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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the beef that Sangster parents have with LBSS? It’s comparable to WSHS in most ways.[/quote]

From the meeting:

The  LB  high school students on the bus.  They picked their houses specifically to avoid riding busses with high school students.

Their community is not the Sangster students they attend school with.  Their community is the kids from the other WSHS elementary schools that they don't yet know who will be attending Irving and WSHS.

If rezoned, their HOA will feed into 2 middle and high schools (That neighborhood already feeds into 2 elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 2 high schools, but the one West Orange Hunt HOA only feeds into WSHS according to the parents in attendance.)

Even though 1/2 of WSHS votes for 2 school board reps from other magesterial districts (Braddock and Franconia) and Irving sits in the Braddock magesterial district, not the Springfield magesterial district, the Sangster neighborhood votes for the Springfield magesterial district.  They expressed that getting moved to LBSS means that they lose their school board representation, because they do not vote for the Braddock rep.  I think this one is just a basic misunderstanding of civics and Fairfax County governance, since I believe the only FCPS high school that is represented by only 1 dedicated rep is Fairfax HS.  All of the others, including WSHS and LBSS, are represented by at least 2 or 3 school board reps due to jacked up gerrymandering by the Board of Supervisors.  The school board representation is a non argument based on county governance structure.

The good points they made:

They specifically purchased their houses knowing the neighborhood was a split feeder, because they specifically wanted to attend Sangster > Irving > WSHS, not LBSS because of the 4 reasons above (high school kids on the busses, the community claim, school board reps, and HOA argument) Rezoning removes their choice.

The best points and most compelling arguments from the Sangster community were made by the 4 Irving students who spoke about grandfathering, the inequity of letting secondary 7th and 8th graders be grandfathered but not allowing the same grandfathering for middle school students, and the biggest point was that the final maps will be released at least a month after 8th students register for classes and audition for classes like orchestra, so those Irving 8th graders will be sitting in limbo for weeks or months, not able to register for high school classes and not knowing what high school they will attend.  Bravo to those 4 students for making such strong arguments for yourselves.  I am sure your parents are on this forum to pass this on.  You should be very proud.

The White Oaks to Cherry Run families were asking that grandfathering be given for entire families through preschool younger siblings, so families don't have to have kids at 2 elementary schools.

In my opinion, that was one of the weakest arguments of the night against rezoning and the weakest grandfathering argument.

One, because of the scope of grandfathering county wide to grandfather all current and future elementary kids with currently enrolled siblings is just too large and encompasses too many years, more years than the entire rezoning cycle.

And two, we all all know that having kids at 2 elementary schools is something FCPS families jump on without a seconds pause when one kid gets into the AAP center programs.

The grandfathering of entire families though 7 years of elementary schools was not a viable request in my opinion.

Others might have viewed my assessment differently, but this was my take on the meeting.
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Your second point on White Oaks doesn't stand because affected families bought into an elementary school that is a center, so they were never going to have kids at two schools if the older ones get into AAP.[/quote]
This is not our school, but few more arguments I picked were different start times and lack of SACC continuity.[/quote]

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