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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BRAC meeting notes are up. They don't include anything involving maps:

https://www.fcps.edu/september-24-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting[/quote]

So they want to increase the commuting time and distance for the McLean students who’d be moved (over 200 students)?  So much for transportation efficiency.

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If it helps, the analysis is for the unseen “scenario 4”, so this must be for the Spring Hill kids going to Langley. If Timber Lane were still on the chopping block, McLean would also appear in the biggest transportation decrease section because Timber Lane to FCHS is much shorter than it is to McLean. So a speculative congrats to them![/quote]

I’m not sure I read it that way.  Weren’t they just parsing discrete boundary changes out of all those previously proposed back in June and flagging the ones with the most impact?  Timber Lane to FC vs. McLean might not have made that cut.

It’s confusing because they used the term “Scenario 4,” but they left in the change that would move Chantilly kids to Oakton, and there’s been a lot of feedback to rescind that proposal.  [/quote]

Where are you seeing specific schools?

There is a chart that lists a spattering of high schools with miles, and one map showing the distance of a single Sangster street not slater for rezoning and its driving path to Sangster.

But I am not seeing anything about the schools you mention.[/quote]
Slide 12[/quote]

So the schools listed on those slides are schools that students are being moved from?[/quote]

Yes. [/quote]

Are they?

Because WSHS had neighborhoods marked to move more than 3 miles away, and WSHS is not included on slide 12.

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I think it just means, maybe, that the Hunt Valley kids don't get moved to Lewis. They may still get moved to South County, though. If they were moved to Lewis, they'd be on that slide.[/quote]

I think that's a misinterpretation of the exercise.  There was no proposal pending to move any Hunt Valley kids to Lewis, so I don't think they would have considered the impact of something they hadn't yet proposed.   [/quote]

FCPS, Dr. Reid, Thru and Sandy Anderson all said publicly that the maps shown to Hunt Valley were incorrect.

Hunt Valley does not know what is in store for them.

Hunt Valley was not given the opportunity to comment on the scenarios 1, 2, or 3 because the maps shown to Hunt Valley were not the correct maps.

FCPS is required by Policy 8130 to hold a meeting in each affected pyramid [u]before[/u] any map proposals were made public.

Not only did FCPS not schedule a single meeting for the WSHS pyramid when the maps 1-3 were released, FCPS showed Hunt Valley the "wrong" maps.

Hunt Valley had their opportunity for public comment taken away from them by FCPS, by the district showing them incorrect maps, and never showing them the corrected maps for comments.

FCPS did not include the WSHS pyramid in this round of meetings, only adding a meeting at the last minute to the very last day after people complained, long after the September meeting schedule was released.

I am sorry, but FCPS has completely violated its own policy 8130 in multiple ways for the WSHS pyramid and Hunt Valley in particular.

Not a single Hunt Valley home should be rezoned in this 5 year cycle of rezoning.  Their rights have been completely violated by FCPS.[/quote]

I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said here, but I don't think that means you should misread what this 9/24 presentation purports to do simply because a likely misinterpretation would align with what you hope for HV.  [/quote]

All I am saying is that Hunt Valley was not given the opportunity to comment on the maps because they were never shown the correct maps affecting their neighborhoods.

When FCPS realized the Hunt Valley maps were wrong, they should have shown them the correct maps to allow them the same opportunity to comment on the changes as every other family in FCPS was allowed to do.

Instead, all the Hunt Valley families could do was make general comments of some variation of "keep Hunt Valley at WSHS"

I am one who would have made suggestions to move some HV neighborhoods to SoCo, but only if I was commenting on the actual maps.  Since FCPS didn't give families the corrected maps, there was no way I was going to make any suggestion besides "keep the school at WSHS."[/quote]

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