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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

DP. What an incredibly spiteful and cynical take. Wouldn’t expect anything less from a Melissa.

I am the PP, and former middle school teacher. Kids schedules, friends, are overly curated now. They have barely any independence, they are overprotected. Have you seen the college fb parent pages? These kids need to be placed in unfomfortable situations sometimes. Have you heard of parents complaining to their adult kids’ professors and employers about their grades or promotions? It is out of control.

Kids need to be able to figure some stuff out on their own, with the guidance of their parents, but not with their interference. Teachers are quitting in droves because their students have trouble dealing with some challenging situations, and the blame is put on the educators. Parents, please model independence for your children. Teach them how to handle non-ideal situations. Things will not always go their way, and that is Ok.

*Bullying is a special case, and happens at all schools.

Imagine your kid having to attend the less desired school, and all they have heard at home is, “My poor Timmy is now forced to go to this lesser school (with lower quality classmates)”. Instead, maybe you could say, “Hey, I get this is going to be a challenging move, but you will get to make new friends, your school is (possibly) closer, and you will learn some new social skills”. And if this sounds too terrible, then private or homeschooling can be an option.

And I agree that giving parents the option to share their opinions on this process was a terrible move by fcps. Families shared their voice in the election of the school board.

I am pretty sure there are families in fcps who are pleased with the boundary changes. They just aren’t here voicing their opinions/complaints.

Families shared their voice in the election? Guafb. None of these school board members ran on a comprehensive boundary review platform.

Quite the contrary, they hid this from voters. You don’t want elected officials being held accountable by constituents? You’ve got a very different view of democracy than we do.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

DP. What an incredibly spiteful and cynical take. Wouldn’t expect anything less from a Melissa.

I am the PP, and former middle school teacher. Kids schedules, friends, are overly curated now. They have barely any independence, they are overprotected. Have you seen the college fb parent pages? These kids need to be placed in unfomfortable situations sometimes. Have you heard of parents complaining to their adult kids’ professors and employers about their grades or promotions? It is out of control.

Kids need to be able to figure some stuff out on their own, with the guidance of their parents, but not with their interference. Teachers are quitting in droves because their students have trouble dealing with some challenging situations, and the blame is put on the educators. Parents, please model independence for your children. Teach them how to handle non-ideal situations. Things will not always go their way, and that is Ok.

*Bullying is a special case, and happens at all schools.

Imagine your kid having to attend the less desired school, and all they have heard at home is, “My poor Timmy is now forced to go to this lesser school (with lower quality classmates)”. Instead, maybe you could say, “Hey, I get this is going to be a challenging move, but you will get to make new friends, your school is (possibly) closer, and you will learn some new social skills”. And if this sounds too terrible, then private or homeschooling can be an option.

And I agree that giving parents the option to share their opinions on this process was a terrible move by fcps. Families shared their voice in the election of the school board.

I am pretty sure there are families in fcps who are pleased with the boundary changes. They just aren’t here voicing their opinions/complaints.

Families shared their voice in the election? Guafb. None of these school board members ran on a comprehensive boundary review platform.

Quite the contrary, they hid this from voters. You don’t want elected officials being held accountable by constituents? You’ve got a very different view of democracy than we do.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

There are two ways to look at it: (1) boundaries should never change (not realistic); and (2) when boundaries need to change, the process needs to be structured in a way that doesn't invite an auction.

This boundary study fell into the second category and, for that reason, was a debacle. Karl Frisch is responsible for structuring a process that called for a third-party consultant to do the work that FCPS staff had done better and more efficiently in the past. Reid then hired a completely inept consulting firm. When the incompetence of that consultant became obvious (typically proposing to "fix" problems by creating new problems), things spiraled out of control because Reid then started looking to parents to tell her what to do and auctioning off school boundaries. If you put everything up for grabs, you get the loudest parents both shouting down boundary changes they don't want and shouting for boundary changes they do want. The most obvious example was the complete mess in Vienna involving the Marshall/Madison boundaries (compounded by the fact that they apparently were working with incorrect information about the capacity of Kilmer MS).

The School Board owes the entire Fairfax community an apologize for their role in perpetrating or tolerating this garbage.

+1

The idea that the school board receives a CIP year after year and then doesn’t really do anything with it, wasn’t an outlandish point. Doing a comprehensive review to monitor utilization, programming, and transportation isn’t a bad thing. Especially when they’ve struggled with school start times and buses for over a decade.

Where they lost the plot was thinking they could implement sweeping changes using an outside firm in a year and everyone would be fine with it. Then they kept on throwing additional variables mid way through the process.

The comprehensive review should be used to flag specific sites and programs. That way they can give each community proper focus instead of trying to listen to the entire county at once. They can also scope changes in a way that allows for grandfathering with transportation.

The uncertainty and chaos they put the county through over the last 18 months should not be the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

DP. What an incredibly spiteful and cynical take. Wouldn’t expect anything less from a Melissa.

I am the PP, and former middle school teacher. Kids schedules, friends, are overly curated now. They have barely any independence, they are overprotected. Have you seen the college fb parent pages? These kids need to be placed in unfomfortable situations sometimes. Have you heard of parents complaining to their adult kids’ professors and employers about their grades or promotions? It is out of control.

Kids need to be able to figure some stuff out on their own, with the guidance of their parents, but not with their interference. Teachers are quitting in droves because their students have trouble dealing with some challenging situations, and the blame is put on the educators. Parents, please model independence for your children. Teach them how to handle non-ideal situations. Things will not always go their way, and that is Ok.

*Bullying is a special case, and happens at all schools.

Imagine your kid having to attend the less desired school, and all they have heard at home is, “My poor Timmy is now forced to go to this lesser school (with lower quality classmates)”. Instead, maybe you could say, “Hey, I get this is going to be a challenging move, but you will get to make new friends, your school is (possibly) closer, and you will learn some new social skills”. And if this sounds too terrible, then private or homeschooling can be an option.

And I agree that giving parents the option to share their opinions on this process was a terrible move by fcps. Families shared their voice in the election of the school board.

I am pretty sure there are families in fcps who are pleased with the boundary changes. They just aren’t here voicing their opinions/complaints.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

DP. What an incredibly spiteful and cynical take. Wouldn’t expect anything less from a Melissa.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

There are two ways to look at it: (1) boundaries should never change (not realistic); and (2) when boundaries need to change, the process needs to be structured in a way that doesn't invite an auction.

This boundary study fell into the second category and, for that reason, was a debacle. Karl Frisch is responsible for structuring a process that called for a third-party consultant to do the work that FCPS staff had done better and more efficiently in the past. Reid then hired a completely inept consulting firm. When the incompetence of that consultant became obvious (typically proposing to "fix" problems by creating new problems), things spiraled out of control because Reid then started looking to parents to tell her what to do and auctioning off school boundaries. If you put everything up for grabs, you get the loudest parents both shouting down boundary changes they don't want and shouting for boundary changes they do want. The most obvious example was the complete mess in Vienna involving the Marshall/Madison boundaries (compounded by the fact that they apparently were working with incorrect information about the capacity of Kilmer MS).

The School Board owes the entire Fairfax community an apologize for their role in perpetrating or tolerating this garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

The school board’s job is to represent the community and educate kids, not placate your equity fetish.

And not caring about kids’ mental health really speaks volumes about how out of touch you are. Self-introspection could do some wonders for you.

Moving kids from over crowded schools to schools with room is not equity, it is common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

The school board’s job is to represent the community and educate kids, not placate your equity fetish.

And not caring about kids’ mental health really speaks volumes about how out of touch you are. Self-introspection could do some wonders for you.

Moving kids from over crowded schools to schools with room is not equity, it is common sense.

DP. More thoughtful still would be to add capacity where it's needed, not where it's simply most convenient to FCPS staff.

Adding seats at schools that people don't want their kids to attend, and to which the School Board is unwilling to send kids, is anything but common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

The school board’s job is to represent the community and educate kids, not placate your equity fetish.

And not caring about kids’ mental health really speaks volumes about how out of touch you are. Self-introspection could do some wonders for you.

Moving kids from over crowded schools to schools with room is not equity, it is common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

The school board’s job is to represent the community and educate kids, not placate your equity fetish.

And not caring about kids’ mental health really speaks volumes about how out of touch you are. Self-introspection could do some wonders for you.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.

Are you all saying that school boundaries should NEVER change? If you are worried about your child’s mental health because they might get moved to a different school, and -gasp- will have to make new friends, then sign them up at a preK-12th gr private school. Oh, but wait, even kids at private schools transfer in and out. Dang, I guess your best bet might just be thereapy for your kids or homeschooling at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Total number of students impacted is now down to a little under 1,700. Quite a comprehensive review!

Maybe they can consider offering transportation now.

Where are you finding the new numbers?

It is less than 1% of FCPS students.

Did they really need to create a 2 year half a million+ dollar debaucle to move less than 1700 students?

This could have been handled by the old policy 8130 that focused solely on capacity and emergency rezoning for things like flooded schools from pipes bursting and natural disasters.

What sucks is for us it is not a necessary move and now our high school children are forced if we don't provide them transportation to change high schools so the elementary students can stay with ALL their classmates through high school.

Which high school is getting rezoned?

Are you in the Madison/Marshall Pyramid, Langley/McLean Pyramid, or West Potomac/Mount Vernon Pyramid?

DP. Part of Justice is also getting rezoned to Falls Church. That would eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest. But without transportation there would be kids at an IB school moved into an AP school.

I thought that recommendation was amended.

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Anonymous wrote:My heart breaks for the 859 elementary students, 364 middle school students, and 474 high school students who are being forced to move as part of this messed up review.

I hope that they find happiness after their mental health has been sacrificed on the altar of Sandy Anderdon’s misguided comprehensive review, and may we have the wisdom to shutdown the ongoing five-year reviews before they can do further harm to thousands and tens of thousands of additional students.

I feel upset because the process was a disaster that did nothing to fix the larger issues in the county and ended up being controlled by the parents with the loudest voices because the school board refuses to do what they think is actually best for the county. The moves don’t address any of the real issues and are pretty much happening only because the school board can’t afford to throw up their hands and say “Well, that accomplished nothing.”

I am not worried about the mental health of the kids moving, they are moving with friends and will be just fine. Kids move every day for a variety of reasons. Most don’t move with another group of kids that they know.

But the School Board needs to actually make choices that might be unpopular to address over crowded schools. They won’t but that really is their job. I don’t think their original motives for starting this made sense. They should have started by looking at every school that was over crowded and made adjustments to move kids from over crowded schools to decrease that issue. That is it. And some families would not have been happy with the moves, which sucks, but if it makes sense to move SPAs from an over crowded school to the school next door that has space, then that is what should have happened.

WRONG! The mental health of kids and a high quality education is the biggest issue. Just because small neighborhoods are moving doesn't mean kids are moving with friends. At least in middle and high school friends at school come from neighborhoods outside of where a student lives. Families do move everyday but that is their choice / necessity not driven by political hacks and loud voices that don't actually know what is best for the system as whole.

+1. These posters and school board members pushing bigger boundary changes have always just been in it for themselves. Turns out they don’t give a crap about the emotional harm that they cause to students.

The emotional harm by pitting neighborhood against neighborhood is terrible for Fairfax County.