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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am all in favor of a redistricting across the entire county. Lets shift all the boundaries so that over enrolled schools see relief and under enrolled schools see their seats being used. Families who are unhappy with their new schools are welcome to move to Private but the boundaries, as they stand right now, are bullshit.

Mass chaos. I suspect you have never been through a redistricting. Bad idea.

For who? The parents of kids that are in the higher income families maybe but better for the rest of the county. We have schools with declining population and schools that are bursting at the seems. We can alleviate a good amount of that by shifting the boundaries. We won't because the wealthy families will scream bloody murder and will contribute to whatever campaign they have to so that their kids don't have to attend school with kids who are under privileged.[/quote]

When a school with a declining population is losing 200 kids to AP, that is a problem with the school--not the boundaries.  So, your solution is to send other kids there?

And, it may surprise you to know that even people in lower income schools do not necessarily wish to be sent to higher income schools.  Case in point:  neighborhoods sent from Chantilly to Oakton in 2008.  At that time, Oakton was rated significantly higher than Chantilly.  Yet, the neighborhood wished to stay where they were.  So much that years later, when Kathy Smith was running for Supervisor that a parent was charged with attacking Smith when she was door knocking.

Redistricting is not just about home values.  It is also about the community that is developed around the school--sports, band, drama, etc.  It is about students and their families.

It is extremely disruptive to families and neighborhoods--and actually pits neighborhoods against neighborhoods within a community.  (Neighborhoods fight to stay within the school's boundary over other competing neighborhoods.  It is not pretty. )

Families end up with kids in different schools.  Two PTA's, two different event schedules, two different Open Houses, two different venues for just about all activities.

The hard work is to make the schools stronger.  That is what the SB refuses to acknowledge.  And, changing names does not change the culture.[/quote]

I believe that South Lakes show how an infusion of stronger students can improver and bolster a school. Test scores and graduations rates have been improving more then number of kids added by the boundary change rates.

Yes, it will negatively effect some property rates while improving others. And yes, there will be some inconvenience for families. But you can’t allow over crowded schools to continue to be over crowded and under utilized schools to shrink. Arguing that some kids deserve to have over crowded schools so your house maintains its property value is selfish bullshit and you know it.[/quote]

I am okay with selfish bullshit.  I am not okay with using kids as pawns to “improve and bolster a school.”[/quote]

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