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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok here is a quick summary:

1. Reid and school board want to change boundaries for social justice purposes
2. Followed playbook and pretended to involve community in the process
3. Again following playbook hired an incompetent contractor so they have a party to blame
4. Provided a series of options to demonstrate due diligence
5. Reid and school board will make a final decision based on social justice principles that varies greatly from every option presented to date 
6. Will blame contractor when people who didn’t see this coming complain

Did I miss anything?
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Yeah.

The original motivation for the county-wide review may have been equity-driven.

Frisch et al came up with the idea they could make a lot of equity-driven changes as long as they claimed it was being done in the name of “efficiency.”

Reid signed up for this and said the boundary review could be “transformational.”

Then they got cold feet after the election, like they always do.  They hired a consultant who went after what they thought would be low-hanging fruit - attendance islands, lopsided split feeders, and schools over 105% capacity.

The consultant was so incompetent that they created new problems almost every time they tried to “fix” an existing “problem.”  And it turns out people generally don’t care that much about islands and split feeders, which they should have already known based on prior feedback.

When they realized their hired consultant was so bad, they went into panic mode and started back-tracking even further in community meetings.

They decided the best way to put lipstick on this rancid pig was for the likes of Sandy Anderson to pontificate that “we can’t fix every problem at once.”

It’s a complete mess. All they really needed to do was address a couple of overcrowded elementary schools like Coates and set boundaries for the new western HS.

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Beautiful, now we all know how ridiculous you sound [/quote]'

Tell me what part of this post you think is inaccurate.  The only thing that's "ridiculous" is the extent to which the SB shills will shill, no matter how big a mess FCPS continues to make of things.

Coates should have already seen overcrowding relief by now.  The Western boundaries should be set at the same time as any other boundary adjustments, not months later (with families required to "opt in" to Western without knowing whether they'll end up in boundary or not).  Other adjustments are largely unnecessary.  [/quote]

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