Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if they put the TOV back to Madison, what would get shifted back? The Old Courthouse/Clark's Crossing neighborhoods that were originally at Marshall?

In what scenario is the TOV not at Madison?

In scenario 4, TOV kids at Westbriar would go to Marshall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if they put the TOV back to Madison, what would get shifted back? The Old Courthouse/Clark's Crossing neighborhoods that were originally at Marshall?

I’m guessing Marshall boundaries won’t change at all except for the little Vienna ES cutout. All split feeders would be retained (except for Vienna ES) and they’d pick up an additional split feeder in Shrevewood. The only change I see going through is Kilmer sending all its Madison students to Thoreau, which at least will close that split feeder. I hope they do something about the Stenwood students who get sent to Thoreau and then Marshall, but no one seems to care about fixing the three way Thoreau split for some reason.

It’s not just Stenwood kids who go to Thoreau and then Marshall. There are some Cunningham Park kids in that category. Thoreau lies within the Marshall boundary and was a two-way split to Madison and Marshall before the Oakton parents got the School Board to move them out of Jackson, which they considered beneath them. They intentionally created the three-way split when it wasn’t necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

The modulars are fine. If they excluded the modulars the boundary changes would be far more extensive and FCPS would be under far more scrutiny for how it’s misallocated capital dollars over the past several decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

The modulars are fine. If they excluded the modulars the boundary changes would be far more extensive and FCPS would be under far more scrutiny for how it’s misallocated capital dollars over the past several decades.

As someone who teaches in a very old modular, that is far from temporary, I agree. It was never even considered that my school is overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

According to the meeting last night, they’re adding with/without modular capacities to the boundary tool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

According to the meeting last night, they’re adding with/without modular capacities to the boundary tool.

Ricardy Anderson wants this in particular because some of her Parklawn ES families want that school downsized. I think otherwise it may not get much attention in the boundary review since basically everything done to date is based on September 2024 enrollments taking modular (but not trailer) capacity into account. Maybe they would pay more attention to this, however, when they update the renovation queue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.

+1 and FCPS should have known this. It’s not “20 kids” or whatever it is on paper. It will end up being A LOT more because people will stop moving during elementary, stop pupil placing here or there, they won’t lie about their address, and the neighborhood will become more desirable because it’s in a convenient spot and is no longer a split feeder. 20 kids will easily become 80 and FCPS will be all shocked Pikachu face about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I was shocked by this. The CIP has it completed before 2030.

Shrevewood has capacity because their once thriving Local Level IV jumped ship to the center, while others went private during COVID and never came back.

Shrevewood has had the really weird mix of the SFH neighborhood getting much more affluent and the school itself growing in FARMS (and will take a leap in FARMS with the Hollywood addition).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I was shocked by this. The CIP has it completed before 2030.

Shrevewood has capacity because their once thriving Local Level IV jumped ship to the center, while others went private during COVID and never came back.

Shrevewood has had the really weird mix of the SFH neighborhood getting much more affluent and the school itself growing in FARMS (and will take a leap in FARMS with the Hollywood addition).

Shrevewood is now solidly FARMS since most of the affluent families worked to get their kiddos in AAP and moved to Lemon Road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amendment to the policy to allow such substantial grandfathering was so stupid. Especially considering there will be another review in five years. The boundary changes will barely be done when more changes might happen. They definitely can’t provide transportation to all who choose to stay. Would be highly irresponsible to waste money that way.

Grandfathering makes sense.

The stupid part is countywide rezoning every 5 years.

No one wants that for our kids and communities.

Tweaks have been made every time. A review of the data every 5 years is prudent. Doesn’t mean sweeping changes user necessary every 5 years. Not reviewing them every 5 years seems irresponsible.

No one wants rezoning every five years.

The rezoning is a 2 year process, followed by a year of fighting the rezoning and disrupting the kids. Then it starts up again as everyone gears up for the next rezoning fight in 1-2 years.

Best case scenario, the five year rezoning fight gives kids and families only 1 year of stability per 5 year cycle.

A set county wide 5 year cycle is one of the stupidest ideas this school board and superintendent ever created, and there are a lot of stupid ideas from this school board.

A sensible change would have been to put in policy an automatic boundary review once a school hits 105% capacity, starting with a residency check, then sending all kids not living in the boundaries back to their neighborhood schools or whatever schools are open to pupil placement. Rezoning should be minimal, on the fringes only, and the last case scenario only after exhausting all other options including sending back all studdnts who do not live in bounds, excluding teachers' kids, and bringing the incoming transfer number to zero.

BTW, that is how the pupil placement is supposed to work. It is only supposed to be one year at a time, with no ability to stay if the school is overcapacity and closed to transfers. Start enforcing transfer policies.

This largely seems sensible to me, although I think they need a trigger for under-enrolled schools to determine if they can operate efficiently and, if not, whether the school should be closed or the boundaries adjusted. With enrollments likely to continue to decline, they need to pay as much attention to potential consolidation (and, yes, the boundary changes associated with that) as potential overcrowding.

Sure.

Put a set trigger for underenrolled schools too.

I think the underenrolled threshold should only be for high school though.

No one complains about a middle or elementary school being small.

It is only an issue at the high school level, because too small affects programs and course offerings, while smaller middle and elementary schools are a huge benefit to kids, socially and academically.

A county-wide annual review has effectively been in the CIP process for decades. Schools outside capacity bounds have been flagged there and addressed with community or administrative redistrictings depending on scale. Put the standard criteria in that process and be done with it.

Of course, the real reason they wanted the county-wide redistricting was One Fairfax. Once they realized they'd never get away with OneF, they stripped the criteria down to a facilities-only 5 year process at a scale they can't handle and will never accomplish anything that they don't already do on an annual basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tune in by zoom for these meetings. Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC. Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios. Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.
2. Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church. It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean. Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.

It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood? Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring. If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.

Yes , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play.

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!!

It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date.

FCHS is not delayed. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move. So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS. So why expand Centreville? Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build. Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.

Yes I heard that last night. I think Reid is going to meet with them. I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS. Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids. Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean. Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers. Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.

Hunt Valley to Lewis. Just wait.