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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand it's way too late to ask this...but what are the schools that are seriously overcrowded that necessitate this boundary review to begin with? Are there a few that need immediate addressing and the rest are tweaks "just because"? The SB keeps trumpeting this "first comprehensive boundary review in 40 years" stat that I can't imagine anyone cares about. Could the actual problems be fixed and leave mostly everyone else alone?

Again, I realize I'm really late to be asking this but only got involved in following this in the spring.[/quote]

My theory is they were originally going to make much bigger changes to balance SES across schools. But then Trump got elected and they knew doing so w ou ils make them a target of the administration. Now to save face they still have to go through with it but it’s stupid because they are hardly solving any actual problems mostly just moving kids for no real reason. [/quote]

No. The communities with power organized and mobilized. Some were the ones at the top of SB list to move. Local politics is what happened.[/quote]Maybe local politics, but the initiator was One Fairfax under the previous Board.  But Trump and the Supremes made SES-driven changes problematic.  Result was saving face/redoing 8130 to focus on distances/islands/etc. and stirring the pot every 5 years.[/quote]

Yes, you get it. I remember how they were talking about boundary changes before last year's election. It was all about equity and One Fairfax. The tone distinctly changed after that. This was way before any maps came out. They very clearly backed off of doing the larger scale changes they were initially signaling they wanted to do.[/quote]

+2 I think they realized that the political environment was suddenly very different and backed off of full equity moves. Also the recent budget cuts making it so transportation has to be more efficient - there’s simply not enough money to bus kids all over the county for the sake of SES/FARMS balancing. [/quote]

They were never going to bus kids “all over the county” for the sake of SES/FARMS “balancing.”  They might have bused kids to closer schools to address some of the unbalanced SES/FARMS rates, but they backed off that to avoid a fight. [/quote]

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