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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]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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Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change?  If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point. [/quote]
DP. What an incredibly spiteful and cynical take. Wouldn’t expect anything less from a Melissa.[/quote]

I am the PP, and former middle school teacher. Kids  schedules, friends, are overly curated now. They have barely any independence, they are overprotected. Have you seen the college fb parent pages?  These kids need to be placed in unfomfortable situations sometimes. Have you heard of parents complaining to their adult kids’ professors and employers about their grades or promotions?  It is out of control.

Kids need to be able to figure some stuff out on their own, with the guidance of their parents, but not with their interference. Teachers are quitting in droves because their students have trouble dealing with some challenging situations, and the blame is put on the educators. Parents, please model independence for your children. Teach them how to handle non-ideal situations. Things will not always go their way, and that is Ok.

*Bullying is a special case, and happens at all schools.

Imagine your kid having to attend the less desired school, and all they have heard at home is, “My poor Timmy is now forced to go to this lesser school (with lower quality classmates)”. Instead, maybe you could say, “Hey, I get this is going to be a challenging move, but you will get to make new friends, your school is (possibly) closer, and you will learn some new social skills”.  And if this sounds too terrible, then private or homeschooling can be an option.

And I agree that giving parents the option to share their opinions on this process was a terrible move by fcps. Families shared their voice in the election of the school board.

I am pretty sure there are families in fcps who are pleased with the boundary changes. They just aren’t here voicing their opinions/complaints. [/quote]
Families shared their voice in the election? Guafb. None of these school board members ran on a comprehensive boundary review platform.

Quite the contrary, they hid this from voters. You don’t want elected officials being held accountable by constituents? You’ve got a very different view of democracy than we do.[/quote]

How do you suggest we hold them accountable? Unless they have commited a crime, the only legal way I see to hold them accountable, is to vote them out. Every citizen has that option. You are also welcome to run for the board to enact the changes you believe to be the best for your family. [/quote]
Sure, but to claim that they have a mandate regarding something they hid from voters is really pretty brazenly stupid.[/quote]

Yet they opened up the process to public opinion, which I think was a stupid move. [/quote]

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