Re: high school redistricting
Date: December 22, 2007 10:12AM
As a resident of the “Sully District”, Oakton pyramid, I do not qualify to be a signatory on the Petition for Stu Gibsons removal from the School Board. Good luck to all in his district.
Unless a new option suddenly appears on the South Lakes PTSA webpage, it seems my neighborhood (as I have discovered….same as “Clarifiers” ) …. has escaped the clutches of the school board and PTSA. But, now understanding the unbridled, unchecked, unsupervised, power of the school board, I will remain on high alert.
In the “for what it worth” column ….these are my remaining impressions:
1. The 7.1 million dollar addition to Langley High School was a misuse of taxpayers money and its allocation based on a fraudulent premise. Most reading this forum have seen the CIP language. Absent that addition, 250 students could have been sent to South Lakes.
2. The South Lakes PTSA has an excessive amount of power and influence over the FC School Board. And, the South Lakes PTSA has ignored the Fairfax County PTSA President’s directive NOT to take an advocacy position regarding this boundary matter. Many, many pages ago, I tried to point this concern out but was shouted down by the posters ….whom I now believe to be PTSA Officers. Please keep in mind. I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the County PTSA President…simply saying her interpretation of the by laws compelled her to write a LONG letter to affected schools with her concerns and strong recommendations.
3. Based on my reading from this forum, I now have a brand new opinion about the IB Programme. Anyone being redistricted to South Lakes….be afraid…be very afraid. I completely support removing the entire Programme and, in its place, the sure thing…AP. If my children were destined for South Lakes, that would be my goal. Of course, first, I’d be working towards a compete halt to the redistricting.
4. And lastly, I have a greeting for all of you…borrowed, with permission, from someone having a sense of humor…which by the way also seems to be absent from the South Lake Posters….with very few exceptions.
To all South Lake IB Advocates,
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes
for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress,
non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your
choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secularpersuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally
successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated
recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose
contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the
Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race,
creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual
preference of the wishes.
To all others:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!