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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, the Springfield district folks were fools in the past school board election when they voted Schultz out of office over national issues. Schultz was the one who helped and supported the Daventry parents with their split feeder elimination. She worked diligently with them, even though they were mostly not from her political party, because she treated them as her constituents even though they were from opposing political groups. She worked for her constituents on school issues, and would have been counted on to fight like a bobcat if the school board started pushing to rezone her neighborhoods out of the pyramid to use the kids as political pawns. She was awfully trumpy, but on school issues, particularly rezoning issues, Schultz put constituency over party. Fighting political rezoning was one of her issues. Now they lost that kind of representation on the school board, followed by redistricting thanks to McKay and the board of supervisors, that split their representation from Springfield district to Providence, where the primary school board representation is on Lewis and not their zoned high school, West Springfield. I think many in that part of West Springfield are going to end up regretting the day they voted on local offices because of national politics. They basically voted against their own interests, particularly with regards to school rezoning.[/quote] Fair enough, but, just to reiterate: Not a single school board candidate ran on a redistricting platform. That they feel they somehow have a mandate to do this is very misplaced.[/quote] No school board candidate [i]anywhere [/i] would get elected by running on a redistricting platform. It is a necessary evil that school boards loathe to do - everywhere. FCPS punting it down the road for so many decades, it is now needed. An overall comprehensive change makes the most sense. It will not be popular - they never are. [/quote] Kids are not playthings for political gerrymandering. We paid a premium to live in a particular schools zone. If fcps redistricts my kids to a failing high school, we will tighten our belts and move them to Catholic high school. Many of our neighbors feel the same way. Then we will work like crazy to get our school board rep voted out. Remember, Elizabeth Schultz was elected over rezoning of an elementary school, in the same district that is being talked about here.[/quote]
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