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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If not now, when should the boundary changes be addressed? Won’t families still have the same issues to push against them: community, home values, friends,?

The population in our county has changed. Some areas are more dense, older neighborhoods might have more empty nesters now. Shouldn’t the public schools do their best to serve all students? Sometimes that will mean shifting a few neighborhoods around.

I can see how some have issues with breaking up friend groups, but most of the families with kids at TJ don’t seem very concerned about that. Neither do the ones that pupil place their kids to another school. Are those kids traumatized?[/quote]

15:28 gave a very good response to this.  I have a couple of things to add.  Those neighborhoods with empty nesters tend to turnover.  That is currently happening in my neighborhood.  And, "voila!"  you have a young neighborhood again.

And, I agree, sometimes there needs to be a boundary change:  a new school opening; lots of new construction; etc.  However, that is not going on county wide.  I think the last new high school was South County.  Westfield shortly before that, I think.  
The last one for no good reason was South Lakes because the PTA was not happy.  People who were involved still resent it.  This is a county wide version.

People understand a boundary change when there is a clear need.  This is an extremely expensive process.  It is disruptive to students, famlies, and staff.   And, why?

It is not going to solve anything.  It will just be different kids on longer bus rides.  Kids being changed from their communities and shifting from friends.

The negatives are many.  I still do not know what FCPS SB sees as the positives.[/quote]

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