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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ya'll need to wave the white flag, and accept whatever school the school board wants to send your kids to.

They received a resounding mandate last night to do whatever they want to do to your kids education (or lack thereof) however they want to do it, under any timeline, without grandfathering if need be.

They know that there will be zero consequences in the next election for rezoning anyone.

Read the tea leaves and save your energy.
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What is: How to totally misread last night’s results for a thousand, Alex.

Now, in a couple of years if they clean sweep the school board elections, that would be a better signal. 
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Of course they will clean sweep the school board elections.

They know after last night that they have support to do whatever they want to do however they want to do it.

You all know you will vote them back into office no matter who runs, and they know it too.

Anyone who is fighting the rezoning is fairly delusional that their opinion matters to the school board.  They know and you know that they will either get reelected, or someone far worse/more extreme/more left than them will get elected, no matter which neighborhoods get rezoned.[/quote]
I don’t buy that for a second. There are areas that have successfully fought boundary changes through each turn of the map.  And don’t forget, the puppet masters of the school board is the Democratic Party, and margins statewide are much much closer.  Sure, maybe the bond passes 70-30 in Fairfax, but push too hard and vouchers statewide become a real possibility.[/quote]

What is the actual % of students who will be affected by redistricting?  And maybe more to the point, how many will be affected negatively?  1%?  This is a non-issue for almost everyone.[/quote]

Exactly. Families who live on the boundaries of schools are the ones affected and that is a relatively small percentage of kids and parents. And it is not one or two kids but a group of kids that will be moving together, which will make the transition easier for the kids. They will move with friends and classmates, just like they would do going into MS or HS.

I have learned that people are far more attached to schools then I ever have been and will be. I have good memories, for the most part, of school but I never had a desire for my kid to attend the same schools I did because they were so amazing. I want school to be a positive experience for my kid, but it shouldn't be his identity. But so many people seem to be invested in their schools in ways that I don't understand.

That said, most people are not going to be affected by the moves. The only reason this might touch them is the amount of time the School Board has spent on it. The expenditure on the new school maybe but I think it is an easy case to make why it was needed. [/quote]

I live on one of these boundaries and my kids will be affected.  Their friends will not follow them because their friends live well within the school boundaries and will stay at the same school.  My kids friends aren't the kids that may live on the same street, but they live a few minutes away.

Maybe you can't understand someone's attachment to a school, but that doesn't mean it's not important.  My kids are very much attached to their school and there is a HUGE community pride in it.  Even their favorite colors tend to be the school colors.  I don't think that's unheard of.  Where I grew up, it was par for the course to show pride in your HS and everyone always talked about which one they went to.  I do think that in NOVA there is a more transient community that may not build those type of bonds with people moving around all the time, but people and schools that create them shouldn't be ignored.

Our schools would change and all the school changes are good schools to good schools.  There isn't much of a different in academics.  But my kids are constantly worrying about the change because they've made their home at their school and that is where their community/people/friends are at.  I hate that they have to think about this on top of all the other pressures at school.

The school boundary adjustment process just seems like an abomination in how FCPS is gong about it.  Never in my professional career have I seen a process like this and I would be fired if I ever failed this badly at it.  [/quote]

DP. Sounds like you need to do a better job of teaching your kids how to adapt to potential change. One of my kids might be moved and we aren’t thrilled about it, but we are trying to look at the bright side and not treating it like it’s the end of the world. There are much bigger challenges in life. Parents tend to feed their kids’ anxiety. [/quote]
DP.  I feel really bad for your kids, whose parents are too lazy to try to give them a great childhood.  I envision you frequently saying to your sobbing child who is going to lose friends: “suck it up, buttercup.”  Your kids must feel so alone in this world.
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My kids aren't sobbing because they aren't little wimps who fall apart at every challenge like yours. We let them express their feelings, but we teach them that how we respond to tough things makes us who we are. I would rather they not be moved but I am not going to convey the message to them that it's the worst thing that could ever happen.

It's so funny how parents raise these overdramatic children who melt down at everything and just have no idea how why their kids are like that, not seeing how their own behavior has played a role. Don't be surprised when your kids have anxiety disorders later on. Learning to deal with life's disappointments when the stakes are lower is critical for later success. [/quote]

Quit being so sensitive, lady. Seems like you aren’t quite as resilient as you pretend to be![/quote]

Huh? I suggest you read the post below. They have a lot more patience to explain things to you than I have. You haven’t upset me in any way. But I guess you couldn’t think of another way to respond because you can’t refute the substance of what’s being said. [/quote]

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