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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There are not 12 magisterial districts, only 9. Perhaps you're thinking of the 12 School Board members, but three of the members are at-large members.

The regions exist for the administrative convenience of Gatehouse. They certainly don't exist because the schools within the regions are similar or near each other, as illustrated by Marshall weirdly being placed in Region 5.

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Thanks for catching that--I was the poster who made the mistake.  I should have known better.  However, even more reason to align them in some way since the regions don't seem to be balanced at all for "administrative convenience."

I really don't understand these regions--more FCPS confusion, I guess.
But, ranging from 39,000 to 19,000 students with no serious alignment with geography is puzzling.  Region 5 has twice as many kids as region 6.    They have 3 rather large regions and 3 rather small.  Go figure.

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I just mean "administrative convenience" in the sense that the regions break down FCPS into smaller units, each of which has its own regional superintendents and executive principals.  They clearly don't care too much if the number of students within a region is comparable.  In that regard, it's not like a magisterial district, the boundaries of which are adjusted every decade in accordance with state/local law to try and ensure "equal representation" on the Board of Supervisors, School Board, etc.

If you're thinking it's unfair that FCPS asked each region to provide its top 10 recommendations when some regions have more kids than others, such that Regions 2, 3 and 6 are over-represented and Regions 1, 4, and 5 are under-represented, you might flag that for your School Board member.  The intensity of the comments from the regions probably depended more on the extent to which FCPS staff and Thru Consulting were proposing to change boundaries within those regions than the number of students residing within them, but maybe that makes the later meetings that they have committed to hold in every pyramid affected by the boundary proposals all the more significant. [/quote]

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