Anonymous wrote:The school board meeting was pretty concerning. The areas highlighted for further review will be addressed in between cycles. AAP centers at all middle schools will likely be implemented between cycles, but not all at once. The comprehensive review is looking to be a yearly battle.

They should be looking at borders for schools that are at 95% and over capacity, that is a part of their job. They need to get better projections for future growth and they need to make decisions that might not be popular but help students by lessing the effects of over crowding. Changing schools will never be popular, people don’t want it. The School Board needs to make the unpopular call from time to time. But they need to have a plan that makes sense that is defensible and it needs to be more then we want to balance population groups.

And they need to deal with one of the big causes of the problem, IB vs AP. Choose one and have it at every school. The complete program. Have 2 IB schools that kids can pupil place into. Set those at schools that are centered for half of the County to make it easier for all families to get there. Kids can opt-in to IB, just like the Academies. But the kids leaving IB schools for other schools is a part of the problem with under and over enrollment at some schools.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of us with students impacted immediately by these changes - I say please vote this school board out and make sure they never serve in public office again!

You underestimate the intelligence of voters in our area who simply vote down ballot either red or blue.

When the Republican party runs a moderate, they will win. I won’t vote for a MAGA crazy or a Tea Party crazy for school board. I can count on the Democrats getting in each others way, because that seems to be the way of the Democrats. Putting people on the board who are willing to exclude students for a number of reasons instead of working to find common sense solutions is not acceptable.

I don’t like the current board but replacing them with a different type of awful, one that is intolerant and dismissive and homophobic is not a good replacement. Changing out left wing Progressives for right wing nut jobs is not a good trade.

Maybe the local Republican party will listen and run some moderates. Actual moderates who are focused on education and can present a solid plan for things like redistricting when schools are over crowded and how to adjust the CIP and how to better support SPED programs. Heck, toss in how to downsize the admin positions at Gatehouse and return that money to the schools. They would have a good deal of support.

The school board meeting was pretty concerning. The areas highlighted for further review will be addressed in between cycles. AAP centers at all middle schools will likely be implemented between cycles, but not all at once. The comprehensive review is looking to be a yearly battle.

How does this work going forward with the board and their amendments? Will we only find out about amendments when they’re introduced to the next meeting where the board votes on the changes? Or are they released in advance?

Anonymous wrote:For those of us with students impacted immediately by these changes - I say please vote this school board out and make sure they never serve in public office again!

You underestimate the intelligence of voters in our area who simply vote down ballot either red or blue.

Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

FYI I am WSHS and currently have no representative on the board because I am a Braddock voter. Our Region 4 community showed up at all the meetings and are very against changes. Sandy Anderson is AWFUL and has been the entire time. She wants to be a King like Trump. So anti-democratic.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

Yes Sandy Anderson is going to put WSHS on the list of areas of concern which was at the end of the superintendent’s plan. She said she was disappointed no changes were made and more changes there need to be considered.

I’ve been listening to the meeting and hear all these board members try to answer questions and concerns raised by their constituents. And then my representative, Sandy Anderson, just threw her constituents under the bus. What is up with her?

Anderson wants to mive Hunt Valley and Sangster our of West Springfield, so ahe can remive Rolling Valley from Lewis and put the entire RV school at WSHS.

Sandy Anderson has been saying this consistently for almost 2 years.

Springfield district parents, pay attention to this.

I truly think she was hoping that BRAC and Reid's recommendation would be her scapegoat to push kids out of WSHS. When both BRAC and Reid actually listened to parents and used real data, they decided in the end to not tinker with the current and admittedly tight boundaries. That left Sandy with zero scapegoat and now she will add amendments that teachers, parents and students do not want--giving her a greenlight to move WS kids before the next stupid five year comprehensive review is up. She doesn't care about her constituents...even speaks to them condescendingly and seems annoyed when comforted with constituents concerns or feedback.

Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

White Oaks is Lake Braddock.

Anderson is not interested in White Oaks.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

Yes Sandy Anderson is going to put WSHS on the list of areas of concern which was at the end of the superintendent’s plan. She said she was disappointed no changes were made and more changes there need to be considered.

I’ve been listening to the meeting and hear all these board members try to answer questions and concerns raised by their constituents. And then my representative, Sandy Anderson, just threw her constituents under the bus. What is up with her?

Anderson wants to mive Hunt Valley and Sangster our of West Springfield, so ahe can remive Rolling Valley from Lewis and put the entire RV school at WSHS.

Sandy Anderson has been saying this consistently for almost 2 years.

Springfield district parents, pay attention to this.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

Yes Sandy Anderson is going to put WSHS on the list of areas of concern which was at the end of the superintendent’s plan. She said she was disappointed no changes were made and more changes there need to be considered.

I’ve been listening to the meeting and hear all these board members try to answer questions and concerns raised by their constituents. And then my representative, Sandy Anderson, just threw her constituents under the bus. What is up with her?

Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

Yes Sandy Anderson is going to put WSHS on the list of areas of concern which was at the end of the superintendent’s plan. She said she was disappointed no changes were made and more changes there need to be considered.

Anonymous wrote:If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

The members always have the right to propose amendments, but if it’s folks like Sandy Anderson proposing amendments it’s going to be really ugly because she’s spent months pretentiously lecturing people on how they had to trust the process and how not everything can be at once.

If anyone is watching...I feel horrible for region 4 (West Springfield). Their rep just said she is going to keep making changes over and over again. Watch out Hunt Valley, Daventry, Sangster, White Oaks, others??

Anonymous wrote:For those of us with students impacted immediately by these changes - I say please vote this school board out and make sure they never serve in public office again!

🤣🤣🤣 yeah no.

Anonymous wrote:For those of us with students impacted immediately by these changes - I say please vote this school board out and make sure they never serve in public office again!

Agree! The board is a disgrace!