Mclean boundary changes - can someone please update?
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Anonymous
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They've always made a special exception for Langley, so that "equity is at the margin of everything we do" rather than the "center."
Even when the boundaries cross Route 7 in Herndon, Reston, and Vienna, the only areas that ever get added are single-family homes. Sounds like you can expect more of the same. |
Anonymous
Too late, there are already apartments at McLean. |
Anonymous
Builders are known for bribing officials, and officials are happy to take the money to gerrymander. And the builder gets to say that their new subdivision is in (Langley.Mclean, whatever). Gross and obvious. |
Anonymous
I know there were builders over the past decade or so who lobbied to try and get FCPS staff to make administrative boundary changes to reassign new developments from Marshall to Langley and then Herndon to Langley and failed in both instances. The carve-outs on the other side of Route 7 zoned to Langley in Herndon, Reston, and Vienna go back many years. |
Anonymous
Alot of it goes back to the Aldrin opening and before that what to do with Shouse. Most of it makes zero sense. Colvin Run opening and boundary meetings were dismal. Before that opened Spring Hill had a residency clean out audit- 70 to 100 students were removed. Some from out of state some from all over the county etc. There were posts on DCUM where people used other addresses for their kids to enroll at Mclean. If it happened once it still happens. FCPS is too PC. Here's another and current FCPS just too weird. https://www.tollbrothers.com/luxury-homes-for-sale/Virginia/Arden That is across Route 7 from the access roads leading to Colvin Run and is assigned to Spring Hill, Cooper, Langley. Sales center is 1367 Tate Modern Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066 If not across 7 and down Towlston a walker would be .5 miles from this under capacity school. Instead Brabrand and this school board will NOT do an administrative boundary change. Colvin Run is undercapacity. This is total incompetency. It is just as stupid as busing Whitman walkers who can see the site from their houses to Sandburg. |
Anonymous
I am a Langley parent (in aSFH) and I don't understand why I am allegedly against apartments. If I had my way, I would move all the kids on this side of 123 that currently go to McLean to Langley. |
Anonymous
Another Langley family here. I also welcome apartments. I don’t know why people think Langley families try to keep apartments out of Langley. The surrounding areas just seem to be zoned for single family. I would be glad to see the apartments from Tysons go to Langley. Let’s be honest. Those apartments are not cheap. |
Anonymous
| It is mostly SFH because geographically that is what makes the most sense to move to Langley. The apartments are closer to McLean. If you go with option C then you end up with a very weird island of kids going to McLean. The school board needs to do what makes the most sense from how the boundaries currently are and if that means more SFH to Langley than that is what they should do. Plus it is not like McLean is super diverse either.... |
Anonymous
| If you are supportive of adding some apartments to Langley you can comment at McLeanBoundary@fcps.edu and let them know you support or do not object to Option #3. As PP noted, many of those apartments are not cheap but there are units less expensive than anything in the current Langley district. McLean would still retain other less expensive apartments in other areas of Tysons and Falls Church. |
Anonymous
The “weird island” would still be closer to McLean than to Langley. It comes down to whether the School Board meant what it said when it said greater economic diversity was a relevant consideration. They can go ahead and move the SFH areas to Langley instead, but good luck the next time they attempt to justify a boundary change based on demographic considerations. |
Anonymous
| The modular brings McLean’s capacity up to 2343. Maybe they’d be better off leaving the boundaries alone for now rather than moving kids into Cooper just as Cooper’s renovation is beginning. |
Anonymous
McLean HS is 53% white (and that includes kids of middle eastern and North African heritage who are considered “white” for statistical purposes.) I would call that pretty diverse. http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:13:::NO:  0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:030,0
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Anonymous
It’s 9% FARMs |
Anonymous
11% last year, probably higher this year. |
Anonymous
| When do they plan on making a decision? My child is on 6th so it would be nice to know! |