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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t let up, people. The school board appears to be getting the message that families don’t want their kids moved. Keep up the outreach to remind them of that fact. The five-year clock (with a one-year add on) has started.

This school board would do well to remember Mcelveen’s statements yesterday that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze and Lady’s statement that literally nobody said they wanted their kids moved.[/quote]
Families do want kids moved though. The ones who bought close to their desired schools want the people on the edges moved out to eliminate the overcrowding. The ones who are "fine with the overcrowding" are the ones afraid of being moved - and they are the ones posting here the most and being loud/active.  Not taking a side, but that is the reality. [/quote]

Not necessarily.

My kids won't be rezoned due to proximity.

I got involved when they started the process saying they were not grandfathering, not even high school students, then stayed involved when they announced they would grandfather some kids, but without transportation.   Even if my kids were in the rezoned group, we would have been able to take care of transporting our own kids and neighbor kids. The sheer injustice of the grandfathering and bussing issue, violating long held FCPS rezoning practices and policies, locked me into this fight from the very beginning.  How could the school board even consider doing this to [i]anyone's [/i] high school students?

I got very invested based on the decision to revise policy 8130 and make this rezoning process required every 5 years.  A set 5 year rezoning process is terrible for students, schools, families, communities and taxpayers.  As McEleven so obviously pointed out last night, it cripples FCPS in perpetuity,  by locking all future school boards into a huge, continuous, expensive, time consuming, unwanted, mostly unecessary, rezoning process that was managed much more logically,  efficiently,  and cost effectively by the old policy 8130.  The waste of taxpayer money, starting with the absurd half a million plus no bid contract with Thru was pointless and horrendously wasteful, especially given that essentially zero THRU recommendations were used and we finished the 2 year process exactly where we started.

So no, many of us were not fighting this just to protect our own kids.

We were fighting this because of the abject ridiculousness and wasteful mismanagement of this entire process by the FCPS leadership and school board.

Anyone else in the entire county who wasted this much money, squandered so many resources and time, and produced so little results would have been fired and escorted out of the building months ago.[/quote]

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