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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school board never explained why this comprehensive review and the perpetual 5 year reviews are needed. And to my knowledge never even got around to defining some of their criteria. So what are we actually doing here guys?[/quote]

Watching a bunch of equity warriors trying to justify their efforts anyway they can. SB and administration aren’t effective so let’s put some smart kids in underperforming schools and see if they can make things better.  [/quote]

That’s the opposite of what they are doing.[/quote]

DP.  If you go back to the origins of the county-wide review back in 2018, it was very clear that the idea of a county-wide review was being pushed by Democrats like Tamara Derenak-Kaufax and Pat Hynes who absolutely salivated at the prospect of moving kids out of Langley and from schools like West Springfield to Lewis.

Then they got cold feet before the 2019 School Board elections and decided to hire a consultant so boundaries wouldn't be front and center in the 2019 election.  That consultant reported back that families valued stability over everything else and prioritized strategic additions over random boundary changes.  Their advice was ignored.

Karl Frisch revived a county-wide boundary study because he *thought* that somehow farming out responsibility for boundary changes to a third-party "expert" would help politicians like him on the School Board avoid accountability for boundary changes.  He also had the idea that they could push through equity-driven boundary changes so long as they were disguised as based on "efficiency" or "equitable access to programming."  Not surprisingly, people very quickly saw through that flimsy rhetoric.

Once again, they've gotten cold feet, so very few if any of the consultant's recommendations look like the work of "equity warriors."  They've settled for proposing random changes to deal with things that weren't bothering very many people, like attendance islands and split feeders.  In many cases the proposals would increase, not reduce, disparities among nearby schools (for example, by moving single-family areas out of Marshall to wealthier Madison).  Or they do crap like eliminate an attendance island but create a new split feeder in the process.  It's just mostly random crap that isn't really worth the effort.  Meanwhile real issues like the serious overcrowding at Coates remain unaddressed.

This School Board isn't serious, intelligent, or principled.  The only member who really saw what a shit show this would become is Ryan McElveen, and he responded by distancing himself from the study rather than repudiating it.  Most of the rest are total bumblers, and that includes people like Rachna Sizemore-Heizer, who somehow think that they deserve election to higher office despite their role in this debacle.  If we do reward them with seats on the Board of Supervisors, etc., we probably deserve the complete mess they're making of FCPS.

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This is all incredibly accurate. If you read one post today, make it this one.[/quote]

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