Reply to Amendments to Policy 8130 re Grandfathering of Current Students

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should they include busing?

1.  If I choose to keep my kid at their current school that is on me.  Just like if I choose to pupil place my kid elsewhere for language, AP/IB, whatever, I am responsible for getting them there and back.

2.  One of the biggest complaints I see on this board is how much time and money is wasted bussing AAP kids to center school.    Why would FCPS  spend even more time and money shuttling around kids that want to stay at their school.  There isn't enough drivers or busses to make this happen or time in the day to accomodate this.   Many of the bus drivers are already doing 3-4 runs each morning and doing it again the in afternoon.  Now, you want to add another route to this.  [/quote]

Agree.

Grandfathering without bussing is the fairest option.[/quote]

Grandfathering without busing is the textbook definition of inequitable access to programming. It’s one of the reasons Sniveling Sandy and her crew has pushed back on it.

It should be an interesting debate at that meeting, but they probably will spend more time with their photo ops than discussing anything substantive.[/quote]

Then pupil placement in general is inequitable since only families who can provide their own transportation can take advantage of it. I don't think you can argue against parent-provided transportation for grandfathering on the grounds of equity and still allow parent-provided transportation for pupil placements for other reasons. [/quote]

Pupil placements aren't a result of boundary changes, but rather decisions by families to send their kids to a different school than the school for which they were [i]already zoned[/i].  With boundary changes, the School Board is unilaterally uprooting kids and sending them to a [i]different [/i]school, so grandfathering with transportation has been available to mitigate the disruption that the SB is otherwise imposing on families and kids.

Your willingness to defend what would be a departure from FCPS practice for at least the past 50 years suggests you are not interested in equity, but only shilling for a School Board that has dug itself into a deep hole.

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While I agree that county transportation would be preferable, arguing AGAINST grandfathering due to a lack of transportation is inconsistent, and would likely be a way for the school board to uproot kids as quickly as possibly.  Trust me, I am anything but a School Board shill. I'd rather see grandfathering with transportation provided. [/quote]

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