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[quote=Anonymous]No, Reid and comp are incompetent and it clearly shows.

Case in point, Western Fairfax needed a new HS to deal with overcrowding at 2 schools and 3 schools that were at capacity. The County did the right thing buying KAA. Cool. After that, they have completely mishandled the purchase and changes.

They had two options.

1) Wait a year to open the school while dealing with construction to modify the school and give them time to establish clear boundaries.

2) Open the school with construction but set clear boundaries.

They went with option 3: Open the school with 2 classes of kids and no clear boundaries. Instead, tell kids that they can opt in to the school without knowing if there was going to be any transportation and wait until the summer to find out what the final boundaries look like.

That is plain and simple incompetence. Now the boundaries for the new school are falling into the same chaos as the rest of the redistricting with some parents screaming that they don't want to go to the new school, for example RIO. Others want to move but their school board member doesn't want them to go, Fox Mill. Meren has sent out false information in 2 different emails that she has had to retract and still refused to meet with the Fox Mill PTA. Others don't want to move b ut know it is a losing battle, Oak Hill.

The County should have identified all the schools that are overcrowded and completed boundary shifts to deal with those schools. Instead, the board and Reid wanted a "comprehensive redistricting" so they could move kids from schools that were not overcrowded but have low FARMs rates into schools that were not overcrowded but have high FARMs rates. Shockingly enough, this was seen as a bad idea. Moving kids for no reason other than balancing FARMs rate was met with resistance. Which then flowed over to shifting the boundaries at schools that were overcrowded because now the moves were not seen as dealing with overcrowding but part of the county wide FARMs rebalancing. The language shifted after the outcome of the Presidential election and now we have a county wide shouting match to avoid moving with the communities having the smallest voices, due to money and population size, losing.

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