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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok from Reid’s boundary email, BRAC looked at feedback….now what?[/quote]

All of the comments are up online as well. [/quote]

Where can we find the comments?[/quote]

https://www.fcps.edu/november-12-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting[/quote]

They didn’t post the region 2 comments correctly.  [/quote]

A lot of the comments are posted incorrectly or in the wrong region. My kids go to Gunston which is heavily impacted by proposed changes and comments are in multiple regions. There are hundreds of comments about this school. [/quote]

Is Gunston in region 4?

There were pages of Gunston comments in the region 4 notes.[/quote]

What’s the issue with Gunston Elementary? [/quote]

Hagel Circle.

It is a very poor housing complex that has been moved around from school to school, because none of the wealthier areas want the public housing complex.

FCPS finally settled on putting them into Halley a decade plus ago, a far away neighborhood on the other side of 95, around 4 elementary schools away from Hagel Circle.

From the map 1-3 comments, it sounds like one early version of the map put them at Lorton Station, which is located like a block away from Hagel Circle.  That went over like a lead balloon, so in map 4 FCPS moved Hagel Circle to the next closest elementary school, Gunston, which will put them over capacity and overload their septic system.

Gunston does not want the poor kids from Hagel Circle either.

Right now, they are bussed so far out of their neighborhood to go to their elementary school, which affects their achievement, attendance and any possible parent involvement.  It is basically the equivalent of bussing a Vienna elementary school past the beltway to Annandale... not one parent of any group but the poorest among us would stand for this if it were our own kids.

There are a ton of posts going back and forth from parents in those potential receiving schools of all the reasons why Hagel Circle should remain at far away Halley and not get rezoned to one of their neighborhood schools.

For one of the bluest areas of Fairfax County, the hypocrisy is astounding.[/quote]

I am not familiar with that area.  However, if any kids need to live close to the school it is the poor kids.

I was a Title I teacher in an extremely poor school  Some of the kids were bused in from a project a little further away.  While the kids who lived nearby were also relatively poor, it was a whole lot easier getting parents in for conferences if they could walk.  The parents who could not walk were much more difficult to get to the school for conferences.
Also, if a child misses the bus--well, there goes a day of school.

Priority should be given to the commute--especially for poorer students.[/quote]

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