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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).

We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.

Screw them.[/quote]

[u]The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move. [/u]

I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting. [/quote]

I agree with the underlined part.

An interesting side note, every year, including this one, there are multiple discussions on our town Facebook page over whether AAP kids should attend the center middle school at the bext school over (very similar except it is a 7th-12th secondary school) or remain at the Local Level 4 middle school and continue to our neighborhood high school.

There are always dozens and dozens of parents posting how it is soooo easy socially to transition between the secondary AAP program and the stand alone middle school/high school, because the kids all know lots of kids at both schools (true even for non AAP kids at both schools) and because there is so much overlap between all 3 schools through community events, sports, scouts, performing arts, etc.

The same statements are made every year when this topic comes up. [b] I completely agree that the school communities do overlap quite a bit, especially through sports and activities.  The kids at the middle school, secondary and high school all know mamy kids from each pyramid.[/b]

But the neighborhood that is getting rezoned to that secondary school is flipping out and claiming the opposite is true, as the main argument against their split feeder being eliminated.

It is kind of interesting to see those completely opposite arguments playing out online simultaneously.[/quote]

This very much depends on where you live. We moved two years ago when my kids were in 4th and 6th and their rec sports teams are mostly kids from their schools. They don't know kids from any schools outside their elementary school friends (and my middle schooler has made a few new friends). [/quote]

If the only kids they know are their friends from achool, then you should be over the moon ecstatic that the Sangster split feeder is getting fixed and your kids can continue to Lake Braddock with the other 80% of your school instead of starting over at Irving.[/quote]

That proposal got nixed in Scenario 5. [/quote]

I find that hard to believe.

They released a list of the remaining split feeders after the last November meeting.

Sangster was no longer listed as a split feeder
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That was the list just reflecting Scenerio 4 as presented in Oct., not a final list.[/quote]

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