Anonymous wrote:When is the next meeting?

This is from the other thread:


School Board Meeting Schedule:

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/leadership/school-board/school-board-meetings


School Board Agendas and Meeting Minutes on Board Docs:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/vpublic?open

Anonymous wrote:They do. I think everyone needs to wait for official information. Or email your school board member for clarification--ex. being rezoned to an IB school

Our school board rep (Springfield district) was one of the biggest voices pushing to not grandfather high school students when the school board was revising 8130 this past summer. Watch the video that is linked on the new rezoning thread to draw your own conclusions.

However, once parents started to complain to her, she did a 180 trying to reassure them that her pushing the school board to not grandfather in 8130, was actually her trying to keep high school students at their neighborhood schools.

I would take what the school board reps say with a grain of salt.

Many of them are trying to muddle what they actually said on video at the various work sessions.

Anonymous wrote:Rising seniors are grandfathered.

Rising juniors are not at this time based on 8130 revisions and school board meetings, available online.

NOTE: "Rising Juniors" means Class of 2028 (current freshmen)

The rezoning occurs fall 2026 based on school board timeline.

This means current juniors will be graduated. Current sophomores (class of 2027) will be the "rising seniors" in fall 2026 and grandfathered.

Current freshmen (class of 2028) will be the "rising juniors" who will be required to switch high schools if rezoning goes through.

No decisions have been made on grandfathering, and there is no guarantee that rising seniors will be grandfathered.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if a boundary/school change would require juniors and seniors to move schools? In the past they have not been required to move. Any info appreciated!

Seniors will be able to stay. Juniors got no such guarantees, and it seems like a difficult needle to thread given the school board’s ambitions.

There is no guarantee that rising seniors will be able to stay under revised Policy 8130. It is discretionary on the part of the School Board, and if they grandfather seniors they still have to run multiple bus routes or not provide transportation (the latter of which does not align with their equity goals, since students from more affluent families can more easily arrange for transportation).

When is the next meeting?

Anonymous wrote:They do. I think everyone needs to wait for official information. Or email your school board member for clarification--ex. being rezoned to an IB school

You want to make your voices hear now, before anything is released by FCPS.

Once the proposed maps come out this spring, it will be too late to make an impact on the decisions.

Yep...it's a mess.

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Anonymous wrote:And, Junior year is the year that counts so much on your college applications. And, going from AP to IB and vice versa will also gum up the works.

If they were using any common sense at all, the SB would begin by eliminating IB. Give it two years and see what happens. Look at other programs that seem to be their excuse for this and see what they can do about it at the program level--not the boundary level.

If there appears an egregious imbalance in school size then that really affects the education of the students, then re-evaluate. But, no high school in Fairfax County is currently too small to provide a decent education. And, Chantilly, which is the largest, is doing just fine and is set to have a diminishing population over the next years. Their freshman class is 100+ students smaller than their senior class.

Yes, and it is also the time that students may be emerging as leaders in organizations and sports teams they have been a part of since freshman year. Much harder to do when you're the new kid in a school. If they don't grandfather rising juniors, kids in the class of '28 who get moved have the most to lose.

Students also may not be able to get to the 4th and 5th year of a foreign language they started in middle school if grandfathering is not allowed.

They do. I think everyone needs to wait for official information. Or email your school board member for clarification--ex. being rezoned to an IB school

Anonymous wrote:And, Junior year is the year that counts so much on your college applications. And, going from AP to IB and vice versa will also gum up the works.

If they were using any common sense at all, the SB would begin by eliminating IB. Give it two years and see what happens. Look at other programs that seem to be their excuse for this and see what they can do about it at the program level--not the boundary level.

If there appears an egregious imbalance in school size then that really affects the education of the students, then re-evaluate. But, no high school in Fairfax County is currently too small to provide a decent education. And, Chantilly, which is the largest, is doing just fine and is set to have a diminishing population over the next years. Their freshman class is 100+ students smaller than their senior class.

Yes, and it is also the time that students may be emerging as leaders in organizations and sports teams they have been a part of since freshman year. Much harder to do when you're the new kid in a school. If they don't grandfather rising juniors, kids in the class of '28 who get moved have the most to lose.

And, Junior year is the year that counts so much on your college applications. And, going from AP to IB and vice versa will also gum up the works.

If they were using any common sense at all, the SB would begin by eliminating IB. Give it two years and see what happens. Look at other programs that seem to be their excuse for this and see what they can do about it at the program level--not the boundary level.

If there appears an egregious imbalance in school size then that really affects the education of the students, then re-evaluate. But, no high school in Fairfax County is currently too small to provide a decent education. And, Chantilly, which is the largest, is doing just fine and is set to have a diminishing population over the next years. Their freshman class is 100+ students smaller than their senior class.

Rising seniors are grandfathered.

Rising juniors are not at this time based on 8130 revisions and school board meetings, available online.

NOTE: "Rising Juniors" means Class of 2028 (current freshmen)

The rezoning occurs fall 2026 based on school board timeline.

This means current juniors will be graduated. Current sophomores (class of 2027) will be the "rising seniors" in fall 2026 and grandfathered.

Current freshmen (class of 2028) will be the "rising juniors" who will be required to switch high schools if rezoning goes through.

Interesting

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if a boundary/school change would require juniors and seniors to move schools? In the past they have not been required to move. Any info appreciated!

Seniors will be able to stay. Juniors got no such guarantees, and it seems like a difficult needle to thread given the school board’s ambitions.

Does anyone know if a boundary/school change would require juniors and seniors to move schools? In the past they have not been required to move. Any info appreciated!