After surviving the brutal South County Secondary School boundary setting process just over a year ago, MOST of us believed that the alternate boundary study proposal (No. 4) would work for a number of years when that plan was approved by the Fairfax County School Board in mid-January 2005. Certainly nobody would have believed that this issue would resurface within a year of South County's initial boundary setting.
But that's exactly what has happened. Many communties and neighborhoods immediately surrounding South County Secondary clamored to get into the new school and succeeded by virtue of Proposal No. 4. It didn't help that pupil placements -- where parents pulled their kids from private school to attend the new school -- far exceeded what the county projected. Everybody in the South County area wanted their children to be in the new school, and now nearly all of them are. South County is just under capacity in its first year of being open for business, and will officially exceed capacity during the 2006-07 school year, with little hope of relief in the form of a separate middle school building until at least 2015.
Our well-organized neighbors living near and around South County Secondary do not intend to tolerate those conditions for very long. They've already had meetings with FCPS's Facilities office staff, and Facilities is recommending that the school board conduct a study on the South County Secondary School boundary plan during the 2006-07 school year. At the very least, middle school students may well be pulled from the South County school and split among Hayfield and Lake Braddock Secondary Schools. Either scenarios could go into effect as early as the 2007-08 or 2008-09 school years.
Few details exist at this point, but more information will be posted here as it becomes available in the coming days and weeks. Here we go again, folks...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment