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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how much time and effort has been put into this to come up with various scenarios....both by the board/Thru consulting and by parents.  Why make everyone upset?

Easy solution ... 
1. do address checks
2. close schools to transfers
3. watch population trends decline and problem solved
4. semi-annual address to checks to make sure kids are going to their zoned school
5. Factually evaluate population trends and enrollment data -- looking at each grade level.
6. FCPS use 2030 census data to discuss with families any factual reason for possible updates to boundaries.

With a $4 Billion dollar budget FCPS should be able to easily work this and save all the headaches and frustration.[/quote]

+1   This is the answer!  They spent almost a million dollars on a consulting firm and claim they do not have the money to pay people to do address checks because only one person in central office is in charge of that.  I work in a nearby school system and our students have to have a copy of a rental agreement/utility bill/ etc every year to re-enroll at the school.  The front office checks the date of the paperwork and the address and moves on.  [/quote]

Every district we have lived in requires this.

2 west coast states, 2 midwest school districts. 2 texas districts, and a southern district.

Everyone but FCPS requires this.

You literally just bring in a lease or utility bill to open house or the summer before the first day of class, and the secretaries check the name,  address and mark a yes box in the computer.

It is literally that simple.

Why can't FCPS manage such a basic task.[/quote]

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