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

[Anonymous]

Curious, if anyone knows..how does FCPS make decisions on boundary reassignments? What are the factors that they use?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No one died and made you the boundary queen, hun.

There is absolutely nothing that requires Langley’s boundaries to extend all the way to the Loudoun border when the school is about two miles from Arlington. Only the unrestrained exercise of economic privilege led to that result.

You are far more invested in weighing in against any proposal that might balance demographics than you are in doing right by FCPS students.

[Anonymous]

Does McNair go to Herndon too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does McNair go to Herndon too?

No. But it should. As should Floris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You do realize Langley is currently busing in kids from16+ miles away right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You do realize Langley is currently busing in kids from16+ miles away right?

PP thinks busing only means putting kids on buses when demographic balance is a consideration. Putting rich kids on buses for 16 miles to attend a wealthy school is just the natural state of affairs. It’s “proximity” to the nearest school with no poor kids.

It’s time to eradicate that kind of clueless entitlement.

[Anonymous]

You do realize Langley is currently busing in kids from16+ miles away right?
PP thinks busing only means putting kids on buses when demographic balance is a consideration. Putting rich kids on buses for 16 miles to attend a wealthy school is just the natural state of affairs. It’s “proximity” to the nearest school with no poor kids.

It’s time to eradicate that kind of clueless entitlement.


Clueless entitlement? It sounds like jealously. Nobody is entitled to live in McLean or Great Falls. People who want to purchase a home their save to do so. They bought an investment product. It's not their fault that FCPS doesn't do more to help failing students. Are the Herndon kids going to become A students because they attend HS with Great Falls kids? No.

This sounds like some petty and economically jealous people looking for ways to make themselves feel better. You would be better served looking at the real causes of school failure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You do realize Langley is currently busing in kids from16+ miles away right?

PP thinks busing only means putting kids on buses when demographic balance is a consideration. Putting rich kids on buses for 16 miles to attend a wealthy school is just the natural state of affairs. It’s “proximity” to the nearest school with no poor kids.

It’s time to eradicate that kind of clueless entitlement.


Clueless entitlement? It sounds like jealously. Nobody is entitled to live in McLean or Great Falls. People who want to purchase a home their save to do so. They bought an investment product. It's not their fault that FCPS doesn't do more to help failing students. Are the Herndon kids going to become A students because they attend HS with Great Falls kids? No.

This sounds like some petty and economically jealous people looking for ways to make themselves feel better. You would be better served looking at the real causes of school failure.

Nope. FCPS doesn't care about improving the grades of Herndon kids. They only care about improving the stats at Herndon. That's what this is all about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You do realize Langley is currently busing in kids from16+ miles away right?

PP thinks busing only means putting kids on buses when demographic balance is a consideration. Putting rich kids on buses for 16 miles to attend a wealthy school is just the natural state of affairs. It’s “proximity” to the nearest school with no poor kids.

It’s time to eradicate that kind of clueless entitlement.


Clueless entitlement? It sounds like jealously. Nobody is entitled to live in McLean or Great Falls. People who want to purchase a home their save to do so. They bought an investment product. It's not their fault that FCPS doesn't do more to help failing students. Are the Herndon kids going to become A students because they attend HS with Great Falls kids? No.

This sounds like some petty and economically jealous people looking for ways to make themselves feel better. You would be better served looking at the real causes of school failure.

What is this babbling about jealousy? Really, that’s the best you can do?

Answer why we are putting kids on buses 16 miles to Langley.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like some petty and economically jealous people looking for ways to make themselves feel better. You would be better served looking at the real causes of school failure.

Nope. FCPS doesn't care about improving the grades of Herndon kids. They only care about improving the stats at Herndon. That's what this is all about.

Exactly, this is just a numbers game for the school board. They don't care about those kids. They just want their one world view to make themselves feel like they made a difference. They want to use kids to raise up the states to bring Herndon's numbers up and if they can use Langley kids to do it all the better.

[Anonymous]

Having kids ride a bus to school that has contiguous boundaries is transportation.

Busing is shifting kids around to even out demographics. PP wants to put poor kids on a bus and send them past other high schools in order to even out demographics.


Busing does not work.
I know that from experience.

[Anonymous]

There is absolutely nothing that requires Langley’s boundaries to extend all the way to the Loudoun border when the school is about two miles from Arlington. Only the unrestrained exercise of economic privilege led to that result.

????So, you think the kids should come from Arlington? Mount Vernon? Where do you think Langley kids should come from?

I am guessing the Langley was built to relieve overcrowding in McLean--but, I don't know. That's usually the way it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having kids ride a bus to school that has contiguous boundaries is transportation.

Busing is shifting kids around to even out demographics. PP wants to put poor kids on a bus and send them past other high schools in order to even out demographics.


Busing does not work.
I know that from experience.

The Langley boundaries are gerrymandered and students west of Springvale are closer to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, Oakton, Chantilly, Madison, McLean and Marshall than they are to Langley.

That is busing - to perpetuate economic segregation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having kids ride a bus to school that has contiguous boundaries is transportation.

Busing is shifting kids around to even out demographics. PP wants to put poor kids on a bus and send them past other high schools in order to even out demographics.


Busing does not work.
I know that from experience.

The Langley boundaries are gerrymandered and students west of Springvale are closer to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, Oakton, Chantilly, Madison, McLean and Marshall than they are to Langley.

That is busing - to perpetuate economic segregation.

+1,000,000,000. Exactly. So sick of Langley parents feigning concern about busing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious, if anyone knows..how does FCPS make decisions on boundary reassignments? What are the factors that they use?

One Fairfax. Socioeconomic fairness