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Anonymous
Exactly how Langley/cooper families feel about Herndon high and middle. You are not movinh kids to comparable schools at all. Yet any Langley family that wants to fight for their kid is labeled entitled when it doesn’t seem the case for other parents in the county fighting for what’s best for their kids. Make it make sense |
Anonymous
I am judging you, because you put the evidence out there every day to assess. My assumption is that, if they do change the boundaries in western Fairfax, part of 22066 might get moved and the rest would stay put. Personally, I’d rather they put a hold on this boundary study now since enrollments are flat and there are other factors at play (demographic and political) that could lead to further enrollment declines over the coming years. But they seem intent on moving forward and, if they do, my only “agenda” with respect to Langley is that it be treated fairly - which means neither catered to nor discriminated against. But one thing you need to keep in mind is that their approach is not the approach of the last 15 years, where they looked at whether a school was overcrowded and, if so, whether there was a higher rated school to which kids could be moved. Now they are looking at other factors, such as whether a school is under capacity and whether they can reduce the amount of time kids spend on buses. The old paradigm - which might have excluded Langley from consideration for any boundary changes - no longer applies. |
Anonymous
I chose stone over rocky run for my kids and they turned out fine. |
Anonymous
That was a dumb decision. RR is the best MS in the county. Stone is run by incompetent admins and has a very difficult student population. There's a reason why the Stone enrollment is so so low compared to every surrounding school-people jump thru hoops to Avoid it. The building usage is only around 80%. |
Anonymous
The difference is you are so much closer to one school than another. No one is moving walkers to one school to become bus riders to a farther school. Its not logical. |
Anonymous
Wrt your third paragraph, I agree. But treating Langley the same as others also means not wanting to “screw” them because of their zip code. Certain people on here seem to think Forestville families are the enemy, like literally the enemy. The irony is that I have always been a huge proponent of public schools until now. Equity and the related boundary nonsense has pushed me into the other camp. There was a NY Times article a couple of days ago discussing the rightward momentum in northern Virginia this election. Most of the quotes discussed how that is alarming for the Dems, but the Fairfax county dem executive director stated that he believes that voters still support the dems. Time will tell whether he’s whistling past the graveyard or not. I personally think the party is going to hemorrhage support, with nothing to show for it except appeasing Sandy Anderson and her disciples in their quest to get at certain schools. |
Anonymous
That guy comes off as way too online in a memes as politics kind of way. Not sure he really has a good sense of what the county is like. |
Anonymous
I agree with the post from last night that you are a broken record on this. I’ve told you commute time is really not different among the schools because it’s not just distance it’s also crossing major roadways, lights, and congestion on roads. You conveniently ignore any other factor that might possibly go into transportation costs because all you have is a distance argument. Reductionist to it’s very core. |
Anonymous
Every neighborhood zoned to Langley is a shorter travel time to Langley then to Herndon HS? That seems to be your point? |
Anonymous
I wouldn't think they'd shuffle kids across Stringfellow, but who knows. More likely that the Cabell's Mill neighborhood kids would be moved to Colin Powell, then onto Liberty and Centreville. The issue is that Poplar Tree is under capacity as it is, so moving kids out of that school seems doubtful from the start. |
Anonymous
DP, but there are traffic lights heading east on Route 7 and some of other roads from GF to McLean with fewer traffic lights are narrow, congested roads. I don’t think you’re being ignored, just not credited when resources like Google Maps indicate Herndon is both closer and quicker. |
Anonymous
It’s literally 17 lights vs. 3 on GTP. Don’t credit me (whatever that means), but just know that the teams deciding this are going to look at commute times more than distance, and it’s not quite the slam dunk that some dcum posters think it is. |
Anonymous
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Google maps drive time takes into account stoplights.
Forestville ES for instance is a much shorter drive to HHS than Langley by any measure. |
Anonymous
Georgetown Pike is a slog. And I wonder what they possibly could have been thinking when that area was assigned to Herndon rather than Langley from 1965 to 1994. Look, we know you want to stay at Langley, but sometimes things change. |
Anonymous
I am assuming you have a lot of experience with stone since you seem to know so much about it. Obviously, you know way more about it than I do as someone who has had more than one child successfully complete their middle school education there. |