Anonymous wrote:The school board will vote on February 26 on whether or not to provide transportation for students rezoned based on the recently approved boundary changes. Let's make sure the school board does the right thing and requires FCPS to provide transportation for those high school students that want to stay at their current school.

Contact Board Members here: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/contact-us/school-board
Register to speak or submit a video testimony here (deadline : https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/community-participation
Attend February 26 Board Meeting - vote is early in the meeting - will likely be decided before 9:00 pm

can you please tell me where this is stated on the website?

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS is allowing students to chose their school, then FCPS should provide transportation for those students. Just as they do for all other students.

Unless their agenda is to discourage students from choosing to stay at their current school.

Staff doesn’t really have an agenda. They just pony up “compromises” that aren’t especially logical and make little sense. Reid doesn’t care very much about logistics - she much prefers to think of herself as a visionary “thought leader” - so she’s happy to throw something at the School Board for them to approve or reject. Most of the School Board members are no better so they often approve dumb proposals and then pontificate about how they’ve made “tough choices” or taken a “first step.” And thus FCPS continues to decline.

I guess hope is better than nothing but how is anyone supposed to plan / make a decision on whether to stay at current school with the following recommendation, "Prioritize funding during year-end review for possible expansion of transportation to additional grades."

You can write your School Board members and most will ignore you, even though we’re now paying for them to have multiple, highly paid assistants. Many are local Democratic Party apparatchiks. The corruption is real.

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Anonymous wrote:Recommendation / presentation posted: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DRGNXP621729/$file/Boundary%20Phasing%20and%20Transportation%20Decision%20Presentation%20Feb%2026%202026.pdf

The brilliance of the administration is recommending to have buses driving around to pickup seniors but not juniors or sophomores.

Idiots providing a stupid recommendation to a bunch of incompetent School Board members.

FCPS in 2026 in a nutshell.

I can't imagine the school board saying no on at least providing transportation for all high school students (rising sophomore through senior). I shocked that isn't the recommendation. Does anyone know the annual cost of the security detail for Dr. Reid and her driver? I'm thinking cutting that and staff director's for school board members for one year is more than enough to offset the three year cost.

Anonymous wrote:Recommendation / presentation posted: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DRGNXP621729/$file/Boundary%20Phasing%20and%20Transportation%20Decision%20Presentation%20Feb%2026%202026.pdf

The brilliance of the administration is recommending to have buses driving around to pickup seniors but not juniors or sophomores.

Idiots providing a stupid recommendation to a bunch of incompetent School Board members.

FCPS in 2026 in a nutshell.

Anonymous wrote:Recommendation / presentation posted: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DRGNXP621729/$file/Boundary%20Phasing%20and%20Transportation%20Decision%20Presentation%20Feb%2026%202026.pdf

The brilliance of the administration is recommending to have buses driving around to pickup seniors but not juniors or sophomores.

The Juniors and Sophomore apply for a bus exemption, allowing them to ride on an existing bus instead of being driven by their parents. Next year is easy, there is a senior bus. Two years from now that bus exemption bus stop will be further away.

- Parent of a kid opting into Western who has been learning about bus exemptions just in case we are not in boundary.

Recommendation / presentation posted: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DRGNXP621729/$file/Boundary%20Phasing%20and%20Transportation%20Decision%20Presentation%20Feb%2026%202026.pdf

The brilliance of the administration is recommending to have buses driving around to pickup seniors but not juniors or sophomores.

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS is allowing students to chose their school, then FCPS should provide transportation for those students. Just as they do for all other students.

Unless their agenda is to discourage students from choosing to stay at their current school.

Students who pupil place for AP/IB or language immersion have to provide their own transportation. The only kids provided transportation to a school of choice are TJ, Academy students, and AAP students. Those are programs that kids apply for are accepted into by FCPS.

The school board is treating kids who don't want to change school as pupil placement. There is no reason for rising 9th graders to attend the old HS. Kids who have already started at the school should be allowed to stay and have transportation.

If FCPS is allowing students to chose their school, then FCPS should provide transportation for those students. Just as they do for all other students.

Unless their agenda is to discourage students from choosing to stay at their current school.

Anonymous wrote:If they want to consider bussing for those affected, why don't they do what they do for TJ kids. Have the kids meet at a central location and everyone gets on the bus from there. Where I am, there is a pick up at Cunningham Park and Freedom Hill. I realize for some, even this would be difficult. But maybe families can work together and form a carpool.

As you indicate that would still be challenging but if they go that route let's hope they have the intelligence to realize in most cases a stop that remains in boundary (intersection of specific streets, local park, etc.) will be closer than a school based site as these students are generally on the edge of a border. At a minimum they need to promise families they can select a pickup spot anywhere within the boundary. In December they indicated that was a possibility if bus space available. Seems like if they don't provide direct transportation they need to have families choosing to stay at their current school specify their spot and plan accordingly.

Anonymous wrote:So many entitled parents on this board. 11th and 12th graders can be grandfathered and drive themselves to school. 9th and 10th should go to their new school.

Yeah but where will they park?

If they want to consider bussing for those affected, why don't they do what they do for TJ kids. Have the kids meet at a central location and everyone gets on the bus from there. Where I am, there is a pick up at Cunningham Park and Freedom Hill. I realize for some, even this would be difficult. But maybe families can work together and form a carpool.

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Anonymous wrote:So many entitled parents on this board. 11th and 12th graders can be grandfathered and drive themselves to school. 9th and 10th should go to their new school.

It’s entitled to think all juniors and seniors who can drive actually have their own cars or access to a car to take to school. That’s the very definition of entitlement.

It's equity inaction.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many entitled parents on this board. 11th and 12th graders can be grandfathered and drive themselves to school. 9th and 10th should go to their new school.

It’s entitled to think all juniors and seniors who can drive actually have their own cars or access to a car to take to school. That’s the very definition of entitlement.

Exactly, and the people pushing for no transportation likely are in unaffected neighborhoods and just being their usual miserable twits.