Anonymous
12/05/2025 11:20
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
We have one car, which my spouse needs for work, and only one parking space. So if we can’t arrange transportation for my rising senior next fall they’ll have to attend a new HS where the only kids they’ll know are some (not all) kids from their elementary school, who’ve moved on over the past five years? Meanwhile some from our area have access to cars or may be able to carpool, so they can stay at our school for the next three years.
Sorry but this completely sucks and you’re incredibly obnoxious to claim it’s no big deal.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:52
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
I'm one of those parents who fall into the 'not flipping out' category, but I agree with the OP that this school board has not even thought through the basics of these changes. Their 'comprehensive' boundary changes are any but comprehensive and there is no real rhyme or reason to the logic applied in who gets moved and who doesn't (closing some split feeders/not others, keeping random attendance islands/moving some kids further away/etc.
It’s a shit show and they are counting on it not destroying their political careers because they’ve made sure not to offend the wealthiest at schools like Langley and Madison but instead just gone after a smaller number of softer targets so they can pat themselves on the back and say they did something “we haven’t done in 40 years.” I absolutely despise these people for their stupidity and indifference to families.
Agreed. I'm in Springfield and still don't know whether we'll get moved or not. But I've spent almost 2 years now worried about this and I have never in my life hated politicians as much as I hate this school board. Every single one of them. (Even Trump. And I hate Trump so so much.) Two years later, I still have no idea where my kid is going to go to high school and no idea when I will learn this information.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:43
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
I'm one of those parents who fall into the 'not flipping out' category, but I agree with the OP that this school board has not even thought through the basics of these changes. Their 'comprehensive' boundary changes are any but comprehensive and there is no real rhyme or reason to the logic applied in who gets moved and who doesn't (closing some split feeders/not others, keeping random attendance islands/moving some kids further away/etc.
It’s a shit show and they are counting on it not destroying their political careers because they’ve made sure not to offend the wealthiest at schools like Langley and Madison but instead just gone after a smaller number of softer targets so they can pat themselves on the back and say they did something “we haven’t done in 40 years.” I absolutely despise these people for their stupidity and indifference to families.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:38
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
I'm one of those parents who fall into the 'not flipping out' category, but I agree with the OP that this school board has not even thought through the basics of these changes. Their 'comprehensive' boundary changes are any but comprehensive and there is no real rhyme or reason to the logic applied in who gets moved and who doesn't (closing some split feeders/not others, keeping random attendance islands/moving some kids further away/etc.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:37
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
You are conflating rising freshmen who won’t have an option and might move with other kids from their ES to a different MS/HS than they’d anticipated with kids already at a high school who might end up having to switch to a different school because they couldn’t arrange transportation.
You are as clueless as some of the school board members. Guess it’s shilling season again.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:35
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
Exactly. Kids are resilient. And if they weren't before this, screw them. Why on earth would juniors need to stay at their current high schools? Why can't they just move and start over on all those sports teams and clubs? It's not like they need people to write them recommendation letters for colleges. Or show their leadership on teams for applications.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:31
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
The kids are moving with all of their classmates from ES, they know kids at the new school through that grouping. They probably know other kids at the new school through activities. They will be fine. Kids move every year for family reasons, jobs, changing houses, and the like. The vast majority are just fine. Moving with a hundred or so kids that you know from ES is not traumatic. And kids in their HSs right now won’t have to move.
I suspect that the kids who will struggle are the kids of parents who are flipping out. Or that the kids who are moved and have a normal teenage hiccup will lead to parents blaming redistricting.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:29
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:The numbers she produced said it would be an extra 10 Mil to provide transportation. OR they could save that 10 mil and throw out the new boundaries all together. Sounds like that is a cost saving option.
Too obvious and sensible a solution. They have to see this through to its pointless, destructive conclusion.
There has never been a bigger bunch of cretins on the school board in FCPS history.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:19
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
The numbers she produced said it would be an extra 10 Mil to provide transportation. OR they could save that 10 mil and throw out the new boundaries all together. Sounds like that is a cost saving option.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:15
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
We voted these clowns in. The very clowns who decided to jam us with an unnecessary comprehensive boundary study resulting in thousands of our kids suffering mental health trauma being forced to move schools, with the only justification that we hadn’t done it in 40 years (which is misleading in and of itself).
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
We all need to remember how they gave little thought to how to implement these changes and have really set the county back and wasted so much of FCPS employee time and resources on an unnecessary course with only negative outcomes. They could have actually tried to improve the school experience, but instead just wasted their time for years at this point shuffling our kids around like pawns.
Screw them.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:14
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Robyn Lady is such an idiot. At one meeting she was going on about how important it was to grandfather high school kids but now it’s clear she doesn’t want to make sure that rising juniors and seniors can stay at their current schools.
She and Cumming St-John basically said 'oh well, it's a small number of kids' and that basically they'll just find friends to drive them to school every day. Half the board didn't even engage. It will be interesting to see what they say when the final maps come out and they're confronted by rising juniors and seniors who this will hurt. The kids who will have to move schools because they won't have reliable transportation to school every day.
Reid was also really rude to Dr. Anderson, who was the only one asking her to consider this because of this issue. Reid's tone made it very clear she wasn't going to reconsider anything.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:12
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
YIKES! That was an excellent demonstration of incompetence by FCPS administrative staff and board members. They clearly just did back of the envelope analysis and that is being generous. They should have provided very specific information based on the current Phase 4 scenario breaking down cost by various scenarios. Many of the boundary adjustments are occurring at current school boundaries so it is not running 57 more buses but extending / crossing routes. They wrongly assumed that the only people on the buses will be those looking to remain at their current school. The reality is many of the buses could have students in the new zone as well as the old zone.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:11
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Robyn Lady is such an idiot. At one meeting she was going on about how important it was to grandfather high school kids but now it’s clear she doesn’t want to make sure that rising juniors and seniors can stay at their current schools.
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:03
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So if you have a rising junior or senior who wants to stay in their current school, they won't get any bus transportation. You better hope they have cars and there's enough parking at all those high schools.[/quote
There are not enough parking spaces for seniors, let alone adding in Juniors who would have the means to drive. For a SB focused on equity, they provide zero plans for ensuring equity in phasing? The worst part of the night was when SB member Robyn Lady said that rich kids should just drive the poor kids--she used an analogy of when her kids went to Marshal and some of the poorer kids couldn't get to the McDonalds afterward her kids drove them. It was insulting and disguising.
Why did not SB not think through how to make phasing equitable? Where is the plan? How can SB members like Lady get away with putting the burden of transportation on the children themselves?
OMG..where did she say that?
SB Lady's comments about rich kids having to drive the poor kids is at 4:04:50
Anonymous
12/05/2025 10:01
Subject: Boundary Review Meetings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So if you have a rising junior or senior who wants to stay in their current school, they won't get any bus transportation. You better hope they have cars and there's enough parking at all those high schools.[/quote
There are not enough parking spaces for seniors, let alone adding in Juniors who would have the means to drive. For a SB focused on equity, they provide zero plans for ensuring equity in phasing? The worst part of the night was when SB member Robyn Lady said that rich kids should just drive the poor kids--she used an analogy of when her kids went to Marshal and some of the poorer kids couldn't get to the McDonalds afterward her kids drove them. It was insulting and disguising.
Why did not SB not think through how to make phasing equitable? Where is the plan? How can SB members like Lady get away with putting the burden of transportation on the children themselves?
OMG..where did she say that?