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]The irony is that if they grandfather but don’t provide transportation they are going to have even less of a handle on future enrollment numbers.  They could end up with situations where students are rezoned from School A to School B, and from School B to School C, and the enrollment at School B spikes because the kids moved from School A can’t arrange for transportation so move to School B but the kids moved to School C can and therefore remain at School B.

Their ability to forecast enrollments already is poor and they could be introducing even more uncertainty.  Conversely, if they limited boundary changes to those situations that are truly necessary, phased in the changes, but provided transportation to grandfathered students, they’d be able to forecast more accurately.

The ability of this School Board to make a total hash of things seems endless. 
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The kids grandfathered are kids who currently attend the high school.  This affects 3 grades worth of high school students for any given rezoning.

What you are describing is not hoing to happen.  It is not going to spike enrollment.   It will just maintain status quo for one year, then a gradual decrease in enrollment over the next 2 years as each grade graduates.[/quote]

You simply don’t know how it will work because they haven’t done this before (grandfathering with no transportation) with boundary changes affecting multiple schools at the same time.  [/quote]

Are you certain that FCPS has always provided transportation for grandfathered kids?

I don't think that is correct.[/quote]

What you think is irrelevant unless you have proof.  They were phasing in boundary changes and grandfathering kids with transportation as far back as the 1970s.  [/quote]

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