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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The slide that says 47% of preschool students are transfers is sort of misleading because there are not preschool programs in every school…so of course there are going to be big numbers of them going outside their base school.[/quote]

Waaaait

Why on earth would FCPS even include preschool students in any rezoning decisions?

Their data was presdnted specifically to bury the issue that everyone is in arms about, rezoning high schools.

The preschool data needs to be dropped entirely.

The high school data )AP/IB and language transfers) needs to be isolated and analyzed separately from the rest of the data.[/quote]

I agree that most of us are not concerned about that, but it does affect space.  And, elementary schools are included in this study.

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Right.

But all of the programs that effect elementary school enrollment and cspacity have zero connection to high school.

FCPS lumped high school with elementary, which completely masked the problem areas of high school.

Almost all high school transfers are due to kids leaving IB schools for AP schools, or kids using language classes to transfer to high performing schools.  Neither of those transfer reasons were recognized in Tru's last batch of information.

All the things that were recognized: AAP, elementary school language inmersion programs and preschool programs do not have anything to do with high school.

If you have been attending meetings and following this issue, it is crystal clear that the one thing people county wide are upset with and angry about is the potential rezoning of their high schools.

Hardly anyone is mentioning being upset about elementary schools getting rezoned, except for how the rezoning of the elementary school will affect their high school rezoning.

Yet FCPS is completely ignoring and hiding the high school issues. Fcps is lumping the high schools with elementary schools, so the high school cspacity problems and needs can be hidden and ignored.

People are unhappy about potential elementary rezoning.  They are furious about potential high school rezoning.

The high school data needs to be isolated.

The preschool data needs to be entirely removed from the discussion.[/quote]

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