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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.[/quote]

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over  crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened. [/quote]

WRONG!  The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue.  Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends.  At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives.  Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.[/quote]
+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.[/quote]

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.
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This is the problem. Very few people want to move from their schools, most people are attached to their school because of the community they are in. The school board needs to develop a plan, present that plan, and listen to concerns. If they think that plan is really needed, they need to act on it while understanding that some people are going to be upset. The way the school board handles things is a joke. We are going to give you four options and listen to the families that scream the loudest while moving other neighborhoods or we end up doing nothing because too many people are unhappy and we want to be re-elected.

Change is painful, everyone knows that. FCPS makes it worse by turning it into a battlefield.

I have no problem with people objecting to moving kids to balance FARMs rates, that idea is not feasible. High FARMs areas exist because those are the pockets of the county that lower income families can afford. There are not many ways to address that that make geographic sense.

I understand people at over crowded schools wanting other people to move so that the school is less crowded, most people don't want to move schools. I object to the school board turning those decisions into gladiatorial matches between neighborhoods and then they make matters worse by not making changes. Now there is bad blood between neighbors and schools remain overcrowded.

The school board needs to do it's job even when it is not popular. Schools should not be over 100% capacity, especially when there are seats available near by. 
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