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Anonymous
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Anyone have some inside scoop? What is expected here?
I have my own fears as a result of this study. I'm concerned . . . |
Anonymous
| What are you worried about? |
Anonymous
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mega-schools coming to a neighborhood near you!
bonnie brae fairview fairfax villa greenbriar east cub run union mill however many kids you have at your school now...they are going to take you with additions & trailers to 950 elementary students. oh - & they said they want all of our schools to be @ utilization of 95-105%. GUESS that means there will be a lot of homeschooling growth in Ffx. But that just serves their purpose then - overcrowding? Solved! |
Anonymous
There are a lot of people very bitter about the plan to close Clifton ES. They want everyone else in the county to be equally angry and insecure about the future of their schools. FCPS has said it's likely to build additions at some of the schools on this list to bring their enrollment up to 950 students. That's a lot of kids and some parents may not want to send their kids to elementary schools that large (although the irony is that Clifton ES feeds into Robinson SS, which is huge). However, it does not mean that FCPS currently has any plans to close down or consolidate smaller schools in other parts of the county. |
Anonymous
I heard there might be some consolidation as part of the Annandale study, currently slated for Spring 2011. The community part is going on now which will be done in January, and then staff can start the study after that. Yes, they will have a new school at the Lacey site, but some schools may also be consolidated/closed. |
Anonymous
Just looking at the presentation materials, it seems like Holmes MS is the only school that might be closed, if the 6th grade students now at Glasgow, Holmes and Poe were reassigned to their elementary schools. FCPS is not projecting declining enrollment at any of the elementary schools involved in the study, as was the case with Clifton ES. |
Anonymous
I had heard they are considering closing an elementary school that is not currently part of the study. |
Anonymous
In that case, it's not really part of the study, is it? Which school? |
Anonymous
| I can't imagine them closing any of the nearby ES. Almost all of them are at capacity or overcrowded or projected to be overcrowded in the next 5 years! |
Anonymous
The study can add other schools. The schools that the community is looking at right now might not be all the schools included in the study in the spring. |
Anonymous
If you look at the Dashboard, there are some schools that *could* be closed. http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/falldash09v2.html |
Anonymous
| Anything is possible, but you need to be more forthcoming if you want people to take your point seriously or be concerned now. |
Anonymous
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makes no sense to close schools when most are over-crowded.
They are either expanding existing schools or adjusting boundaries |
Anonymous
and I certainly I don't. My point is that I had heard that there might be consolidation in the Annandale area, along the lines of Clifton. I had heard this during a private conversation at one of the meetings and I certainly wouldn't post it here. |
Anonymous
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Does the school board actually pay attention to the parents? I'm signed up for one of the upcoming meetings in October.
Has anyone been through this before? My concern is that I'm going to get re-districted out of the school my child is currently scheduled to attend. We love the school. It is under capacity so I'm sure some kids will be re-routed to our school, which is fine. I just don't want it to be that we are booted out. We are on the boundary of two schools and I greatly prefer one to the other. |