When are Herndon Middle and Herndon High going to get a break?!??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new high school is 10-15 years away. We need a solution TODAY.

How will redistricting help a school that is not meeting state standards of learning? Herndon has a better staff to student ratio than Langley. Herndon deploys more services as well. ESL FARMS and other services to assist these students. If you think placing a struggling student whose second language is not English, in a school where kids don't have the same saturation of services we will have to agree to disagree. It is nobodies fault that Herndon has a large population of ESL students. Burying them elsewhere to mask the problem is not a solution. It will simply mask the problem with test scores so the SB can pat themselves on the back.

[Anonymous]

Never realized there were so many crazy Langley posters willing to unleash a word salad and then top it off with random references to “One Fairfax” and “social engineering.”

One Fairfax is an approved policy of the school board. Just because you are not aware of it does not change the fact that it is an actual policy.

[Anonymous]

The current situation is not working as pointed out in previous posts. Lower class sizes, more special teachers, etc. has not helped. There are simply too many students needing a lot of help. Redistricting will make all pyramids more desirable places to live. Specialists can then focus on fewer students, the undesirable pyramids will become better and parents won't have to fight to avoid them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The current situation is not working as pointed out in previous posts. Lower class sizes, more special teachers, etc. has not helped. There are simply too many students needing a lot of help. Redistricting will make all pyramids more desirable places to live. Specialists can then focus on fewer students, the undesirable pyramids will become better and parents won't have to fight to avoid them.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new high school is 10-15 years away. We need a solution TODAY.

How will redistricting help a school that is not meeting state standards of learning? Herndon has a better staff to student ratio than Langley. Herndon deploys more services as well. ESL FARMS and other services to assist these students. If you think placing a struggling student whose second language is not English, in a school where kids don't have the same saturation of services we will have to agree to disagree. It is nobodies fault that Herndon has a large population of ESL students. Burying them elsewhere to mask the problem is not a solution. It will simply mask the problem with test scores so the SB can pat themselves on the back.

No you’re right. Doing absolutely nothing and letting the situation at Herndon get worse is definitely the best thing to do here.

[Anonymous]

Langley parents would suggest converting the whole school to Spanish speaking low income school.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I think all of the surrounding area would like to keep the poverty in Herndon so they don't have to deal with it.

[Anonymous]

And before you say Herndon made it's bed, Great Falls has prevented any apartments and townhouses through it's zoning long ago. Since Herndon is farther away it is more affordable than Mc Lean.

[Anonymous]

Why all of the Langley bashing? People who live there did so for personal reasons. Why does that make folks angry? What are the problems that need to be fixed in Herndon exactly. How can residents of all districts band together to demand change there?

[Anonymous]

I just looked around at the profiles of other schools. Why all the upset over Herndon? There are plenty of schools in FCPS with similar profiles and demographics--some are much, much poorer.
And, many are way more overcrowded than Herndon.

[Anonymous]

What other schools with 40% low-income share a boundary with a 1.5% low-income school?

Better to have two 20% FARMS schools, but the Langley parents are having an aneurysm about even raising the idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What other schools with 40% low-income share a boundary with a 1.5% low-income school?

Better to have two 20% FARMS schools, but the Langley parents are having an aneurysm about even raising the idea.

It doesn't work that way. You'd be busing kids all over FCPS and still not achieve that. Busing does not work.

My high school's demographics are nothing like Langley. It is much closer to Herndon poverty wise. I don't live in a neighborhood with houses that cost like Langley.

PP, it is just a factor of location. Langley is on the edge of FCPS--it can only draw pretty much from one direction. It is close to the Potomac and is bordered by Arlington.

The purpose of a school is to educate the students. Proximity is the driving factor. Get over it. There is no other school in FCPS that has that type of income--except, maybe TJ.

It is unrealistic to think that FCPS can make every school have the same demographics.

[Anonymous]

This is what I propose: move the McLean overflow to Langley to accommodate McLean’s over enrollment and Langley’s under enrollment) and move Forrestville to Herndon (where at six miles away versus 16miles to Langley, it should be anyway!!) the then move the kids from Coates ES (high FARM AND the school closest to Carson) to Carson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What other schools with 40% low-income share a boundary with a 1.5% low-income school?

Better to have two 20% FARMS schools, but the Langley parents are having an aneurysm about even raising the idea.

And in the other side of Herndon is Carson!! Smack in the middle of two of the highest achieving schools is one of the lowest. Doesn’t take much insight to realize something is majorly wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what I propose: move the McLean overflow to Langley to accommodate McLean’s over enrollment and Langley’s under enrollment) and move Forrestville to Herndon (where at six miles away versus 16miles to Langley, it should be anyway!!) the then move the kids from Coates ES (high FARM AND the school closest to Carson) to Carson.

I like it! Let’s do it!