
There absolutely should be a holistic boundary change. You have over capacity schools and under capacity schools. These one time decisions just lead to a different school being over crowded. Our school has an apartment complex that is cut in 1/2, so 1/2 the kids go to one ES and the others go to another. Kid moves apartments and needs to switch schools. The complex is closer to the other school and not even in the same zip code. This was from a overcrowding one time fix. They need to do the following: *Balance school populations *Try to make sure every pyramid has some apts. *Get rid of split feeders. It should be these 6 ES go to this middle school and this high school. |
Yeah dum dum. Get with the program. We are going to upend your kids’ lives in the name of equity making a lot of unnecessary changes because we are an echo chamber and pretend that these changes are necessary to save transportation costs (with double bus runs). We will limit grandfathering to save minimal money over mental health. We hired a no bid contract “professional” with no relevant experience to be able to push this through in the fall of 2026 so that we can try to avoid a political price for this. Speaking of politics, we didn’t disclose our plans when we ran for the school board last year. You need to fall in line dum dum. You should not advocate for your kids. -sincerely Sandy Anderson and the rest of us |
This is just shilling for the School Board. Nothing specific here at all - just an unsupported claim that there are problems that only a third-party consultant can remedy. |
It’s not worth changing the boundaries as long as the overcrowding or under-enrollment is not acute. That’s long been the position of FCPS, and one with which parents agreed. The only reason why they are harping on this now is that they see it as a means to alter school demographics (not enrollment numbers per se). If there is a specific issue with a split apartment complex somewhere (you weren’t specific) it is perfectly within FCPS’s ability to address without a third-party consultant. Whatever comes out of this will not accomplish what you seem to think will happen. They can give every pyramid (though not every school) some apartments but they can’t eliminate split feeders as long as TJ is a magnet. For example, not that long ago they deliberately turned Thoreau into a three-way split feeder. Do you really they are going to unwind that now? |
I’m pretty sure I know which schools you’re talking about, and the apartment complex was originally zoned to the further school (Freedom Hill,) but they split it and sent part of it to the closer school (Lemon Road) to alleviate capacity and prevent the closer school from closing due to under enrollment. Now the closer school is at capacity while the further school is under enrolled. The only way the closer school can pick up the rest of the students is if they remove the AAP center. The closer school is also a split feeder (Marshall/McLean), and while I think it will remain a split feeder, they might align it with a single high school (McLean) in which case those apartments would definitely be sent back to the further school, as they are steps away from Marshall High School. |
Did you look at the map? What about the southern part of Fairfax County. I think those people complain too, they're just not rich and bored and on DCUM all day. |
So people want every school to have apartments, but when a large multi-building apartment complex is assigned to two elementary schools (but the same MS and HS) it’s a big problem to be fixed? If they plow ahead with Dunn Loring, despite any need for that school, all those boundaries are going to have to change anyway - after the consultant has done its work. |
Yes, it is FH and LR and the only reason they did not get the whole complex was because parents flipped out and were scared their school would turn into a title 1 school. So the compromise was to take 1/2 the apartments and all of the wealthy families in the townhomes by Marshall. This was before it became an AAP center. They absolutely should have sent kids to LR because it is closer. They can walk if needed to LR. Now these kids get have to deal with Tysons traffic and late busses. If they move, which happens frequently within the complex, they need to switch schools. I do think AAP centers will be a thing of the past in a few years. There is absolutely no reason for them anymore as AAP is basically just adv math now since Benchmark is being taught in ALL schools. |
These are facilities and transportation issues and fcps has staff in those departments. No need to hire consultants! Just ask your professional staff to develop a sensible, no -political plan and follow that/ |
Freedom Hill has other apartment complexes too. To separate one is ridiculous. They are also building one in an office building next to the school. I agree with Dunn Loring all of the boundaries will shift. It aggravates me though since it is not needed. They can make slight shifts in Marshall pyramid to make it work. |
Loudoun builds new schools frequently and seems to rezone without fanfare and hoopla. FCPS should just do whatever they are doing. |
What the PP are really taking about are zoning issues where developers bargain to build new homes or apartments and then make a deal with the school board to send kids to a different school so they get building permission.
They can only really fix school issues when the zoning planning and school board all work together but that doesn’t happen and still won’t. Either way if you are renting from an apartment complex you are not going to stay there k-12 and are accepting that your kid will not be in the same pyramid their entire school career. The entire point of buying a house when you have kids is to give them stability. A parent living in a rental has already had to give that up. The board wants to put everyone in that situation. I wouldn’t buy here again. |
I’m guessing loudoun schools don’t have the same disparities that FCPS schools do. Also, this is not a boundary review based on a new school. Your logic is not logicing. |
+100 |
+1. Would not buy into this uncertainty again either. |