give Sandburg to MVSH and Whitman to WPHS, the the walkable neighborhoods to Sandburg (in the Stratford Landing Boundary, across the street from Waynewood, both separated from MVHS by Ft Hunt) then you move more kids to MVHS than MVHS has capacity for. Moving Hollin Meadows to MVHS so Whitman is in the boundary Creates another island unless you move Stratford Landing as well, but then Sandburg outside of its boundaries

They’ve acknowledged that it does more harm than good to bus these attendance islands across the county in an attempt to balance FARM rates. They want to discourage chronic absenteeism by creating neighborhood schools you can walk to if you miss the bus, and is close enough to attend community events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake up babe, new Mateo Dunne email just dropped. Not going to copy the whole thing here because it’s quite long, but specific situations are called out by name in the Mount Vernon district including the Whitman/Sandburg situation and the Halley attendance island. https://www.fcps.edu/aggregator/sources/19?utm_campaign+=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#

This is what I found interesting:

"Over 100 students who live within walking distance of Mount Vernon Woods ES are assigned to attend Fort Hunt ES. They ride the bus every day past multiple elementary schools to arrive at Fort Hunt ES."

Removing those kids from Fort Hunt eliminates all of their FARMS students and sends them to a high FARMS school, so I don't see that happening.

I don't see how Whitman/Sandburg is solvable without creating more problems. If you give Sandburg to MVSH and Whitman to WPHS, the the walkable neighborhoods to Sandburg (in the Stratford Landing Boundary, across the street from Waynewood, both separated from MVHS by Ft Hunt) then you move more kids to MVHS than MVHS has capacity for. Moving Hollin Meadows to MVHS so Whitman is in the boundary Creates another island unless you move Stratford Landing as well, but then Sandburg outside of its boundaries

new here, what is FARMS?