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Anonymous wrote:FCPS claimed they're doing a District-wide rezoning, so why shouldn't "Region 5" be able to suggest changes anywhere in the County?
But, as they've always done, they wire the results based on SB/staff-defined criteria and processes - Langley can't be considered in the South Lakes redistricting because it's not on the list. Emerald Chase has to move from Floris because Lees Corner's not on the list. Per the process, you're only allowed to answer our questions. Per the process, we get to mess around with the maps between every session and no maps are final until the SB approves them...

Because the pyramid reps were explicitly told to advocate for and give a voice to their own pyramids.

But Fairfacts Matters just publicized the one recommendation, not all of the Region 5 recommendations.

If one recommendation was to move Forestville to Herndon and a second was to move the Westbriar island to Colvin Run and then Cooper-Langley, they could be related proposals advocating for Region 5 families now at Westbriar-Kilmer-Marshall.

They really ought to publish all 10 of the recommendations that the BRAC reps from each region submitted.

Really reaching to justify a trash priority here. Just give it up, it was a dumb, indefensible priority.

Nope, won't give it up. They should publish all 10 of the priorities that the BRAC representatives from each region provided. Then we could see whether it was a stand-alone, gratuitious "trash" priority or one of several related proposals intended to advance the interests of someone in Region 5.

There should be more transparency into the BRAC recommendations, just as there should have been more transparency into the earlier Thru Consulting proposals (some of which changed a lot in May and June with no clear explanation).

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS claimed they're doing a District-wide rezoning, so why shouldn't "Region 5" be able to suggest changes anywhere in the County?
But, as they've always done, they wire the results based on SB/staff-defined criteria and processes - Langley can't be considered in the South Lakes redistricting because it's not on the list. Emerald Chase has to move from Floris because Lees Corner's not on the list. Per the process, you're only allowed to answer our questions. Per the process, we get to mess around with the maps between every session and no maps are final until the SB approves them...

Because the pyramid reps were explicitly told to advocate for and give a voice to their own pyramids.

But Fairfacts Matters just publicized the one recommendation, not all of the Region 5 recommendations.

If one recommendation was to move Forestville to Herndon and a second was to move the Westbriar island to Colvin Run and then Cooper-Langley, they could be related proposals advocating for Region 5 families now at Westbriar-Kilmer-Marshall.

They really ought to publish all 10 of the recommendations that the BRAC reps from each region submitted.

Really reaching to justify a trash priority here. Just give it up, it was a dumb, indefensible priority.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS claimed they're doing a District-wide rezoning, so why shouldn't "Region 5" be able to suggest changes anywhere in the County?
But, as they've always done, they wire the results based on SB/staff-defined criteria and processes - Langley can't be considered in the South Lakes redistricting because it's not on the list. Emerald Chase has to move from Floris because Lees Corner's not on the list. Per the process, you're only allowed to answer our questions. Per the process, we get to mess around with the maps between every session and no maps are final until the SB approves them...

Because the pyramid reps were explicitly told to advocate for and give a voice to their own pyramids.

But Fairfacts Matters just publicized the one recommendation, not all of the Region 5 recommendations.

If one recommendation was to move Forestville to Herndon and a second was to move the Westbriar island to Colvin Run and then Cooper-Langley, they could be related proposals advocating for Region 5 families now at Westbriar-Kilmer-Marshall.

They really ought to publish all 10 of the recommendations that the BRAC reps from each region submitted.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS claimed they're doing a District-wide rezoning, so why shouldn't "Region 5" be able to suggest changes anywhere in the County?
But, as they've always done, they wire the results based on SB/staff-defined criteria and processes - Langley can't be considered in the South Lakes redistricting because it's not on the list. Emerald Chase has to move from Floris because Lees Corner's not on the list. Per the process, you're only allowed to answer our questions. Per the process, we get to mess around with the maps between every session and no maps are final until the SB approves them...

Because the pyramid reps were explicitly told to advocate for and give a voice to their own pyramids.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS claimed they're doing a District-wide rezoning, so why shouldn't "Region 5" be able to suggest changes anywhere in the County?
But, as they've always done, they wire the results based on SB/staff-defined criteria and processes - Langley can't be considered in the South Lakes redistricting because it's not on the list. Emerald Chase has to move from Floris because Lees Corner's not on the list. Per the process, you're only allowed to answer our questions. Per the process, we get to mess around with the maps between every session and no maps are final until the SB approves them...

Anonymous wrote:FCPS claimed they're doing a District-wide rezoning, so why shouldn't "Region 5" be able to suggest changes anywhere in the County?
But, as they've always done, they wire the results based on SB/staff-defined criteria and processes - Langley can't be considered in the South Lakes redistricting because it's not on the list. Emerald Chase has to move from Floris because Lees Corner's not on the list. Per the process, you're only allowed to answer our questions. Per the process, we get to mess around with the maps between every session and no maps are final until the SB approves them...

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they reprimand the Region 5 person who did this and/or dismiss them from BRAC. They clearly have an axe to grind and/or cannot follow instructions.

Do people know if this was truly the brainchild of V H? She hates Langley but other people on Region 5 must have gone along with this suggestion, and there are Marshall families in the “Westbriar island” who want to get rezoned to Colvin Run-Cooper-Langley rather than to Wolftrap. Moving part of Langley to Herndon would have created more space. Also, there are others in Region 5 who think Great Falls residents have been trying to scuttle the KAA purchase, so the suggestion could have been retaliatory.

Guess it doesn’t really matter now, given what Lady has told her constituents, but there has to be a back story here.

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they reprimand the Region 5 person who did this and/or dismiss them from BRAC. They clearly have an axe to grind and/or cannot follow instructions.

Do people know if this was truly the brainchild of V H? She hates Langley but other people on Region 5 must have gone along with this suggestion, and there are Marshall families in the “Westbriar island” who want to get rezoned to Colvin Run-Cooper-Langley rather than to Wolftrap. Moving part of Langley to Herndon would have created more space. Also, there are others in Region 5 who think Great Falls residents have been trying to scuttle the KAA purchase, so the suggestion could have been retaliatory.

Guess it doesn’t really matter now, given what Lady has told her constituents, but there has to be a back story here.

If Westbriar families want to get rezoned to Colvin Run, that should be their explicit priority. They don’t need to reassign an entire ES to make room for a handful of students.

If the recommendation is purely retaliatory, then those member should be dismissed, because it does nothing to address the actual changes being recommended. There are a lot of problematic recommendations for Region 5. Marshall is basically cutting off Wolftrap from the rest of the boundary, they’re sending walkers to other schools, Chantilly has some ill advised changes…Maybe the Westfield and Chantilly reps no longer care because KAA might nullify those changes, but it’s a shame to ignore the actual region being represented due to some vendetta.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, that’s a fairly strong statement and I’m a little surprised she drew attention to it like that, given that the only place that actually reported what happened was FairFACTS. Was this from her newsletter? It would be easy enough to sweep this under the rug, and I’m glad she pushed it out into the open like that so everyone could see what a **** show this process is.

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they reprimand the Region 5 person who did this and/or dismiss them from BRAC. They clearly have an axe to grind and/or cannot follow instructions.

Do people know if this was truly the brainchild of V H? She hates Langley but other people on Region 5 must have gone along with this suggestion, and there are Marshall families in the “Westbriar island” who want to get rezoned to Colvin Run-Cooper-Langley rather than to Wolftrap. Moving part of Langley to Herndon would have created more space. Also, there are others in Region 5 who think Great Falls residents have been trying to scuttle the KAA purchase, so the suggestion could have been retaliatory.

Guess it doesn’t really matter now, given what Lady has told her constituents, but there has to be a back story here.

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they reprimand the Region 5 person who did this and/or dismiss them from BRAC. They clearly have an axe to grind and/or cannot follow instructions.