FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

Westfield already has 2700+ kids. There is no room at Westfield to alleviate crowding at Chantilly or Centreville. All three schools are close by and all three schools are full or over-full.

[Anonymous]

I believe South Lakes is at capacity or close as well. Are Herndon and Langley the only western schools that have significant numbers of empty seats?

Where are there open seats?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

Westfield already has 2700+ kids. There is no room at Westfield to alleviate crowding at Chantilly or Centreville. All three schools are close by and all three schools are full or over-full.

Hence the mythical Western HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Yes this has always been an issue with zoning Westfield, its boundaries can only go two ways because it basically abuts the county line.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

So your plan is to move the kids CLOSE to Chantilly to Westfields? These "drive past one school to get to another" knots are exactly what the school board is trying to untangle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is starting to feel like the people who are pushing for Forestville to go to Herndon are doing it to insulate their Centreville/Chantilly/Westfield kids.

It’s more the opposite. The Forestville posters keep trying to socialize the idea of moving kids into Westfield and out of Westfield into Herndon to reduce the odds of their kids who live a short distance from Herndon but over 10 miles from Langley from getting rezoned to Herndon.

And maybe they’ll succeed. But the School Board knows there are already plans to expand Centreville, yet the distance from Forestville to Langley won’t get any shorter, so there’s that.

Forestville, Cooper, and Langley are not overcrowded, nor would they be taking the McLean attendance island.

You yourself said that centreville and chantilly are overcrowded by 1200. One thousand two hundred students. That is a boatload of kids - way too many to be ignored.

So there’s that.

I’m guessing you are pushing Forestville proximity so hard because the centreville expansion is so far in the future that it won’t even be completed by the second go round of the boundary review five years from now. Yikes.

You’re conflating multiple posters and also repeating yourself.

This first round is going to take a couple of years so the second round, if the School Board members are still in office and in a position to follow through, won’t be finished for years, by which time the Centreville expansion (scheduled for completion in 2029) likely will be finished.

If the McLean island in Tysons is rezoned, it won’t be to Forestville but it will be to Cooper and Langley. It would eliminate an existing split feeder at Spring Hill. Whether that would push Forestville into Herndon, or whether they want to do that regardless of any further Langley/McLean changes simply because it’s so much closer to Herndon, remains to be seen.

Of course it won’t be to Forestville. It also won’t send either cooper or langley overcapacity.

Centreville won’t be finished until at least 2029. There is often significant delay for these renovations.

Every five years is now required by the new policy. If the expansion is done in five years, at that point they can shift kids again. That is how they intend to use the policy. Students are cattle.

Cooper has a program capacity of 1075 to increase to 1120. FCPS projects Cooper to have 1112 students in 2028, absent any boundary change. Moving the Tysons island from Longfellow/McLean to Cooper/Langley would add about 80-90 kids to Cooper, so it would be overcrowded with roughly 1200 kids based on those projections.

Assuming the Centreville project stays on schedule and is completed in 2029 (five years from now), there's a good case for staying the course rather than committing now to multiple redistrictings. You call students cattle but that's not how their parents see them and the School Board members will be hearing that regularly over the next 18 months or so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

So your plan is to move the kids CLOSE to Chantilly to Westfield? These "drive past one school to get to another" knots are exactly what the school board is trying to untangle.

That's exactly what they want, if it means kids in Great Falls who live closest to Herndon can keep schlepping to Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP wants to move Westfield and Chantilly zoned kids to Herndon to fill seats so Great Falls can't be moved there. Its so transparent its embarassing.

It’s embarrassing that 1,200 students is a rounding error to you in your quest to avoid centreville and chantilly students being impacted by the boundary review.

You said it yourself, and the school board is well aware, that 1,200 students overcapacity is a lot. You try to argue that Forestville should be moved even though (checks notes), Langley is at 93% capacity. Talk about embarrassing.

Centreville and chantilly are the number one and number two high schools that are overcrowded. Look to the CIP for proof. Relief, if it ever arrives, is beyond 2029.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

So your plan is to move the kids CLOSE to Chantilly to Westfield? These "drive past one school to get to another" knots are exactly what the school board is trying to untangle.

That's exactly what they want, if it means kids in Great Falls who live closest to Herndon can keep schlepping to Langley.

Nah, that’s what the new policy demands. Relieving overcrowded schools.

[Anonymous]

Who are you moving out of Westfield to make room for the kids you are moving from Chantilly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP wants to move Westfield and Chantilly zoned kids to Herndon to fill seats so Great Falls can't be moved there. Its so transparent its embarassing.

It’s embarrassing that 1,200 students is a rounding error to you in your quest to avoid centreville and chantilly students being impacted by the boundary review.

You said it yourself, and the school board is well aware, that 1,200 students overcapacity is a lot. You try to argue that Forestville should be moved even though (checks notes), Langley is at 93% capacity. Talk about embarrassing.

Centreville and chantilly are the number one and number two high schools that are overcrowded. Look to the CIP for proof. Relief, if it ever arrives, is beyond 2029.

You don't give a crap about overcrowding at these two schools. You just want kids other than your own to fill available seats at Herndon. Everyone can see this, and it makes you anything but an honest broker when it comes to advocating for any specific boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

So your plan is to move the kids CLOSE to Chantilly to Westfield? These "drive past one school to get to another" knots are exactly what the school board is trying to untangle.

That's exactly what they want, if it means kids in Great Falls who live closest to Herndon can keep schlepping to Langley.

Nah, that’s what the new policy demands. Relieving overcrowded schools.

And, in equal measure, eliminating long commutes ("limit transportation times and ensure efficient transportation routes with attendance areas").

I know it sucks when you don't get to pick and choose, but there you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP wants to move Westfield and Chantilly zoned kids to Herndon to fill seats so Great Falls can't be moved there. Its so transparent its embarassing.

It’s embarrassing that 1,200 students is a rounding error to you in your quest to avoid centreville and chantilly students being impacted by the boundary review.

You said it yourself, and the school board is well aware, that 1,200 students overcapacity is a lot. You try to argue that Forestville should be moved even though (checks notes), Langley is at 93% capacity. Talk about embarrassing.

Centreville and chantilly are the number one and number two high schools that are overcrowded. Look to the CIP for proof. Relief, if it ever arrives, is beyond 2029.

You don't give a crap about overcrowding at these two schools. You just want kids other than your own to fill available seats at Herndon. Everyone can see this, and it makes you anything but an honest broker when it comes to advocating for any specific boundary changes.

I care as much about your kids as you care about mine. The school board, however, wants to ensure that they are spending money as efficiently as possible. Fcps kids are collateral damage to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is close to Westfield! Its basically in Loudoun.

Do you know what's close to Westfield? Chantilly High School.

So your plan is to move the kids CLOSE to Chantilly to Westfield? These "drive past one school to get to another" knots are exactly what the school board is trying to untangle.

That's exactly what they want, if it means kids in Great Falls who live closest to Herndon can keep schlepping to Langley.

Nah, that’s what the new policy demands. Relieving overcrowded schools.

And, in equal measure, eliminating long commutes ("limit transportation times and ensure efficient transportation routes with attendance areas").

I know it sucks when you don't get to pick and choose, but there you are.

It’ll be a cold day in hell before their consultant can map transportation times. They are so out of their depths it’s almost funny, except they are about to screw over a lot of kids.

[Anonymous]

Transportation times is the easiest part of this.

The fcps transportstion office is one of the most efficient offices of fcps.