Reply to Amendments to Policy 8130 re Grandfathering of Current Students

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's great, sounds like they are being responsive to parents.[/quote]

I don't think it is so much the school board being responsive to parents, as it is Dunn finally getting through to all the reps with higher political aspirations that they are committing political suicide by pushing through an unnecessary, unpopular and unwanted social engineering rezoning, without allowing existing high school students to be grandfathered.

Dunn is the only school board rep communicating with and advocating for constituents and FCPS families, and the only school board rep with an ounce of sense or moderation.  This change to grandfather and protect high school students from disruptive rezoning has Dunn's leadership all over it.

None of the others seem to care about FCPS students when it comes to this rezoning process.[/quote]

Sorry, but Matt Dunne is not all that.

He was a big fan of the county-wide review at the start.  He also approaches these issues from a place of privilege, since he's zoned to a school (West Potomac) that got a massive addition.  He's big on claiming they should eliminate all trailers and modulars, but that isn't what the parents at other schools that rely on modulars and haven't seen the big investment that West Potomac received want.

He has one small group of parents who are upset at the prospect of getting rezoned out of Hollin Meadows/Sandburg/West Potomac into Riverside/Whitman/Mount Vernon as part of a plan to include Whitman within its attendance area, and he's said he'll try to make sure they aren't redistricted.  But that only underscores that his initial decision to push ahead with the county-wide review was an error.  If they are going to leave schools like Whitman outside their attendance areas, they shouldn't be pretending the elimination of attendance islands is a big problem crying out for relief, either.

Most of these proposals are solutions in search of a problem, and some additional flexibility when it comes to grandfathering (at least if you can swing your own transportation) won't change the fact that the larger project is unnecessary and is being poorly carried out. [/quote]

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