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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think school board will amend with new changes from Reid’s proposal or just remove some of her changes? I hope nothing new - maybe just add to list of things to look at in future?[/quote]

They might put some of the Map 4 changes back into play (WSHS comes to mind)

There are some very upset Cardinal Forest families at Reid's last minute changes that switched that Keene Mill island down near White Oaks, Shannon Station, from getting rezoned to White Oaks elementary and Lake Braddock in Map 4, to Reid rezoning them to Cardinal Forest, putting Cardinal Forest well over capacity, and also rezoning walkable Cardinal Forest neighborhoods from Cardinal Forest to farther away Keene Mill elementary.

Moving Shannon Station to White Oaks in Map 4 eliminated an attendance island and decreased West Springfield High School by around 100 students.  It also lowered transportation costs by sending them to a closer school, and sent Shannon Station to equivalent schools with the same programs.  The Shannon Station move was low hanging fruit and met every last one of the four rezoning mandates given to the BRAC committee by the school board.

Reid's map keeps everyone at WSHS.  Reid keeps the recommendation from Map 4 to move two SPAs from Rolling Valley to Saratoga, but leaves one Rolling Valley SPA from the Parkway area at status quo (Rolling Valley > Key > Lewis), which means that instead of being a roughly 60/40 split feeder between WSHS and Lewis, Rolling Valley is now less than 10% split going to Lewis.

What Reid did to the WSHS maps by keeping Emerald Chase at WSHS and rezoning Rolling Valley the way that she did, puts a huge target on WSHS for mid cycle rezoning in the next year or two.

Sandy Anderson openly stated this at the school board meeting last week.  Anderson's term goes through 2028.  Rezoning WSHS has been her consistent, stated goal since soon after she was sworn in.  If she can find a way to rezone neighborhoods out of WSHS in an off cycle rezoning before her term ends, and move RV into WSHS, then she will definitely try.

If you know the history and follow the process, it is clear that Reid's map, trying to keep everyone happy, is the worst case scenario for WSHS as it means continuous, mid cycle rezoning.

I sincerely hope that the school board adopts Map 4 for WSHS, for at least Shannon Station.  Or, if they leave Shannon Station at WSHS, then I hope they rezone SPA 8922 along the Parkway to Saratoga, along with the rest of the Rolling Valley Lewis schools.

In my opinion, that is the best way to protect WSHS from mid cycle rezoning.[/quote]

One correction to my post.

School board elections are odd years in FairfaxCounty, 2019,  2023, 2027...

The term ends in January 2028, while the election is November 2027, roughly 22 months from now.

This school board has roughly 2 years to continue to make their mark on our kids' education.  I think they are counting on voters completely forgetting about this rezoning mess by the next election.[/quote]

Hard to do that when Sandy Anderson promised that this is just the start and they’re planning to continue looking at a variety of schools starting in January from the superintendent’s list. [/quote]

Is anyone familiar with her origin story? I’m genuinely curious why she’s so singularly focused on WSHS. How does someone wake up one day and decide that rezoning this one school becomes their life’s mission?[/quote]

Some people just think they know best.  They claim to "care more" than you do.  "Savior" mentality.[/quote]

DP. The CIP identifies WSHS as the most overcrowded HS in the county.  Doesn’t it undermine all the other boundary changes they are making when they leave WSHS untouched?  I’d be pretty pissed if I was getting booted out of other schools while they do nothing about the school they label the most crowded. Maybe that’s why Anderson keeps coming back to WS. [/quote]

Except the feeder schools into WSHS are all steadily decreasing enrollment,  many significantly.

All of the replacement classes are smaller than the high school classes. Even if every last AAP kid returns to WSHS from LB, the replacement classes are still smaller.

The current 8th grade class at Irving is 150 [i]fewer[/i] students than the current graduating seniors, class of 2026.

There are approximately 50 Irving AAP students per grade attending LB based on the transfer dashboard.  Even if every last AAP kid returns to WSHS, next year should be around 100 fewer students than the current year.  There are NOT 100 military kids and Catholic school kids transferring into WSHS each year.

Next year WSHS should be smaller, but the CIP predicts growth.

Every class going forward is smaller, yet the CIP shows growth.

The current 6th grade class and 5th grade class much, much smaller than the current WSHS sophomores and freshmen.  5th and 6th grade are so small that several of the elementary feeders had to cut teaching positions this year.

They are smaller than the current WSHS classes they are replacing, even accounting for all the AAP kids attending WSHS, quite a bit smaller, yet The CIP show growth.

Where are all these students coming from?

FCPS allows 50-60 out of bound students to transfer into WSHS each year, in spite of WSHS being closed to transfers, over capacity, and targeted for rezoning.  So we know at least 50 of the excess students are transfers approved by FCPS.  Either the school is sooooo overcrowded that kids must be rezoned, or it has space for 50+ transfers into the school.  Both things cannot be true at the same time.

Since FCPS is allowing so many transfers into WSHS, then WSHS cannot possibly be overcrowded.

We know that some of the overcrowding is approved transfers.

Where the heck is that CIP predicted growth coming from?  It is not coming from the in bound students.  The replacement classes are all smaller than the current high school classes.

It is not coming from the Catholic schools.  There are not hundreds of Catholic school kids transferring into WSHS each year.  That number is actually quite small.  My kid's was friends with a lot of Catholic school kids in middle school.  Freshman year, the largest school in the area, Saint Bernadette, sent around 10 kids to WSHS.  Nativity sent a handful.  The Catholic schools are not sending dozens of kids to WSHS.

Before rezoning, FCPS needs to verify residency at WSHS, because their CIP projections do not match reality.[/quote]

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