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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://patch.com/virginia/across-va/public-school-enrollment-continues-fall-including-virginia

Pretty soon, FCPS is going to have to decide whether it wants UMC families in the school system.

The school board can have its every five-year boundary change instability or they can retain these families. The trade-off is clear.[/quote]

There are not enough private schools in this area and most people cannot afford the $50,000 price tags, or more, of the majority of schools in this area. The article does not breakdown how many of those kids that are leaving are SPED kids whose parents are dissatisfied with the services offered in the public schools. It also points to kids leaving mainly in MS, where parents are placing kids in private school to avoid the hell that is MS by placing them in smaller MS. Many of those families return their kids to public HS.

They are not going to adjust all the boundaries every 5 years but they will shift to use available space as schools become more crowded and other schools decrease in numbers. Loudoun does this right now and there are not that many complaints. They need to open new schools because of growth, maybe that explains the lack of complaint, but I have friends whose kids have changed schools in ES and HS.

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I think you missed that we’re talking about upper middle class families. Most can afford it.

And maybe you missed that policy 8130 requires them to do a comprehensive review every five years. Fwiw, it’s the uncertainty that’ll drive the flight, even if the changes are not as disruptive as this go round.

The school board is doing real damage to the public schools unnecessarily.
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My family is UMC and I would not say that we could afford $50,000. Well, we could, but we would have to not save for college and not take vacations and not make some upgrades on our house. It would be tight. And we wouldn't want to commute that comes with attending most of those schools or the ridiculous small size of some of those schools.

I didn't miss the 5 year comprehensive review but review does not mean redraw all the boundaries. [b]It might mean that there are schools that are over crowded and need to have their boundaries addresses, and that is fine. They should be doing that. 
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They should be looking at whether they are allocating their capital resources effectively before changing boundaries.

Not just building additions to schools because they are in an outdated renovation queue developed over 15 years ago, or because individual School Board members like Karl Frisch decided that wasting $85 million on an unnecessary new school in Dunn Loring was a good way to ensure Blake Lane Park in Oakton would remain untouched.

As long as people see the inefficiency in FCPS, they are more than justified in objecting to boundary changes.  I certainly hope that you are among those who get redistricted, because it's typically far easier to say that it's fine to adjust boundaries that affect other people's kids when you've already been the beneficiary of FCPS's uneven spending and aren't likely to get moved.  [/quote]

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