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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in facilities. Nothing, and I mean nothing beyond capacity expansions is happening, until the new Western High School is funded and built. When that happens, then yes, there will be a very large rewriting of boundaries. But until then, this is all nonsense to essentially undermine the new school from every being built because nothing will ever change.[/quote]

Are you saying Facilities is so incompetent that it doesn’t plan to adjust the boundaries between overcrowded and under-enrolled high schools for at least a decade?

Not sure if you’re a troll, but if what you say is true then Brabrand is unlikely to last another school year.  The BOS will want him out and the School Board will fire him to keep the money flowing.[/quote]

What I am saying is that we aren't given much leeway. The entire preference has been to expand capacity over shifting capacity to different schools. As this thread shows, even talking about making major changes sparks an insane amount of blow back. People complain less about just making the schools bigger to meet demand.

Right now, there are no immediate plans or plans anytime soon to change any of the high schools. Nothing is happening beyond us getting data and talking through expansions, fwiw.[/quote]

I think that is last year’s story.  If you don’t start balancing the high school enrollments soon, you’ll face criticism the likes of which FCPS leadership has rarely seen.  Brabrand will not survive it, nor will Platenberg. [/quote]

I mean this in the nicest way. What should we do? Because this thread is a perfect example of the nonsense when it comes to making decisions. We are doing things to avoid blow back from parents who don't want certain populations in their schools, we are getting blow back from parents and board members who want to pursue changes but only if we make sure we are taking into account poverty. I spent hours in meetings where we basically go back and forth. We have the data to do a massive boundary change now to essentially have no school over 110 percent capacity (so, minimum modulars and trailers folks). It is basically dead in the water. Because building more is an easy yes and I am just doing my job and I really have no power to make these choices where blow back is inevitable. [/quote]

Racist cowards.[/quote]

Blowback to a massive boundary change any time soon would be inevitable.

The school board can change the boundaries, but they can't force anyone to keep their children in the school system.[/quote]

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