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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw this article on The Hill and immediately thought about the boundary review. The Democratic Party has hemorrhaged voters lately, in part for being out of touch on its policies. Exhibit 1 is the boundary review.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5395563-democrats-losing-support-white-voters/

Ignore the URL mention of white voters, because the article is not really about that.

Here’s a quote from the article - “We do better when we first meet voters where they are and then bring them along on other issues. … And nine times out of 10, what they really care about is whether or not they’re going to be able to afford health care, whether or not their kids are going to be able to go to a good school … housing, living paycheck to paycheck.”

Since all politics are local, the school board is doing immense damage to the Democratic brand with the unnecessary comprehensive boundary review.[/quote]

I wonder how the election of Sandy Anderson, who was already trying to undermine the Thru Consulting recommendations, as the new School Board chair, will affect the boundary review.  At some point will there be a confrontation between the School Board and Reid where they throw Reid under a bus?  [/quote]

Sandy Anderson has been one of the worst, if not the worst school board rep on boundaries.

She has actively worked against her Springfield District families on this issue, and has been miserable with communication, alternating between completely ignoring or dismissing constituents from multiple neighborhoods,  to promoting neighborhoods from outside her schools over the schools she represents (pushing to displace and rezone Hunt Valley/Irving/WSHS families and replacing them with Lewis/Key neighborhoods)

It is unbelievable that anyone would think that Sandy Anderson is the face of resistance [i]against[/i] rezoning.  This rezoning is Sandy Anderson's pet project.[/quote]

It’s her pet project for sure. Interesting that her neighborhood isn’t touched, but a neighborhood right behind hers is slotted to move without much reason. [/quote]

It is CRAZY to mive those few streets from Silverbrook/South County to Sangster/Lake Braddock.

It easily triples their commute, and [b]forces them on some very busy main roads, one of which has recent teen driving deaths.  [/b]

Then, they are basically flipping that neighborhood with a similar sized Sangster/Lake Braddock neighborhood that is very happy with their current school, which is about the same distance or closer, who also do not want to change schools.

Why would they even do something like this, flipping two clusters of streets, neither of which want to get rezoned, even though all the new schools are great options.

That Sangster/Silverbrook/Soco/LB rezoning is simply rezoning just to say you rezoned something, particularly for the Silverbrook streets.

I can't help but think that one is a revenge rezoning against someone who ticked off the school board member.  It is just such a weird chouce for rezoning to LB
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Absolutely. The road safety alone should be enough. It’s an odd choice & Sangster already has portables and large class sizes. Moving another neighborhood in, without any logical reason is odd. Sandy has not been very helpful with listening to her constituents’ worries and concerns. I understand that some changes may make more sense than others, but she comes in on the defense and is very argumentative and protective of that RVES/Key/Lewis pocket. [/quote]

I really wonder what it is about the RVES/Lewis pocket that has her willing to move other neighborhoods?  The Thru proposal seems to make sense here: make the change at the elementary level by moving that pocket to Saratoga ES. Moving is going to be hard at any level, but there are real consequences for moving kids mid high school: loss of leadership positions in clubs and sports, disruption of foreign language study, loss of teacher relationships for recommendations, etc.. Anderson wants to to disrupt students at the HS level in the HVES Gambrill Rd neighborhoods and foreclose the possibility of even grandfathering existing HS students into WSHS in order to facilitate moving the RVES/Lewis pocket into WSHS.  Why is this something she is pushing for? [/quote]

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