Mclean boundary changes - can someone please update?
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I thought it was a good question too. Plus, she is so much calmer these days and really trying to be respectful. |
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| So do Longfellow 8th graders affected by the boundary change get to chose between LHS and MHS or are they all going to MHS? How does grandfathering work? |
Anonymous
| Did they decide? Which option did they go with? |
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Motion One: I move to adopt the FCPS recommendation of Option B, as presented to the community on December 7, 2020. This would adjust the boundaries of McLean HS, Langley HS, Longfellow MS, and Cooper MS. The change would adjust the feeder pattern of the Colvin Run ES split feeder area, a portion of the Spring Hill ES split feeder area, and a portion of Westbriar ES from Longfellow MS and McLean HS, to Cooper MS and Langley HS. The adjustment will not change the elementary school boundary.
In addition, the following phasing plan will implement the boundary change: Rising 7th grade students will attend Cooper MS in the 2021-22 school year, with rising 8th graders grandfathered to remain at Longfellow MS in the 2021-22 school year. Both 7th and 8th grade students will attend Cooper MS in the 2022-23 school year. Rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders in the area will be grandfathered and remain at McLean HS. The high school boundary change will begin with rising 9th grade students in the 2021-22 school year; 9th and 10th grade students in the 2022-23 school year; 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students in the 2023-24 school year; and 9th through 12th grade students in the 2024-25 school year. Motion by Elaine V Tholen, second by Karl V Frisch. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Yes: Megan McLaughlin, Ricardy J Anderson - Chair, Melanie K Meren, Rachna S Heizer, Elaine V Tholen, Karen Corbett Sanders, Karen A Keys-Gamarra, Stella Pekarsky - Vice Chair, Laura Jane H Cohen, Karl V Frisch No: Abrar Omeish Not Present at Vote: Tamara D Kaufax Rising 9th graders residing in the area changed will have the option to attend Langley HS in SY 2021-22 or be grandfathered at McLean HS with transportation provided through 12thgrade in the 2024-25 school year. The option chosen for the 2021-22 school year will determine the school through the 2024-25 school year and will not be able to be changed. Motion by Elaine V Tholen, second by Melanie K Meren. Motion Carries Yes: Megan McLaughlin, Ricardy J Anderson - Chair, Melanie K Meren, Rachna S Heizer, Elaine V Tholen, Tamara D Kaufax, Karen Corbett Sanders, Karen A Keys-Gamarra, Stella Pekarsky - Vice Chair, Abrar Omeish, Laura Jane H Cohen, Karl V Frisch |
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| Kaufax later voted yes when her wifi came back up |
Anonymous
Thanks for posting this! Well done SB! Now get McLean on the queue for a real renovation and extension. |
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Is this a done deal? All of Colvin run now will go to copper/Langley and also parts of west brier and Spring Hill?
Looking at a map, this looks like it makes sense. I have a current 6th grader who will be attending cooper next year. I welcome diversity and so do most other people I know. Why didn’t the apartments get moved to Langley? Very doubtful parents try to keep multi family housing out. |
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Why did wesrbrier get assigned to Langley?
They are in the Marshall pyramid and in Vienna. |
Anonymous
It won't happen. Now they can sit back, declare their work is done, and do nothing. Academics, athletics and other extra-curricular programs at McLean will quickly start to decline with the loss of some of its most involved single-family neighborhoods at Colvin Run and Spring Hill to Langley, and then the enrollment will either stop going up or decline as parents see that no one on the School Board has the school's back. Maybe in another 30 years the school will get renovated, but by then more parents who can afford it will have moved to privates and others who want to send their kids to public schools will look for houses zoned to Yorktown, W-L, Langley, Marshall, George Mason or Madison - not McLean. |
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The apartments didn't get moved to Langley, as the staff had proposed, because Elaine Tholen was browbeaten by parents who said eliminating the split feeder at Colvin Run and having a "cleaner" boundary map was more important. You don't have to keep people out when you let the ones begging the hardest to be let in have their way. This is what FCPS has done over and over again for more than a decade, and then they act shocked when the disparities in nearby schools (Annandale/Woodson, Lewis/West Springfield, McLean/Langley) keep increasing. It's their doing, and they know how to look sad about it but not fix it or avoid it. |
Anonymous
There is literally like one block in Vienna that somehow ended up zoned to Westbriar/Longfellow/McLean. It dates back to some glitch from the time Colvin Run ES was opened and they somehow didn't include that area within Colvin Run's boundaries. The number of kids involved is minuscule and FCPS could have made an administrative boundary change to reassign that area to Colvin Run years ago. Ironically, they are only changing the MS/HS assignments, so now they'll have like six houses going to Westbriar/Cooper/Langley rather than Westbriar/Longfellow/McLean. As you say, most kids at Westbriar go to Kilmer/Marshall, although there are some near Cardinal Hill and the country club who go to Kilmer/Madison. |
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Republicans would never have put up with this crap. Ever. The PP is absolutely right. |
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You have been repeating yourself over and over. It makes zero sense to draw weird boundaries all in the name of “equity” - as if an apartment here or there would make any difference at all. It’s an asinine argument. Boundaries *should* be drawn cleanly and simply, with no ulterior motives. It’s people like you, ranting about apartments, who have gummed up this whole process. Most parents just want a boundary that makes sense. Split-feeders are ridiculous. I’m glad they fixed that. |
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The Republicans might have looked at where Jeff Platenberg was spending millions of taxpayer dollars and asked why he was adding so many seats to a school that had a flat if not declining enrollment (Langley). If he had a good answer, they would have said fine, move some kids from McLean there, and been done with it years ago. Instead, we got Democratic School Board members who kept FCPS from doing anything for years because they said it was critical to focus on "equity," only to ultimately approve a boundary change that is less "equitable" than the one that Janie Strauss tried to get done three years ago (Strauss proposed to move some apartments in Tysons to Langley to add some diversity there, before Corbett Sanders, Keys Gamarra and others then on the School Board stopped her; Tholen just made sure that only single-family neighborhoods will get moved to Langley). I mean, they can do whatever the hell they want and make sure Langley ends up a 10 on Great Schools in a few years while McLean drops to a 5 or 6, but it's a shame they didn't just cram it down our throats when they first had the chance rather than drag it out so long. |
Anonymous
Uh huh. And yet people have no problem with split feeders when they feed to the wealthier schools. The hypocrisy isn't lost, except perhaps on the clowns who now sit on the School Board. |