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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The irony is that if they grandfather but don’t provide transportation they are going to have even less of a handle on future enrollment numbers.  They could end up with situations where students are rezoned from School A to School B, and from School B to School C, and the enrollment at School B spikes because the kids moved from School A can’t arrange for transportation so move to School B but the kids moved to School C can and therefore remain at School B.

Their ability to forecast enrollments already is poor and they could be introducing even more uncertainty.  Conversely, if they limited boundary changes to those situations that are truly necessary, phased in the changes, but provided transportation to grandfathered students, they’d be able to forecast more accurately.

The ability of this School Board to make a total hash of things seems endless. 
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The kids grandfathered are kids who currently attend the high school.  This affects 3 grades worth of high school students for any given rezoning.

What you are describing is not hoing to happen.  It is not going to spike enrollment.   It will just maintain status quo for one year, then a gradual decrease in enrollment over the next 2 years as each grade graduates.[/quote]

+1 I am fine with this plan, even if it means my kids will attend different high schools their freshman/senior years (the only year they would be together in high school). I am willing to compromise that to help others and to balance out schools.  It just isn’t as impactful this way because the kids won’t be the ones paying the price by transferring in the middle of high school.

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You’re simply wrong.  That’s not what it means.  You could get a sibling pupil placement regardless of whether there is grandfathering, but grandfathering without transportation means some kids will be able to stay at their current schools and others will not be able to make arrangements to do so.  I don’t know if you’re misinformed or selfish, but you’re misrepresenting the advantages and disadvantages of what they may have in mind.  You’re enabling them to push through changes that may well be unnecessary because you personally can find a work-around.  [/quote]

Right, I could get a sibling pupil placement for my younger kid, but just for one year.  I’m trying to avoid switching my kids in the middle of high school and would rather have the younger one start at the new school for consistency.  On a personal level, this is the opposite of selfish because I will have to keep track of and attend events at 2 schools, but for the benefit of my children. I also do think all FCPS high schools will be ok for my kids.  I am okay with the changes and have written and fought every step of the way for the rights of the KIDS in FCPS to have consistency.  This gives the consistency I was looking and I’m bowing out of the fight, but doing it on terms that are a compromise, but a compromise where my children aren’t paying the price of a disrupted education.  Nor will other high schoolers have to experience that.  I am okay with it.  There is a huge difference between “enabling” and compromising.  To say I or others who have fought for Grandfathering are enabling is to deny the work that we have done this far.  In which case, one would wonder, if that doesn’t count, why would anyone continue to fight as it is just viewed as enabling?
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I completely agree.

Another person who has been very involved  with spreading information and working against these changes since spring 2024.

Keep calling us selfish, and I am out too.[/quote]

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