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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is needed! We can’t really be free until we have the freedom to choose our education options just as anything else!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why you guys are going on about all of this?! Dems are always excited about new projects until they drop the ball. Wait till school choice becomes a thing in this area - I hope Trump will at least get that done before his time is up. [/quote]

You do understand that school choice is a state issue and not a national issue? The Federal Government doesn't have a say on school choice. [/quote]

Will be a Federal issue once this bill is signed into law - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text [/quote][/quote]
Haha and schools will be free to reject you.   [/quote]

DP, sure the schools can reject whoever they want, but the flip side is that they can accept whoever they want, and they don’t need to justify anything to you.

Again for those in the back, at some point FCPS has to decide if it wants UMC kids in the school system or not. If they do, they’re going to have to change the way they disregard these families.[/quote]

The consistent problem is poor facilities planning and random decisions that come out of the blue with inadequate notice.

You get an addition, someone else gets told there's no money.  You get told to expect boundary changes after boundary changes, someone else gets a new school that no one was expecting.   You could be an UMC family that benefits or an UMC family that gets screwed.

But there's no real transparency or consistency, and all their BS about doing a "holistic" review isn't changing any of that.    [/quote]

UMC families can typically afford private, so FCPS is competing against those schools for these UMC students. I have consistently heard stability and predictability in school pyramids matter to this cohort, but the threat of boundary changes has the effect of doing the opposite.

Long term, UMC families will continue to migrate to private schools (we’re talking about potentially making the move for our kids). I know others who have already made the switch.[/quote]

Agree.  We've got Sandy Anderson at the work session today urging Dr. Reid to discount the views of parents who actually organize to make their voices heard.  The hostility is very real, and it's not lost on people.  [/quote]

Are the work sessions available to watch?[/quote]

Yes, today's work session just concluded, but it will be archived.  Usually they post the archived version on You Tube, etc., within a day or so.

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