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Anonymous
I said most people would be indifferent or happy if Langley’s boundaries are changed. Indifferent = not caring. Unfortunately for Great Falls, it appears some of those in the latter camp are School Board members, and they may well steamroll the Langley crowd, whose local influence has waned. Calling them “psycho obsessives” when they see themselves just doing their jobs won’t help you much either. |
Anonymous
The Region 1 community meeting is going to be insane. No wonder they scheduled it for last. |
Anonymous
I imagine that the families at overcrowded McLean might also have an interest in the situation. I fall into neither camp, but I mind that this pretty infighting is taking over an otherwise useful thread. |
Anonymous
If I’m following 31 years ago some Langley neighborhoods in Vienna were moved from Great Falls ES to Forestville ES, which at the time was primarily a Herndon feeder (because most of that area didn’t move to Langley until the following year). And the Great Falls families shouted “Go Back to Vienna” at the Vienna families they wanted to kick out of GFES. Ironically, the SB may now be saying “Go Back to Herndon” to some of the Great Falls families, while those Vienna families (now at Colvin Run) may remain at Langley. Talk about karma! |
Anonymous
If I’m following, the people in my parents generation had something happen with their school boundaries decades ago when I was eight and lived many states away, and now you think it’s karma that they are redoing boundaries? Karma doesn’t mean what you think it means 🙄 |
Anonymous
At a minimum, they need to get rid of AAP in middle school. There's no difference between honors classes and AAP, those kids can just take Honors at their base school. |
Anonymous
McLean families primarily want their capacity down, which is facilitated by moving the attendance islands. I don’t get the sense that many are sticking their necks out to support the equity push by the school board, especially since that will burn them at some point. |
Anonymous
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Overpopulation + distance to schools. Possibly fixing some very odd boundaries that raise some eyebrows.
These things will probably be looked at. But, who knows. None of us. None of the people on here being *so* nasty to each other. I want to say something about the parenting of people willing to fire off vile comments on here and attack others, but I’m trying to keep this neutral. WHY ARE YOU ALL FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER?!? Take it to the hearings and school board, make your thoughts heard eloquently. |
Anonymous
That insanity is one reason I posted that article. Dranesville Elementary is getting about a 400 seat capacity enhancement [ was under capacity] and Herndon HS has the addition. Churchill Road has a modular adding 252 program capacity seats and Springhill projects at or over. SY2028-29 projections for 5 schools removing the modular and targeting 93% utilization [bubble years, growth, etc] has a major elementary school seat deficit. FCPS continually packing Forestville had the effect of removing access for some households north of Route 7 with access roads Seneca and east. I guess some was based on available capacity but conditions have changed. Clearest map with streets https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2024-25ElementarySchoolBoundaries.pdf |
Anonymous
Can someone explain Churchill’s capacity issues to me? Its design capacity is 710 without the modulars, yet its program capacity is only 477. What else is occupying that building that prevents them from accessing those seats? |
Anonymous
Karma can have a long tail but, yeah, it’s obviously going to impact a different group of people (although maybe someone who dug up a Post article from 1993 has been here forever, lol). |
Anonymous
| Trust me. The Langley HS boundaries will not change such that students in that pyramid will go to HHS. The parents there will use some sort of grift to make sure of that. There is no point discussing it. |
Anonymous
They were adjusting for capacity at Langley and overcrowding at Herndon. Some houses pretty close to Herndon were sent to Langley. In the ensuing years, new houses were built that perhaps should have reasonably been boundaried for Herndon. The scuttlebutt is that builders made deals so that they could charge more for houses zoned to the higher-performing school. Thirty years on, it makes sense to consider that some of the areas sent to Langley would be boundaried for Herndon again. Many people assumed that the dividing line would be what it was (Springvale I believe?) but Great Falls has increased in density, as has Herndon. Langley and Herndon were both expanded in their renovations. There are drastic capacity imbalances among several schools. Who knows what the final result will be. In my opinion everyone on the south side of rt 7 can look forward to a shorter bus ride for their children to high school. When that new development on the old mini golf site was zoned to Herndon, and then the school board refused to rezone it for Langley during the last boundary shift--even though neighborhoods on either side were zoned to Langley--that was a clear signal. |
Anonymous
I agree with PP. Bring back junior high if it makes sense in some spots. If a feeder middle school has space and it's high school is overcrowded (don't know if that exists but if it does) adding 9th graders back to the middle school would be a great use of space and minimize disruption. |
Anonymous
Can anyone point to specific areas of the county where this would be an efficient solution? In the areas I’m familiar with it absolutely would not work given the size of the middle schools. And there’s also the current situation at Glasgow where parents are adamant on shrinking a current 6-8 MS that actually has a large building. If you told them they were getting a 7-9 MS instead they’d think you’d lost your mind. |