Mclean boundary changes - can someone please update?
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Anonymous
Board docs https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/vpublic?open= Number 9- newish Herndon area development and Langley. That could be Stanley Martin Homes at Summerset Landing which might be the old Woody's miniature golf, driving range, 9 hole course. Schools-Armstrong/Herndon/Herndon instead of Forestville/Cooper/Langley. Street in there is Marmion and to get to Herndon HS you drive past stuff that goes to Langley like Safa Ct. Click the + sign a few times and get the scope of the weird Herndon-Langley boundary by the Loudoun County line.https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY%202020-21%20High%20School%20Boundaries.pdf |
Anonymous
| Can someone summarize what most of the people who spoke want? |
Anonymous
The titanic woman had an "OpenFCPS" sign behind her so it was probably more a commentary on DL sneaking in. |
Anonymous
Speaker was probably wasting her time. Herndon isn’t within the scope of the boundary study. Same for speaker who wanted to move the Longfellow/McLean part of Timber Lane to Jackson/Falls Church. Not that it makes any less sense than the other options, but those schools aren’t included within the scope of the study either. |
Anonymous
| Sounded like a lot of people didn’t love the split feeders. Some wanted CRES to move to cooper. |
Anonymous
Yes, and the 2 kids who spoke quite well don't like it. It's hard to make friends and then start over in middle school. One well-spoken youngster seemed to almost tear up saying her friends started drifting in 5th knowing they would not be together in 7th. |
Anonymous
| A student also said not to grandfather middle school students in. If you came to Longfellow in 7th you haven't been able to make real friends virtually, so just send them to Cooper next year and off to Langley. |
Anonymous
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Is this still going on?
I tried live streaming but it the FCPS live channel is definitely not about the mclean boundary. |
Anonymous
| Does anyone think anything will change? |
Anonymous
Seems like the should be able to cope with allowing the 6th graders the option the option... though if it was me in retrospect I'd agree with that student, not just because of the virtual year, but more broadly for me personally having continuity of my peer group from MS->HS was more important than from ES->MS. MS we had whole batches of kids from different ES coming together and reforming peer groups and cliques and so on that were no longer tied to their home ES, so it was kind of like a whole new world anyway and everyone was making new friends... whereas from MS->HS if you make the switch you're one of the ONLY new kids and the peer groups from MS were already established. In HS those who came in from outside tended to find one group to belong to and that was it, whereas the majority of kids from MS had more of a mix as peer groups shifted through MS and thus tended to have more cross-group relationships if they had one primary/core set of friends. I'm generalizing, and I'm sure some would disagree, but I think for the majority (not all) kids, that shifting schools ES->MS is better and easier than shifting MS->HS. |
Anonymous
No, it ended by 8p.
I mean, I think there will be a boundary change., yeah. My gut instinct is they didn't hear any new feedback tonight that they hadn't already taken into consideration when developing the Hybrid C option. There's no choice that doesn't have some drawbacks to it, and I think they'll conclude that Hybrid C has the least drawbacks. That does suck for the small cohort at Spring Hill (~10%?) who would still be slated for Longfellow/McLean, though I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years once the Cooper expansion is complete they move that remaining portion of Spring Hill to Cooper/Langley as well. |
Anonymous
| These neighborhoods have fed to split feeders for many decades. It is not a big deal as long as the middle and high schools are aligned. Kids make plenty of new friends in middle school where the kids come from multiple elementary schools. |
Anonymous
Most of CRES already goes to Cooper. All of CRES should. |
Anonymous
They should just move all of CRES and Spring Hill to Langley. |
Anonymous
| The staff recommendation (modified Option C) is the best option if they decide to go ahead and move kids. Not sure they have any idea what the numbers will look like this fall. |