22180 Wrote:
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> I just finished listening to the mp3 file on the
> BoardDocs website for the January 10 school board
> meeting. It's worth a listen if you didn't see
> the meeting. Here are a few sound bites that I
> thought were interesting:
>
> The staff (Tistadt?) gave a preamble defending the
> scope of the study and why South Lakes was
> different from other small high schools. He said
> that Marshall and Falls Church HS need to preserve
> their space (and Marshall may need to expand) to
> accommodate growth in the Tysons Corner area.
>
> The only thing I heard Jane Strauss ask was why
> the staff wanted to move the Madison Island to
> Sunrise Valley ES, when this would overcrowd the
> school (staff's answer was that it was closer to
> the island than Wolftrap ES). At the very end of
> the meeting, she said that the last time the
> county did a county-wide redistricting, it was
> bitter and very very difficult.
>
> Stu Gibson talked about the Madison Island and
> asked the staff to report on every administrative
> boundary change that had been made to move areas
> into Hughes/South Lakes from the Madison pyramid
> in the past (at least, that's what I think he was
> asking for). Regarding crowding of Sunrise
> Valley, he said that Terraset ES is seriously
> underenrolled, and made cryptic comments to the
> effect that he thought the obvious solution was to
> redistrict kids to Terraset, except that it would
> create a new attendance island. He asked the
> staff to talk about that at the upcoming school
> board work session.
>
> Tina Hone spoke in support of the Madison
> Islanders, questioned why a moratorium wasn't an
> option, and said she was "troubled by the study".
> James Raney seconded her thoughts, saying that
> they should consider delaying a year or two to
> rethink the scope and criteria of the study to
> make sure they get it right. He also added the
> comment that a magnet school would act as a
> "carrot" to encourage people to come to South
> Lakes, as opposed to the "stick" of a boundary
> change.
>
> Kathy Smith said she "firmly" believed that
> Westfield and Chantilly need to shrink and agreed
> with Stu that South Lakes needs to grow, but said
> she had issues with the staff proposal and would
> ask about other ways to do this. She mentioned
> concerns with sending kids to schools that were
> farther away, so she may have Navy in mind.
>
> Stu then spoke to rebut everything that Hone and
> Raney said. When he was done, Tina Hone spoke up
> to say that as an at-large member, she gets to see
> the inconsistencies in the reasoning applied in
> different studies, and that just because she
> supports the goals of the study doesn't mean that
> she can overlook "procedural justice matters."
>
> Like I said, this is just what I thought was
> interesting. The whole thing is at:
>
http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/d6
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> ustment.MP3
I read a lot of maps since watching that dialogue. Strauss said the purpose of that county wide was closing schools and there was a citizens committee. Many residences would saty where they are in a county wide but Strauss would have big problems with her Langley feed so of course she would Poo Poo such an endeavor. She had no appointee on the enrollment task force.
The proposed CIp has no suggested boundary change for Spring hill even though a nice dominoe [reverse colvin run including the astronauts would be in order].
I guess Hone has not yet found Strauss' Colvin Run langley development that could [should ?] be at forest edge. Hone has apparently discovered that many of the Madison island students live in the Beulah area not near reston. Guess people also discovered much of Floris and a portion of fox mill are unavoidable for a coppermine process. Brickner and thompson were republicans and therefore blown off but these 2 are Democrats.