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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t been following this issue closely but listed to the meeting from yesterday just out of curiosity and I wanted to see if anyone was still upset in the wolftrap/vienna area.

I had no idea what was going on at Glasgow! Wow that’s not ok! I feel terrible for those families.[/quote]What is going on at Glasgow?[/quote]

Glasgow is the biggest middle school in the county. It’s bigger than Lewis, and it has a reputation for having a lot of out-of-control kids.

People begged Ricardy Anderson to do something about it to reduce the enrollment. They pointed out that the other two 6-8 middle schools in the area (Poe and Holmes) were under capacity. But every time Anderson tried to get FCPS to do a boundary study, she got rebuffed and told they could take it up as part of the county-wide review.

Then, when Thru presented its scenarios 1-4, none of them addressed Glasgow.  It’s not above 105% when you include its modular capacity, so it was ignored.  The one thing that did happen was FCPS separately agreed, again at Anderson’s urging, to create a new AAP center at Poe, and that will pull some AAP kids out of Glasgow.

Finally, in December, they released additional scenarios to pull move kids out of Glasgow.  Some kids at Mason Crest and Beech Tree would move to Poe and Falls Church, and some kids at Belvedere would move to Holmes and Annandale.

The Mason Crest families seem to support the move since most of that school already feeds to Poe and Falls Church. The Belvedere families didn’t really say much.  But the Beech Tree families were vocal in their opposition, because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice (not Poe) and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale (not Falls Church).  They didn’t acknowledge that more of Poe would feed to Falls Church if the rest of Mason Crest also moved there.  They just complained about the “double split feeder.”  They also pointed out that the new AAP center at Poe will bring down Glasgow’s enrollment without other boundary changes.

But more than anything else, they complained about the process, since they had so little notice about this potential move.  It was not part of Scenarios 1-4 and they had no opportunity to comment on it in the Boundary Explorer tool.  So they showed up in droves at the boundary hearing last week to criticize Reed for including it in her recommendations to the board. Several pointed out that the lack of notice did not appear to comply with Policy 8130 and implicitly threatened litigation if the SB votes to move them.

It was probably eye-opening to School Board members who are used to thinking that parents in some pyramids will just take whatever FCPS gives them.  The Justice pyramid sent a very different message last weekend. [/quote]

This goes to show how ineffective Ricardy Anderson actually is. 6 years on the school board and she can’t anything done with Glasgow overcrowding? Sad. [/quote]

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