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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]The parent who made the bus comment was a white oaks parent.  Not Sangster.   I heard many people say LBSS is a great school it’s just not the middle school and HS experience they went for their student, which is a valid point.  Please don’t lump all of together and make accusations like that.

Neither WO or Sangster parents threw any other neighborhoods under the bus with suggesting they “pick them” instead.   I heard overwhelmingly that they consider slowing these decisions down and reexamine data. Perhaps voting on a partial county boundary change to allow more time with accurate data be examined in this area. [/quote]

Someone is moving. Reid made that very clear. And if it’s not the Sangster split feeder and White Oaks attendance island then it will be West Springfield ES neighborhoods like Daventry, who will get returned to Lewis. Or sending Hunt Valley to Saratoga/Lewis or South County. Or maybe sending more of Orange Hunt to Sangster. Families are getting moved. It’s just a question of which ones. [/quote]

I think this comment is to stoke the fires and spread more fear.  It sounded like the community worked together last night to force more questions on data.  I also hope it made Dr.Reid and the board to acknowledge how challenging this process has been for every member of the community. [/quote]

Sandy Anderson has made it very clear the status quo won’t work. Current WSHS parents complain about overcrowding. SB and FCPS staff don’t care how challenging the process has been. Do you talk to any of them last night after the meeting? They are moving ahead with this. Someone is moving. The question is which neighborhood(s). [/quote]

Someone is moving.

Dr. Reid told tge group towards the end that map 3 changes will be returning in map 4.[/quote]

Did she mean specifically for the WSHS stuff you all are talking about, or in general? Could you tell based on wording? Just wondering because a change affecting my kids was in map 3 but went away in map 4. [/quote]

Since she was talking to the Sangster parents, I assume she meant the map 3 for WSHS.

Maybe someone else at the meeting had a different take?

Early in the meeting she stated that map 3 was dead.

Later, she said some of the map 3 changes will need to come back.

I assumed she meant if Sangster talked their way into staying, then Hunt Valley now will need to leave.[/quote]

This was certainly not what Sangster parents were advocating for last night.  They were asking for clearer/better data before any decisions should be made.  This is not about kicking some neighborhoods out so others stay in...they were asking for hard transfer numbers, current enrollment data...etc. [/quote]
Every group that doesn't like the outcome of any decision tries to "slow it down" or "throw it out and start over" by requesting more and more data.  This strategy has been applied across politics for decades, maybe centuries.  Nothing would ever get done if we listened to the never ending cry for more and more data.  At some point you need to set a deadline and stick to it.[/quote]

Just to clarify, this did not sound like a stalling tactic.  Dr.Reid, herself, said last night that she only received the transfer numbers the day before.  FCPS seemed confused by simple questions of actual class sizes, whether they were adding in AAP kids, etc.  Even the split number itself has been giving completely varying percentages throughout the process, first it was 23%, then 29%, then it was listed as 20% on last night's slides. BRAC members have been begging for accurate data to do their job well and still don't have much of what they requested.  [/quote]

At some point Reid will be held accountable.  Both Reid and the School Board members routinely claim they aren’t aware of information or are only learning about information at the same time as members of the public.

It’s part and parcel of their trying to claim the process is driven by Thru and BRAC members.

This is blatant mismanagement and it’s the predictable result of Karl Frisch and Rachna Sizemore Heizer wanting to try and offload responsibility to avoid accountability.  It’s not working.  All of these people need to lose their jobs. [/quote]

The school board started this process in at least April-May of 2024, with Reid's involvement.  I was watching videos and reading board docs back then, so I know that they all were involved in all of this.  It is available on Board Docs.  It is available on the Fairfax Times archives.

19 months into this process, how on earth can they claim with a straight face that they don't have any of the necessary data to answer constituents' questions, and why on earth are they trying to pass the blame to the volunteer BRAC committee members???

If 19 month into your biggest project in 40 years, the CEO, Vice Presidents and board of directors have zero idea of what is going on, do not have any of the necessary data to answer simple direct questions from the customers paying their salary, only have dated, erroneous and incomplete data, and keep trying to pass the blame to the volunteer interns that work 5 hours/month, then someone or many people need to be fired. Hint, it is not the volunteer interns.

This is a scorched earth firing moment where you replace the entire leadership team.

The incompetence in a 4 billion dollar organization "bigger than 12 states" as Reid touted last night is simply unacceptable.[/quote]

And it is not as if the WSHS has been sitting quietly for the past 2 years and just woke up to rezoning this year.

At the very least, Hunt Valley has been engaged heavily in this process since spring of 2024, and to a lesser extent, Daventry, asking all of these questions for over 19 months, of the school board, Reid and later, Thru and BRAC.

They know that we are very informed, very engaged, and very organized.

They know what our pain points are and what questions we have about data, enrollment, residency and transfers,  because we have been asking these exact same questions repeatedly for almost 2 years, in the case of Hunt Valley.  Every WSHS neighborhood that gets involved in the rezoning process has been asking the same questions, because we know our school, we know our community and we are an engaged community.

How on earth did FCPS come to this meeting almost 2 years into the process, and still not have accurate answers to the questions we have been asking since spring of 2024??

These questions about data are not surprises or gotcha questions.

It is insulting, unprofessional and outright incompetent to come to this WSHS meeting last night without having real, accurate data to answer out questions.[/quote]

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