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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was Crestwood.

Listening on line and the Board seems to not know what is going on or even to have any power.  The consultants appear to be running the show.  [/quote]

That’s shocking. That wasn’t on any of the maps and they are pretty close to Lewis (well, all of Lewis’s boundaries are fairly close except perhaps the furthest ends of Saratoga).

Do we think this is some kind of move of Crestwood to WSHS and Hunt Valley to Lewis? [/quote]
makes sense. HV is 200 more students than crestwood. so that adds students to Lewis which is underenrolled and reduces WSHS by 200 which is overenrolled. crestwood is also 50% FARMs and ESL while HV is like 10%. this helps with equitable outcomes between the schools.[/quote]

Can someone explain how what they’re proposing to Halley and Gunston is equitable? They’re moving the Hagel Circle attendance island from Halley to Gunston (even though it’s still going to technically be an island). Hagel Circle is almost entirely FARMS. Halley will lose the majority of FARMS kids while Gunston will likely become a Title 1 school. In exchange for the increased students from Hagel Circle, they’re planning to move out a middle class neighborhood to Island Creek. [/quote]

The Hagel Circle area is currently an attendance island at Halley but they would not consider it an attendance island at Gunston.  It is connected to the rest of the Gunston attendance area, even if the area juts out and is on the other side of Route 1.

They aren't doing this because they want to turn Gunston into a Title I school.  They are only doing it because their consultants, who don't know anything about Fairfax County, understood they were tasked with eliminating attendance islands, and they moved various SPAs (Student Planning Areas) around to accomplish that narrow goal without pushing schools above 105% capacity.

In other words, it's not a question of someone with nefarious motives out to benefit Halley or hurt Gunston in terms of reducing/increasing FARMS rates.  It's just consultants coming up with something they can say fixes what the School Board initially identified as a problem.

If you take issue with that, you should be directing your ire in the first instance at the current School Board, which revised Policy 8130 without obtaining sufficient public input in advance, and then directed Reid to operationalize Policy 8130.  They are backing off now about eliminating some of the existing attendance islands, in response to feedback in some cases, but the Region 4 BRAC members (which includes South County) have expressed support for moving Hagel Circle from Halley to Gunston.  [/quote]

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