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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would quell my concerns about the boundary review. My youngest would be going into 10th. While driving him isn’t easy it’s doable if needed. If we do get rezoned it would be to a comparable school. [/quote]

While I’m glad that your kid would not get moved under their proposed amendment, there are a lot of kids who are about to get royally screwed with these boundary changes. You might want to think a bit broader than your own specific situation, or at least be a bit more sympathetic to those students (including your neighbors in perpetuity) who would continue to be in the school board’s crosshairs.[/quote]

You are going to lose allies if you start fighting against grandfathering high school students.

I am very active in my elementary school zone's work against rezoning.  I got involved in the beginning at the first whispers of rezoning well over a year ago, and started to organize when it looked like everyone in our area might get rezoned.  I stayed involved when the maps came out and our half of the elementary was untouched.  I am still involved even though it appears my children will now be safe from any rezoning, both through our street appearing to be safe and the new possibility of grandfathering high schoolers.

I have done more than my part to spread the word about these changes, rally people and help, not just to protect my kids but to protect your kids.

Adding an update to Policy 8130 that protects high school kids, not just for this rezoning but from future rezoning, is a huge victory for the families in this county and one that we have been fighting and organizing for over a year to get enshrined in the policy.

If you selfishly start pushing against this victory (and it is s victory for all of us) of grandfathering high school students, because it is not 100% what you want, then I am out.  Many others will be out.  You will be the one that divided and conquered,  not FCPS.

You need to see this grandfathering move as the victory that it is, and try to build on it to include liberal pupil placement for younger siblings.

Fighting against grandfathering is going to lose a lot of allies from otherwise safe areas, who would continue to fight with you until you turn on them and try to take things away from their kids.[/quote]

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