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Anonymous wrote:Forgot also- Western High School boudary meeting this Saturday 930-11 am.

Did they say where it will be?

Please share, we know some people who are going to go NUCLEAR and want to make sure we can rebut them.

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Anonymous wrote:The parent who made the bus comment was a white oaks parent. Not Sangster. I heard many people say LBSS is a great school it’s just not the middle school and HS experience they went for their student, which is a valid point. Please don’t lump all of together and make accusations like that.

Neither WO or Sangster parents threw any other neighborhoods under the bus with suggesting they “pick them” instead. I heard overwhelmingly that they consider slowing these decisions down and reexamine data. Perhaps voting on a partial county boundary change to allow more time with accurate data be examined in this area.

Someone is moving. Reid made that very clear. And if it’s not the Sangster split feeder and White Oaks attendance island then it will be West Springfield ES neighborhoods like Daventry, who will get returned to Lewis. Or sending Hunt Valley to Saratoga/Lewis or South County. Or maybe sending more of Orange Hunt to Sangster. Families are getting moved. It’s just a question of which ones.

I think this comment is to stoke the fires and spread more fear. It sounded like the community worked together last night to force more questions on data. I also hope it made Dr.Reid and the board to acknowledge how challenging this process has been for every member of the community.

Sandy Anderson has made it very clear the status quo won’t work. Current WSHS parents complain about overcrowding. SB and FCPS staff don’t care how challenging the process has been. Do you talk to any of them last night after the meeting? They are moving ahead with this. Someone is moving. The question is which neighborhood(s).

Someone is moving.

Dr. Reid told tge group towards the end that map 3 changes will be returning in map 4.

Did she mean specifically for the WSHS stuff you all are talking about, or in general? Could you tell based on wording? Just wondering because a change affecting my kids was in map 3 but went away in map 4.

Since she was talking to the Sangster parents, I assume she meant the map 3 for WSHS.

Maybe someone else at the meeting had a different take?

Early in the meeting she stated that map 3 was dead.

Later, she said some of the map 3 changes will need to come back.

I assumed she meant if Sangster talked their way into staying, then Hunt Valley now will need to leave.

This was certainly not what Sangster parents were advocating for last night. They were asking for clearer/better data before any decisions should be made. This is not about kicking some neighborhoods out so others stay in...they were asking for hard transfer numbers, current enrollment data...etc.

But FCPS has been unequivocally clear that some neighborhoods will be mived out of WSHS in August 2026.

If it is not the simplest. most logical options of Sangster and the Keene Mill island, then it will need to be one of the messier, more complicated options, either creating a split feeder at Hunt Valley to South County along Gambrill, or creating a split feeder at West Springfield Elementary by sending Daventry back to Lewis. Both are far messier and solit apart neighborhoods, compared to uniting Sangster by sending the entire school to Lake Braddock.

If FCPS refuses to do a residency check and refuses to use accurate numbers, then some neighborhoods are going to get rezoned out.

It was never said unequivocally. Stop the lies

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Anonymous wrote:Listening to the meeting last night, clearly something else needs to be done. But I'm sure the school board/Reid are not bold enough to do it and will cave to parents. Parents raised concerns over crowding at WSHS, and also that moving students from WSHS to LB will cause over-crowding issues in the next few years. Why is the only solution for WSHS over-crowding is to move them to LB?

Lewis borders WSHS and is severely under-enrolled. The change that needs to happen is that WSHS students need to be moved to Lewis, not to LB. But hearing parents raise concerns about moving from WSHS to LB, I'm sure the board is too scared to propose this change. I've lost faith in this entire process.

Not one parent said they were concerned WSHS is overcrowded.

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Anonymous wrote:The parent who made the bus comment was a white oaks parent. Not Sangster. I heard many people say LBSS is a great school it’s just not the middle school and HS experience they went for their student, which is a valid point. Please don’t lump all of together and make accusations like that.

Neither WO or Sangster parents threw any other neighborhoods under the bus with suggesting they “pick them” instead. I heard overwhelmingly that they consider slowing these decisions down and reexamine data. Perhaps voting on a partial county boundary change to allow more time with accurate data be examined in this area.

Someone is moving. Reid made that very clear. And if it’s not the Sangster split feeder and White Oaks attendance island then it will be West Springfield ES neighborhoods like Daventry, who will get returned to Lewis. Or sending Hunt Valley to Saratoga/Lewis or South County. Or maybe sending more of Orange Hunt to Sangster. Families are getting moved. It’s just a question of which ones.

I think this comment is to stoke the fires and spread more fear. It sounded like the community worked together last night to force more questions on data. I also hope it made Dr.Reid and the board to acknowledge how challenging this process has been for every member of the community.

Sandy Anderson has made it very clear the status quo won’t work. Current WSHS parents complain about overcrowding. SB and FCPS staff don’t care how challenging the process has been. Do you talk to any of them last night after the meeting? They are moving ahead with this. Someone is moving. The question is which neighborhood(s).

Someone is moving.

Dr. Reid told tge group towards the end that map 3 changes will be returning in map 4.

Did she mean specifically for the WSHS stuff you all are talking about, or in general? Could you tell based on wording? Just wondering because a change affecting my kids was in map 3 but went away in map 4.

Since she was talking to the Sangster parents, I assume she meant the map 3 for WSHS.

Maybe someone else at the meeting had a different take?

Early in the meeting she stated that map 3 was dead.

Later, she said some of the map 3 changes will need to come back.

I assumed she meant if Sangster talked their way into staying, then Hunt Valley now will need to leave.

This was certainly not what Sangster parents were advocating for last night. They were asking for clearer/better data before any decisions should be made. This is not about kicking some neighborhoods out so others stay in...they were asking for hard transfer numbers, current enrollment data...etc.

But FCPS has been unequivocally clear that some neighborhoods will be mived out of WSHS in August 2026.

If it is not the simplest. most logical options of Sangster and the Keene Mill island, then it will need to be one of the messier, more complicated options, either creating a split feeder at Hunt Valley to South County along Gambrill, or creating a split feeder at West Springfield Elementary by sending Daventry back to Lewis. Both are far messier and solit apart neighborhoods, compared to uniting Sangster by sending the entire school to Lake Braddock.

If FCPS refuses to do a residency check and refuses to use accurate numbers, then some neighborhoods are going to get rezoned out.

Anonymous wrote:Listening to the meeting last night, clearly something else needs to be done. But I'm sure the school board/Reid are not bold enough to do it and will cave to parents. Parents raised concerns over crowding at WSHS, and also that moving students from WSHS to LB will cause over-crowding issues in the next few years. Why is the only solution for WSHS over-crowding is to move them to LB?

Lewis borders WSHS and is severely under-enrolled. The change that needs to happen is that WSHS students need to be moved to Lewis, not to LB. But hearing parents raise concerns about moving from WSHS to LB, I'm sure the board is too scared to propose this change. I've lost faith in this entire process.

Anonymous wrote:i assume they will have to switch centers. i think the AAP centers not changing means right now they aren’t putting AAP in all middle schools and elementary will still have centers. if you move elementary schools and the new school has a center or the center assigned to that elementary is different you’ll go to the new center

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Anonymous wrote:Forgot also- Western High School boudary meeting this Saturday 930-11 am.

Did they say where it will be?

Anonymous wrote:i assume they will have to switch centers. i think the AAP centers not changing means right now they aren’t putting AAP in all middle schools and elementary will still have centers. if you move elementary schools and the new school has a center or the center assigned to that elementary is different you’ll go to the new center

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Anonymous wrote:I attended the Chantilly meeting. Someone asked about Greenbriar East overcrowding and Reid suggested she wants to model putting 6th grade at Rocky Run.