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What Does FCPS Do with Excess Capacity at Herndon HS
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Anonymous
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From Kyle McDaniel, one of the new at-large members:
"On February 13th, the School Board will hold a work session to discuss a path forward that addresses significant gaps in existing policies, and creates a roadmap for a division wide boundary adjustment. In my comments last night, I stated that I will not support any more one-off boundary changes until we overhaul these flawed policies, and implement a County-wide boundary study to fix the overcrowding that has plagued our schools for decades." Anyone familiar with FCPS suspects he and his colleagues will over-promise and under-deliver, but it would be worth the price of admission alone just to watch the Langley heads explode. |
Anonymous
This should be the sticky for the entire FCPS forum. |
Anonymous
If you go back and look at the initial post, you’ll see that the Langley discussion is directly on point. If you want to talk about non-Herndon ramifications, that’s fine, but it is you, my dear, that is in the wrong thread. |
Anonymous
+1 Ha. So true. |
Anonymous
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Chantilly kids will be shifted when Centreville is finished. Probably from Poplar Tree. Centreville will also pull from Bull Run ES.
I know people at Chantilly don’t want to hear that, but no way they expand Centreville and not fill it with kids only a few miles away. |
Anonymous
Of course the Langley discussion was on point. It's the tenor of the discourse from the Langley parents, and the extent to which you insist that everything be looked at exclusively with a view towards protecting your own interests, that PP was noting. |
Anonymous
On the other hand, if they expand Herndon, the kids only a few miles away must continue to attend a different school over 10 miles away or civilization as we know it will come to an end. |
Anonymous
What's wrong with people protecting their own interests? The government certainly isn't going to do it. The first post in this thread was someone (probably the same someone who always chimes in on these threads) hoping that Forestville gets moved to Herndon. Is the OP looking out for their best interests? Perhaps. Perhaps they're just a woke culture warrior who wants to stick it to successful people. |
Anonymous
Please actually read posts before being mean and snarky. Now, read what I said and tell me where you got the idea that I’m “advocating” for “disruptive change”? First— at a minimum I have my housing value on the line here. A lot of equity disappears if we get rezoned from Chantilly HS to HHS. Yes, your kids are more important than money. Then again, if our house was $150k less expensive because it was zoned for HHS, I could have used that money are sent my kids to private. Second— reading is fundamental. Please read the bolded above I am NOT “advocating for” boundary change. I am acknowledging the reality that having one HS at 125% capacity— and rising— is not sustainable. Especially with under enrolled schools nearby. “Something needs to be done” is very different from “I want this to happen”. And it’s definitely different than “advocating” for change. Some realities are are unpleasant. This one of them. TBH, ideally someone else gets zoned out of Chantilly. But I am aware of the fact that if there is a boundary adjustment, it could include our neighborhood. And I would be very unhappy about that. But, that doesn’t change reality. The Western County needs a boundary adjustment. Third— a large of my response is about the Franklin vs Carson AAP Centers. Do you think a MS that brings in kids from something like 10 ESs and sends them out to 4 HSs, plus when my kids were there 80-100 kids to TJ is a good idea? At the time my kids were in MS, one kid didn’t have a choice. Franklin didn’t have Level IV AAP. The other kid followed their sibling because Carson had worked for us and that’s where their friends went— and because the Franklin Local AAP was in its first year. No one knew how it would go at Franklin in year 1. And I had concerns about the fact that in the beginning there were only enough kid for 1 AAP classroom. That’s a very small cohort— especially in MS. You don’t mesh with some of the kids in your class and you are I for a tough two years. As the local Franklin AAP Center stands today, 10 years later, I would absolutely send my kids there over Carson— if for no other reason than because the drop off choices were spending 45 minutes on a bus to go two miles or sitting in a Kiss and Ride line for— I kid you not— up to 30 minutes. The traffic leading into Carson was a nightmare. It was also hard, if not impossible, join any academic team, because there were so many kids gunning for TJ and trying to build a resume. And I don’t think grandfathering current Carson students and removing Carson as an option for Franklin base school kids would be disruptive. A huge part of the reason parents dug in about keeping Carson an option was that it gave a big bump in TJ admissions. That’s no longer the case. Franklins a great school with a great reputation and I now know a number of kids who have gone through the AAP program and done well. Plus, Carson is very high pressure. Franklin seems to be better at keeping the academics strong in a less pressured environment. If I had a MS student this year, they would be at Franklin’s AAP Center, not Carson. So yes, I would be okay with that change for my kids. Now Chantilly to HHS? Not so much. But here in the real world, some Chantilly kids have to be rezoned somewhere else. And BTW, I would t want that “somewhere else” to be Langley either. Life’s too short to make your kid attend a school when UMC kids are consider the poors and the parents are such arrogant snots. |
Anonymous
A common sense a substantive answer. So, immediately I know you are not a Langley parent. And I agree #1 is the key. But, I also think that #1 is never going to happen. It’s easy to say “we need priorities”. Putting those priorities in writing knowing that it will make at least some parents angry and that some parent group will sue is a different matter entirely. |
Anonymous
Vapid drivel, so we know you are an equity pusher. |
Anonymous
The first post in the thread allows for the possibility that the best use of the additional capacity at Herndon is to use it for the anticipated growth near the new Silver Line stations that would otherwise feed into Westfield. Note that if part of Westfield moved to Herndon, Westfield might have more capacity to handle overcrowding at Chantilly, if for whatever reason it made more sense to move Chantilly kids to Westfield than to Centreville, which will also be expanded. But you're so paranoid and intent on squelching any discussion about a potential Langley boundary change that you assumed the worst and went from there, guns blazing and voices raised, as always. |
Anonymous
+1. She’s a real neighbor hater, that one. |
Anonymous
Because addressing underenrollment at Herndon only involves Langley? Give me a break. You rezone some Langley kids to Herndon and most Langley parent would just turn around and send their kids to a private school instead of HHS. If you actually want to being HHS up to capacity, the solution is going to be more complicated than just rezoning 1-2 neighborhoods. Langley, Langley, Langley. |
Anonymous
Insulting people and posting snarky responses is not a discussion. |