FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Omg who cares. All these people on here being so nasty to each other...for what? Amazing what being behind screens will do.
I mean, we all care, that's why we are on here...but go voice it to the school board.

I’d be nasty to anyone to their face who is advocating to move my kids for some equity agenda.

I’m generally a nice person, but f around with my kids and find out.

Classic keyboard warrior talk. But maybe you'll lose your sh*t at some upcoming SB meeting and get arrested. Would be hilarious.

DP. The only person behaving like someone who would get arrested at a SB meeting is you.

Really? Who were the folks who showed up at a School Board meeting last year and booed a student - a student - when she expressed support for a boundary study? Langley parents.

Who were the folks who repeatedly interrupted a School Board work session in 2019 to discuss potential revisions to the boundary policy? Langley parents.

Who were the folks who screamed and shouted at Janie Strauss at a meeting at Forestville ES years ago because they feared and hated their Herndon neighbors so much? Langley parents.

There's a track record here.

Don’t forget the most recent boundary policy 8130 meeting where Langley parents showed up en mass, attempted to disrupt the proceeding and prevent discussion, and [some] had to be escorted out by police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

Well said.

What the Langley parents either don’t understand or understand but don’t like is that the SB is going to look at other factors besides overcrowding.

If they can send students to two schools, neither of which is overcrowded but one of which is closer, they very well may move kids to the closer school

Or maybe they won’t. I don’t get the sense that anyone really wants more Langley families at their school - they are obviously extremely high-maintenance. But the old paradigm of only redistricting if a school is overcrowded and kids can be moved to a higher rated school no longer applies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

If you care about transportation costs, then hands down you should be pushing back against the boundary review. Each change will likely include grandfathering that relies on double bus runs for at least a couple of years.

As has been discussed in this thread, even tonight, is that the distance to a location doesn’t necessary dictate drive time (eg, 17 traffic lights vs 3).

Something tells me that you secretly do want to stick it to your great falls neighbors, but that you want to come off as noble - your “make it make sense” comment betrays your statements earlier in your post.

Multiple school board members have said multiple times that any grandfathering will be kept to a minimum (if offered at all) in order to achieve the goal of reducing transportation costs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

If you care about transportation costs, then hands down you should be pushing back against the boundary review. Each change will likely include grandfathering that relies on double bus runs for at least a couple of years.

As has been discussed in this thread, even tonight, is that the distance to a location doesn’t necessary dictate drive time (eg, 17 traffic lights vs 3).

Something tells me that you secretly do want to stick it to your great falls neighbors, but that you want to come off as noble - your “make it make sense” comment betrays your statements earlier in your post.

Multiple school board members have said multiple times that any grandfathering will be kept to a minimum (if offered at all) in order to achieve the goal of reducing transportation costs.

Another board member, I forget which, indicated that grandfathered students would be responsible for finding their own transportation to school, i.e. no bus transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

If you care about transportation costs, then hands down you should be pushing back against the boundary review. Each change will likely include grandfathering that relies on double bus runs for at least a couple of years.

As has been discussed in this thread, even tonight, is that the distance to a location doesn’t necessary dictate drive time (eg, 17 traffic lights vs 3).

Something tells me that you secretly do want to stick it to your great falls neighbors, but that you want to come off as noble - your “make it make sense” comment betrays your statements earlier in your post.

Multiple school board members have said multiple times that any grandfathering will be kept to a minimum (if offered at all) in order to achieve the goal of reducing transportation costs.

It sounds like they'll achieve the goal of republicans retaining Richmond if that's the plan. The last election should show them that margins can be compressed in northern virginia, but I doubt they learn the lesson. Hopefully we have vouchers or transfer by right imposed by the state

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

Well said.

What the Langley parents either don’t understand or understand but don’t like is that the SB is going to look at other factors besides overcrowding.

If they can send students to two schools, neither of which is overcrowded but one of which is closer, they very well may move kids to the closer school

Or maybe they won’t. I don’t get the sense that anyone really wants more Langley families at their school - they are obviously extremely high-maintenance. But the old paradigm of only redistricting if a school is overcrowded and kids can be moved to a higher rated school no longer applies.

Langley families understand that the school board is not motivated by efficiency or travel times (you all aren’t either). We understand many dcum posters don’t like us because of the zip code, even without knowing anyone from said zip code.

It’ll be funny to see people who are in favor of soaking great falls negatively impacted by the school board’s moves. For each political action is an equal and opposite reaction. The law of unintended consequences.

[Anonymous]

Distance should absolutely be one factor in determining schools, unless we are totally doing away with the structure as it is and going to vouchers or school choice or something like that. Why are there Great Falls and Herndon addresses going to Langley anyways? I’ve heard some Herndon families talk about how it can take upwards of half hour (conservatively) to get home after after-school activities. It straight up looks like gerrymandering/segregation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

Well said.

What the Langley parents either don’t understand or understand but don’t like is that the SB is going to look at other factors besides overcrowding.

If they can send students to two schools, neither of which is overcrowded but one of which is closer, they very well may move kids to the closer school

Or maybe they won’t. I don’t get the sense that anyone really wants more Langley families at their school - they are obviously extremely high-maintenance. But the old paradigm of only redistricting if a school is overcrowded and kids can be moved to a higher rated school no longer applies.

Langley families understand that the school board is not motivated by efficiency or travel times (you all aren’t either). We understand many dcum posters don’t like us because of the zip code, even without knowing anyone from said zip code.

It’ll be funny to see people who are in favor of soaking great falls negatively impacted by the school board’s moves. For each political action is an equal and opposite reaction. The law of unintended consequences.

No one cares about your zip code but the mix of entitlement and self-pity is off-putting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Herndon parent, and have not posted on this thread for some weeks, so do not come at me for these recent posts.

Personally, I really don’t care about the equity stuff. My kid is doing just fine at Herndon. She has lots of friends, great teachers, excellent coaches, blah, blah, blah. We don’t need any Langley kids to come and “save” our, what some call, undesired school. We do just fine, thank you very much!

What I do care about are my taxes paying for inefficient bus routes. I would also be annoyed if I had to share my commute to work with a bunch of teenage drivers clogging up the roads driving all the way to Langley, from the Fairfax-Loudoun border. Make it make sense.

Well said.

What the Langley parents either don’t understand or understand but don’t like is that the SB is going to look at other factors besides overcrowding.

If they can send students to two schools, neither of which is overcrowded but one of which is closer, they very well may move kids to the closer school

Or maybe they won’t. I don’t get the sense that anyone really wants more Langley families at their school - they are obviously extremely high-maintenance. But the old paradigm of only redistricting if a school is overcrowded and kids can be moved to a higher rated school no longer applies.

Langley families understand that the school board is not motivated by efficiency or travel times (you all aren’t either). We understand many dcum posters don’t like us because of the zip code, even without knowing anyone from said zip code.

It’ll be funny to see people who are in favor of soaking great falls negatively impacted by the school board’s moves. For each political action is an equal and opposite reaction. The law of unintended consequences.

No one cares about your zip code but the mix of entitlement and self-pity is off-putting.

Riiight, no one cares about our zip code. We all believe you 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distance should absolutely be one factor in determining schools, unless we are totally doing away with the structure as it is and going to vouchers or school choice or something like that. Why are there Great Falls and Herndon addresses going to Langley anyways? I’ve heard some Herndon families talk about how it can take upwards of half hour (conservatively) to get home after after-school activities. It straight up looks like gerrymandering/segregation.

If it looks that way that's because it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distance should absolutely be one factor in determining schools, unless we are totally doing away with the structure as it is and going to vouchers or school choice or something like that. Why are there Great Falls and Herndon addresses going to Langley anyways? I’ve heard some Herndon families talk about how it can take upwards of half hour (conservatively) to get home after after-school activities. It straight up looks like gerrymandering/segregation.

We are not at either school but part of the issue is just that the schools tend to be clustered further east than the houses exist across all the county outside the beltway

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Distance should absolutely be one factor in determining schools, unless we are totally doing away with the structure as it is and going to vouchers or school choice or something like that. Why are there Great Falls and Herndon addresses going to Langley anyways? I’ve heard some Herndon families talk about how it can take upwards of half hour (conservatively) to get home after after-school activities. It straight up looks like gerrymandering/segregation.

We are not at either school but part of the issue is just that the schools tend to be clustered further east than the houses exist across all the county outside the beltway

That's undoubtedly an issue, but if there's capacity now at Herndon it's hard to see why we'd pay to keep bussing kids all the way across the county to Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distance should absolutely be one factor in determining schools, unless we are totally doing away with the structure as it is and going to vouchers or school choice or something like that. Why are there Great Falls and Herndon addresses going to Langley anyways? I’ve heard some Herndon families talk about how it can take upwards of half hour (conservatively) to get home after after-school activities. It straight up looks like gerrymandering/segregation.

Because many Great Falls addresses are closer to Langley than to Herndon?

[Anonymous]

Is there anywhere to find out why a specific boundary is being reviewed? I learned that the Mantua ES boundary is under review and I'd like to know why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Distance should absolutely be one factor in determining schools, unless we are totally doing away with the structure as it is and going to vouchers or school choice or something like that. Why are there Great Falls and Herndon addresses going to Langley anyways? I’ve heard some Herndon families talk about how it can take upwards of half hour (conservatively) to get home after after-school activities. It straight up looks like gerrymandering/segregation.

Because many Great Falls addresses are closer to Langley than to Herndon?

DP. Almost anything west of Walker Road (so much of Great Falls) will be closer to Herndon than to Langley.