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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They posted slides for some of the topics at the 12/4 board meeting.  One of them is on the transportation of kids "grandfathered" in as part of phasing, and it appears to recommend that transportation NOT be provided.  They estimated it'd cost $10.4m to do so.[/quote]

To be specific Reid's recommendation at the end of the deck is "Provide transportation based only on new boundary adjustments."

The phrasing is odd, but the intent is clear - save $10.4 million by only providing transportation to schools based on the revised boundaries.

And it doesn't matter what grade your kid is in.  If they are a rising senior at a high school, you're on your own to arrange their transportation.  Same if they are a rising 8th grader or a rising 6th grader.

To be clear, this is a departure from both (1) the county-wide boundary adjustments decades ago; and (2) the more recent one-off boundary changes.  When FCPS used to adjust boundaries county-wide, they started with the proposition that the need to grandfather with transportation would serve as a constraint on how many boundaries were changed.  With the more recent one-off boundary changes, there was generous phasing and transportation provided.

The recommendation is not surprising, because they never treated transportation costs as a potential constraint on what boundaries they might change.  But, by the same token, their boundary proposals are random and anything but comprehensive or courageous.  So it's just the subset of families that happen to get caught up in their desire to show they "did something" that will bear the brunt of this recommendation.  [/quote]

That is a most confusing recommendation with more time spent on cute graphics than actual cost analysis.  We have current high school students that under the latest recommendation would be assigned a new high school.  Is she recommending our children would be covered?  I think so.  If they decide it cost too much, hopefully they prioritize current high school at the top as that has the greatest impact.  Imagine students at an AP school being sent to an IB school or vice versa.   [/quote]

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