McLean HS boundary changes?
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Anonymous
chip on the shoulder poster here. I meant to quote this. I don't care if your snowflake is grandfathered. It's just that folks in the mcLean pyramid are always trying to get rid of the Timberlane pyramid. Scared of a little diversity, I guess. |
Anonymous
How can we be alerted of this change. I have a rental property that I would probably dump if this changed. |
Anonymous
I have lived here for almost 20 years and I have never seen an attempt to "get rid" of the Timberlane students in the McLean pyramid. You can't count troll posts on DCUM as evidence. The changes I have ever seen spoken are for the south of Rte 7 Island to be moved and that is because FCPS is trying get rid of islands. |
Anonymous
You have to be proactive and pay attention to the news and school board. There is no passive alert system. |
Anonymous
Rest assured: I only care about my kids. FWIW, I don't know of anyone else or any effort to keep your kids out. In fact, people love "a little diversity" as chip-on-holder-poster calls it. Makes us all feel better. |
Anonymous
A major driver here is that Cooper and Langley have seen declining enrollments around the same time that FCPS planned to renovate the schools to expand their capacities. So FCPS has a huge incentive to project big increases in the Longfellow/McLean enrollments, and move kids from those schools into Cooper/Langley to fill up seats. The areas in Vienna near Route 7 are close to other areas already assigned to Langley; Timber Lane is not. It really doesn't have that much to do with getting rid of "islands." FCPS claims not to like them, but it regularly creates new ones and tolerates many others. I am glad FCPS is monitoring the enrollments at Longfellow and McLean and has options to address potential overcrowding down the road. On the other hand, some of their recent projections (like McLean having over 2500 students in a few years) seem absurd, and I don't want to see students yanked out of our schools just so Facilities can justify the decisions to expand the capacities of two schools with flat or declining enrollments, rather than add seats where they are actually needed. I also don't see how they can make any decisions until they figure out what they're doing with AAP, since overcrowding at Longfellow and Kilmer is largely due to all the AAP kids from the Langley pyramid attending those schools rather than Cooper. But, again, identifying options earlier gets people talking about it, so maybe that's good. |
Anonymous
| 10:24 I agree and if they have to increase Langley's footprint even more because of growth in Tyson's, I think they will take the part of Franklin Sherman that is closer to Langley than McLean. If anything they will move more students from McLean to Langley and expand McLean's footprint on the TimberLane and Marshall side of Rt 7 to take pressure off of Kilmer/Marshall. |
Anonymous
I think you've mentioned that possibility a few times here, and there was part of the FS district east of Old Dominion and south of 123 that was zoned for Langley decades ago. But it moved back to McLean in the mid-80s and I haven't seen any suggestion FCPS is thinking of moving that area to Langley, even though it's closer to Langley than other areas further west that have been mentioned for potential redistricting. Another area that FCPS had suggested in some prior CIPs might be moved is the "Westbriar island" in Vienna, which might get moved from Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall to Colvin Run/Cooper/Langley. Obviously the big unknown is the timing of new construction in Tysons and how many school-age children end up living there. It's all in either the Marshall and McLean HS districts, but mostly Marshall. If Kilmer/Marshall get too crowded, the first priority likely will be dealing with the AAP population at Kilmer. After that, FCPS might add capacity at Marshall, just as it has suggested it might build an addition at McLean. If they still need to move kids to other schools, they might move some more kids south of Route 7 to McLean, or they might move some kids in Vienna to Madison. |