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Anonymous
This constant defense is because the writing is on the wall. Reid has played her pleasantries with the secret Saturday Great Falls meeting. She’s “listened” to concerns to check the box. You’ll argue your time calculations but when you look at the boundaries of the forestville neighborhood and proximity to Herndon, Thru’s GIS data analysis will capture this too. |
Anonymous
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I read these boundary posts and release just how selfish and ugly people are not to
mention disingenuous. Admit that it's about not sending your kids to certain low performing schools while maintaining your property values. Just be up front about this so we can all have a real and candid discussion. Let's not pussyfoot around what is driving this resistance. |
Anonymous
Please don't attribute your own views to others. Why do you want to move people for no good reason? Please explain. |
Anonymous
I moved to the neighborhood I selected primarily for the school. The house was priced higher than comparable houses in large part because of the school district. I don't want my kid moved to a lower performing school, and I don't want to lose property value as a result, especially for a One Fairfax driven boundary review fraught with misguided objectives and no clear benefits. Please don't tell me this is about "efficiency" or sleep time for kids or some other nonesense. Be honest about that too. |
Anonymous
Reid like the vast majority of adults involved in the process are clearly demonstrating that they are acting in their own self interest and not in the self interest of students. The truth hurts. I will grab my popcorn and wait for the administration response. |
Anonymous
I, too, moved because of the school. It was because it is a neighborhood elementary school with walkers. It was not a particularly high performing school when we moved here, but it is now. The high school was not considered top tier at the time, in fact, one of the high schools much discussed here was considered "better." That has changed. But, people purchase houses for different reasons. Some purchase a house because of the house itself. Some look for high performing schools. Some look for proximity to work. Some look for proximity to a church, synagogue or mosque. I'm guessing that some of the immigrants are looking for other people that share their culture. But, a PP seems to think that choosing a house based on the school is "racist." Is everyone who is house hunting racist because they look at the schools listed on the realtor site? This has been common for many, many years. Even in towns with homogenous races, the schools are still what people look for. It is not racist. |
Anonymous
First admit that you don’t view your neighbors’ kids as human beings and instead view them as cogs in an equity machine. Then admit that there really is no urgent or compelling reason to redistrict kids. Then admit that the school board members aren’t going to move their own kids. Then admit that the community, as shown from the notes of the community meetings don’t want these changes. Then admit that you wouldn’t want your own kids moved. Then admit this will cause UMC families to flee Fairfax county. Then admit that vouchers are much more likely with these boundary changes. Then admit that this will exacerbate the housing crisis with UMC families renting relatively affordable homes in their desired school districts. Then admit that many of your comrades are selfishly pushing boundary changes to profit from an increase in their own property values. Then admit these changes won’t help any current students at these schools. Then admit that you are a clown. Let’s not pussyfoot around. |
Anonymous
DP. Thank you for your honesty. I can understand why you would not be happy with a boundary change that would affect yout family. However, as most of know, school boundaries can change every so often for a variety of reasons. There was no guarantee / contract between you and fcps when you bought your house stating your address would always be zoned for your desired schools. Homes can loose their values for a variety of reasons. We all gamble when we invest in something, be it stocks or real estate. If your home gets redistricted, and you do not like the new schools, luckily we still live in a free country, and you can send your kids to private school. This is what we did for k-8 for our kids. We cut a lot of expenses, and made a few more sacrifices to make it work. |
Anonymous
+1000000 |
Anonymous
Please tell us why there is a good reason for this boundary study. It sounds like you want it for your high school since you sent your kids to private K-8. FWIW, there is no reason for my neighborhood to be moved--but quite possibly will be as a domino. |
Anonymous
This is one of the most condescending and brainless posts I have seen in awhile, and there have been some bad posts on here. No one said there was a contract, no one said they were guaranteed a school district, and everyone know houses "loose" value for many reasons. But they don't want a boundary change fot this misguided and frankly illegal reason, and they have enough spine to not just sit there and say oh well I gambled and lost. Thankfully there are enough people with backbones to push back here. |
Anonymous
DP. If y’all had paid 1/10th the attention to FCPS’s years-long misallocation of capital resources as you are now paying to the consequences of that misallocation - a county-wide boundary review to shuffle kids - you wouldn’t be freaking out so much now. Some of us sounded that alarm years ago but we were basically told to shut up, and of course at the time folks at schools like Langley were among those happy to get expansions they didn’t need. Little did you realize they’d double down when it came time to renovate Herndon, so now there are even more empty seats in the wrong places and not enough seats where they are needed. And, if you think FCPS is finally cleaning up its act, guess again. They are budgeting over $85 million to build an ES in Dunn Loring that isn’t needed. That will have its own ripple effect on boundaries later, too. |
Anonymous
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I remember years ago when a neighbor moved to one of those houses off of 7 because they wanted to be in Langley school district. That was important to them.
I like where I live and the community feel of the schools for my neighborhood--which is NOT Langley. I was a little hurt when they decided to move away --after all, kids lost a friend. However, I did not resent it. I do not understand why people are so resentful of the choices people make. So resentful that they think it must be "racism." Maybe some of the people making the choice of schools are of a different race and want the high scores a school produces for their children. The American Dream. |
Anonymous
I am not saying nobody should push back, don’t we all have that right? Keep organizing, raise money, hire lawyers. What I am saying, is that sometimes things won’t go your way. A large majority of underserved citizens in the country are used to not having things go their way, and it sucks for them! |
Anonymous
| When are we expecting an actual update from FCPS on the new boundaries? |