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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

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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. [/quote]

Disagree.  It’s more about stepping up and making the important decisions first before you just start rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

This School Board couldn’t stop patting themselves on the back for undertaking the first county-wide boundary review since the mid-80s, but most took no time to familiarize themselves with the prior studies. Had they done so, they would have realized it was much easier to change boundaries decades ago when the schools were more uniform in their programs and demographics. They also would have learned that FCPS committed to providing transportation to grandfathered students before making any boundary changes, and that was a significant constraint on how many boundaries were changed.

But they didn’t do any of that. They just blundered into a boundary study, over-promised and under-delivered, left important decisions to be made after boundary changes were already voted upon, and set themselves up for years of additional boundary decisions  (including Skyview and the decisions relating to the open issues that are supposed to be addressed by next January).

It was a sh*t show in both design and execution, and the fault lies squarely with Reid and School  Board members like Karl Frisch who literally had no idea what they were doing. [/quote]

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