1/10/2026 - FCPS School Board Public Hearing

001Good morning. This is the last call. If you would like to sign up and have not signed up already to speak today, then you need to do so right now. Once the hearing starts, we cut off signups. So, if you have not sign up and want to speak, please uh do so now. If you have hard copies of your testimony and would like to provide them to us, please bring them up here. Otherwise, you can email them to community participation at fcps.edu. They will say that in just a few minutes as well. If you are a student, you will speak first at the top, even if you're a walk-in. So, please be prepared for that. Thank you. Could Brian Corus please see the clerk really quickly? Thank you. This January 10th, 2026 public hearing of

002the Fairfax County School Board is called to order at 10:06 a.m. On behalf of [clears throat] the school board, I would like to welcome Carolyn Pitches, chair of the City of Fairfax School Board. >> [applause] >> Good morning and welcome to the public hearing on the superintendent's proposed school boundary adjustments. On behalf of the entire school board, I would like to thank you for sharing your comments with us. This hearing is being broadcast on channel 99 and livereamed on YouTube and at our website at www.fcps.edulivestream. On July 18th, 2024, the school board updated the PO policy 8130 to require a comprehensive divisionwide review of school boundaries to be conducted every at least every 5 years and that the superintendent recommend any boundary adjustments to the school board for approval. Since September 2024, the division has

003conducted extensive community engagement, including feedback from the superintendent's boundary review advisory committee and the commu community meetings from fall of 2024 through winter of 2025. During this process, the school board discussed the progress of the boundary review at four work sessions. The superintendent presented her proposed boundary adjustment recommendations to the school board at the January 8th, 2026 regular meeting. We have 86 pre-registered speakers who will address the board at this public hearing. Speakers are allotted two minutes and we ask that you will stay within that time. The the timer will start when you begin to speak and the timer will sound after two minutes. Please ensure that your remarks are limited to the proposed school boundary adjustments and that your remarks adhere to the school board's expectation for community participation. Included in those expectations are

004that only one person is allowed at the podium when speaking. Neither adults nor children may accompany a speaker to the podium. Copies of all expectations are available at the back of the auditorium. to assist with the flow of today's hearing. Please ensure that you f are following along with the speakers list and are ready to go as soon as your name is called. If you have a hard copy of your testimony, please give it to the clerks. If you are virtual, please turn on your camera when you are the next in line to speak so that you all you have to do is unmute when you are called on. If you have an electronic copy of your testimony and would like to share it with the board, please email it to community participation atfcps.edu. When

005your name is called, the clerk will call your name three times before moving on to the next individual on the list. You may find copies of our speaking order in the back of the auditorium or on board docks. Given the length of today's hearing, we do ask for grace and patience from the audience members. We also ask that you hold your applause so that we can keep the hearing flowing to ensure that all speakers are heard in a timely manner. Because of the length of the hearing, school board members may be taking small breaks but are able to access the hearing throughout the building and will be listening to all speakers. Please note that if you need overflow seating, you can find it in the cafeteria. Madame clerk, please call our first speaker, >> Addison

006Barnes. Good morning. I am Addison Barnes and I'd like to voice my feedback over a very specific small pocket SPA 8922 in Rolling Valley Elementary, the Rolling Valley Elementary where I am in fifth grade. The current nearby changes reduce what was already a very lopsided split feeder at Rolling Valley. But reducing, not eliminating our split feeder, really makes it worse. Now we will have even fewer community members continuing onward with us towards middle and high school. That's a very lonely path. Two goals for this whole boundary review process are actually eliminating split feeders where possible and abiding by major and natural man-made barriers. At our neighborhoods, Fairfax County Parkway is a six lane highway with concrete walls. feels like one of the most logical adjustments when you look at a map to keep the neighborhoods

007north of the Parkway going north with Rolling Valley and onto Irving Middle School and West Springfield High. Moving our little SPA 8922 fully into that pyramid and accomplish both of those major goals. We recognize their capacity concerns at Irving and West Springfield. We've heard these are going to be looked at from different angles too like transfers. We also see other proposed changes are increasing other over capacity schools like Cardinal Forest. SPA 8922 is our entire bus routes at an elementary level. It's one not even full bus load of children. So we're talking about just a handful at middle and just a handful at high. This is a perfect time and opportunity an opportunity to make one more tiny adjustment to correct what has been a very awkward boundary line for many years. Thank you all

008for your work in this. >> James Sinclair. >> Hello, my name is James and I'm in sixth at Glasco. my opinion, Glasow is not overcrowded because it only took to get used to the amount of people in the halls and getting through them isn't hard. I like going to class in the modulars because I like being in the light and outside. I feel like you guys are lighting a house on fire every time you make a proposal. For the other schools, you give them a map and a fire extinguisher. The map being the information about the change, fire extinguisher being the time to respond, but not us. You tried to hide it like slamming the door and trapping us inside. Plus, if you approve this proposal, I won't be at the same middle school with

009my brother when he gets to sixth grade. Friendships can be confusing for him, and I won't be there to defend him. That's all. >> [applause] >> Lillian share. My name is Lillian Sher. I'm a current student who would be directly affected by the proposed boundary changes. These changes impact not only me but both of my siblings as well. We are at Beach Tree Glasgow and Justice Community. For me personally, this would mean being forced to change schools at my junior year of high school. I also want to share that I only learned about these proposed changes this week just as we returned from winter break. The timing feels deeply troubling. Releasing information like this right before a break when families and students have limited time to process, ask questions, or respond feels man manipulative and

010lacking transparency. These decisions are not just data points on a map. They affect real students, real families, and real lives. Changing schools at this point would be extremely disruptive, emotionally detrimental, and during the most critical years of my education. I would be separated from my friends, my support system, and the community I've built over several years. In addition, I would lose opportunity to pursue an IB diploma, which is a central part of my academic goals in future college plans. I am deeply involved in my current school. This year, I brought back Justice's um science olympiad team. I participate in marching band and the swim team. And my true passion is rowing. I dedicate countless hours to the IB curriculum and rowing are not available to me at my newly district school. Losing them would mean

011losing not just extracurriculars but activities that divine who I am as a student and a person. This redistricting would also splinter my friend group across multiple high schools, removing the peer support that is especially important during junior and senior year. Even if I were grandfathered into my current school, I would be classified as a transfer by the county and state, which means no transportation and being ineligible to compete in sports for one year. This would severely jeopardize, [clears throat] Aaron Kersh. Good morning, members of the Fairfax School uh County School Board, and thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My wife and I bought a home in the Somefield neighborhood because we wanted to give our children the opportunities that the Oakton High School provides given it's currently ranked fourth in the county and

012sixth in the state. We know that Fairfax County as a whole has excellent educational opportunities for its residents, but we spent a lot of time researching and even more money purchasing a home to give our children access to Oakton. Our primary concern with the proposed changes at Western High School boundary lines is the new school is completely unranked. Because of this, we can only rely on the feeder schools to give us some insight into the potential of how the students will perform. We believe that option C and D will provide the most equivalent opportunities to the current boundaries for our kids because a large portion of the students from the Carson Middle School would feed into this new Western High School. Option B retains the Oakton district boundaries as they are today. But I think

013that these boundaries have always been flawed for the same reason being the lack of continuity in the students from Carson. So, while we don't oppose staying in the Oakton with option B, we believe it's less ideal than option C or D. Finally, option A does provide more Carson students to the new school, but it also has far more students coming from the current boundary of Westfield High School than option C or D. Respectfully, Westfield High School is currently ranked 17th in the county and 73rd in the state, a significant difference from Oakton's previously mentioned fourth and sixth rankings, respectively. To this point, option A also considerably raises the risk of my personal property value being cut by a significant amount, as I'm sure it would for many other property owners in the areas surrounding the

014Carson Middle School. Given everything, I strongly urge the board to select option C or D to preserve property values and give the families of our community the educational opportunities promised to them when buying into this region. Thank you, >> Stephanie Fel. I am Stephanie Fel and I'm speaking for families impacted by the last minute boundary changes in region 2. It targets a small community with little influence and less resources, showing a disregard for policy, fairness, and transparency. This process has betrayed our trust. The county's own tools were only updated 48 hours ago. The community meeting for this change was held outside our pyramid and announced with less than a week's notice on the same nights as major school events. The few emails we got right before the holidays were lacking specifics and readable maps. Beyri

015becoming a split feeder wasn't included in Dr. Reed's documentation. This submission matters since it creates two split feeders. First to PO and then to false church. This isn't transparency. It's deception. All families discovered the change. After we discovered the change, we asked for answers and got none. We asked for three-year capacity calculations, got nothing. So, we did our own. County's published calculations show POE at 108% in three years with just the AAP center. Adding Beachree pushes it to 114%. You're either relying on bad data or publishing bad data. We've asked about program continuity. More silence. Just Glass Justice and Glasgow are IB. Falls Church is AP. What's the plans for those invested in IB? Beach offers Arabic yet poem false church does not. How will language progressions be maintained? Transportation and even sports aren't guaranteed

016for those selecting to continue their programs, leaving families at these title one schools at risk. Is this really equity? Planned overcrowding, double split theater, no transparency, no equity, no answers. This isn't a plan. It's against policy and a disaster for our kids. Revert to the original scenario four, pushing the beach tree change until the AAP transition at PO and the falls church renovations are complete. Engage with our community with real, accurate data and plans for program transition. Thank you, >> David Hardison. Uh, good morning. My name is Dave Hardison. I grew up near Belvadier Elementary and I went there and to Homes and Justice. Uh, I take care of the house where I grew up and I spend a lot of time in the neighborhood. I'm here to speak about the proposals to reassign students

017from Glasgow to Poland Homes and then from Justice to Falls Church in Anendale. Those proposals stem from a multi-year effort to reduce the enrollment at Glasgow, which feeds to justice. And from my conversation, I know there's been support to bring the enrollment at Glasgow more in line with other middle schools in the county. And I applaud Dr. Anderson for her work to make that happen. When staff released an initial plan last month, that scenario would have created a lopsided split feeder. And most, only 46 students out of an enrollment of over 800 at homes would have fed to justice. I wrote to some of you about how this would result in a rough transition to high school for such a small cohort and I'm pleased Dr. Reid's recommendation now reassigns those students to Anandale where

018they'd have a larger group of peers from homes. However, there's still pieces you needs to address. You still need to address. You just voted to create a new AAP center at Poe. Right now, the AAP students at Masonrest, Beachree, and Belvadier, whose neighborhoods would move to Po and Holmes, would still attend the Glasco AAP center. Please consider whether it's feasible to kid to give the affected kids um an option to attend either the Glasgow Center or the new AAP center at Poe. Otherwise, you're still guaranteed to have small numbers of AAP students attending Glasgow and then going to Anandale or Falls Church rather than to Justice. Thank you for your time, >> Alexander Rosenthal. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Alexander Rosenthal and I have a rising ninth

019grader at Glasgow and a rising senior at Justice. A state on the comprehensive boundary review was to ensure that community feedback was considered in the development of potential boundary scenarios. This did not happen for our community which violates section 4 of policy 8130.9. >> [clears throat] >> We were not impacted by any of the proposals until December 12th when the post scenario 4 recommendation was made. There was no information readily available, very little communication, and the community comment window closed less than 48 hours later, which is not enough time to provide meaningful feedback. Dr. Reed stated on Thursday that in listening to other communities, she elected not to make boundary changes that would impact them. We would like the same consideration afforded to us. We expect a fair and transparent process and the ability to

020provide feedback which our community did not receive. Another stated goal in the presentation was ensuring that each FCPS student has equitable access to excellence and opportunities and policy 8130.9 states that the boundary adjustments must minimize the disruption of student instructional programs. This proposal appears to counter to the policy as it removes opportunities for our community because false church does not offer the IB program. A stated assignment on the presentation was to balance capacity for our community. This has the opposite effect. Per the presentation, full church capacity increases from 109 to 114% while justice drops it from 93 to 86. Per policy 8130.9, children can choose to stay in their existing school, but we have heard no transportation will be provided. This is unreasonable. The policy mandates, you offer the ability for the child to stay,

021so you must offer transportation and you must account for siblings during the boundary adjustment process to ensure that families can keep their children together. Moving children middle of their school journey to a new school would be disastrous for them. How would you feel in this situation if this had happened to you, your family, and your community? May I ask that the board submits an amendment to the proposal to revert to the original scenario 4 introduced in October and reject the post scenario 4 recommendation made on December 12th. Thank you, >> Brian Sinclair. >> [clears throat] >> Hello, my name is Brian Sinclair, Mason District resident and a father of three boys who attend Glasco and Beach Tree Schools. I'm against the proposed plan to turn Beachree Elementary into a double split feeder school for Poen

022Middle Schools and Falls Church High School because it violates the values of E Fairfax County Schools. Student welfare, transparency, and equity. Student welfare. The boundary review aims to fix overcrowding at Glasgow, but a solution has already been adopted, establishing an AAP center at Po Middle School. This will reduce the number of students at Glasgow as students move to the new AAP center. Rather than wait to see how this solution progresses, the superintendent and board are rushing to move Beach Street families out of justice in Glasgow, which harms the students and their friendships. You're intentionally removing our kids from their friends when they go from elementary school to middle school and then again from middle school to high school. As far as I know, we're the only community in Fairfax County that has been turned into

023a double split feeder school. Transparency for Beach Street families, there was no transparency for how these plans were made. Original plans did not involve us at all. Then suddenly, days before the meeting of the boundary last meeting of the boundary review committee, a plan dropped that negatively affected us and gave us little time to respond. Having talked to other families in our area, leadership made few attempts to explain why this change is necessary or how we were chosen. Equity. One of the reasons for the overcrowding at Glasgow is that they along with Po and Homes are the only schools in Fairfax County to ho host sixth graders. They are also three of the four Title One middle schools in the county. Why has the school board failed to fix a pilot program from 1991? Maybe

024it's because you're targeting communities without the resources to fight back. It is clearly disparit treatment and our kids shouldn't be punished because of it. Stop picking on Beach Tree families. Put a stop to the plan to turn Beach Tree into a double split feeder school immediately. Create an amendment to go back to the original version of scenario 4. Thank you. [cheering and applause] >> Cheryl Shoenberg. Good morning. My name is Cheryl Shoenberg, a deeply concerned parent of rising eighth and 12th graders who endured the upheaval of COVID by building a strong community through the Beachree Glasgow justice pyramid. This current proposal was sprung upon us deceitfully and creates inequity. Families like ours are making decisions right now, selecting classes based on current pyramids, not necessarily knowing these boundary changes could upend everything. That is shameful

025and feels like purposeful misinformation. No mention of beach tree was made in official emails and slides about becoming a split feeder excepting now the tool has only been updated 48 hours ago. Where is the transparency in that? This process is also out of compliance with your own regulation 8130 which requires public engagement in each school pyramid. That hasn't happened for Beachree. That feels illegal. What is the justification for choosing Beachree? A data point. Beach Tree is the sixth smallest elementary school in Fairfax. And this plan creates new unnecessary split feeders. Beach Tree to two middle schools, Glasgow now to three high schools when the stated goal was to eliminate split feeders, not to create them. What about community, sorry, program continuity? My children have been in IB schools their entire academic careers. My 11th grader

026is pursuing an IB diploma. Has poured countless hours into it already. You cannot force her into a nonIB school now with transportation not guaranteed. What happens if I can't drive her there? What happens to her IB diploma? Unacceptable, inequitable, and disenfranchising. Dr. Reid said this process is about creating the best boundaries for student learning and communities. It does the opposite. Fractures communities, undermines program continuity, and disregards your own rules. Instead, why not pause this change for Beachree until Fost Church High School is complete and AAP scaleup at PO is complete and revisit or revert to scenario >> Kathy Hosek. >> Good morning everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. While watching the school board meeting on Thursday night, I found it interesting that there was a proclamation for recognizing the 30th anniversary

027of having a directly elected school board and knowing that the boundaries had not been revisited in 40 years. I just thought that wasn't interesting. Um anyway, um I applaud the board for addressing this necessary and [clears throat] long overdue work which began way back in 2024 with the updating of policy 8130 that I was at all the meetings and that was a lot of work. So thank you for that. Um, as a member of the region 3 Brack team, it became clear that some communities had the time did had the time, access, and confidence to speak loudly while other communities, particularly underrepresented populations were largely were largely absent from written and public feedback. As a result, our committee work often drifted from stated priorities toward the concerns of the loudest voices. Future processes must include

028proactive outreach, earlier community engagement, and clearer guidance to principles and PTAs about their role in sharing this information. Boundaries cannot be addressed in isolation from programming. Um, we need to offer accessibility of all programs to students to include AAP, special education, immersion, andmies to name just a few. Each pyramid needs to have a common base of what is available as these choices directly affect capacity, staffing, and transportation. When AAP centers or specialized programs shift students across pyramids, it can strain that school's ability to serve their zone students. We can do all the boundary work possible and parents will still opt into desired programs for their child, which may mean pupil placing into another school. Wherever possible, programming needs to be readily accessible to all the students in their home pyramid or at the very least

029their own region. I look forward to staying engaged with the ongoing boundary process as this is just the beginning of this work. I am grateful that we have had a substantive start. Thank you for listening. Reza Jabbery. Uh, good morning. Thank you very much for hearing me. Um, I am the me I am a member of the Fairfax community s Fairfax Acres Community SPA473 located near the intersection of German Town Road and Rose Haven Street just below Oakmark Park and bounded by I66 and Route 123. We have been requesting reassignment from the Fairfax pyramid to the Octto pyramid. This change aligns with the boundary change priorities red and reduces proximity and transportation significantly. Uh it reduces student travel time by approximately 50%, removes an existing attendance island. uh improves uh walkability, strengthens feeder community and

030aligns uh our community with the octon schools which the community is already identified with. This change is strongly supported by the community. The request was initially approved by the boundary review advisory committee under scenario 4 and the community remained hopeful about this change until 3 days ago when the superintendent's final boundary recommendation were released. At the time the community learned uh that our approved and reassignment uh request had been removed from the final recommendation. So uh the community like I said has uh uh submitted a petition expressing a strong support for that reassignment and formally requesting that it be restored. We respectfully request the board to retain uh the board uh to the scenario four and uh reassign the Fairfax community to the Octon permit. Uh key reasons for this is uh improved uh proximity

031um transportation equity and walkability and community identity and geographic alignment. Uh also reverting this uh assignment under the prop purpose of the review undermines the purpose of the review. It reintuitives an attendance island that increases increases transportation time and inefficiency undermines the stated purpose Anna Hakameshi. Good morning and thank you for providing me the opportunity to speak. I also want to speak about the same area um Fairfax acres in Oak Oakmar and um today's recommendation for the school boundary changes does not include one of the approved scenario for recommendation to reassign Fairfax acres and Oakar neighborhood to Oakland par pyramid. There's a petition signed by the community requesting the reassignment and up until three days ago the community were under the impression that they are moving to um to Oakton and suddenly we were surprisingly

032notified that we are not. Um, geographically we are within walking distance to Oakton Elementary School and it really doesn't make sense that the students who live west of our community near Franklin Farm, Navy Elementary or Vapelles Elementary, they travel 10 miles. They pass through our neighborhood to attend Oakuction High School. While our community located directly alongside the same route within only less than two miles to Oakton High School and we are excluded from attend from Oakton's attendance area. There has been push backs from some part of Oakton community suggesting that reassigning our neighborhood to Oakton pyramid will overcrowd Oakton Elementary School. However, the current data does not support this claim as both Providence Elementary School and Oakton Elementary School are operating at similar utilization levels. Um the concern of newly developed town homes in Oaken

033would equally affect Providence and Fairfax and if future capacity adjustment become necessary significantly more flexibility exist on the east side of Oakland pyramid while west side is already constrained. several elementary school under Ed Phillips. Good morning. I represent the Great Falls Citizens Association, the special committee on schools. First, I'd like to thank the Fairfax County Public School staff, the school board, and all the volunteers who put a lot of time and effort on the superintendent's boundary review committee. It's quite a remarkable community engagement effort. I haven't seen anything like it. I went to the first meeting or perhaps one of the first meetings. I have two observations. One of them's kind of make sense to me and it's obvious and the other one was less obvious to me and they're still valid today. The first

034observation is that schools and committees are most successful together. Our association supports the superintendent's boundary change proposal scenario number four because it keeps our community together going to quality schools with quality teachers and most importantly good outcomes largely for most the students. Second observation was a parent stood up at that uh first meeting and succinctly offered rather than change boundaries to provide access to schools being programs to schools. We applaud Dr. Reed's initiative to bring advanced academic programs to every single middle school in the county. It's good for all students. Thank you. Gail Ferris. >> Good morning. I'm Gail Ferris and I'm the father of a Beach Tree Elementary School alumni who is also a sixth grader now at Glasgow Middle School. I share the concern that other Beach Tree parents have said on how

035the splits in the proposed boundary changes would affect our children. Beastree students would not experience one but two splits. The first split would be at the grade school level when half of rising sixth graders will continue to attend Glasgow Middle School while the other half would now attend PO middle school. Then for the group attending POE, the students would be subject to a second split as POE itself is a fe split feeder school to high school with 80% or more moving on to Anendale High School, but the Beach Tree kids moving with only 20% of their PO classmates to false church high school. The multiple splits in their FCPS time would prove challenging both academically and socially. These three alums currently at Glasgow, like our daughter, would be faced with an extremely difficult decision. Choice

036one would be to uproot our daughter at the end of the school year for a second middle school transition to POE, only to be split again with a small minority of newly made friends at POE to Falls Church. Choice two would be to stay at Glasgow through 8th grade under policy 8130, but they would have no bus transportation furnished and would have an even smaller cohort when she goes to Falls Church in the ninth grade. If the board approves the new boundaries as proposed with the disadvantages that I've mentioned, it might at a minimum consider allowing all B Beach Tree alums currently attending Glasgow Middle School to choose to continue onto justice with the rest of the middle school. Thank you to the board for all of the hard work in this evaluation and I

037hope that you'll consider re-evaluating the splits from Beach Street. Tamara O'Neal. >> Hello. Uh, my name is Tam O'Neal. Uh, I'm a West Springfield parent, a Girl Scout troop leader, basketball coach, volunteer, and a huge supporter of Fairfax County Public Schools. Our neighborhood is deeply grateful for Dr. Reed's recommendation to keep the West Orange Hunt in Huntsman Estates zoned for Sangster, Irving, and West Springfield. For the past 18 months, our families and most importantly students have lived with uncertainty and stress caused by this convoluted and disruptive boundary process. Children have worried about where they will attend school. Families have hesitated to make plans. And we are finally relieved that we are almost at the end of this process. Yet, despite this relief of almost being done, we and many other West Springfield communities were chilled

038by our representatives comments on Thursday night. Miss Anderson, you stated, and I quote, "I don't know that we will have the list of areas that still need to be addressed all the way complete. So, I do anticipate that I will bring some sort of follow-on that adds that area within my district, which I think is the one that if nothing else, we need to have our radar on. Miss Anderson, this vagueness so late in the process signals a troubling disregard for your constituents and a misunderstanding of the needs of the community you represent. Any follow-on language of targeting any neighborhoods in West Springfield would directly contradict both the final recommendations of the Brack process and your own superintendent's datadriven decision. Miss Anderson, I support and stand united with West Springfield communities like Hunt Valley, Daventry,

039West Springfield, West Orange Hunt, Huntsman Estates, Cardinal Forest, and Chennon Station. When I say that we respectfully but adamantly reject any adult, >> Heather Haw. Good morning. My name is Heather Haw. I am a West Springfield parent in the Sangster Elementary School, Irving Middle School, and West Springfield High School pyramid. I want to thank you, Dr. Reid, for your recommendation for applying policy 8130 thoughtfully and in balance with its stated priorities by keeping our students zone for Sangster, Irving, and West Springfield High School. As we move forward, I also want to highlight an important takeaway to carry into the next required boundary review in five years. This process underscores that not all split feeders are inherently problematic. Policy 8130 makes that clear by stating that they should be eliminated wherever possible in balance with access

040to programming, proximity, transportation, capacity, and community cohesion. In some cases, split feeders are an intentional and functional outcome of how programs and attendance areas are structured. When a split feeder does not create a capacity pressure, transportation inefficiency or community disruption, eliminating it for the sake of a structural uniformity can introduce new problems rather than solving existing ones. The materials in this review show that not all split feeders have the same impact and that nuance matters. I appreciate that Superintendent Reed Reed's recommendation reflect that distinction and applies the policy as a balancing framework rather than a checklist. As F FCPS looks ahead to the next boundary review cycle, I hope the Divi division continues to evaluate the split feeders based on real world outcomes, not simply their existence, and preserves structures that are working as intended.

041Thank you for your time and for your continued leadership. >> Heather McCain. Good morning. My name is Heather McCain and I serve on the HOA board for the Waln Oaks neighborhood, SPA 4420. I'm here to speak in strong opposition to the proposed boundary changes or more accurately the lack thereof. This process was intended to modernize our county. Yet, the plan before you lacks the promised transparency and once again leaves Waln Oaks behind after more than 20 years of being used as a quick zoning fix. By every geographic standard, Waln Oaks is an attendance island. Our children do not attend the same middle school as all the adjacent neighborhoods. This is not only a mapping issue, it's a safety issue that creates daily burdens for families and wastes transportation resources. These concerns were clearly shared with

042the district, including through maps and videos of our children's commutes that were provided to Mr. Eric Gordon. This board also maintain I'm sorry, this board also mandated eliminating split feeders. Yet, this proposal continues to fracture Brookfield Elementary and Franklin Middle School, forcing students to separate from peers while the county promotes continuity of cohorts elsewhere. Throughout this process, our community worked closely with Dr. Reed, her staff, and the boundary review action committee. We were repeatedly told that our concerns were valid and that returning Waln Oaks to Rocky Run Middle School would reduce crowding at Franklin, eliminate the attendance island, and provide for a safer, shorter commute. This option was even placed on Superintendent Reed's hotspots list and was included in the committee's November recommendations with total committee agreement at that time. We are deeply disappointed and

043feel deceived to see that recommendation ignored. We are not even on the list of SPAS for future consideration. By approving this plan as is, you would be choosing to ignore your own mandates, preserve isolation for Waln Oaks, signaling that our children's safety and stability are acceptable casualties. We urge you to fix it now. Fix >> [applause] >> Joy Wong who's virtual Joy Wong Mark Bar. >> Uh thank you very much. I am here as a parent of a child children at uh Kilmer Middle School and Wolf Trap Elementary School. And what I want to start off and say is I'm here in full support of the superintendent's recommendations. Um I do want to recognize again for everybody who is speaking here that this is my own perspective and that there may be some additional targeted

044changes that we may want to consider in the future. But I do want to make sure that having watched the school board over the last couple of meetings and there seems to be some disagreements at times that overall the recommendations laid forth by the superintendent were thoughtful, were considerate, were equitable and I want to make sure that you continue to support that going forward understanding there may need to be some changes, minor target ones in the future. What I will say about the wolf trap and I am very appreciative of you removing the split feeder. I do feel like it is Fairfax County Public Schools vision to eliminate split feeders because it unifies our school neighborhoods. It creates a single cohesive community throughout the entire school experience and this enriches the lives of not just

045today's students but for future generations as well. We are making a decision now that will affect kids 10, 20, 30 years in the future. I will say as somebody who has been very actively involved, I will admit in the community engagement meetings, I want to say that I very much respect the work of uh the superintendent, her staff, and school board member Marin and listening to the community in those meetings. I do feel that they took careful consideration of what our perspectives were. This came up on Thursday that the priorities for this program, for this initiative may have changed slightly, but they haven't. They have just been rep prioritized based on community feedback. I feel that the recommendations laid forward, they are equitable. I feel like they are transparent. I feel like they are informed,

046evident by the superintendent or her staff being able to answer your nuanced questions about communities. They know this data. They have done the research. So, I very much appreciate the fact that you have this meeting that these recommendations value everybody's voice, but also gives everybody voice equal value. Melissa Morrison, members of the board, I represent the H Hearnden Pyramid PTAs and I appreciate the progress made in this boundary review. However, I want to address the decision not to redistrict H Hearnden and Western Great Falls neighborhoods that live much closer to undercapacity newly renovated H. Hearnden High School and instead continue busing them to higher utilization Langley High over interstates with commutes averaging 40 minutes plus each way, among the longest in the county and in the history of Fairfax County. Redistricting to H. Hernand would

047reduce transportation cost, shorten commutes, ease capacity pressure, improve efficiency, and strengthen social integration. I recognize redistricting can be disruptive, and those concerns deserve care. But choosing not to redistrict is also a decision with real cost. By busing students an extra 15 miles each way, FCPS incurs significant ongoing expenses in fuel, labor, maintenance, and bus replacement, money that cannot be spent on instruction or student supports. Longer routes also strain a system already facing driver shortages and take time away from families. If redistricting is not recommended in this cycle, then we ask that these neighborhoods and the millions in transportation costs they generate be formally addressed within the next five-year cycle to rebalance enrollment and resources. Equity is not only about where students live. It is about how we allocate limited dollars and who benefits from those

048choices. Thank you. >> [applause] >> The ru the ru a good morning my name is tirued nutla and I'm a parent at Crossfield Elementary, which means now I know more about FCPS boundary maps than I ever knew about my Montig paperwork. At this point, I probably can give a tour of the new school. Not that I don't like it, but uh so many emails, but I want to sincerely thank everyone, every parents involved, more the community involved. This hasn't been easy on anyone's trying to balance the enrollment projections, community feedback, 47 different versions of just one more scenario. After seeing multiple scenarios of where my kids kids might end up, I had a moment where I thought, "Wow, it's just not my family. Even the maps don't listen to my opinion or my views." All

049fun aside, I am here to strongly support the new recommendation keeping the crossfield aligned with the Carson and Oakton High School pyramid. Families spoke up, you listen, and I truly appreciate that. I urge the board to adopt the recommendation. By doing so, you affirm the stability matters, that community bonds matter, and the student well-being is at the heart of the boundary. Thank you for your service. Thank you to the parents and the community just taking care of children's future and thank thanks again for giving Crossfield parents the chance to finally close all those boundary maps at least for the next 10 years. Thank you >> Aaron Laura. >> Good morning. I'm a community member, a coach, and a parent of three students who will proudly walk through the doors of Lewis High School. I know

050you what you're doing today is hard, but today I'm asking you to truly hear the voices of our community. Because equity requires listening to all voices, not just the loudest ones. Lewis High School serves a population where nearly 70% of our feeder schools are title one. The proposal before you does not offer relief now. It pushes meaningful change out 10 years. In that time, 4,000 students will pass through a system that we already know is failing them. That's not a future problem. It's a current one. If equity is truly the goal, then action must happen now. Boundary changes that immediately populate school and stabilize enrollment are the only solutions that will have an immediate, measurable impact. Delaying action while investing time and money to move only a small fraction of students is not equity. It's

051inefficiency. and it disproportionately impacts the families who lack the resources to advocate, litigate, or simply be louder. School funding is directly tied to student population. Choosing not to fully populate L Lewis is depriving the school of critical resources. Just 200 additional students would bring millions of dollars to our school for staff, programs, and opportunities our students deserve. Lewis is not failing because of its students. In fact, 18% of our graduating students earned a 4.0 or GPA or higher last year. The negative reputation surrounding Lewis is perpetuated by inaction, not reality. And proposals that impact only 1% of students while leaving most schools over capacity does not fix inequity. It preserves it. Our children deserve the same level of education within the doors of their own school without having to transfer or rely on online courses

052that are not equivalent. If these changes are not made now, what assurance do we have that they ever will be? Equity delayed is equity denied. Thank you, [applause] Bridget Abear. Good morning. My name is Bridget Abear. I'd like to start by thanking off Superintendent Reid, her staff, the board members, our Madison rep, and the community volunteers throughout this process. I'm here today representing the Flint Hill Attendance Island to express strong support for Superintendent Reed's boundary recommendation, particularly for region one and the Flint Hill Elementary School. Throughout this process, families across region one consistently identified their top priorities, keeping neighborhoods together, minimizing student disruption, and maintaining continuity for children. These priorities were reflected repeatedly in survey responses, public meetings, and written feedback. Dr. Reid's recommendation directly aligns with the community's desires. By keeping the Flint Hill

053Attendance Island at Flint Hill Elementary, her final recommendation avoids unnecessary disruption for hundreds of students and reflects broad and sustained community support. Just as importantly, this recommendation avoids creating a new split feeder. One of the central goals of this boundary review was to reduce split feeders, not shift them from one community to another. Moving the Flint Hill attendance island would have created a new split feeder and significantly expanded disruption directly contradicting the objective. We appreciate the recognition that not all attendance islands are problematic. In this case, Flint Hill Attendance Island represents roughly half of the students enrolled population and has been fully integrated into the school community. It has never functioned as an island. We are grateful that Dr. Reid and the board listened carefully to community input and data, resulting in a recommendation that

054minimizes harm, preserves stability, and reflects the values established at the outset of this process. I respectfully urge the board to adopt Dr. for Reed's recommendation as presented. Thank you for your time and consideration. Caitlyn Smalls. Brett Shanker. Thank you for having me. While I'm listed as the Pine Spring PTA president, I'm here speaking for myself as a parent, a taxpayer, and a voter. I wanted to get out early. I implore the board to reject and vote no on this plan and continue the process. It's been over a year since this process began with multiple phases and we as a community participated in each step. We gave feedback, attended hearings and meetings. We discussed amongst ourselves. We gave our opinions online. We as a schools district has spent at least $270,000 to consultants, not to mention

055time spent by county staff on this process, facility costs, and more. The end result is an incomplete assignment. We were told after meetings on the fourth plan, changes would likely be minor. This proposal is a major change that solves no issues for Pine Spring, and we as a community deserve more input and not just two hearings. The process was tasked with multiple goals, including balance capacity, reduce eliminated tensis islands, prevent schools from being out of boundaries, and make transportation safe and efficient. Under this proposal, Pine Spring is still over capacity at 111% and one of the most overcrowded in the district. It's been that way for over a decade and it still has an attendance island. 1.2% of Fairfax uh students are impacted by the plan. Zero attend Pine Spring. Only 39% of the 64

056split feeders and attendance islands are addressed. 39% is a failing grade. We aren't disappointed in staying at Pine Spring. We love our community. We love the teachers, the staff there. We're disappointed in this process. We were told resolving the issues in our area overcrowding attendance island uh Graham being outside it's a boundary and I quote from multiple people present at non-public meetings was too hard and difficult to solve. If at my job I said something was too hard and difficult and only 39% of a project was done, I wouldn't have a job. I'd be fired. Um I was told this process will continue. Yes, it was to continue in 5 years. Not now, not immediately after this process is over. We spent a year on this. Our time and effort has led to nothing and

057frayed uh trust in multiple levels. And for what uh if after this work is approved, why would I trust further engagement in new phase of this process result? Sheay cousin. [applause] Sheay cousin. Andreanne Constus. Okay. Good morning. I'm speaking today in support of the proposed uh boundary recommendations and to thank the Brock members for their tireless work. My children are elementary and middle school students and superintendent superintendent Reed's recommendations keep my children in the same py pyramid. Moreover, it keeps our neighborhood in the community that we are geographically closest to and socially engaged with uh youth sports, scouting troops, our community pool, libraries, rec centers. We we use use it all within the West Springfield pyramid. I'd like to thank the Brock representatives that came out to our neighborhoods and listen to our concerns. They

058dedicated hours on Sunday evenings, walk the paths our children take to school over the summer and provided transparency in this process. I hope their work is not forgotten and I would love to see a handbook or best practices guide compiled of their work so that we can carry a these practices forward in future reviews. Throughout this 18 months, I've attended several community meetings and repeatedly heard from schoolboard members. What is your vision or solution for the issue? So, I'd like to offer a suggestion for future capacity discussions. invest in programs like the leadershipmies at Lewis or other schools so that participants get experience at our state capital enrichment. I as someone who is often in Richmond would love to see more Northern Virginia students in the hallways of the Pocahontas building and something that was

059voiced not infrequently at community meetings incorporating a policy of res residency audits for any schools considered for boundary adjustments. Finally, I'd like to share my gratitude to the superintendent, their office staff, and schoolboard members that stayed well after community meetings to speak with myself and neighbors. I feel that my and my neighbors concerns were addressed with the current recommendations, and I ask the school board to adopt the superintendent's recommendations. Thank you, >> Rebecca Shaw. you for having me today. My name is Rebecca Shaw. I am a parent of two children in Fairfax County Public Schools with special needs. I am also a teacher in a neighboring school division where I teach students in the special education classroom setting. I wanted to speak to you today about the next steps in the boundary adjustment initiative. As

060of now, the focus has been on numbers, percentages, and a big picture. I feel that it is important now at this stage to shift our focus to the 2,210 students whose lives and education may be disrupted by this change. As a mom of two autistic children and a teacher of students with a range of disabilities, I am concerned. This type of school change and honestly life change would be hard for any student. While I am concerned for all students who have made friends, built connections with school staff, and have a routine within their current school location, I am especially concerned for our special education population. Children with IEPs and 504 plans are amongst our most vulnerable and fragile students who benefit from consistency and long-standing relationships at their current school. I ask that if you

061must transition children, you construct a plan for their trans transition. As a mom, I can make social stories, visuals, and talked about it to no end. But these kids need your help. They need tours and open houses of their new school, teacher collaboration from both schools, individual meetings, and plans of transition. I ask you consider how you can support families impacted by the adjustments, especially families with special needs children. I have felt concern and stress over the last few months, and it has not been forgotten. I often thought to myself, how could I possibly tell my children and change their whole world? My heart goes out to any special needs parents feeling the same anxiety I feel. Um, as of now, my children are not going to be moved and please keep Waln Village with

062Cub. Thank you. Mali Voda. Malle Voda. A vod. Mali Vod. Carolyn Moore. Good morning. Thanks for taking the time to listen to our comments today. First, a point for your consideration. Think about how much this entire process cost FCPS and it's only going to affect 2200 students or about 1% of the entire county's student population. Was it worth it? What was stopping FCPS from correcting these serious issues before this comprehensive boundary review? Second, I want to address student safety and balancing school capacity. I firmly believe that modular classrooms are a serious safety issue. Imagine the worst case scenario, an active shooter. There is no protection in a trailer. Look at the high schools for example. 10 high schools today are over capacity, but only one will be reduced below 100% by these changes. Three actually

063increase their capacity, making two more go over capacity that aren't today. Seven remain over capacity. Many of these schools share boundaries with under capacity schools. Today, five of those schools have less than 90% capacity. Only two of those schools gain students and only one of those rises above 90% capacity. Let's talk about equitable access to programs. High schools are where we really see this disparity between over and under capacity schools. My friend's son couldn't take a music theory class not because because not enough students registered. Another friend's daughter had a workshop on college essay writing canceled because again not enough students registered. Our school didn't have a baseball team for three years because we couldn't find nine kids to put on that field. Nine kids. You can't tell me these kids are getting equal access

064to their education when their opportunities are constantly being canceled. Make these boundary adjustments. But don't stop there. Superintendent Reid also flagged about a dozen items and there's probably a dozens more for boundary review in the next five years. Don't wait five years. Make these changes as soon as you can. Find solutions and implement them immediately. The school community needs to know that we are a huge school district. And we need to have flexible boundaries in order to best benefit the students in the whole district. Not just your kids, not just my kids, but all of the kids, especially the ones who don't have parents here, fighting for them to have equal access to all the programs that FCPS has to offer. Thank you. [applause] Olivia Miller. She Meg Howard >> Meg Howard Meg Howard Laura

065Harani >> Good morning. >> Um I have been to several of your meetings. I've heard several of the presentations throughout the last time of period um throughout the last year. It has been extremely in-depth. I think what you guys are doing is excellent. I think that you guys should actually go more invasive. You should make every change that you think is at the benefit of the county. I think the county as a whole, individuals, we are not looking at. You guys need to be seeing the big picture of where we're going and what is happening for our county. However, because these changes are so drastic right now, because this hasn't been done every couple years, what I am asking is that you make the appeal process, the transition process easier for families who wish to

066stay where they currently are and where their path for their children currently should be. Again, if I sell my house, my house goes to whatever the school district it is supposed to be. If you make changes to my house and I'm perfectly happy with where those changes are, I continue to go to where you think my school should be based on what is best for the county. But if I as a parent say this isn't the quite the right plan for me, again, a small percentage most likely that you allow those individuals, those families to have an easier path to keep their children where they want to be, assuming that we will have to then be responsible for getting our child to the appropriate bus stop or uh arranging transportation on our own. It should

067help with the overall issues but al also kind of make it a little bit softer for those of us who feel very strongly one way or the other. I think it's a small percentage that feel strongly one way or the other. So make it a little bit easier for us. Thank you. >> Douglas Hastings. >> Thank you. Uh, my name is Doug Hastings. I have two kids in the West Brier Elementary School, Kilmer and Madison pyramid. And I just want to say that I support the my whole family and I believe many in my neighborhood support the superintendent's recommendations. Uh, we appreciate Dr. Reed and the board taking into account all the comments you've heard from those in Northeast Vienna who want to remain in Madison, which would been changed under scenario 4. So, without

068repeating everything, um, just a few quick additional points. First, the Vienna area, which includes the neighborhoods just outside of the town of Vienna boundaries, all have close ties to Madison. That certainly includes us because all of our kids' cousins go to Madison and we participate in Vienna community events and sports. Second, the superintendent's recommendations avoid transportation and traffic issues that scenario 4 presented. Our kids can easily drive when they're old enough or even bike to Madison, but they would need to drive down Route 7 and ride by Tyson's and go way out of the way to get to Marshall. Uh we actually even looked at traffic data. That area has some of the highest accidents around while the back roads through Vienna have almost nothing which would be key for young drivers. And third and

069finally, the superintendent's recommendation does a much better job of balancing and avoiding overcrowding by sending more students to Madison, which is currently at a much lower capacity. We think all of those are really important considerations for us. And while we understand people's concern about split feeders, I think those have to weigh uh much more in favor. So, we strongly appreciate all of your consideration and feedback that could go into the superintendent's recommendation for this area. Thank you. Taylor O, Taylor Oath, Dana Stewart. My name is Dana Stewart and I served as the Madison Parod rep on the boundary review committee. I live in the Sully district and thank Mstix for understanding the unique logistics of our community. As a committee member, I can attest to the time, care, and dedication shown by Dr. Reid, staff,

070and my fellow members as we work toward recommendations aligned with the board's goals. This is a long and complex process, and not everything on our wish list was achieved. For those who engaged with me, I appreciate you and want to acknowledge your frustrations that we could not resolve every issue. As a Madison parent, I recognize the privileges of my community and this process made clear there's more important work to do. Even so, I believe this effort represents a meaningful starting point and that Dr. Reid has presented a proposal that reflects substantial committee input provided by community feedback. While the process may have been frustrating at times, it provided opportunities to review ideas, offer feedback, and better understand the nuances and trade-offs feing each community. The pro proposal before you reflects a collective countywide effort, not

071a series of isolated decisions. I am testifying today because I believe it would be a disservice to the FCS FCPS community for the board to introduce amendments that create cascading boundary changes without adequate time for public review and understanding. Many lessons were learned and the most productive path forward is to carry those lessons into the future. I would like to thank Dr. Reid and her staff for consistent engagement with the committee, willingness to listen to every idea, no matter how unconventional, and readiness to pivot when needed. In closing, I want to share that it was disheartening as a volunteer to experience hutility from leaders within my own community. I want to thank FCPS for saying and showing that my children and all children are valued members of the communities that we create. Meaningful and passionate

072dialogue is always appreciated, but it is critical that we ensure community processes do not become dominated by the most affluent or the loudest voices as this risks discouraging volunteers and drowning out perspectives that are equally important to sound decision-making. Thank you for your time and the opportunity to serve our >> Sheila Connley. Hi, my name is Sheila. I'm adjusting what I'm saying because I'm going to piggyback on to what Douglas Hastings had to say. my student, my children are students who go from Westbrier to Kilmer to Madison. And more specifically, I want to highlight the proximity issue. If they were to go to Madison High School, they could walk or bike there. What's important is their trip home. They're a part of the town of Vienna. They've been going to programs at the Vienna Community

073Center since they were in second grade. Right now they're in the Phoenix Club which allows teenagers to actually socialize face to face, not on phones, not on computers. They could walk to these on their way home. They could also walk to many of the businesses and have a job. None of this would be possible if they were in under scenario number four to have gone to Marshall. I think they're both great schools, but proximity and staying within the town of Vienna is really crucial to our family and the families who live within the town of Vienna. Thank you. >> Aaron Tanibum. Good morning. My name is Aaron Tanam. I'm a wolf trap elementary parent and a prior administrator um of the UN sorry and um prior to the current administration was the director of the

074US Department of Education's school pulse panel where my work focused on education policies and how changes and timing affect students, families, and school systems. I recognize how emotional and personal this process has been for many families and I respect how much people here care about getting it right for their children. My comment today is not about redrawing boundaries. It's about when to implement them. The question before you is whether these finalized boundaries should take effect in fall 2026 or be delayed until fall 2027. From both a parent and implementation standpoint, fall 2026 is the right choice. Families are already planning ahead for housing, child care, transportation, and academic transitions. Extending uncertainty by another year doesn't add value. It simply prolongs stress and confusion, even when the boundaries themselves are sound. For families like mine, including

075those raising children with disabilities, predictability matters even more. My son is autistic, and transitions de depend on clarity and stable expectations. Delaying decisions doesn't improve planning. It makes it harder for families and schools to prepare appropriately. Schools also need lead time, but they do not benefit from indefinite lead times. A clear 2026 implementation date gives schools time to plan staffing and support while addressing capacity concerns sooner rather than later. There is also an equity dimension here. When timelines stretch without clearer justification, families with fewer resources and families navigating special education needs have the hardest time adjusting. Hookwin Wong. >> Hi. Uh, I'm glad to be here. So, my name is Hong Kong Wang. Uh, I'm a mother of two teenager kids. Um, I would like to echo what uh just previously two neighbors u although

076I don't know them named person. uh the problem of uh the um changing the boundary from Madison High School to uh Marshall High School. So I would like to thank um the superintendent and the boundary committee because we noticed for the most recent version January 8th version uh our neighborhood remain in the um Madison High School boundary. So um we know um that um for Madison High School and the Marshall High School uh my previous uh neighbors mentioned about proximity but I want to point out it's not just the proximity we live in the northeast um boundary of town of Vienna. Okay. So, our neighbor's case has been to Madison High School for over 60 years. For Madison High School and Marshall High School, the problem is they offer two different program AP versus IB

077program. I am a educator myself. I strongly believe that you know education should be following the principle that you're teaching your kids or your students based on aptitude uh ability and potential AAP. However, uh because they offer two different um programs, my family believe, you know, AP is more suitable for my kids. So we moved from a Marshall High School neighborhood to Madison High School neighborhood and uh we love the Madison High School um the uh activities out there. If we change the boundary, >> Scott Kubista, >> hey. Uh, so I knew there were going to be a lot of uh really extreme emotion happening at this meeting. I just want to show up and say thank you for all the work that you've done. Um, you guys have done uh a tremendous effort on

078this. Um, and it's been really appreciated on my front for my family. So, I wanted to say thank you. Um, I feel heard. I feel like we've had to do a lot of work to get be informed, but [laughter] by taking that effort to be able to be informed, we have been given that ability to kind of hear what you guys are saying and then be able to kind of just provide the feedback. And you guys have been responsive to that as well as I feel like you can based on all the uh extreme uh demands from all the different parties. Uh so that's all I want to say. Thank you, >> Amy Eert. Amy Eert, Stephanie Felton, Downer. Good morning. I live in the Jefferson Village and Greenway Downs neighborhood in Falls Church. Our

079neighborhood is split into four elementary schools, Pine Spring, Timberlane, Graham Road, and Beach Tree. It's a long-standing problem that our children are split up to make attendance numbers work with no concern for our community. The Boundary Commission's priority goals were to address split feeders, attendance islands, capacity issues, and out of attendance zone schools. Our neighborhood has all of those and was identified early on in the process as a problem for the consultant to fix. Our neighborhood goal has always been to attend the same elementary school. We actively engaged in the feedback process and were pleased when scenario 4 met our neighborhood goal while also solving the commission's priority problems. The false church high school pyramid feedback session. Dr. Reed said that scenario 4 was the final scenario and that only minor changes would come after.

080So, we were surprised to find out that the consultant proposed reverting back to existing boundaries post scenario 4 with no communication or opportunities for feedback. This was a bait and switch, not a minor change. As a Brack representative, I believed in and supported your vision of community feedback and transparency. I now believe that was all just a box to check rather than engagement in good faith from the administration. It's also become apparent that the boundary commission has failed to meet its goals. Only about 30% of the priority issues countywide were resolved by the final recommendation. In a time of budget shortfalls, a significant amount of money was spent on this effort only to end up back where we started. Scenario four proposed a good solution for our neighborhood, but you have chosen no solution. That

081is unacceptable, and this board has lost our trust. I expect my neighbors and I will be a lot more engaged in the school board election next year. Our request is that the board either includes scenario four for our neighborhood when it votes or commits to do an immediate follow-on review and boundary adjustment targeting Jefferson Village and Greenway Downs neighborhood. Our problems were supposed to be a priority and we shouldn't have to wait another 5 years to solve them. Thank you, [cheering] [applause] Linda Colbear. Good morning, school board members and superintendent Dr. Reid. I'm Linda Colbert, mayor of the town of Vienna. The town and Madison High School have traditionally always had a very special and close relationship. The town and Madison High School collaborate on many things, including the Madison Homecoming Parade, where we close

082two lanes of Maple Avenue on a Friday afternoon, and our police escort the Madison Homecoming Parade down to Madison High School. The Wings program, these are senior interns, many of them interns. The Madricals sing at every year at our mayor and council holiday party. Vienna Youth Incorporated. They wear red and black now. And I grew up in town. It didn't used to be that way, but now they wear red and black. And those are the colors of the Warhawks at Madison. On Nutley Street, the Water Tower, which is next to the Madison Warhawk softball field, is painted home of the Warhawks. If kids were assigned to a different high school, they would feel excluded from many of those events. and the whole town of Vienna Madison spirit. It would undermine the whole concept of community.

083So, thank you very much for the latest proposal assigning all town of Vienna residents back to Madison High School. It just makes sense. And I ask all school board members to please approve this new boundary line adjustment. I want to thank all of you for the work that you have done on this. I want to give some special thanks to Dr. Reid who um met with me, met with um Vienna residents and really listened to us and understood uh where we were coming from. And I want to thank uh school board member Kyle McDaniel who has um been very accessible and stayed in Christy Kabitovitz. Christy Kabis Hovitz. Ashley Lowry. Good morning. My name is Ashley Lowry and I am a resident of Jefferson Village and parent of FCPS students at Pine Spring Elementary in

084the Falls Church Pyramid along with my friend Stephanie. I want to echo what she said to begin and thank you for your service to the community. Over 10 years ago, I first raised the boundary issue at a neighborhood meeting to then schoolboard member Dalia Palic and was assured it was in process. To my disappointment, nothing materialized. When the boundary review was announced, our community was promised a resolution that would meet the project's stated objectives. Scenario four for my neighborhood fully aligned with those goals. It eliminated both our Piner Attendance Island and shifted Timberlane students to Graham Road Graham Road Elementary to elim eliminate Timberlane as a split feeder. Scenario four would resolve this. It reduced overcrowding. Pinpring Elementary operates at 111% capacity. Scenario four would place our neighborhood at Graham Road, which would have have

085left it operating at 94% capacity. It would have assigned students to their closest school. I currently drive past both Graham Road and Timberlane to reach Pinepring. Scenario 4 resolves this. I am frustrated that after soliciting community time and feedback, it appears to have been disregarded as it relates to the issues that persist in my neighborhood. Recognizing that you are balancing competing priorities, I would be remiss if I did not point out that the objectives stated at the beginning of this project remain unresolved in the currently proposed scenario, not just for my neighborhood, but for many others. Scenario 4 directly and entirely met the stated objectives. The outcome is not only disappointing, but represents a waste of time and money on a project that also uh that that allows known problems to persist. At a minimum,

086Fairfax County constituents deserve an explanation as to why nothing is being done to solve the problems. >> Aaron West, >> apologies, >> can you hear me? >> Yes. Go ahead, M West. >> Hi, I'm from the Tyson's Green neighborhood in Vienna and we are zoned for Westbrier Elementary, Kilmer Middle School, and under scenario 4, Marshall High School. I want to start by thanking the board for the recent update to include the Madison priority transfer in scenario 4. That addition shows that you heard our neighborhood and recognize that our children are part of the Vienna community. We truly appreciate that option, but a transfer is still temporary and uncertain. What families need is a clear, permanent answer about where their children belong. This is why we are asking that Tyson's Green be fully aligned with Madison,

087not just offered a transfer. For us, this is not about property value or school rankings. This is about the sense of community our family feels. In scenarios 1, 2, and three, Tyson's Green was aligned with Madison, and our neighborhood was elated because it reflected our real ties to Vienna. It was surprising to see that change in scenario 4, especially given the clear connections our families have to the Vienna community. Our lives are rooted in Vienna. Our kids attend programs at the Vienna Community Center, play on Vienna sports teams, and build all of their friendships here. Those community ties matter more than a line on a map, especially as children move into their high school years. Under scenario four, Tyson's Green would otherwise become tiny island separated from the rest of Vienna and from the neighborhoods

088around us that are all going to Madison. That isolation does not reflect how our families actually live or who our kids grow up with. Tyson's Green is small, including us in Madison does not meaningfully impact capacity, but being excluded from it has a very real impact on families who would be cut off from their community. So, we feel that the transfer option is a helpful step and we're grateful for it, but the best solution is to reflect what already exists by zoning Tyson's Green to Madison and giving our families that stability and certainty. Thank you, Valentina Deng. Joti Wadwa. Good morning. My name is Joti Vadwa and I'm speaking from Brierwood Trace. First, I'd like to thank everyone. It's nice to be here in uh person. This process has taken an extraordinary amount of time,

089cost from the county, Brack volunteers, consultants, and families who showed up at meetings, analyzed data endlessly, and took time away from home and work to engage in good faith. I appreciate everyone who contributed to this process. That being said, it is with real disappointment that after all this effort, the recommendation before you today, the board and us does not support the repeatedly what has repeatedly been described as the very criteria that the board was seeking. and even uh the the office of the superintendent after scenario four, a cost-saving edge refinement that fully meets policy 8130 that creates no operational impact. Brierwood Trace is exactly that. We are the poster child of just 33 students reassigned that we're asking for reassignment to Oakton and we have no operational impact in Oakton capacity but we're being asked

090to wait for two years for some um some change to happen through Western High School. Capacity is not an issue for us. However, we found out only yesterday um through the public hearing that a study was done on safety. Why we're finding out only yesterday is um very disappointing, but there was a safety concern. We asked that the board um not approved this right now because we need time to respond to that. There could be operational things that are done such as guards around there. the safety was for Marshia Road and there's solutions that we want. So it we're asking Priyanka Agarwal. >> Hi. Um my name is Priyanka and I'm I'm representing the Tyson's Woods community. Um our neighborhood. Uh first I would like to start by thanking Dr. Reed and her team uh

091for their time, their care, their diligence they brought to this boundary review. Uh our community feels heard and we are truly appreciative of what the final proposal by Dr. Reed um has come out to be. Um, we respectfully ask you to support to approve the superintendent's proposal that keeps the Tyson Woods community at Vienna Elementary School and align our neighborhood with Theo Middle School and Madison High School, eliminating this current split uh split feeder. Uh, today our children attend Vienn Elementary but are later divided into different middle and high schools. This breaks cohorts apart and disrupts the continuity FCPS aims to preserve. Aligning with thorough and Madison resolves this issue simply and permanently. Tyson Woods is a very small community with just 28 students across grades kindergarten through six. Uh splitting such a small group

092increases the chances that the students move forward without familiar peers. Keeping cohorts together supports academic stability, social development, and emotional well-being. This alignment also preserves community cohesion. Tyson's Woods are deeply we are we our families are deeply connected to the Vienna school community through volunteering, car pools, child care coordination, and trusted relationships we have built over the years. Maintaining consistent feeder pattern allows those connections to continue geographically. This alignment makes sense and reflects how our community already functions. Most importantly, the solution causes zero disruption. No students are asked to move, no friendships are broken while finally resolving a long-standing split feeder issue. We respectfully ask the board for >> Money Cor. Good morning. My name is Money Cor and I'm a parent from Brierwood Trace. Um, as a parent, my foremost responsibility is to protect

093my children. I take that responsibility serious. Um on December 26th was our LA was our second check-in with Mr. Erd Gordon and we were told that safe routes to school assessment was still underway. We since then families are just finding out the results from that safe safe routes assessment yesterday. Safe routes assessments um was intended to identify both risks and solutions but many of these solutions can often be implemented in the near term. There have not been any written reports, evaluations or findings that have been provided to us in our community. Um, without knowing what was identified or what could be addressed now, I am deeply uncomfortable supporting this recommendation as our current stands. Families deserve to understand the risks. They need to un the options that they have. Um, and I don't feel as

094if I respectfully urge the board to withhold support until the recommendations are revealed either to allow for a conditional approval or to address Brierwood Trace separately. Thank you. Sabina Shto. Sabina Stray. Jim Gully. Bethany Gardner. >> Hi, good morning. As a parent of two students at Hearnen Elementary School, a member of the PTA board, the Superintendent Family Vision Group, and TAC board, I want to emphasize my commitment to Fairfax County Public Schools. Yet, I also want to express that I'm very disappointed in the results of this boundary view. While I appreciate that the overcrowding at Coats Elementary School has created the need to transfer some of those students into the Hearnen community, the process for why H. Hearnden was chosen has not been clear, adequately explained, or adequately justified. Hearnen Elementary School is in year

095one of a three-year renovation, a process itself which has been delayed and fraught. We just received a new principal who's lovely uh one month ago after not having a permanent principal for two years. We also recently received an offtrack rating under Virginia's new school performance and support framework, meaning the state believes H. Hearnden needs to add additional support to improve school performance. The Hearnden community is doing everything it can to support students and staff during this tumultuous time. which is why I don't understand why we are transferring 190 students into this school that is clearly in a fragile state. During Clear View Elementary School's recent renovations, not even siblings were allowed to transfer in. Not only that, Clear View, recently renovated with a wonderful long-term principal, is only at 74% utilization and could easily absorb

096the code students and is in a more stable state to do so, providing an opportunity for the code students to thrive. I'm also wondering why two school board members, one in front of dozens of Hearnden families, have publicly stated that the Coats Hearnen transfer was no longer occurring. Information that turns out to be misguided at best and disingenuous at worst. I'm not sure what can be done at this late date, but I urge the school board to reconsider this student transfer for the well-being of students at both Coats and H. Hearnden Elementary. Thank you. [applause] Joshua Hamemed. Nshua Hamemed. Eric Scanel. >> Good morning. I'm Eric Scanel. Uh I'm uh speaking for the Briwood Trace neighborhood. It's happy to see my neighbors here today. Um, and thanks also to uh, you know, Carl, appreciate all

097your help over the last year or so with these boundary uh, adjustments you guys are doing. Um, I'm a little bit disappointed only in that um, you know, we had a small edge case to ask the the board to approve um, you know, not busing our kids 30 minutes halfway across the county to Falls Church. Instead, allow us to walk uh at a at with cost savings, right, to three schools that are all within the uh, county guidelines for walking distance. So, I want to address both capacity and real world conditions. Briwood Trace does not require additional capacity at Oakton and does not depend on feature changes related to Western High School. Our families are also using this area safely every day. Uh our children, me included, play on the uh playground on weekends and

098we walk and bike through the neighborhood regularly. This is all being done safely here today, supported by the new flashing crosswalks at all all intersections installed by Fairfax County just a few months ago to improve pedestrian safety because there is no capacity based reason to wait and because safety infrastructure is already in place delaying this decision by two years not does not align with current conditions and so absent uh the uh documented safety findings and define near-term recommendations including those that could be implemented before January 30th I cannot support this recommendation as written and I respectfully ask the board to please withhold support until the recommendation is amended to allow for conditional approval or to explicitly address Briwood trace as a separate case in the near future. Thank you very much. >> Ashim Krishna. >>

099Good afternoon members of the board. Thank you for your time and offering this venue for public testimony. My name is Asham. I'm a father of two future Marshall High students that lives in Vienna and I'm also myself a Madison High alumni. I'm here to ask you to keep the Marshall and Madison boundaries as they are today instead of accepting the superintendent's proposal. The superintendent's proposal is moving 128 students out of Marshall to Madison. That is a 6% reduction to a school that is not fully at capacity. This reduction will lead to a decrease in academic and extracurricular opportunities for Marshall students. Additionally, the superintendent's proposal will create an even more lopsided split feeder at Kilmer Middle School than exists today with an even smaller number of students going to Madison while everyone else goes to

100Marshall from Kilmer. My recommendation instead is to keep the Madison and Marshall boundaries as they are today. Let's address the most significant issue in the pyramid, which is Kilmer being over capacity. Currently, Kilmer has a substantial number of students attending that are currently zoned for Madison. I suggest having all the Kilmer Madison students be reszoned to thorough Madison that will address the Kilmer overcapacity issue and make Kilmer a single feeder to Marshall. This recommendation changes very little from what we have today. keep Marshall and Madison boundaries as they are and move the Kilmer Madison students to thorough Madison. I hope you'll consider this recommendation and thank you for your time. >> Rebecca Herrera. Hi, I'm a parent and my daughter goes to um KJMS and I've expressed since October been expressing that my daughter for

101the past two years she built peers going from Greener East Elementary into Katherine Johnson Middle School and I spoke in the meeting the Zoom meeting in October by my daughter for the past two years. um she's been she built a community with you know the Katherine Johnson students and they were all supposed to go into Fairfax High. So I urge the school board and Dr. Reed to please keep um the KJMS middle schoolers going into Fairfax High because it's it's causing a lot of stress and disappointment separating um KJMS into three different high schools. Um she was pulled from Greenbryer, a small group from Greenbryer going into middle school. She made peers there and now she's being pulled back from Katherine Johnson being zoned into Chantilli and it's causing a lot of disruption and you

102know isolation. So I just want to keep um the scenario as it is now for um KJMS students to go together into Fairfax High because Fairfax High is one of the like you know high school years like the most important years of your school life. So I just want to you know just you know keep it as it is like KJMS all those middle schoolers in eighth grade rising ninth graders going into Fairfax High together as it is now. I don't I don't I have more to say, but I don't have much time. [applause] Amanda Shreer. Hi, thank you for your time today. As you can see, the people who have come up here are um extremely happy that you have changed their split feeder situation and let communities stay together. And then you see

103the opposite that are extremely unhappy that you have created a split feeder and are going to cause harm. I'm part of the extremely unhappy people that found out very recently that Beachree Elementary School, which by the way is not listed anywhere at all, is going to become a double split feeder. [clears throat] I have children in Beachree Elementary, Glasgow, and Justice. And this completely disrupts our little community. My high schooler spoke earlier and she will have to make a decision to stay in the IB program at Justice High School or move over to Falls Church. If she stays at Justice High School, will she have transportation? I don't know. I have a Glasgow middle school AAP student who will be going into 8th grade. Does he stay at Glasgow? Can I get him to school

104every day? I have to also get my daughter to school every day. All of these decisions are greatly impacting my immediate family but also our entire community. We are being split twice. The Beachree Elementary kids are being split from Beachree to Glasgow and to Poe. Then again, the PO kids get split. Most go to Anendale. Our little Beachree kids go to Falls Church. This is just detrimental to the neighborhood. Why do this small amount of kids? This information, by the way, was released at the beginning of December and asked for feedback the day after Christmas. So, we said to the community, "We know you're busy. You're with your family. So due to technical diffic difficulties, we are now going back to Miss Meg Howard who is in. So Miss Howard, you may proceed. >> Hey,

105can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Oh, okay. Hi. Um, good afternoon. Uh when the comprehensive boundary view was announced, I expected the primary focus to be on balancing enrollment and capacity across the county. I also understand that capacity and equitable access to programming are not all are not the only considerations and that other factors are important as well. However, those are the areas I'm focusing on today. I come to um you as an a Fairfax County alumni, a Fairfax County public school teacher, and a parent whose children have all attended Fairfax County. I followed all four scenarios developed by the boundary review committee. And like many families and staff, I was surprised by how significantly those scenarios changed over time. In some cases, in ways that were unexpected and difficult for communities to track.

106While West Springfield High School was adjusted in the first three scenarios, those adjustments were removed in the final recommendation despite continued and growing capac over capacity. The final recommendations rely on 202425 enrollment data, not current 2526 figures. West Springfield status capacity is 2493 students, yet enrollment in 2425 was 2791, 112% utilization. Current enrollment is closer to 2,860 and this is the first time West Springfield High School has required modulars uh classrooms. That this raises a serious question. What happens next year if enrollment continues to increase? When any school operates over capacity, the strain is most acutely in staffing and instruction. At West Springfield and at other overcapacity schools across the county, we are seeing larger class sizes, reduced scheduling flexibility, and teachers sharing two, three, or even four classroom, which directly impacts planning time, instructional

107continuity, and access to programs. The elementary schools feeding into this py pyramid reflect the same trend. For example, Cardinal Forest Elementary is projected. >> Miss Howard, your time is now up. Steven Moscowitz. [clears throat] Morning. I'm a parent of a first and third grader at Hernand Elementary. I believe it is our duty to help our neighbors at Coats Elementary, which is extremely currently extremely overcrowded. That being said, I question as to why H. Hearnden Elementary will shoulder an inequitable share of the load. My issue is not with the students be former coat students who will be joining us here at Hernand. Once they are here, they are Hearnen bees and be welcome like every other student. The families leaving coats should know what this plan signs their children up for. Hernand Elementary has been has

108been identified as offtrack under the Virginia school performance and support framework. We are the only elementary school in FCPS federally identified as a comprehensive support and improvement school. We are in the middle of an extensive renovation following years of FCPS neglect. FCPS has failed to provide equitable translation services at public meetings despite our having a primarily Spanish-sp speakaking population. We were without a principal for most of the 24 through 25 school year and the principal selected finally filled this vacancy quit a month into this school year. We had two of our vice principles move this December with no notice to the community. As the parent community has expressed to multiple board members, we have no trust in FCPS to support our school. We have been neglected, disregarded, and disrespected for too long. Our new principal,

109Dr. Verb, is doing her best to write this ship, and adding 190 new students to the school, bring us to over 100% capacity will not make this any easier on her. The students of Hernandina Elementary deserve a free and appropriate publication education just like their peers elsewhere in Fairfax County. How will the board provide Dr. Verb and Hearnen Elementary the resources to accompany these new students? I'm not just talking about classroom teachers, but also the additional specialists, counselors, special education teachers, and MLL teachers that Hernand Elementary already desperately needs. Thank you all for your time today. I will close with this. This proposed redistricting plan fails the current and future students of Hearnen Elementary. Without a concrete commitment for additional resources and a plan for implementing them, this board will as well. Thank you. >>

110[applause] >> Katie Benson. Good morning. I am a proud Berewree parent here to address the inequitable and fundamentally flawed boundary proposal. The boundary review has lasted two years. Yet, Beachree was never mentioned until at a community meeting on December 10th. This last minute notice was provided the same night as our school event, making community involvement nearly impossible. The lack of transparency since then has been staggering. The online boundary tool never reflected any impact to Beachree until two days ago. But perhaps most concerning, the proposal slides boast a reduction of split theater schools while never mentioning that you created a brand new double split theater. Furthermore, Beachree, Glasgow, and Justice are all diverse Title One schools with multil- language families. The lack of clear and timely communication reveal a shocking level of inequity, excluding most of

111our community from having any voice at all. Information to our community was hurried, vague, or completely omitted. This appears deceitful and undermines any trust in you or the broader process. This rush plan creates a new split feeder out of the six smallest elementary school. We have only around 50 students per grade, and you are proposing to split this close community up between two schools, significantly decreasing their already small support system. Then you plan to do it all over again to one of these groups when they would leave PO for false church, moving them through three different pyramids. This robs our children of protective factors during their most vulnerable developmental transitions. This plan is short-sighted and irresponsible. Lastly, by your own numbers, moving the Beach Tree students from Glasgow to PO provides minimal impact on Glasgow,

112but will push PO over capacity, whereas the new PO AP center will have significant impact on PO Glasgow and PO's numbers. My recommendations are to pause the plan to turn Beachree into a split theater, revert to the original scenario 4, observe the actual impact of the PO AP center and false church renovation once completed, and flag this site for re-evaluation during the next review. Please spare our children from this unjustified and unnecessary harm. Thank you, [cheering and applause] >> Earl Johnson. [applause] Good morning. Uh my name is Earl Johnson. I am uh a resident of Ron Stallion Estates on Steuart Mill Road in the Hunter Mill District and uh part of the Flint Hill Island. I'm also a parent of two children that attend Flint Hill Elementary School. I want to first recognize the students

113that spoke earlier. Um they demonstrated a lot of courage and uh involvement in the process and that makes me feel better about the future. Uh I strongly support Dr. Reed's recommendations for uh the boundary changes for over a year. Um number of people have been involved and uh laying out this road map and um I I must admit at the beginning I was a little skeptical of the process but I feel that it's been transparent. Um it's been thoughtful. It's been iterative and it's been responsive. Um there have been some uh new recommended changes that impact our community. Um these changes would turn our Flint Hill Island into a split feeder. Um, so my kids would leave Flint Hill Elementary, go to a new elementary school, and then go to um uh back to um

114uh uh a middle school, splitting again off a poor core hoot of students that they had just met. Um I know that not all the split feeders were addressed in this process, but we certainly shouldn't uh create new split feeders. We shouldn't create new problems as we um uh come to an end here. Um, so with that, I uh urge the board to uh support Dr. Reed's recommended changes. Thank you, Cam. No, ma'am. We can't hear you. Can you Yep. I'm I'm unmuted. >> Okay, now we can hear you. Thank you. >> Yes. Hi, my name is Camtune Win and I'm speaking from Bria Wood Trace. From a family perspective, being told to wait two years without being told what specifically needs to change or how it will be fixed is discouraging. We are not

115Briarwood Farms. We are Briarwood Trace. and Briwood Trace is fully meets policy 8 8130 and within existing capacity targets for our 33 students. Treating these communities as interchangeable ignores those facts. Families deserve transparency and a defined path forward. If safety issue exists, we should be told what they are and what near-term remediations would address them and ask to wait and not asked to wait indefinitely. Without that clarity and without identifying near-term fixes could be implemented even before January 30th, I cannot support advancing this recommendation as written and respectfully ask the board to withhold support until the recommendation is amended to allow the conditional approval or to explicit explicitly address Briawood trace as a separate case. Thank you for your time. >> [applause] >> Caesar Kasanova. Hello, my name is Caesar Casanova and I'm a lifelong

116resident of Fairfax County, a proud FCPS alumnist and a parent to two children who currently attend Vienn Elementary. I'm here today to request that the school board approve the superintendent's recommendation for our neighborhood Tyson's Woods SPA 3914 to be reszoned for V elementary through middle and Madison High School. As someone who grew up in this community and benefit from the strong sense of continuity within FCPS, I know firsthand how important it is for students to feel connected and supported throughout their educational journey. Currently at Vienn Elementary, less than 10% of students are split from their peers. A small population of students in our neighborhood advanced to Kilmer and Marshall High School while their peers proceed to thorough middle and Madison High School. Residents in Tyson's Woods want the split feeder eliminated because it creates unnecessary

117social and emotional challenges during this transition from elementary to middle school. For example, my second grader is only one of two students who would have to attend a different middle and high school than her peers. My fifth grader is one of four students. These numbers highlight how isolating this experience can be for children. Approving this recommendation change supports the guiding principles of policy 8130 by eliminating the unbalanced split feeder system at Vienna Elementary. Optimize school capacity by easing overcrowding at Kilmer Middle and Marshall High School. Provide a safer commute for students by utilizing WWD trail which backs up to our community. And most importantly, this change will allow our children to maintain the strong community ties that they've built in at V elementary and continue those relationships through middle and high school. Thank you for

118your time and consideration. Michelle Sinclair. As PTA president of Beachree Elementary, I'm calling on the board to revert to the original version of scenario 4 instead of shifting us at the 11th hour. You know, turning Beach Tree into a new split feeder is bad news because there are no references to that change in the superintendent's presentation we all received on January 7th. This is deceitful and underhanded. Glasgow was badly overcrowded. According to families, this was a major complaint about four years ago, but the board elected not to address the issue at that time. A lot has changed in four years. Glasgow is less crowded. Glasgow and Po's own demographics pages are updated monthly and using those numbers, the opening of the AAP center at PO will resolve any remaining imbalances. In fact, using the county's

119projection data, adding Beachree students to this pile will actually tip the scales into a 114% overcrowding situation at PO in just three years, forcing Beachree into yet more boundary shift chaos. An outdated crowding situation at Glasgow should not be used now to justify creating new and lasting disruption for Beach Tree families. Some students thrive in new environments, but many do not. Neurode divergent kids already face an uphill battle to understand social cues and navigate friendship, which can be a bewildering minefield for them. If there's no enrollment-driven need to fragment the Beachree community, why are we subjecting them to that? Where is the equity for them? And let's not forget this is the COVID generation who already faced challenges in school and social emotional development due to massive upheaval in their schooling. This change forces families

120to make difficult and expensive choices between keeping siblings together with no insuranceances of school transportation or spreading themselves thin across two middle or high schools, two PTAs, two band schedules, and so on. The original scenario 4 addressed capacity concerns while minimizing disruption. With overgrowing at Glasgow no longer a problem and PO absorbing additional students through its AA center, reverting to that original plan is both reasonable and responsible. >> David not [applause] Good afternoon. My name is David Knot. I live in the northeast corner of Vienna, just outside the town boundary in the West Brier elementary boundaries. My wife and I have a sixth grader and a third grader. And I'm here because the latest boundary proposal keeps our neighborhood in the existing Kilmer Madison split, which is a very lopsided split. And we have seen

121the harmful effects of this split on our neighbors older children that we've watched go through high school. Under the existing boundaries, only seven student planning areas feed Kilmer and then Madison. And only about 10% of each Kilmer class today goes on to Madison. That means students arrive at high school with a tiny cohort, often without their established peer group, making it harder to feel connected and to thrive. The latest proposal makes this worse by reducing the Kilmer Madison pathway from seven spas just down to two. That would create an even smaller island cohort. Less than 5% of Kilmer eighth graders will metriculate to Madison each year, which conflicts with the stated goal of reducing split feeder patterns. Our single highest priority is to eliminate the middle school high school split. There is a simple and

122straightforward alternative that solves this without undermining the broader plan of keeping Town of Vienna in Madison High School, and that is to zone us for thorough Madison. This alignment keeps cohorts together. So our request is please amend the proposal to avoid assigning our neighborhood to Kilmer Madison. If we remain at Madison for high school, align us to Thoro. This request is about our concern for the well-being and success of our children. Please don't deepen a split that is already failing them. Thank you for your time. Crystal Green. Fatima Aram. Good morning. I'm here as a parent of two elementary school children from Franklin Manor affected by the crossfield to lease cornered redistricting. We have been closely and consistently engaged in this process from the very beginning. We followed every meeting, reviewed every scenario and email

123and we understood this those scenarios and participated in good faith. We didn't feel the need to speak at those meetings because based on everything shown and discussed, we were comfortable with all four scenarios. In every scenario, our children remained at Crossfield. At no point until the final proposal was a change to our elementary school shown, discussed, or even suggested. The challenge is that an 11th hour change introduced after months of engagement limits families ability to effectively advocate for their children and the integrity of their neighborhood. Like many families here, we made one of the largest decisions of our lives when we chose our home for the school community, trusting our children could remain there during their most formative years. These early years are foundational academically, socially, and emotionally, and stability matters. We are not opposed

124to change in principle. We understand the district faces complex challenges. What has been most difficult is feeling blindsided after doing exactly what we were asked to do. Stay engaged, stay informed, and trust the process. We are here to offer constructive solutions. One option is to grandfather currentfield students through elementary school, applying the change only to future kindergarteners. Another solution is to group this one street with the surrounding neighborhood and route students along the Crossfield Carson Oakton line. all three of which are underenrolled. This would eliminate both an attendance island and a multi multi-theater pattern. Behind every boundary line is a child who wants to feel safe, known, and settled. We trusted this process. We trusted this district. Today, we ask you to honor that trust by choosing stability for our children. Because once that trust

125is broken, it cannot simply be redrawn. Thank you, [applause] >> Gregory Pifery. Good afternoon. My name is Gregory Pifery. I'm here as a parent of a Beach Creek third grader and kindergartener. We are a small community and a smaller school. splitting them up at the elementary level and then again in the middle school continues to shrink our community. When the school employees and educators understand the community that is coming through, they better understand how to connect with the students and provide them with the education that is needed. And it is why that I would like to also suggest that we go back to um the original version of scenario 4. uh a lot of us at each tree feel that is the best solution. Thank you for your time and listening to our concerns. [applause]

126Christian Stanovich. >> Hi, good morning. Um, my name is Christian Shinsovich and my husband Sebastian and I are parents of two daughters with our youngest Phoebe, a sixth grader at Vienna Elementary School. We've been PTA members and community volunteers since our daughter was in Mrs. Allen's virtual class in first grade during COVID. And our daughter was an a Brownie and troop 50166 at Louise Archer. um being a jammer for three years, participating in all Halloween parades as a brownie and a jammer in the town since we moved here, the NYSA's art program. She was a student correspondent in last year's longest table Vienna on Mil Street and the Town Green which I'm a committee member of and participated in the Madison Pyramid Art Showcase, the Madison Pyramid Choir program and is currently at Catillian at

127the Vienna Firehouse. um our community, Tyson's Woods, has the full support of our principal, principal Carmichael, his administration, the uh Vienna Elementary School PTA board, and they have given our full support in writing to to you in in eliminating the split feeder, which in Phoebe's case, she is one of four students that would then be split from her cohorts. And I just want to thank we want to we are very thankful to Dr. Reid and her supportive staff for her recommendation to eliminate the split feeder at VES. This keeps our students together through middle school and high school, which enriches bonds and reinforces their learning experience and social engaged within their community. Um we would like to thank um Melanie Marin, Carl Fr and the B members um for your dedication and listen. CTu. Roshan

128Sakrani. Roshan Sucknery. Roshan Sucknary. Sarah Alasi. Sarah Alomasi. Sarah Alasi. Carrie Dosski. Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Carrie Dolski. I'm here on behalf of many Fairhill Elementary families to highlight a boundary issue that is no longer our community reflects our community or Fairfax County public schools planning principles. Fairhill sits in an attendance island, an isolated strip carved away from the rest of false church high school pyramid. In daily life, our family are rooted in Fairfax and Vienna, both in geography and postal address. Our kids play on Fairfax and Vienna sports teams, attend preschools and camps there, and build friendships and support networks there. But when it comes to school progression, the boundaries pull our students in the opposite direction from the communities where they spend their entire

129childhoods. Logistically, it is also a hardship. My neighborhood sits off Cedar Lane, less than a mile from Thorough Middle School, and closer to Oakdton, Fairfax, and Madison high schools. Yet, our current assigned pyramid busted students across major highways and congested corridors, including Route 29, Route 50, and the 5495 interchange, creating unnecessary transportation, safety, and operational burdens for families. With the opening of the new Western High School, we respectfully ask FCPS to reevaluate the Fair Hill neighborhoods. With nearby schools expected to shed enrollment, there will be capacity and geographic logic to absorb our area. Our community is diverse in language, culture, and social economic background. Integrating Fairhill into any of the high schools would support balanced, inclusive school environments aligned with county values. There are multiple petitions within the Walker precinct asking FCPS to correct this

130outdated boundary. I'm asking the committee to please include the thorough review that Fair Hills neighborhoods deserve as part of the new western school boundary process. Thank you for your time. Jonathan Boyd. Good morning. I'm speaking today to voice my disagreement and displeasure with the changes recommended for SPA to be reassigned from CrossFit Elementary School to Lee's Corner Elementary School. I've watched this process play out over the past several months with no indication from any of the proposed boundary changes that this change was even a possibility. Without inclusion in any of the previous boundary change scenarios, we were caught off guard when the superintendent recommended our street and neighborhood be moved to a new elementary school. I currently have three children attending Crossfield. We have built our lives around the Crossfield community. Our daughters attend school,

131Girl Scouts, and sports with our Crossville classmates. As a coach for my daughter's basketball team, I endeavored to include cross school students on my daughter's team so that her and her friends could play together. If we were to switch schools, most of the other students in our daughter's classes would be located across Fairfax County Parkway. Instead of a short walk or bike ride away, our daughters would be separated from their classmates by a four-lane divided parkway. In addition to the inherent stress of switching schools and the superintendent's recommendation without prior opportunity for review, this change does little to solve any issues these boundary changes are intended to address. Namely, we are not located in an attendance island and transportation is unaffected. The Crossfield bus will pass our street even if our children are not on

132it. Additionally, Crossfield is not overcrowded. The superintendent's recommendations note that this change would affect 12 students and reduces Crossville's capacity 1% from 83 to 82%. This highlights the unnecessary nature of the change for county purposes on top of all the reasons it would be detrimental for the community that we have formed with Crossfield. I strenuously object to this change based on the late notice of its inclusion and the sup in the superintendent's recommendation, its unnecessary nature, and the abrupt change to a community our children are grounded in. Thank you for your time. Sure, Zema. >> When we moved to Greenway Downs, we knew our neighborhood was divided among four elementary schools. We were encouraged to learn that the boundary review was finally underway and that it would focus on attendance islands and split theaters, the

133exact issues impacting our neighborhood in Timberlane Elementary. These boundaries are long overdue for correction. Many are rooted in decades old decisions tied to racial redlinining, something I don't think the broader community is talking about nearly enough. Even knowing our neighborhood might leave our beloved Timberlane, we supported these changes so that Greenway Downs and Jefferson Village could come together into one neighborhood school and so that Timberlane located in Falls Church could become part of the Falls Church High School pyramid rather than continue as a split theater tied to Mlan High School pyramid. We are proud to live in Falls Church, proud to be part of the Falls Church high school pyramid. And we believe that all FCPS schools serve our community well and could even better serve our students with many necessary common sense boundary changes.

134What has been deeply frustrating is that the complexity of our area has been used as a reason to take no action. Of course, this work is complex. You knew that 18 months ago when this process began. All four scenarios presented to the community required change for our neighborhood and for Timberlane. And yet this proposal proposed scenario released without opportunity for public feedback like the others preserves a status quo and leaves the exact issues you set out to address untouched. This process has brought out some of the worst in our community. Red sign parents put out along our children's bus routes reading protect our children's education have forced parents like me to explain to my kids that some families believe the middle and high school they will attend are not good enough for their children. A

135small, highly organized group successfully framed Timberlane staying in the MLAN pyramid as an equity issue when it's exactly the opposite. They were successful, and I believe this is where the school board must lead and be strong by standing behind its own schools, rejecting pressure driven by property values or school rankings, and staying focused on the issues this process was meant to address. After 18 painful months, the proposed scenario makes no changes. Our neighborhood will continue to be divided among four schools. And at Timberlane, we'll be continuing will continue to be in a MLAN pyramid with community events like Coral, [applause] John Gilmore, Nadia Bal hi uh uh uh I'm Nadia Balal. Uh good afternoon everyone. Uh we live in the Clarks Crossing neighborhood in Vienna, north of Clark's Crossing Road. Uh when we moved to

136Vienna 5 years ago in the middle of a pandemic, we had heard a lot about the about Vienna's strong sense of community and this was one of the reasons we actually moved here. Uh my two kids um an eighth grader at Kilmer and a third grader at Wolf Trap have uh integrated into the community very well and have made great friends. In fact, uh my daughter is thriving at Wolf Trap uh because she has not only made great friends, but she has also developed a strong bond with the wolf trap community. I believe Dr. Reed's uh recommendation avoids splitting the wolf trap children as they move into middle school uh which would have been very distressing for them in my opinion. Um, I also wanted to voice my strong support for this recommendation for our

137neighbor neighborhood because uh I believe I strongly believe that keeping kids together during this very important transition from elementary to middle school uh uh with their peers they know and trust uh is critical for them to continue to thrive academically, emotionally and socially. Again, last but uh I want to say that um I would respectfully urge our board to uh please approve this recommendation and thank you for your hard work and listening to us and thank you for your time. >> Amanda Parker Miss Parker, we can't hear you. Miss Parker, we still can't hear you. All right, Miss Parker, we'll try you again in just a minute. We're going to move on to the next person, then we'll come back. Leslie Ashenbach. Leslie Ashenbeck. Good afternoon. My name is Leslie Ashenback and I've lived behind

138H. Hearnden Elementary since 1988. My daughters attended H. Hearnden for 13 years and I served as a volunteer and PTA officer. I've also worked for Fairfax County Public Schools for 22 years and as an administrative assistant, giving me both a parent and a divisionwide perspective. During that time, I watched Hernand's enrollment grow beyond,50 students at one point. I'm here today to strongly oppose the proposal to move 190 students from Coat to Hearnden. I speak on behalf of H. Hearnden Elementary's community about the long-term impact this move would have. Ernan Elementary is currently on the VDOE off track or needs to improve list undergoing a major renov renovation and has had five principles in rapid succession. While the new principal is committed to improving outcomes, frequent leadership changes often lead to staffing instability, vacancies, and reduced

139instructional continuity directly affecting student achievement and students sense of safety and belonging. Under the current recommendation, Herna would move from 82% to 101% capacity. That increase is not theoretical. It means larger class sizes, fewer flexible learning spaces, and already stretched counselors, special education staff, and administrators stretched even further. At a recent community meeting, family were community meeting, families were told that code students would be reassigned elsewhere. So, the reversal of that plan recently came as a surprise. Being told that the school would be snug for one year raises a serious question. If boundary reviews occur every five years, how long is one year really? And how that and and know that five years is truly the entire life of an elementary student? Given my FCPS experience, I know schools under renovation are typically closed to

140transfers. Yet, this proposal adds 190 students to Hernand while other schools in the same pyramid remain under capacity. Equity should not mean Ashley Parker or sorry, Amanda Parker, I apologize. Amanda Parker, can you hear me now? >> Yes. Thank you. Great. Miss Parker, if you could turn off your video and just give us your audio because I think when you're doing your video, you're freezing. So, if we could just try with your audio. All right, Miss Parker, we'll try one more time with gesture audio. We're going to move to the next person and then come back. So, we've got Nick uh So, >> yes, thank you. Can you hear me? Okay. >> Yes, thank you. >> Great. Thank you. I am a parent in the Brenmar Elementary area and specifically we are just west of

141395 and just north of 395. And I'm here because uh we have an eighth grader who attends Glasgow Middle School for level 4 AP services and a fourth grader who attends Belvadier Elementary for level four. And these are our designated centers because of where we are. Um my fourth grader will likely go to PO in a few years with that AAP center. All of the schools that my kids could or have attended before high school are inside the beltway. The original scenario 4 reassigned my neighborhood to Anendelle High School, which is 10 minutes or less away. It's also where we have community and do a lot of rec sports for the past 10 plus years. My kids attend school with kids, the vast majority of whom will go to Justice High School or Annabel High

142School. But this very last uh change has switched us back to no change from before, which is going to Edison. And this was communicated the week of Christmas and feedback was requested the day after Christmas. Edison is 20 minutes away from us because while it's close in mileage, there are few crossings at the mixing bowl. We can either go south on 395 or 495 to Van Dorne and that's really it. Edison is a great school, but we have no community there. The rest of our schools all live south of the rest of that school all lives south of the beltway and only our neighborhood and the little Brenmar neighborhood east of 395 are north of the beltway. It's very difficult to cross that barrier on a regular basis and requires navigating two highways. I would

143respectfully request that the board reconsider Annel High School for my small community in my neighborhood um for travel, community, and continuity reasons for my children. Thank you. Daniel Thoric, if you could unmute, please. Can we hear them? >> We still can't hear you. Oh, we can see you. >> Hi, good afternoon. How are you? >> We can hear you now. >> Can you guys hear me? >> We can hear you now. >> Okay, good. Thank you. Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Daniel Farad and I have some prepared remarks. I'm a parent of a grade four and grade five students at Wolfrap Elementary School. Under the superintendent's proposed boundary changes, my children would remain at Wolf Trap Elementary and now will attend Thorough Middle School and Madison High

144School. So, I'm here to express our strong support for this proposal. We really appreciate that this proposal prioritizes educational stability, keeps students together, and supports long-term planning for elementary through high school. We feel that stability is critically important for our family, especially because one of my sons is part of an individualized education program or IEP. So for students who receive special education services, consistency in school placement, staff routines and peer relationship is not just helpful, it is essential for academic progress and emotional well-being. When we reviewed scenario 4, it certainly created significant stress for our family. So the possibility of moving schools, adjusting to new environments, and rebuilding support systems was overwhelming, particularly for a child who relies on predictability and established relationships to succeed, especially structure. That uncertainty affected not only our child, but

145our entire family. So the superintendent's proposal provides a thoughtful and balanced solution. It minimizes disruption. It preserves continuity of learning and allows students to remain in the school communities where they are already supported and thriving. And we especially, you know, want to thank Dr. Reid for that. It respects the needs of students with IEPs while also considering the broader impact on families and neighborhoods. So, we certainly vote for superintendent's proposal. So, thank you for considering that and taking that into account. >> [clears throat] >> Christina Ola. Good afternoon. I'm here today requesting the neighborhood that consists of Cedar Pond Drive, Adams Hill, Limree, and Hillington located in SP1803 be assigned to Flint Hill Elementary School rather than Oakton Elementary School. This was shown in scenarios one, two, and three. We are a small neighborhood and

146the only neighborhood next to us attends Flint Hill Elementary. We are in the Madison pyramid and should go to Flint Hill Elementary which is also in the Madison pyramid rather than Oakton Elementary which is in the Oakton pyramid. Further, Flint Hill is currently at 92% capacity which is sufficient for growth while Oakton Elementary is at 98% capacity which is a slight capacity deficit. Projections for Oakton Elementary also show the capacity will get worse with projected development. Flint Hill is projected to continue to have access capacity in the future. Please reassign our neighborhood to Flint Hill Elementary, which is where our neighbors attend and is within our high school pyramid. Thank you. Deborah Roadie. Deborah Roie. Joy Jalon. >> Hi, my name is Joy. I'm a mother and a town of Vienna resident. Thank you to

147the members of the board today for hearing the community. I am here in full support of maintaining the boundaries of Northeast Vienna, specifically the town of Vienna area marked 3801 Madison High School. I support scenarios 1 through three and Dr. Reed's recommendations. I support that community feedback was taken into account and not advancing scenario 4. There have been several concerns today raised against split feeders, but I am here to strongly support the existing and recommended continuing split feeder for Northeast Vienna, town of Vienna, Westbrier, Kilmer, and Madison. As a result, I am electing to share personal examples of how my children have thrived in this pathway and traveled safely home after late night activities. And yes, one is neurode divergent. It [clears throat] wasn't until our oldest child, a STEM focused student, was debating whether

148to apply to TJ that the situation became clear. She said, "I don't want to apply to TJ. I want to attend a high school experience that's local to my Vienna community." She entered Madison knowing that no one no one and built lasting friendships. She found her passion in robotics, working with the team to become nationally ranked last year, marched with the band, played clarinet, sold trees on Maple Avenue for the Optimus Club, received an award for the Optimus Club for her essay, and biked and walked home safely from late night activities, something that would not have been possible with the nearest school. She is now a freshman at Georgia Tech studying engineering alongside three Madison robotics teammates. My second daughter discovered rowing at eight years 10 years old and now Rosa Madison. Thank you very

149much Penny Yanarakus. Good afternoon. I want to begin by acknowledging the significant time and effort that has gone into the boundary review process and I thank you for your service to our students and families. That being said, I'm concerned that you have fallen short in your communication, outreach, and community engagement as it pertains to Beachree to the Beach Tree community. Namely, it is violating the standards set forth in schoolboard policy 8130.9. In section 4, paragraph 5, the policy clearly states that public engagement must occur in each affected school pyramid both before changes are proposed and again after changes are proposed, but before they are finalized and voted on. In this case, the Beach Tree community of region 2, a small directly impacted community, was not afforded any of these required opportunities. There was no meeting,

150no survey, no meaningful outreach to include targeted communication to families who whose uh who would need language assistance and not even a basic opportunity to ask questions or understand the rationale for the post scenario 4 changes to the boundary review. Public engagement is not a formality. It is how this board ensures transparency, informed decisionmaking, and trust. When a community is excluded entirely, the process is not just disappointing, it is out of compliance with board policy. We respectfully ask the board to pause the vote until Beachree families have a meaningful opportunity to participate in public discourse as violating your own policy is impermissible. And thus the vote cannot go forward as scheduled. Eric Eric think Good afternoon members of the board and superintendent Reid. My name is Eric Frink and I want to thank you for

151the opportunity to speak today. I just want to acknowledge the incredible amount of time you've put into this process. Your families are probably excited to once see you again once this process wraps up. The reason I am here is to express my strong support for the superintendent's recommendation as it relates to Madison High School, The Row Middle School, Kilmer Middle School, and Westbrier Elementary. This proposal reflects what the community has asked for clarity, consistency, and fairness. It directly advances policy 8130 by significantly addressing split feeders, improving continuity, and making better use of exist existing school capacity. And while the latest boundary scenario is not perfect, and no plan ever will be, it represents a meaningful step in the right direction. It acknowledges the complex challenges that FCPS is facing from overcrowding to equity and long-term

152sustainability. This proposal shows progress, a willingness to listen, and a commitment to balancing competing needs across our communities. It may not check every box, but it demonstrates thoughtful movement forward rather than standing still. And that matters. Starting with Westbrier Elementary, the proposed changes help reduce split feeders to middle schools and simplify high school pathways. In an ideal world, those Westbrier students who are now aligned to attend Madison like my children were would also feed into thorough rather than Kilmer. As mentioned earlier, doing so would strengthen continuity and improve the currently minimal cohorts transitioning from Kilmer to Madison. Larger, more connected cohorts help students feel supported, build relationships earlier, and uh allow for smoother academic and social transitions. While I understand there are logistical constraints, this is a refinement worth considering in this in future boundary

153views. At the high school level, realigning students from Marshall to Madison strengthens feeder patterns and reduces split pathways. Students benefit from when they stay together when possible, and families deserve predictable, stable school assignments. Thank you, >> Jane Lloyd. Members of the board, Dr. Reid, I am also here with the Beachree community. I wonder if you're as surprised to we're all here as we are to be here because it seems like you've made considerable effort to remove us from this conversation. Even those of us who had been following the boundary proposals regularly were unaware that Beachree was brought to the chopping block. We found out the day before public comments were due and not from FCPS communications. Due to FCPS's continued obfiscation, we were unaware that Beachree remained on the chopping block. We had half a

154day's notice to sign up for this hearing. It was only the morning after speaker registrations that the beach tree split was included on the boundary explorer tool. I'm not sure if you've read your strategic governance manual lately, but I have and I'd be happy to remind you of what it says. The board's role and responsibilities is to report regularly to the community on operational goals and challenges and initiatives to improve division operations to partner with parents and groups representing the diverse elements of the Fairfax County community. Your governance commitment is that you will communicate frequently and regularly with residents in the community, maintaining public trust through full and open communication. In this instance, you have failed. You have broken our trust. You have violated your own governance policies by withholding information and communication from our

155community. This is not the governance I expect from my elected officials. I demand that you fulfill your responsibilities by hearing us now. We do not want this split. Our district does not need this split. And you would know that if you hadn't worked so underhandedly to keep us out of this conversation. Today, my family lives in the town of Vienna off of Pleasant Street Southwest in the Hunter Mill District and we have two elementary age students I represent. We are currently zoned for the split feeder Marshall Road Elementary and are requesting to re be reszoned to Vienna Elementary. Our homes are a five minute safe walk to Vienna Elementary by sidewalks and the school has capacity surplus at 78% capacity. Why are we spending public funds to bus students further away when a walkable underutilized

156school is nearby? Based on the priorities of the boundary review, we expected that our area would be moved to Vienna Elementary. This change would reduce transportation cost, improve walkability, and better utilize existing capacity without requiring additional boundary adjustments. Additionally, Marshall Road AP students attend Mosaic Elementary, which is in the Oakton High School pyramid. For us, this means that our students are not able to attend Louise Archer, a school that is less than 0.5 miles away from our homes, a school that has 81% capacity and is in the same Madison High School pyramid. Why are AAP centers not aligned with the high school pyramids or based on proximity to the students homes? Finally, we are on the edge of SPA4801, which is significantly oversized. How were these SBAs generated? Why are they not all the same

157size if students in each SBA have to be moved as a unit? Is this equitable? We are requesting that our street, Pleasant Street Southwest, be flagged for an elementary school change and remove from the SBA 4801. Thank you, >> Jeff Squire. I have the misfortune of going almost last today. Many people have already left. Everyone else is exhausted. They've heard a lot of things today. Um, and they're generally just hoping for this to conclude soon. That's very emblematic of what's happening to the communities of Beachree Elementary. There's one clear distinction though. I knew from this list that I would be going towards the end. The community of Beachree had no idea that we would find ourselves in this situation. We have not been included on any of the previous proposals and we're not on the

158existing proposal. And that is despite being created as a new split feeder, which is against the priorities of this redistricting. And not just a regular split feeder, a double split feeder. That means our kids will be separated from their peer group twice, which I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you may not have known would be this problematic at the beginning, but you should know now clearly that it is a huge problem. We've heard other speakers here today thank the school board for listening to their community and working with them. I ask you now, why not us? Like many of the people from the Beachree community that have spoken here today, I found out about this uh through the grapevine and after the public comment period had closed. I recognize that the board has

159a difficult problem. There is no win-win solution to to this problem. But you do have an obligation to hear out and engage with the communities that are negatively affected by this. So I'd ask you three things. First is to acknowledge Beastree Elementary and any other new split feeders that you have created with this. Second, to delay the vote and engage with our communities the way that you are supposed to and to share data with us. We've had to find our own on school demographics because none has been shared with us. And then lastly, if you can't find yourself to delay the vote, then at least revisit and codify better exceptions, especially for transportation. Um, if you acknowledge that our kids should have an exception to go to their existing boundaries, they can't do that without

160transportation. We are not a rich community. Most of our parents are are double working communities. Transportation is critical. Thank you. >> That concludes our pre-registered speakers and now we are on walk-in speakers. As a reminder, only the speaker may be at the podium when speaking. Neither adults nor children may join them. If you have hard copies of your testimony, please give it to me or my team when you move um when you're on your way up. If you have electronic copies of your testimony and would like to share it with the board, please email it to community participation at fcps.edu. As a reminder, please hold your applause so that we can keep the hearing flowing to ensure that all speakers are heard in a timely manner. So our next person is Brian Corus. >> Thank

161you board very much for your time today. So Dr. Reed, you may remember me as the guy that said I could actually hear the marching band from Chantelli High School, right? I could hear every time they play Eye of the Tiger. Well, another school is actually that same distance, which is Rocky Run Middle School. So currently our kids actually go to Franklin which is a school three times the distance of Rocky Run. That was done that nobody in this room made that decision. That was done 20 years ago because of overcapacity at was going on at that time at Rocky Run. However, everything has changed with the renovation with the changes to Rocky Run. So give you an idea. We are an island right now in the Waln community. We're the only neighborhood that actually

162goes to Franklin. We also bus our kids to two schools. So if they're in the AAP, they go to Rocky Run. If they go to the regular school, they go to Franklin. That cost in, you know, just in infrastructure money, things along those lines. Our kids also have to cross Route 50. They have no sidewalks to get to Franklin. Uh if they go to Rocky Run, it's actually residential. They could literally just walk there. It's very very simple. So, we made a request originally to be able to do that and we actually thought we had a lot of confidence. I know Heather over here actually had been talking to the board quite a bit. We thought it was done, but the latest notes say that it isn't. We don't know if that's tied into Western.

163Um, that's what we suspect. Um, and that could potentially not only make us a single split feeder, but into a double split feeder. So, I really really ask that you reconsider. Um, I mean, it does cause a huge amount of problems for the kids in our neighborhood. I would love someday when I hear eye of the tiger knowing that that's coming from my kids school. Thank you, [applause] >> George Visera. Good afternoon doc. Good afternoon Dr. Re and school board members. My comments today come from my public observations on this process and from a county look and not just one neighborhood or school. One, where are the consultants? True. They did not attend or were not invited to the last two work sessions on this topic and were not here this past Thursday when the

164super day made her recommendations. Why will the board have an opportunity to question them in public? It did. They did get around half a million dollars. Number two, I truly believe this process started with the best intentions with only 1.25% change to where kids would move. This will not produce any systematic real changes. You all lost lost an opportunity to make real history here in Fairfax County. You buckled politically to the loudest voices which led to the creating of minimal change. But the board will have a PR campaign if we were the ones who did this when it not have been done in over 40 years. Three, the board had no real idea what this topic would stir up. Remember when I suggested in January 2024, please put the boundary discussions policy 8130 in the

165main conference room of Gate House. It could not be recorded there in at the small adjacent room next to you. Thank god you listen to that so I didn't have to record more of your meetings. Or Dr. Reed, no one can say you're not in the community and meeting with everyone, but sometimes you need to let your staff and the process play out. For example, you ran the subsequent part of the community boundary meetings, the Q&A part. Why not the staff or the consultants you hired? Why not just sit and listen? Sometimes it felt like you were agreeing to things on the spot. Therefore, that's why some committee members are saying the loudest voices win. Five, make the boundary review vote in 2032 and not in 2031. The reason for this reason is that's when

166the congressional magistrate of district maps maps are made from the federal data coming out in 2031 or 2032. Uh the reason I would know this is because I was on the board of supervisors advisory committee on the creation of the current magistrate district maps. Six uh the board and on Thursday talked about this be done in five years. Honestly when I look and scan across this dasis probably two if the most of you will be here only ones we recount on the clerk clerk's office records. Thank you Dr. for for putting me on the back, but specifically do not consider me for following groups in on this topic in the future, but I'm better used on the public voice end. Thank >> Jennifer Wolf. >> Good afternoon. My name is Jen Wolf. I am a

167resident of the Waln Oaks community with past and current involvement at Brookfield Elementary, Franklin Middle School, and Chantelli High School. I am here to speak in strong opposition to the proposed boundary changes which once again ignore our community. Much of what needs to be said has already been said by my neighbors, but I want to reiterate one critical point. Why was the recommendation to return Waln Oaks from Franklin Middle School, currently at 96% capacity, back to Rocky Run Middle School at 75% capacity, closer to our homes, safer commute for our students, and reconnecting our children with their elementary feeder communities removed after the recommendations at that November meeting. That recommendation was supported by every boundary committee member present at that meeting. Its removal reflects a troubling lack of transparency and that lack of transparency is

168a disservice to our children. We were later told that decisions affecting Waln Oaks are on hold and will be revisited during the Western High School boundary process starting in February. Western High School is five miles from our house past our current high school, Chantelli High School. Yet, one of this committee's stated goals was to eliminate attendance islands and split feeders, both of which describe Wally Oaks twice over. According to the report before you, however, our community must wait while the rest of the county receives resolution now. Because FCPS chose to purchase a school at the end of this process, we are being told our needs can no longer be properly addressed here. This is unacceptable. What happens when this process ends and the Western High School process ends and Wy Oaks is forget forgotten yet

169again? Do we wait another five years? After more than 20 years, waiting is not a solution. We urge you to fix this now. Fix the island, fix the feeders, and honor the commitments made to this community. Thank you for your time. [applause] Priya Swami. >> Good afternoon. My name is Priya Swami and I'm speaking on behalf of families in the Briwood Farms neighborhood. In the comprehensive boundary review executive summary, the superintendent recommends that Briwood Farms be flagged for a future boundary review in two years while not including this area in the recommendation for the current boundary review. While this is a disappointing outcome for our community in the near term, we appreciate that Briwood Farms has been clearly identified and flagged for future consideration, which we view as a positive and constructive step forward. FCPS

170has stated that the review of Briwood Farms is being deferred for two years in order to gather enrollment data following the opening of the new Western High School and to better understand its impact to on Oakton High School. At the same time, FCPS's projections show that False Church High School is already operating over capacity. From the community's perspective, it is unclear how Briwood Farms was evaluated as a near-term option given the existing overcrowding at Falls Church High School and its approximately 25 minute travel distance from Brierwood Farms compared to Oakton High School, which is significantly closer, approximately 5 minutes and not projected to be over capacity. As Brigard Farms is now a flagged area, families are seeking greater transparency into how Oakton's capacity will be monitored after Western opens, how that information will be shared

171with the community and what specific enrollment thresholds or planning criteria would indicate that Brywood Farms could recently be assigned to Oakton High School. In that context, Brywood Farms families respectfully recommend that the superintendent's recommendation be amended so that the review coers on a one-year time frame rather than two years and to provide earlier clarity and maintain continuity for students and families as enrollment data becomes available. Our focus is on proximity, safety, and long-term stability for our students. and clarity around these criteria will help families remain engaged, informed, and constructive partners as the process moves forward. Thank you for your time, and we look forward to working with Dr. Reid and her team, Charles Ston. Uh good afternoon. Uh I am a father of three young children and a resident of Tyson's Green, a small neighborhood

172in Vienna on the border of Tyson's. Under scenario four, we are zoned for Westbrier, Kilmer, and Marshall. And I'm here to ask that Tyson's Green instead be zoned for Westbrier, Kilmer, and Madison. The proposed uh the proposed priority transfer to Madison already acknowledges what our neighborhood has been saying all along, that our children belong to the Vienna community. Tyson's Green is small and does not meaningfully affect high high school capacity. There is no reason for us to be carved out of Madison and in turn the Vienna community when we can easily fit in. Our children attend programs at the Vienna Community Center. Our parents belong to Vienna based groups and our kids play on Vienna youth sports teams. These town-based connections are far more central to our lives than elementary school boundary lines. Sending our

173kids to Marshall would split them from their core community and their closest friends when those bonds matter the most. This modestly helps balance the Kilmer split feeder. But the much larger and more disruptive split feeder not addressed in this plan is the Vienna community itself. Under scenario 4, Tyson's Green becomes a tiny island separated from the rest of Vienna at the high school level, especially with our wolf trap neighbors now being reszoned to Madison. Middle school is a short transitional period while high school is when identity and lifelong friendships take root. If a split must exist, it makes sense for more it makes much more sense for that to occur in middle school rather than at the high school level, severing our ties with our community. We are asking that Tyson's Green be aligned with

174Madison so our children can remain with the community they already call home. Thank you, >> Stephanie Burchchard. Stephanie Burchchard, Cassandra Powers. Good afternoon. My name is Cassie Powers. I'm the parent of a first grader at Pine Spring Elementary and a three-year-old. So, we are new to this process. I'm also here to support to voice my support of the original version of scenario 4. I'm part of the Jefferson Village in Greenway Downs neighborhood. We are a very strong group. Uh when we first moved to the neighborhood, we thought we were buying a starter home and we fell in love with our neighbors and the community and we're staying. And we want for the four elementary schools that our neighborhoods currently belong to to become one. We love Pine Spring Elementary, but we love the community more.

175and we think that it's in the best interest of our neighbors and the community to all go to a single elementary school and then go right on up to the false church pyramid. So, I'm here to support the original version of the scenario 4 to keep our community as one and to send us to Graham Road. Thank you, [applause] >> Katie Keridge. Katie Keridge, Katie Kerich, Robert Sabinosh. Okay. Uh, thank you all for listening to us today. I know you all as a board go through a lot of hard changes and decisions to make. So, it's very refreshing to be on this side as well. Um, the reason why we're here today is I'm part of the Beach Tree neighborhood. Uh, my kids don't go to Beach Tree or Glasco yet, but we have been

176excited as a family to get them into justice through the IB program. uh if we if you guys make these changes, we'll be put over to Falls Church where we won't have access to that or at least through uh transportation as well would not be included. I love stuff like this. Anyway, one of my favorite things about the IB program is it also allows people to go to school at the university level around the world. One of the things I learned last year was meeting a gentleman in Spain who was going to get his master's degree in electrical engineering for about $5,000. You're not going to get that in the United States. So that's what the IB program means to us as a family. Maybe my kids won't do it, but I want them to

177have the opportunity. The other thing that this proposed change does is it splits up a lot of our communities, not just from going from different schools, but even all the way down to our neighborhood pool. I go to Shra. All the kids we know go to Shra. They're in drama. They're in band. They play sports together. If this proposal takes place now, we're going to have kids from Anandale and Falls Church and from Justice. Uh, it's going to be a little bit less of a community. It's going to be a lot more crazy competition. I think we're also not looking at property values. We know where we live. There's not there may not be much difference going from one school that has a 77% graduation rate to another school that has a 77% graduation rate.

178I don't see much. At least that's according to niche.com. Correct me if I'm wrong. But, uh, we're really looking at things from a community and that's what we'd like to keep. So, that's really that's really where I am. Oh, we'd like to see Fairfax County I'd like to get back into Fairfax County Public Schools. So, thank you guys very much. [applause] >> Chair Anderson, that was our last speaker. >> Thank you for sharing your comments today. The board will hear additional overflow testimony on the proposed school boundaries at our public hearing on the capital improvement program and overflow school boundaries on January 13, 2026. And the board will take action on the superintendent's proposed school boundary adjustments at our regular meeting on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. If you wish to provide feedback to the board

179before this vote or to submit written copies of your testimony provided today, please do so by sending your comments to community participation fcps.edu. Thank you for part your participation and have a nice day. The public hearing on the superintendent's proposed school boundary adjustments is adjourned as of 12:59 p.m.