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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][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.  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.

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]

Sounds like you’re fine with other kids getting moved from West Springfield to Lake Braddock, so long as they aren’t your kids.  This is the consistent theme - other kids can cope, but leave mine alone. [/quote]

Every year the AAP question comes up.  And every year, the overwhelming response is that either option is great because the kids have tons of friends at each of the 3 schools, and there is so much social and community overlap between the schools.

These discussions have been going on with the exact same comments since AAP was added to Irving over 10 years ago.  The discussion is always the same each year, that the schools are very close socially so attending either school or both schools is really easy socially.

It is just interesting to see that annual Irving/WSHS/LBSS discussion occur under the context of the rezoning fight, when the main arguments against rezoning to Lake Braddock with most of their classmates and friends, are the complete opposite to the common knowledge and experiences expressed each year in the community at large and the annual online middle school AAP discussions.

Even if you are completely against rezoning, it is impossible not to see rhe irony of these two very contradictory positions, occuring simultaneously under the shadow of rezoning.[/quote]

It's a different calculus when you're talking about effectively forcing some kids already in high school to switch schools.  Do you really not see that?   Or are they useful sacrificial lambs across the county, as long as you're not redistricted to Lewis?  [/quote]

Non of the kids already in high school are switching schools.[/quote]

You are either misinformed or intentionally lying.  Go listen to Ricardy Anderson's comments at the School Board meeting last night.  [/quote]

Rising Juniors and Seniors are being allowed to stay at their HS with transportation. You put your rising Sophomore on the same bus as the Juniors and Seniors, look they have transportation. In 2 years, they have their license and can drive to school. Problem solved. [/quote]

They've spent money implementing readers on buses so shortly your child will have to scan their id and the bus driver will be alerted whether or not they are assigned the route.  [b]Of course if they provide busing for Juniors and Seniors there is no reason they can't do for Freshmen and Sophomores in the same neighborhood. [/b] It makes sense to probably not include busing for rising 7th and 9th graders as they are already going to be switching schools and to limit the financial impact to three years.   I suppose rising 9th graders could take the bus for three years but those families would know that bus transportation would not be provided their senior year.  [/quote]

They aren't providing busing for juniors and seniors. They aren't providing bussing for ANYONE who stays at their old school. They will vote on it at the next meeting. [/quote]

The vote to deny transportation will be the logical conclusion of a bunch of really stupid people doing really stupid things for a couple of years, and then putting on their sad faces and pretending - not that long after they decided to waste $200 million on a new high school that is by no means necessary - that "the budget is tight" and "tough decisions had to be made."

What a bunch of dopes.  
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It's amazing that after all this time there are still people out there who don't understand the difference between capital budget and operating budget - or that the money comes from completely different sources and legally cannot be mixed.[/quote]

Aren’t you pedantic?  The point is that this School Board is both selectively thrifty and selectively profligate. It’s hard to take anything they say with a straight face any more. They alternate their exuberant faces with their somber faces, but it’s still a circus act.  [/quote]

I'd say the PP is just "basically informed" vs. "pedantic", and that your prior post displayed complete ignorance on this topic. You may have a valid point to make, but you're making it in the least convincing way possible by conflating unrelated things.[/quote]

It’s easy to spot the types who are more than prepared to ignore how this School Board is ready to screw many families by denying them transportation to their current schools all because they are simultaneously ready to spend so much money on Western HS.  You certainly weren’t cheap to buy off, but your indifference serves their agenda. [/quote]

One has nothing to do with the other.
If anything, the new school will save on transportation unless some of the loudest voices win.  And, if they went ahead and determined traditional boundaries, then planning could be accomplished in a timely manner.
You still seem to not understand the difference between capital expenses and operating expenses.
Building/renovations are capital expenses.
Transportation is an operating expense.  And, those funds are NOT "fungible" between each other.  [/quote]

The money may not be fungible for FCPS.  It’s fungible to those footing the bill because it comes out of the same pockets even if it goes into different coffers.

We also see the contrast between FCPS going out of its way to favor one area because it wanted to buy a shiny new school (although one that is turning out to be a long-term project and anything but a “turnkey” high school for 2000 kids) and its willingness to screw families elsewhere in the county by denying transportation to redistricted kids.[/quote]

Jealous much? Two of the HS in Western Fairfax are overcrowded. Three are at capacity and close to being overcrowded. One is at 90% capacity and has a few seats left. The area has been acknowledged as needing a new HS for 25 years. Three schools have been expanded so they are just at capacity instead of being overcrowded. A fourth was scheduled for expansion but cannot be expanded.

Complain all that you want but the solution in this part of the county is a new HS and KAA was that answer. There are plenty of families that are unhappy that they are being moved to the new school. The only reason that is not a forced situation is because it is a new school and it will take a few years for the school to have built the programs, specifically sports and the like, that are important to many people. In 3 years, there will not be an option and there will not be bussing for students who want to pupil place to their old school.

Other parts of the country with over crowding have schools that have capacity near them. The over crowding can be addressed by redistricting. I understand that the families moving don’t want to move but that is the less expensive solution to the problem. Grandfathering every HS into their currently overcrowded school does nothing to address the problem of overcrowding. So the county shouldn’t be paying for busses, which are expensive, when they are trying to deal with over crowding.

The county does not to address the renovations list and reprioritize it based on current condition of the building. This should address the buildings that are in dire need of repair but that is a separate issue then the boundary adjustments.

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Exactly. Move those Orange Hunt kids at Sangster to LBSS and Daventry and Hunt Valley kids to Lewis. No phasing. No transportation. If families don’t like it, too bad. You shouldn’t have moved to Fairfax County. [/quote]

I think you were dropped on your head as a child. Please get help. [/quote]

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