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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are so many families upset at the boundary changes.  The only ones that seem to be happy are those that are being moved to a school that they view as better than the one they are assigned to. Reid is going to move forward with these changes, talk about how she was able to re-district one of the largest school systems in the country...and then leave FCPS with us living and sorting out the mess.[/quote]

Not necessarily.

Sangster is upset about getting moved to a school virtually equal to WSHS in every metric, that 80% of their community attends and is only 1 mile ish difference in commute time.

People don't want to change schools, even if the schools are equal and attending the new school makes far more sense than their current school, the move fixes overcrowding in the least disruptive way possible for the current overcrowded high school, and the new school is more of a community school for them than attending the school they are currently assigned to.

Rezoning is NOT welcome by the community, even when it makes perfect sense and the new school is equal or better, like the Sangster split feeder and a few other schools.

I think a better observation is that the only people happy with rezoning are those getting moved to a *significantly* better high school, such as the Rolling Valley neighborhood getting rezoned to WSHS from Lewis.[/quote]
Yep, and even if the parents like the move to the significantly better school, the kids typically do not because they have established communities. The boundary review comes at significant mental health costs to our students.

Turns out that the vast majority of families just don’t want to be moved.  If only the school board would listen to that message.[/quote]

But everyone can't just get what they want. That is how we end up with situations like West Potomac. Expanded when space was available next door at Mt. Vernon. Someone has to look out for the whole picture and the taxpayer.[/quote]

I agree with you and I 100% support the Sangster split feeder all going to Lake Braddock.

It makes perfect sense and is the best long term solution and least disruptive solution for WSHS.  Taking all of Sangster and sending the entire school to Lake Braddock with the split feeder going with the 80% other Sangster students, combined with the demographic population drops over the next few years at both WSHS and Lake Braddock, will set the stage where neither school will need rezoning in the next 5 year cycle (looking at population drops in both sets of feeder schools in 6th grade and younger.)

The moves out of WSHS in map 4 are the best possible solutions for WSHS and 90% of the communities zoned for WSHS.   Moving Rolling Valley split feeder into WSHS is a bad move for WSHS, because it negates any benefits from moving Sangster out, setting the stage for another painful rezoning in 5 years.  It also harms Lewis.  My vote is that FCPS keeps the moves out of WSHS and does not move RV into WSHS.

After the initial fight and pain, it will also be the best long term solution for the Sangster community as a whole.  In a year or two, after a 6th grade class or two moves on intact with their friends and communities to Lake Braddock, they are going to wonder why they fought this sensible rezoning so hard.

That being said, people don't like change, even very positive changes like what is proposed in map 4 for Sangster, so they are going to fight like wildcats to prevent change.  Any one of us would do the same.

I don't fault them for fighting, even if I don't agree with any of their arguments and think that for WSHS as a whole, their move to LB is the best long term solution.  But I understand the fight they are making.[/quote]

+1  But I can understand current Irving and siblings of WSHS students allowed to be grandfathered in if they choose. [/quote]

Absolutely!

Current Irving students should be given the option to grandfather to WSHS, especially if their older siblings are current 9th, 10th or 11th graders at WSHS.

I don't think younger siblings should be grandfathered if the older sibling is a class of 2026 graduating senior though. Nor should 6th grade and younger students with a WSHS older sibling.  It should be limited to current Irving students, in my opinion, or the scope and duration will just be too expansive.
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