“People were not permitted to oppose the re-districting plan; they were only allowed to vote on which of the 4 plans they preferred. If a person started to express opposition to re-districting, they were asked to leave the room.”
Democracy in action...(sarcasm)
What are you going to do? Move to Maryland?
At that point, I probably would have instigated a riot...
How do I know? My younger has taken 5 Virtual Virginia AP course with an average score of 4.5
Another example of enforced “social equality”—since it’s not possible to make all children equally enamored of learning, then make them all disgusted, frustrated, and bored with school, with the result being level and equal mediocrity. I hope a majority of the parents fight this if they can, and disengage from the system when it’s shown that the education of their children is NOT the primary concern of the weasels behind this social engineering. They are merely pawns in the further instilling of apathy in future generations, the better to make placid sheep of them. Things like this, pop culture, and the diminishing influence of the voice of the people in political matters are all conspiring to produce a docile population.
Sounds like they trying to ‘Delta Poject’ the opposition.
Those gangs are comprised either of Asians or Hispanics. Given the fact that this is Reston we're talking about, the latter is far more likely.
There's no reason to disrupt 1/4 the school families in the county to do this.
BTW, we just recently had schoolboard elections so these schmucks waited until after the election to announce their plan.
Otherwise, this is a bunch of Democrats who'd been rightly out on the street.
BTW, this will probably cost the Dems the Senate election next fall, and Virginia's electoral votes will go to the Republicans, as well several Dem Congressional seats.
What a stupid bunch of people we have on the school board.
Me and my husband went to private schools, so we didn’t have to deal with any of this bs.
On the bright side, this can only benefit the Republicans, as another poster has pointed out.:) Although Reston is pretty hardcore liberal, and I suspect the parents would just as soon throw their own children under the bus than vote against a Dem.
Ping for later.
Over the last few years the total school population numbers have remained about the same. Countrywide, “High school capacity will exceed enrollment by approximately 2,915 student spaces in the 2007-08 school year. Projections indicate high school capacity will exceed membership by 4,940 student spaces in the 2011-12 school year.”
When this mess started the school system said it was moving kids from overcrowded high schools to one that is under-enrolled. However, the schools around South Lakes are no longer projected to be severely overcrowded.
Does this mean redistricting will stop? NO! After just adding an addtion to one of the large schools named above, one day recently FCPS decided that high schools should only have about 2,000 students. Here are excerpts from the handout distributed at the first meeting held with the parents:
“Impact on Students When Schools Are Over-Enrolled
• Competition is fierce
– Limited number of openings on the dance team and cheerleading squads.
– For example, only 20 students can compete on the cheerleading competition team.
• Football doesn’t usually cut, however,
- Only the very best actually get the opportunity to play on the field during games.
– There are 47 seniors on one high school’s football team; fewer than half are starting.
• Over capacity crowds for football games raise significant safety concerns.
– For example, at the last Chantilly/Westfield game there were over 8,000 people in a stadium that was built to hold 5,000.”
Last Saturday the Westfield Bulldogs won the Virginia State Football Championship. Do you think any of those 47 seniors wishes he was playing at a smaller school where he could get more playing time?
Gee, what a shame that too many people want to watch high school football! So now the Fairfax County school system is going to move some of these students out of Westfield.
[By the way, the school system does not want to give out numbers about race, but the percentage of students at Westfield on Free and Reduced price Meals will probably decrease as well the number of student with Limited English Proficiency. The “more diverse” students live in the areas most likely to be redistricted.]
No, none of this makes any sense to me either.
They emptied out the nuthouses and scattered the residents throughout the system because the houses became too unruly and too expensive; now they are emptying out the projects and scattering the gangbangers throughout the system for the same reasons with the likely same consequences.
Welcome to the new order.
Just wow.
And just who elected the board members? And whose taxes are being spend to educate whose children?
Herded about like cattle. Smacks more of communism and nazism that the US.
These guys need a serious reality check. No one elected them God.
Your neck of the woods ping.
Sounds like business as usual in Fairfax: Virginia’s own Havana on the Potomac.
Interesting how school districts in Virginia are imposing relatively draconian restrictions on speaking at their meetings. Which is fine. Trying to change the government school system from within is worse than useless; it’s counterproductive and acts to undermine real reform. The time spent at some useless school board meeting would be better spent in encouraging parents to take their children out of the government schools.