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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they are going to pick a handful of changes, make those, and punt the rest to another year due to funding issues.[/quote]
Yes. The problem is they aren’t making these decisions before the maps are due. Reid needs to know if the scope of changes has to be within a certain transportation budget, but that rule is still unclear. Now she’ll deliver a map with no transportation considered and the board will hem and haw over it and then they’ll push through some haphazard version.

Fix Coates. Fix Parklawn. Figure out what’s going on with Kimer. Figure out how to open your new high school. They’re biting off way more than they can chew and it’s going to crumble the closer they get to that self imposed January deadline. [/quote]

They were enamored of doing a county-wide review that "hadn't been done in 40 years."  They didn't bother to figure out what had been done over the past 40 years, why they might not have done a county-wide review for decades, and what ground rules had informed the prior county-wide reviews.

If they'd looked at what had been done over the past 40 years, they'd have known there were multiple boundary adjustments over the years, so any inflated claims that no one had looked at boundaries for 40 years were nonsense.

If they'd considered why there hadn't been a county-wide review for decades, they might have realized that their predecessors had realized that the county had become too big, and the schools too varied, to pull one off successfully.  It's one thing to change boundaries when, for example, every high school had AP and there were no "academies," or every middle school only had grades 7-8.  It's another thing when they've intentionally put different programs in different schools, and then invited families to make decisions about where to live based on those differences.  Again, this was never acknowledged.

And, finally, they made no effort to familiarize themselves with the ground rules that had informed past county-wide reviews, one of which was that the scope of changes would be limited in advance to ensure FCPS could continue to provide transportation to grandfathered students as the changes were phased in.   Again, this was ignored, and now they are scrambling because they've set themselves to do something that wasn't done in the past (deny transportation to redistricted kids), favors families with more resources, and would be quite unpopular.

This all happened because the School Board members are lazy and arrogant, and the superintendent had no experience with a school division anywhere near the size of FCPS. The incompetence is off the charts and will continue until voters stop electing School Board members based entirely on their party affiliation and not their qualifications.  
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