Floris Parent Wrote:
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> funnythingis Wrote:
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> > HHS claims to be a succesful balanced community.
>
> > BUT, the biggest opponents of redistricting
> were
> > from Armstrong/Aldrin. Even the people that
> LIVE
> > in Reston, don't want to go to SL!!
> >
> > Yep, they want a balanced community allright,
> as
> > long as its not their own - Reston.
>
>
> If you attended the last Public meeting at Oakton
> HS, you would have noticed an awful lot of Red
> Shirts in attendance. I noticed public school
> buses bringing them in (not sure who paid for the
> bus, County or parents). The Herndon folks that
> were in our small group could find nothing wrong
> with alternate number 5, and were gushing over how
> fair and equitable this option 5 was. If you
> closed your eyes, you would have thought that they
> were all South Lakes parents.
>
>
http://www.observernews.com/stories/current/news/1
> 20707/redistricting.shtml
>
> It was amazing how many parents who were initially
> screaming the Stop RD Mantra, suddenly became
> ardent lovers of the School Board as well as well
> as big supporters of South Lakes proposal number
> 5,
>
> "Elizabeth Gibson, Herndon High School's PTSA
> boundary committee chairman, said Herndon parents
> are mainly opposed to the fourth plan, which would
> move Herndon feeder schools Buzz Aldrin and
> Armstrong elementary schools to the South Lakes
> district. All four plans would move Westfield
> students to Herndon, and Gibson said Herndon is
> open to accepting additional students.
>
>
> South Lakes PTSA vice president Maria Allen said
> she thought all the plans needed revision. She
> said South Lakes opposed the first three plans,
> which moved students from Westfield feeder school
> McNair elementary to South Lakes. That plan is,
> "basically taking low-income kids out of a school
> that can better support them and putting them in
> schools that already have very high percentage
> low-income kids," she said.
>
> Both Gibson and Allen said parents from many
> schools were concerned about students traveling
> long distances to get to school. Long commutes,
> often on congested highways, are "a cost concern
> to the county and families, both in dollars and
> time," Gibson said.
>
> Allen said South Lakes has developed their own
> "option five" plan, which would allow Fox Mill
> Elementary School families to attend South Lakes,
> instead of traveling a longer distance to Oakton
> High School. Their plan would also transfer the
> Madison "island" and possibly the eastern section
> of the Floris elementary district to South Lakes.
> The plan would leave McNair students at Westfield,
> Allen said.
>
> when they realized that their neighborhood was
> taken off of the chopping block so to speak.
>
>
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2007/dec/13/new-s
> chool-boundary-option-proposed/
>
> I am well aware that these links to newspaper
> articles are old news, but is it not apparent that
> Alternate #5 was planned well in advance of the
> 1st meeting in November?
>
> The entire process of this study just reeks of
> dishonesty. How can the Staff (Dean "I never saw
> that SL proposal #5 Tistadt) even be quoted as
> stating that alternate #5 was created based on
> community feedback from the 1st 2 Town Hall
> mettings? Home > Fairfax County > New school
> boundary option proposed
>
>
>
>
> FCPS staff will present final recommendations for
> a redistricting to the school board on Jan. 10
>
>
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> New school boundary option proposed
> Fairfax County
> By Claire Compton and Layla Wilder
> Source: Fairfax County Times
> THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 2007
> UPDATED WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 2007
>
> To see maps or comment on the options, visit
> www.fcps.edu. The next boundary meeting will be at
> Oakton High School, 2900 Sutton Road, Dec. 19, at
> 7:30 p.m.
>
> Fairfax County Public Schools staff released a
> fifth option on Dec. 12 for a proposed high school
> boundary change in the western part of the county.
>
>
> The fifth scenario came after the first two of
> three town meetings that staff are holding to
> gather public input on the scenarios. Six high
> schools are included in the boundary study in an
> effort to balance enrollment and demographics.
>
> Four scenarios were released before the second
> meeting, held Dec. 3, and more than 2,000
> attendees commented on the advantages and
> disadvantages of each scenario.
>
> “What we heard very much influenced this
> scenario,” said Dean Tistadt, chief operating
> officer of Facilities and Transportation
> Services.
>
> While Herndon High School is not impacted in
> Option 5, the scenario is not what staff will
> present as a final recommendation to the board.
>
> “I think it's important that everyone in the
> boundary area be mindful that although the
> scenario may not show an impact to them, that
> doesn't mean they won't be when the board makes a
> final decision,” he said. “Don't presume they're
> off the table.” (in other words, you had better
> show up and support option #5, or we may change
> our minds, and move your neighborhood!)
>
>
> From those comments comes Option 5, in which some
> students from Floris Elementary School would be
> bound for South Lakes High School instead of
> Westfield High School, and Fox Mill Elementary
> School students would attend South Lakes instead
> of Oakton High School.
>
> Again, I realize all of this is old news for long
> time posters, but perhaps new folks looking in may
> not have the background on this corrupted study.
> Perhaps at the Public Hearings on the 30th and
> 31st of January, the School Board and staff, will
> shed more light on the deceptions that have been
> such a large part of this current study.
Exactly! That is what I have been seeing all this time from the start of the boundary study...ridiculous. Somebody ought to take all this to the Justice Dept and or the VA Supreme court..I am really disgusted about all of this mess--corruption, dishonesty..I guess there is no real moral value to the true intergrity of DISTRICTING and REDISTRICTING with this botched up boundary study.