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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are they moving kids to west springfield from lewis? [/quote]

Moving the Rolling Valley Lewis students to WSHS and moving other neighborhoods out of WSHS to make room for the Lewis kids has been the Springfield representative's biggest rezoning priority since FCPS started revising policy 8130.[/quote]

So who is it?  Which family supported Anderson or is close to Anderson’s family if this is the case?[/quote]

We were told that she was advocating for this group because some groups can’t organize and spend time advocating like our group. It was a very surprising statement, because we are also households of busy working parents, who are federal workers, military, teachers, etc. We don’t have any more resources than this RVES pocket. [/quote]

So, equity??

That doesn't make sense.

That RV neighborhood is just as wealthy as the rest of 22152 and has a similar demographic as the rest of WSHS.[/quote]

DP. Whenever the school board hears that a community doesn’t want something, they immediately pretend that there is some other silent community who wants the opposite. That way, they can justify screwing over the first community.[/quote]

For the most part, they just keep revising the proposals to reflect the last group of noisy parents who chewed their ear off.  Not sure the end result will be anything like what they claimed they wanted to accomplish.  [/quote]

Comprehensive boundary review is a shitty game of musical chairs. [/quote]

Every boundary review is musical chairs because every boundary review shifts seats in a zero sum environment. [/quote]

That's an odd statement.  How is it a zero sum environment when they get money every few years for capital projects and boundary changes can be one-way?  It's not like they move kids out of every school they move kids into. [/quote]

School A loses 100 kids.

School B receives the 100 kids.

-100 from school A

+100 to school B

0[/quote]

Or School L loses 20 kids

School WS gains 80 kids

= + 60 kids

School JM loses 90 kids

School GCM gains 60 kids

= - 30 kids [/quote]

The kids don’t magically cease to exist with a boundary change. They go to a different school.

If you want to talk general patterns of population/enrollment shifting, that’s a different point all together. [/quote]
DP.  I know families who have ceased to exist in Fairfax county schools because of the boundary review.[/quote]
Frankly, that's better for us. They're still paying taxes and there are fewer kids which means more money for my kid.[/quote]

What is, how to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, Alex.

(And some moved out of the county altogether.)[/quote]
Doesn't matter.  Housing values are still up, and someone is paying that property tax.[/quote]

Yikes.

All we hear is that the school board needs rich kids and their families to fill out the poorer performing schools, and now the same folks are telling us it doesn’t matter if UMC goes elsewhere.  I guess they have to delude themselves to believe that their social experiment will work.

It’s too bad they’ll make the school system mediocre at best in the process.

I really wish these folks were better informed than this.[/quote]
All this complaining and yet you are still here.  Must not be the big problem you are making it out to be.[/quote]
It’s okay, you don’t have to put your brave face on for us. The kids who have moved out are from the exact families that you and other lazy parents drool over.  These families were engaged in the school and would have filled in the gaps at the schools that you can’t be bothered to fill.

They are the families that you would need to see an increase in your property value, and we understand that’s why you want these students moved to your school.  Anyway, don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll come volunteer for your pta even though they moved, or I’m sure those other non-engaged families who don’t move will step up, right.

This is why the school board’s social experiment has always been doomed to failure.  Sorry for your loss.[/quote]
You think the parents that aren't active in their kids' schools are the ones posting here?  Not seeing the logic in that one.  
Of course there is no logic in any of your posts, all just emotional reactions and anecdotes that you are trying to push as proof as something that isn't actually happening.
At least we know where you are from with your focus on property value. I'm willing to bet you don't even have kids in school.[/quote]

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