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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school board meeting was pretty concerning. The areas highlighted for further review will be addressed in between cycles. AAP centers at all middle schools will likely be implemented between cycles, but not all at once. The comprehensive review is looking to be a yearly battle.[/quote]

They should be looking at borders for schools that are at 95% and over capacity, that is a part of their job. They need to get better projections for future growth and they need to make decisions that might not be popular but help students by lessing the effects of over crowding. Changing schools will never be popular, people don’t want it. The School Board needs to make the unpopular call from time to time. But they need to have a plan that makes sense that is defensible and it needs to be more then we want to balance population groups.

And they need to deal with one of the big causes of the problem, IB vs AP. Choose one and have it at every school. The complete program. Have 2 IB schools that kids can pupil place into. Set those at schools that are centered for half of the County to make it easier for all families to get there. Kids can opt-in to IB, just like the Academies. But the kids leaving IB schools for other schools is a part of the problem with under and over enrollment at some schools.  [/quote]

Nope.

FCPS should do a full residency check of any high school they are considering for rezoning as the very first step, sending back to their base schools all program tansfers and any student whose parents do not have current proof of residency.

No school with 50+ transfers into the school in spite of being "closed" to transfers for more than a decade, and a known history of people sending their kids to the school by using old addresses or someone else's addresses (cough cough, WSHS) should be considered for rezoning until FCPS is certain the the only students attending the school are those who live or rent in bounds.

Second, FCPS should revamp curriculum at any high school that has a critical mass of students, more than 50, transferring to other high schools.

If hundreds of families are using AP to transfer out from an undesired IB program, then eliminate IB and put AP into the dang school.

Third, put AAP at every middle school.  This will solve many high school transfers of smart kids out of poor performing high schools.

These 3 steps need to be looked at before a single high school is considered for rezoning.[/quote]
+1. Anyone arguing that FCPS should just adjust boundaries and ignore FCPS families is not a serious person and is just ignoring the reality of the situation.

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The families at schools that are gradually stripped of kids or seeing declining enrollments are being ignored by FCPS.

The fact that some families scream bloody murder about potentially being moved doesn’t change the impact on those being left behind. [/quote]

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