Reply to Fleeing APS schools for FFX County

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Fleeing APS schools for FFX County"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TL; DR

- people who are still alive[/quote]

Fine, here’s the synopsis. The longer-term history of the current over capacity situation is that voters refused to recognize and acknowledge changing dynamics in the county and how they were affecting APS. As a result, the school,board was unable to respond proactively to those changing conditions without risking voters rejecting the entire bond, so they created compromise solutions voters were more willing to accept. Those compromise solutions were inadequate to the future need, though, and so now were in the position of not nearly enough seats and scrambling to play catch-up.

It is not hard to see this pattern repeated more recently, such as with middle school boundaries. The community refused to acknowledge the reality that plenty of groups had valid reasons to want to be zoned to schools other than Williamsburg but not everyone could be accommodated while maintaining balanced enrollment. As the arguments between communities got uglier, the school board did the best it could to find a solution that would keep the peace, and we ended up with Williamsburg projected to be significantly underenrolled and neighborhood transfers being the only solution in the near to middle term.

The CC high school process seems to be shaping up similarly as well, we’ll have to wait and see where we end up there.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics