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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

A white suburban woman knows what is good for poor black, Latino and Asian children than their own parents. These women are the real racists. [/quote]

Correct.

Those two white women who argued for more boundary changes are just trying to get more kids like theirs in their classrooms. I question their motives. The only one who seemed to be truly crunchy was the elderly woman with short hair who clearly doesn’t have kids in the school district, but even her children probably benefited from the system she is now trying to change.[/quote]

So some FCPS schools are designated for black, Latino, and Asian students? That is what you can read from your statement.

Lewis is closing in on only 1500 students this year and will almost certainly start next year around 1450 if nothing is done. It is not like the other FCPS schools simply in the NUMBER of students, be they white, black, Latino, Asian, or other.[/quote]

But they are doing something. They’re looking at stopping transfers out by adding programming. That’s what Reid said. [/quote]

They need to re-evaluate programs at schools where 10% of the students are pupil placing out each year. Many of the IB programs are used to leave high FARMs schools, drop IB, bring in a full slate of AP programs and stop the pupil placement. That means running AP classes that might not be full because kids will transfer out to schools that offer those classes. If they are close to the number, then run the class. Give people a reason to stay at the school. If you keep the 200-300 students pupil placing out you have a larger number of students and a larger AP cohort. Families will figure out that they have classes with 15 kids in them and their kids get more attention in more challenging classes, which many will see as a plus.

[b]I believe Herndon is the only AP school with a high transfer rate.[/b] If every MS gets their own AAP Center, then you keep the AAP kids at Herndon MS and might drop the number of kids pupil placing at SLHS.

But the County really doesn't want to change how they do IB. They seem to be hell bent on going IB only and watching the students who are supposed to want IB transfer out of the school. If FCPS ran IB the way the surrounding counties did, kids apply to be in IB and are working towards the diploma while other kids at the HS have a full complement of AP classes, they would probably find that that the number of kids taking IB would drop a lot. I remain convinced that they keep IB where it is so it is easier for families to pupil place out then because they think it is a good fit for those schools.[/quote]

Herndon had 284 non-TJ transfers last year.  Next to that among AP schools is probably Falls Church with 217 non-TJ transfers.  Falls Church has an AAP center in the pyramid (Jackson), so it's not transfers for kids trying to stay with their AAP peers driving the transfers, apart from a small number at Mason Crest who go to Glasgow and then pupil place to Justice.  Biggest cohort of Falls Church transfers is to Annandale, so that's probably non-AAP kids who've been at Poe wanting to stay with Annandale kids.

With Falls Church's renovation and the potential addition of UMC areas from Justice in this boundary review, its going to be more desirable in the future.  [/quote]

Is there a link to find the transfer numbers?

How many kids transfer to Annandale?  That seems incorrect - I thought kids did not transfer to IB schools.[/quote]

FCPS did not update the transfers for this school year.  They are at https://www.fcps.edu/facilities-planning-future/facilities-and-membership-dashboards

You have to look at both transfer links and make a spreadsheet. s means less than 10.  Annandale transfers out:
Edison	14
Fairfax	s
Falls Church	10
Justice	s
Lake Braddock	87
Langley	s
Lewis	s
Madison	s
Marshall	s
McLean	s
Oakton	s
Robinson	s
West Potomac	s
West Springfield	s
Woodson	23
	134
TJ	56
Bryant	10
	200
total out	294
11 sites<10	94

50 incoming transfers includes Falls Church 28 and Justice 14.  
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Why does the data look the same year to year?  [/quote]

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