Mclean boundary changes - can someone please update?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb not to move the Colvin Run kids and get rid of it as a split feeder

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Split feeders are ridiculous. They should have all of Colvin Run and all of Spring Hill going to one middle/high school.

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Please. I don't want my child to go from CRES to Longfellow to Langley. Thats the worst scenario.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any updates to when this will be? Middle school course selection is coming up this month...

Likely decided within the next few weeks to align with MS/HS course selections for 2021-22. They'll schedule one more public hearing but it's pretty much a done deal they'll move some kids to Cooper/Langley starting in the fall of 2021 and kick the can down the road when it comes to a permanent addition at McLean. Meanwhile FCPS spends $40 million on a permanent addition to expand West Potomac to 3000 kids. #OneFairfax

Wait. But under which of the scenarios among the listed A, B, and C options?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Getting triggered by a plan to move a handful of apartments in Tysons to Langley that are closer to Langley than other areas already zoned to LHS is asinine. It will be fine.

It’s not the apartments themselves that pose any problem. It’s the scrutinizing of the map to make sure school A gets exactly the same amount that school B does. Just draw a boundary that actually makes geographic sense and doesn’t create any “islands” or split feeders. It really can’t be that hard.

They aren’t doing anything that would result in Langley having the same demographics as McLean or any other high school in FCPS.

It actually would be a big undertaking to get rid of all the split feeders in FCPS. And it would involve moving some Langley neighborhoods to McLean as well as vice versa. Langley parents asked the School Board candidates in 2019 to pledge not to move anyone out of LHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dumb not to move the Colvin Run kids and get rid of it as a split feeder

+1
Split feeders are ridiculous. They should have all of Colvin Run and all of Spring Hill going to one middle/high school.

+1
Please. I don't want my child to go from CRES to Longfellow to Langley. Thats the worst scenario.

The staff’s recommendation does not involve any Colvin Run students. Those going to Longfellow would continue to go to McLean and those going to Cooper would continue to go to Langley. The recommendation involves some areas in Vienna and Tysons that now feed to Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any updates to when this will be? Middle school course selection is coming up this month...

Likely decided within the next few weeks to align with MS/HS course selections for 2021-22. They'll schedule one more public hearing but it's pretty much a done deal they'll move some kids to Cooper/Langley starting in the fall of 2021 and kick the can down the road when it comes to a permanent addition at McLean. Meanwhile FCPS spends $40 million on a permanent addition to expand West Potomac to 3000 kids. #OneFairfax

Wait. But under which of the scenarios among the listed A, B, and C options?

The staff’s recommendation is a modified version of Option C that would reassign fewer students from Spring Hill than the original Option C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting triggered by a plan to move a handful of apartments in Tysons to Langley that are closer to Langley than other areas already zoned to LHS is asinine. It will be fine.

It’s not the apartments themselves that pose any problem. It’s the scrutinizing of the map to make sure school A gets exactly the same amount that school B does. Just draw a boundary that actually makes geographic sense and doesn’t create any “islands” or split feeders. It really can’t be that hard.

They aren’t doing anything that would result in Langley having the same demographics as McLean or any other high school in FCPS.

It actually would be a big undertaking to get rid of all the split feeders in FCPS. And it would involve moving some Langley neighborhoods to McLean as well as vice versa. Langley parents asked the School Board candidates in 2019 to pledge not to move anyone out of LHS.

McLean and Langley have very similar demographics to begin with. It’s fiction to claim that McLean is somehow vastly more “diverse” than Langley.

[Anonymous]

So is it too late to get Colvin Run added in? Who do we contact?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is it too late to get Colvin Run added in? Who do we contact?

Contact Elaine Tholen. Then contact the Colvin Run Principal and see who he/she recommends to contact. There are definitely region assistant superintendents you can contact as well as the people who actually did the “study”.

These people tend to listen to the loudest voices and their “studies” are flawed and contain little actual data.

They should really move all of Colvin run and all of Spring Hill to cooper/Langley and eliminate the split feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Getting triggered by a plan to move a handful of apartments in Tysons to Langley that are closer to Langley than other areas already zoned to LHS is asinine. It will be fine.

It’s not the apartments themselves that pose any problem. It’s the scrutinizing of the map to make sure school A gets exactly the same amount that school B does. Just draw a boundary that actually makes geographic sense and doesn’t create any “islands” or split feeders. It really can’t be that hard.

They aren’t doing anything that would result in Langley having the same demographics as McLean or any other high school in FCPS.

It actually would be a big undertaking to get rid of all the split feeders in FCPS. And it would involve moving some Langley neighborhoods to McLean as well as vice versa. Langley parents asked the School Board candidates in 2019 to pledge not to move anyone out of LHS.

McLean and Langley have very similar demographics to begin with. It’s fiction to claim that McLean is somehow vastly more “diverse” than Langley.

The fiction was the prior claim that FCPS is trying to make schools “exactly the same.”

[Anonymous]

The change is kind of ridiculous. It won’t help the overcrowding at McLean for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So is it too late to get Colvin Run added in? Who do we contact?

Contact Elaine Tholen. Then contact the Colvin Run Principal and see who he/she recommends to contact. There are definitely region assistant superintendents you can contact as well as the people who actually did the “study”.

These people tend to listen to the loudest voices and their “studies” are flawed and contain little actual data.

They should really move all of Colvin run and all of Spring Hill to cooper/Langley and eliminate the split feeders.

They really should not, nor will they. They ran those numbers and it doesn’t work. That’s why it wasn’t one of the options presented in December or the staff’s final recommendation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The change is kind of ridiculous. It won’t help the overcrowding at McLean for years.

With the modular McLean is projected to be under capacity with the proposed boundary change by 2024-25.

They should have built an addition at McLean years ago, not added seats at Langley where they weren’t needed, but given where things now stand the staff’s recommendation is a sensible way to balance the enrollments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The change is kind of ridiculous. It won’t help the overcrowding at McLean for years.

With the modular McLean is projected to be under capacity with the proposed boundary change by 2024-25.

They should have built an addition at McLean years ago, not added seats at Langley where they weren’t needed, but given where things now stand the staff’s recommendation is a sensible way to balance the enrollments.

Which means we will be stuck with ridiculous split feeders for years. They should get rid of those now while they have the chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The change is kind of ridiculous. It won’t help the overcrowding at McLean for years.

With the modular McLean is projected to be under capacity with the proposed boundary change by 2024-25.

They should have built an addition at McLean years ago, not added seats at Langley where they weren’t needed, but given where things now stand the staff’s recommendation is a sensible way to balance the enrollments.

Which means we will be stuck with ridiculous split feeders for years. They should get rid of those now while they have the chance.

There have been split feeders in FCPS for many decades. This isn't something new.

People rarely complain about split feeders when they split to the wealthier school. Few at Franklin Sherman zoned for Langley have been pleading to be reassigned to McLean, even though about 90% of FS goes to McLean, and few at Lemon Road or Westgate zoned for McLean have been pleading to be reassigned to Marshall, even though about 80% of LR and Westgate go to Marshall.

I trust FCPS sees through the whining, and will make a decision soon and move on. They already ruled out moving all the Longfellow/McLean kids at Colvin Run and Spring Hill to Cooper/Langley, as it would move too many kids, leave McLean over 15% under-capacity in a few years, and create more problems at Cooper during its upcoming renovation.

[Anonymous]

So what is the best option a, b, or c. Looks like a and c moves all of Spring Hill Kids going to LMS and MHS to CMS and Langley.