Future Western High School
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Anonymous
And that was what... 3 1/2 years ago?  Have you been holding your breath since then?
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Anonymous
Is that why you have such an enormous chip on your shoulder? |
Anyone who's been on this forum for the past year or so knows exactly who you are. Keep pretending, though!
Anonymous
DP. The reason so many of us are skeptical about this school ever being built is because we've lived here for decades and heard rumblings about it all this time. It's never amounted to anything - that's not "spreading misinformation, that's a fact." As you say, it's on the 2021 bond, so we shall see. I think it's just another example of FCPS promising things that never come to fruition. Or a Lucy with the football, taunting Charlie Brown kind of thing. Either way, you can't fault those of us saying we'll believe it when we see it. |
Anonymous
Perhaps because - as shown on the map that another PP posted - Langley isn't even the farthest west school in FCPS. Far from it, in fact. So this entire discussion should really be all about the school which would be directly impacted by a possible new high school. Not the school that has nothing at all to do with it. |
Anonymous
Where do you live and what high school are you currently zoned for? If it's overcrowded, perhaps you could mobilize fellow community members to lobby the SB. |
Anonymous
 Why can’t you accept plain facts without attributing some nefarious plot? If you maintain that sour face, those wrinkles will become permanent.
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Anonymous
You need to read this thread and referenced documents more closely. |
Anonymous
What catering to Great Falls? Look at elementary school boundaries. Those Herndon PO addresses, not town of Herndon, + Holly Knoll + some developments with Vienna [not town] addresses + maybe even Reston addresses have nothing to do with Tholen. There have been developments that for decades have been in the Langley pyramid. Some are Hunter Mill Magisterial District. Some Dranesville. All dedicated to avoiding South Lakes and Herndon. Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations activity level? For example look up a street called Delta Glen-it's in Colvin Glen [Colvin Run-Cooper-Langley], Hunter Mill District. A new development [Forest Edge-Hughes-South Lakes]went in years ago and I think Dunn Meadow Rd was blocked with concrete barriers. They got moved for the snow plow and did they go back? Interesting where the Gulick Group stuff in north Reston or Vienna po box ended up. One, Hunters End, was marketed as Langley and FCPS under Domenech flipped it. FCPS is making the same mistake with Oakton as it did with Langley- expanding capacity for students who should be assigned to other schools. Oakton is near Madison and Langley near Mclean. During the recent Mclean to Langley boundary change there was at least 1 person who wanted a flip to Langley from Herndon. Surrounded by the developments that have Herndon addresses that were sent to Langley. FCPS should administratively change the lot of them to Herndon and frankly no one in Great Falls would blink. Summer House Landing http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2021/feb/03/mclean-high-boundary-change-down-wire/ |
Anonymous
Are you the same person who said that Great Falls was the most far west part of Fairfax County? I'll grant that Oakton is near Madison--but it is nowhere near Langley. |
Anonymous
Not PP, but can you please take a second to read before you post? PP is saying Oakton is near Madison (it is) and Langley is near McLean (it is), and that they need to stop building big additions at schools that already have kids who live closer to other schools traveling long distances to attend (as is the case at both Oakton and Langley). You can agree or disagree with the comment, but PP was not saying Oakton is near Langley. |
Anonymous
Apologize. You're right. I didn't read carefully. But, it is also true that there are many, many schools in this situation. Franklin Middle and Rachel Carson are just over one mile apart. I guess property is just not always available. Ironic that Chantilly has one of the most compact boundaries, and it is the most overcrowded. And, I think that is one reason that the overcrowding is tolerated--people don't want to leave because there is a community feel--and is quite diverse. |
Anonymous
| It’s generally understood some people will prefer an existing school with trailers to a new school, especially if that new school may be higher ESOL/FARMS. Chantilly may be diverse, but most of its non-white population is upper middle-class Asian families. Will they push back against a new school (if, say, Oak Hill were redistricted) because Chantilly is so tight-knit, or because they don’t want their kids at a school with students coming from Hutchison? |
Anonymous
Give your Hutchison plan a rest. It is three miles from Herndon High School. Once more, this is not about getting Great Falls into Herndon. It is about giving relief to Chantilly and Centreville. |
Anonymous
It's very clear if you watch the actual work sessions that the school board was talking about changing boundaries for race/class reasons. They weren't discussing the new high school. Jane Strauss mentioned Langley specifically so parents from that pyramid had every right to inform the school board that they disagreed with changing schools because the board saw fit to rearrange schools by class and race. It was too close to an election to press forward with their plans to redo boundary policy to prioritize class/racial makeup of the schools, as Langley pyramid parents weren't the only ones who realized that their kids could be sent to different schools based on their race and class. Instead of standing up and telling the community that it would be great to rearrange kids based on their immutable characteristics and their parents bank account, and they believed in this and were going to pass the policy anyway, they backed down. They amended the CIP at the last minute to send children from overcrowded Mclean to Langley, which had space. They had to do that to demonstrate that they were not holding Mclean, 2 miles away (ish) overcrowded because Langley had space because they wanted to spread those kids around to other schools based on race and class. Anyone who actually watched the work sessions knows that that is exactly what they are doing, as a new boundary could have easily been timed to coincide with the conclusion of Langley's renovation in 2018. As to the Western High School which looks like it will finally be built in the next few years, new schools obviously mean new boundaries. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that the Langley boundary might be impacted. It will be interesting to see which areas would be proposed to replace those removed, but we will have to wait and see. So they stopped working on policy, placated parents, and got their desired result: Dem-endorsed incumbents kept their seats and the last two Rep-endorsed candidates lost theirs to Dems. |
Anonymous
Whoops. Let me rearrange that a bit. ----- It's very clear if you watch the actual work sessions that the school board was talking about changing boundaries for race/class reasons. They weren't discussing the planned new high school. Jane Strauss mentioned Langley specifically so parents from that pyramid had every right to inform the school board that they disagreed with changing schools because the board saw fit to rearrange schools by class and race. It was too close to an election to press forward with their plans to redo boundary policy to prioritize class/racial makeup of the schools, as Langley pyramid parents weren't the only ones who realized that their kids could be sent to different schools based on their race and class. Instead of standing up and telling the community that it would be great to rearrange kids based on their immutable characteristics and their parents' bank accounts, and they believed in this and were going to pass the policy anyway, they backed down. They amended the CIP at the last minute to send children from overcrowded Mclean to Langley, which had space. They had to do that to demonstrate that they were not holding Mclean, 2 miles away (ish) overcrowded because Langley had space because they wanted to spread those kids around to other schools based on race and class. Anyone who actually watched the work sessions knows that that is exactly what they are doing, as a new boundary could have easily been timed to coincide with the conclusion of Langley's renovation in 2018. So the school board stopped working on policy, placated parents, and got their desired result: Dem-endorsed incumbents kept their seats and the last two Rep-endorsed candidates lost theirs to Dems. As to the Western High School which looks like it will finally be built in the next few years, new schools obviously mean new boundaries. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that the Langley boundary might be impacted. It will be interesting to see which areas would be proposed to replace those removed, but we will have to wait and see. |