FCPS About to Propose Major Boundary Changes?

[Anonymous]

It's just so short sighted. For the close in schools, maybe at the time the school system was small and the locations were all they could afford, but by the time Centreville Road was built, the County should have had more foresight and money to build Franklin and Carson further apart from each other.

+1000


You can almost stand in the middle and see both schools.

[Anonymous]

For those not in attendance at this afternoon's work session, a presentation slide deck has been added to BoardDocs:

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9QQK6F4CCA71/$file/FCPS%20Presentation%202014.pdf

[Anonymous]

Franklin and Carson are 1.5 miles apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Franklin and Carson are 1.5 miles apart.

So are Kilmer and Thoreau, and the distance between Madison and Oakton is even shorter. It happens.

[Anonymous]

Because a school system decides to build on the cheapest land, not the best planned land. Oakton High School is sitting on prime real estate. They should have sold that land and built the school further out. They could still do this probably and make money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because a school system decides to build on the cheapest land, not the best planned land. Oakton High School is sitting on prime real estate. They should have sold that land and built the school further out. They could still do this probably and make money.

We were always afraid they would do that with Marshall in the early 2000s. The school is essentially sitting on a gold mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because a school system decides to build on the cheapest land, not the best planned land. Oakton High School is sitting on prime real estate. They should have sold that land and built the school further out. They could still do this probably and make money.

We were always afraid they would do that with Marshall in the early 2000s. The school is essentially sitting on a gold mine.

The closest FCPS came to selling Marshall was in the mid-90s when the enrollment threatened to dip below 1000 students. Had they closed the school and sold the land, of course, they'd be scrambling for seats now.

[Anonymous]

Video of today's work session (almost 3 hours in length) is now posted.

http://youtu.be/JNS39yDmzCE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Video of today's work session (almost 3 hours in length) is now posted.

http://youtu.be/JNS39yDmzCE

What is condensed version?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Video of today's work session (almost 3 hours in length) is now posted.

http://youtu.be/JNS39yDmzCE

What is condensed version?

Only thing close to a done deal is Poplar Tree and Greenbriar West.

[Anonymous]

What was decided if anything about Thoreau?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was decided if anything about Thoreau?

Nothing yet.

The December 8 work session will be a follow-up to today's work session, a design charette, and a discussion about ed specs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Video of today's work session (almost 3 hours in length) is now posted.

http://youtu.be/JNS39yDmzCE

What is condensed version?

Only thing close to a done deal is Poplar Tree and Greenbriar West.

Can someone please explain what is decided about Poplar Tree and GBW?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Video of today's work session (almost 3 hours in length) is now posted.

http://youtu.be/JNS39yDmzCE

What is condensed version?

Only thing close to a done deal is Poplar Tree and Greenbriar West.

Can someone please explain what is decided about Poplar Tree and GBW?

Nothing is decided yet. The only thing close -- and it is NOT decided yet -- is a new AAP Center at Poplar Tree, which would relieve some of the overcrowding at Greenbriar West.

IF this happens (and no one knows yet as it is not decided), the new AAP Center at Poplar Tree would be in place for 2015-2016 school year (September 2015).

I am guessing there would be some sort of grandfathering for current 5th graders at Greenbriar West with Poplar Tree as their base school. But no one knows yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:31 here: I looked at this again and the documents suggest that the movement of kids who might be moved from Kilmer AAP to a new Thoreau AAP center would be "AAP students residing within the Thoreau MS attendance area" currently at Kilmer AAP (main summary document at p. 15).

I don't know how that could possibly involve 250 students (see Attachment C - Map 10 at p. 11). Most Thoreau kids go the the Jackson AAP center, not Kilmer. The only exception seems to be the Kilmer AAP kids at Freedom Hill and Stenwood who have Thoreau as their base school, and I don't think anywhere close to 250 kids fall in that category, since Kilmer is the base school for most Freedom Hill and Stenwood kids. That's what made me think this option must involve moving other Kilmer AAP kids to Thoreau. Guess the actual details would emerge later if that option got some real traction.

There are also AAP kids at Wolftrap Elementary who will go to Kilmer, as their AAP Center, then back to Madison. It'd be great if they made Thoreau the AAP Center for all Town of Vienna kids for space/capacity reasons, given the overcrowding at Kilmer with the AAP students.

How can we get the traction to align the Town of Vienna? Would contacting the town work? petition? The current zoning doesn't make sense and splits kids too much.