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Yes, of course, the county will see uneven population growth. But the growth is just as likely to occur in the areas currently served by Metro slated for future development as along the future stations also slated for development.

And we can repeat the one-line sentence about the schools for which a new high school might provide capacity relief until we're all blue in the face. It does not mean that those will be the only schools affected by the new school. That won't be decided until the new school is built, and it will ultimately be determined by a future School Board - not the one elected in 2019 (few, if any, of whose members are likely to still be serving when the decisions are made).

Let’s use the common sense. Which areas would have more population growth? Between the areas which have the metro and already developed and the areas where the metro are going to be bulit and the density requirement is greatly reduced?

To me the answer is obvious but in the end it doesn’t even matter. The basic argument here is that Herndon would not provide the relief to Langley becuase Herndon is expected to grow fast while Langley is not going to grow. Herndon doesn’t need to grow the fastest. As long as it grows faster than Langley, which I think you would agree, the county officials will have a hard time finding the justification of moving kids from Langley to Herndon.

I can't agree since it will depend not just on the growth, or lack thereof, at Langley, but also on the enrollments in other pyramids closer to Langley that are growing faster and what, if any, steps FCPS has taken in the intervening years before the new school opens to address growth at those schools.

It's been years since FCPS opened a new high school. If and when they open a new one, they should not impose artificial barriers on which boundaries to consider adjusting.

So much this.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, FCPS should stupidly continue to expand Langley and Cooper so even more kids whose parents are rich can be bussed to schools nowhere near they live.

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The reason kids are bused so far:
1. Closest school cannot absorb the extra numbers.
2. I'm not familiar with Forestville--but do all the kids go to Langley? It is a good thing to keep the kids with the same cohort.

3. If the parents are happy and the school is happy, then why do you care? Win/win.

Are you as upset about kids who live near Centreville/Clifton being bused to Fairfax? Some live one mile from Centreville and way less distance than Fairfax.
How about the kids that live less than 2 miles from Chantilly and go to Oakton? Are you concerned about them?

I'm guessing that this goes on all over Fairfax County. Again, why is this so important to you?

The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.

If you think that people will work behind the scenes and actually succeed in killing a new high school when several high schools are overcapacity, I suggest you get some people together and work behind the scenes to support it's being built.

I really can't see the high school project being killed.

It's much more likely that the school will get built, boundaries will be rearranged to relieve the closest overcrowded schools (Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and maybe a bit of Centreville), and of course the Herndon boundary would change since the new site is in the existing one, and Langley boundary will stay the same or largely the same.

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The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

This comment makes no sense at all. Yes, all Fairfax City kids go to Fairfax. But, the reason those kids out near Clifton/Centreville go there is because of the overcrowding at Centreville. Period. Some of them live a mile from Centreville. The next closest school to them is Chantilly, which is also overcrowded. It has nothing to do with Woodson or Oakton.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

When and if there is space at Herndon, that could be considered. Right now--or, at least, last year--Herndon has many more kids than Langley.

Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.

I have no idea what the future holds iwth capacity and projections. There are schools that are bursting at the seams--and they are not Langley. My objection to the Hutchison site is traffic mitigation. It would be a horrible place for a high school. I doubt seriously that anyone plans to put a bridge across the toll road to help the traffic pattern and there is nowhere else to go but Elden St which can hardly handle the traffic there at present during commuter hours. With Metro coming, commuter traffic will be worse.

Looking at the map it seems possible that the county could take (what appers on paper) to be open space and build a road connecting Parcher to Herndon Parkway, but I have no idea if that's financially feasible.

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It's much more likely that the school will get built, boundaries will be rearranged to relieve the closest overcrowded schools (Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and maybe a bit of Centreville), and of course the Herndon boundary would change since the new site is in the existing one, and Langley boundary will stay the same or largely the same.

The closest boundaries to that site are Herndon, Westfield, and South Lakes--none of which are overcrowded. The site will cause a traffic nightmare--not just for the students but for commuters. The school needs to be further South--ideally between Chantilly and Centreville areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, FCPS should stupidly continue to expand Langley and Cooper so even more kids whose parents are rich can be bussed to schools nowhere near they live.

Once more:

The reason kids are bused so far:
1. Closest school cannot absorb the extra numbers.
2. I'm not familiar with Forestville--but do all the kids go to Langley? It is a good thing to keep the kids with the same cohort.

3. If the parents are happy and the school is happy, then why do you care? Win/win.

Are you as upset about kids who live near Centreville/Clifton being bused to Fairfax? Some live one mile from Centreville and way less distance than Fairfax.
How about the kids that live less than 2 miles from Chantilly and go to Oakton? Are you concerned about them?

I'm guessing that this goes on all over Fairfax County. Again, why is this so important to you?

The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.

If you think that people will work behind the scenes and actually succeed in killing a new high school when several high schools are overcapacity, I suggest you get some people together and work behind the scenes to support it's being built.

I really can't see the high school project being killed.

It's much more likely that the school will get built, boundaries will be rearranged to relieve the closest overcrowded schools (Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and maybe a bit of Centreville), and of course the Herndon boundary would change since the new site is in the existing one, and Langley boundary will stay the same or largely the same.

I'm not sure that's likely. There is a 2% FARMS school with a boundary adjacent to a school with a 45% FARMS rate, and an all-Democrat School Board that schedules retreat after retreat to talk about "equity." The current School Board is focused on Covid and was prepared to defer to whatever the current, self-serving Dranesville member on the School Board wants, but the School Board that's in place towards the end of the decade may have a different perspective.

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Anonymous wrote: Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

Langley has space today to accommodate "more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

Great Falls wants it both ways: the GFCA fought to keep Langley under-enrolled because they asserted FCPS's projections under-estimate the future growth that will occur in the Langley pyramid, but then they'll turn around and say Langley can't possibly be part of a future redistricting involving Herndon in the future because it's going to remain below-capacity.

They can play someone like Tholen, who just wants to make her neighbors happy, but at some other School Board members won't be as distracted by Covid-related issues and will figure it out.

I hear enrollment at Great Falls elementary is up due to so many people with young children moving in the past year, and anecdotally several houses have gone from being owned and occupied by retirees to being bought by families with school- aged children. Maybe the next CIP will show growth, we'll see.

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It's much more likely that the school will get built, boundaries will be rearranged to relieve the closest overcrowded schools (Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and maybe a bit of Centreville), and of course the Herndon boundary would change since the new site is in the existing one, and Langley boundary will stay the same or largely the same.

The closest boundaries to that site are Herndon, Westfield, and South Lakes--none of which are overcrowded. The site will cause a traffic nightmare--not just for the students but for commuters. The school needs to be further South--ideally between Chantilly and Centreville areas.

You can keep saying that, but they can't just snap their fingers and find a sufficiently large plot of land further south. And if bad locations mean they can't build a school, how did they end up with Cooper MS so close to an entrance to 495 or Langley HS right off a busy two-lane road with only one entrance and exit? As PP suggested, maybe they can build a new connecting road so there are at least two ways in and out of the new Hutchison school.

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The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

This comment makes no sense at all. Yes, all Fairfax City kids go to Fairfax. But, the reason those kids out near Clifton/Centreville go there is because of the overcrowding at Centreville. Period. Some of them live a mile from Centreville. The next closest school to them is Chantilly, which is also overcrowded. It has nothing to do with Woodson or Oakton.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

When and if there is space at Herndon, that could be considered. Right now--or, at least, last year--Herndon has many more kids than Langley.

Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.

I have no idea what the future holds iwth capacity and projections. There are schools that are bursting at the seams--and they are not Langley. My objection to the Hutchison site is traffic mitigation. It would be a horrible place for a high school. I doubt seriously that anyone plans to put a bridge across the toll road to help the traffic pattern and there is nowhere else to go but Elden St which can hardly handle the traffic there at present during commuter hours. With Metro coming, commuter traffic will be worse.

Looking at the map it seems possible that the county could take (what appers on paper) to be open space and build a road connecting Parcher to Herndon Parkway, but I have no idea if that's financially feasible.

That belongs to the adjacent (town)homeowners association. Optics of taking that would be very bad.

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This is just my personal observation/speculation although I’ve been following this topic closely.

1. The possibility of a new school coming to fruition is higher than ever given that it’s going to be on the referendum. This is a tangible action which never happened before.

2. Seems like the Hutchison site is very likely. The CIP MAP shows it and the FPAC has been recommending it.

3. Boundary changes will obviously happen. But this is just one high school and FCPS has more than 25 high schools. I really don’t think the county wide boundary adjustment would happen.

4. Hutchison kids will go to the new school. It’s just too close. That means some relief to Herndon.

5. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Herndon will get Langley kids. Langley was never included as a potentially impacted school in the CIP. Strauss once mentioned that possibility verbally but that’s about it and she is gone.

6. There are some people who want to stick it to Langley by moving Great Falls kids from Langley and moving Tysons (apartment) kids to Langley. There are also some Grear Falls moms on this board who oppose any potential threat to the Langley boundary.

7. Personally I think the high school will get Carson kids plus Hutchison kids giving relief to Herndon, Westfield, South Lakes, and Oakton. Westfield in turn would give relief to Centreville and Chantilly. On the other hand, Herndon will not be able to give releif to Langley. This is because 1) Herndon area is expected to grow fast (look at the town’s development plans), 2) CIP includes only six schools I mentioned but didn’t include Langley, and 3) the political opposition would be too strong.

I guess we’ll see. By the time the new school is built there may have been just as much growth in other parts of the county as Herndon, if not more. And the School Board making the decisions about boundary adjustments will likely be a different group than the current board.

Disagree.

The population growth will be very uneven throughout the county. The student enrollment actually decrease in certain areas. You have to look at the demogrphics and development plans. The county has a significnat development plans across the Silver line. High Hispanic population in Herndon and we all know which group has the highest birth rates.

That's too crude an assumption. If you look at the HS that's seen the most growth over the past decade or so, it's probably Marshall, and Marshall has a lower percentage of Hispanic kids than most FCPS pyramids.

As for the development plans, for sure there are plans along the Silver Line extension, but also plans (and actual developments) in other places, including Tysons, West Falls Church, and the Route 1 corridor.

Yes it was a simple generalization. But my argument still stands. The county will see uneven population growth depending on the areas (you know Langley’s enrollment is not growing?) and Herndon will have a higher growth. Read the CIP:

“The anticipation of the completion of the Silver Line Metro has already spurred higher density residential growth along that corridor which may result in an increase in students within FCPS.
The FY 2022-26 CIP continues to include the construction of a new high school in the western area of the county to provide capacity relief for high schools in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield areas.”

Yes, of course, the county will see uneven population growth. But the growth is just as likely to occur in the areas currently served by Metro slated for future development as along the future stations also slated for development.

And we can repeat the one-line sentence about the schools for which a new high school might provide capacity relief until we're all blue in the face. It does not mean that those will be the only schools affected by the new school. That won't be decided until the new school is built, and it will ultimately be determined by a future School Board - not the one elected in 2019 (few, if any, of whose members are likely to still be serving when the decisions are made).

Let’s use the common sense. Which areas would have more population growth? Between the areas which have the metro and already developed and the areas where the metro are going to be bulit and the density requirement is greatly reduced?

To me the answer is obvious but in the end it doesn’t even matter. The basic argument here is that Herndon would not provide the relief to Langley becuase Herndon is expected to grow fast while Langley is not going to grow. Herndon doesn’t need to grow the fastest. As long as it grows faster than Langley, which I think you would agree, the county officials will have a hard time finding the justification of moving kids from Langley to Herndon.

I can't agree since it will depend not just on the growth, or lack thereof, at Langley, but also on the enrollments in other pyramids closer to Langley that are growing faster and what, if any, steps FCPS has taken in the intervening years before the new school opens to address growth at those schools.

It's been years since FCPS opened a new high school. If and when they open a new one, they should not impose artificial barriers on which boundaries to consider adjusting.

This is just your opinion on what they SHOULD do while I am trying to figure out what they WOULD do.

Why would the board consider a very large boundary adjustment including McLean for the “WESTERN” high school when the board always takes the easiest path?

Now I don’t necessarily disagree with you on the need of a complete boundary change and/or the need for the relief to McLean. But that can be done without having this new high school. Let this new high school do what it is supposed to achieve - which is providing the releif to west Fairfax.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, FCPS should stupidly continue to expand Langley and Cooper so even more kids whose parents are rich can be bussed to schools nowhere near they live.

Once more:

The reason kids are bused so far:
1. Closest school cannot absorb the extra numbers.
2. I'm not familiar with Forestville--but do all the kids go to Langley? It is a good thing to keep the kids with the same cohort.

3. If the parents are happy and the school is happy, then why do you care? Win/win.

Are you as upset about kids who live near Centreville/Clifton being bused to Fairfax? Some live one mile from Centreville and way less distance than Fairfax.
How about the kids that live less than 2 miles from Chantilly and go to Oakton? Are you concerned about them?

I'm guessing that this goes on all over Fairfax County. Again, why is this so important to you?

The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another. It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

Of course, that all remains to be determined. What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments. No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions.

If you think that people will work behind the scenes and actually succeed in killing a new high school when several high schools are overcapacity, I suggest you get some people together and work behind the scenes to support it's being built.

I really can't see the high school project being killed.

It's much more likely that the school will get built, boundaries will be rearranged to relieve the closest overcrowded schools (Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and maybe a bit of Centreville), and of course the Herndon boundary would change since the new site is in the existing one, and Langley boundary will stay the same or largely the same.

I'm not sure that's likely. There is a 2% FARMS school with a boundary adjacent to a school with a 45% FARMS rate, and an all-Democrat School Board that schedules retreat after retreat to talk about "equity." The current School Board is focused on Covid and was prepared to defer to whatever the current, self-serving Dranesville member on the School Board wants, but the School Board that's in place towards the end of the decade may have a different perspective.

So they were so distracted by Covid they couldn't spare any mental bandwith on a boundary adjustment?

If true, they are incompetent.

Tholen is a board member and she spared some energy/thought on the boundary. How is it that she wasn't "distracted"

And how is it that they were able to do other things such as overhaul the TJ admissions process?

No, it wasn't they they were "distracted" they just voted for the motion for whatever reason.

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Looking at the map it seems possible that the county could take (what appers on paper) to be open space and build a road connecting Parcher to Herndon Parkway, but I have no idea if that's financially feasible.


That belongs to the adjacent (town)homeowners association. Optics of taking that would be very bad.

Not to mention that the areas that would be affected will all need to go in the opposite direction. I suspect that PP is not familiar with the area. This will end up being like Langley--at the far edge of the boundary. Why would you want to repeat that? FWIW, Herndon High is very close to Herndon Parkway.

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Looking at the map it seems possible that the county could take (what appers on paper) to be open space and build a road connecting Parcher to Herndon Parkway, but I have no idea if that's financially feasible.


That belongs to the adjacent (town)homeowners association. Optics of taking that would be very bad.

Not to mention that the areas that would be affected will all need to go in the opposite direction. I suspect that PP is not familiar with the area. This will end up being like Langley--at the far edge of the boundary. Why would you want to repeat that? FWIW, Herndon High is very close to Herndon Parkway.

Doesn't look like there are many good solutions I guess.

We'll just have to see what they do.

I also wonder where they will put the elementary school that replaces Hutchison?

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You can keep saying that, but they can't just snap their fingers and find a sufficiently large plot of land further south. And if bad locations mean they can't build a school, how did they end up with Cooper MS so close to an entrance to 495 or Langley HS right off a busy two-lane road with only one entrance and exit? As PP suggested, maybe they can build a new connecting road so there are at least two ways in and out of the new Hutchison school.

Cooper is off a road that goes in two directions, according to the map. Parcher has the one outlet---unless you wind around and end up in Loudoun, and I'm not even sure you can do that. Plus, the fairfaxcounty.gov site says the area is 34 acres--and that includes Hutchison Elementary School Is there even room there for a high school? FCPS said they got rid of the Carson site because it wasn't large enough--and it is 40 acres.

Nevertheless, comparing Georgetown Pike to a major commuter intersection is apples and oranges. I doubt Elden could be widened.

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Anonymous wrote:DP, but as long as the Langley posters keep arrogantly insisting that in no way, shape, or form can they possibly be affected by a new western high school, when kids living next door to Loudoun are getting bussed 12 miles or so to a school near Arlington, the more others will keep reminding them they live in the same county as the rest of us.

And the whole “look at the map” shtick is getting old when the map highlights how far we’ve been bussing rich kids to their rich-kid school.

This thread is starting to go in circles, but posts like this one keep ignoring that bussing Great Falls kids to Langley is the right thing to do from a capacity management standpoint -- Langley is well under capacity (i.e. needs students) and Great Falls parents want their kids to go there. There is literally no incentive for the School Board -- irrespective of who is on the School Board -- to change that. The comments on this thread largely reinforce the point. There don't appear to be any Langley parents from outside Great Falls saying "get those snotty kids out of our school." There also don't appear to be any parents looking to get redistricted into Langley.

Yes, there are parts of Great Falls that are closer to Herndon. But there are also plenty of high schools in the western part of the county that need capacity relief. If the new school gets built, that will be the target for redistricting. It would be huge stretch to lump Langley -- on the other side of the county -- into that discussion. And, like it or not, there is no logical reason to move kids out of a school that is below capacity even if another school is more convenient.

(Although worth noting is that the parts of Great Falls that are closest to Herndon are also the most lightly populated. So you aren't talking about a lot of students.)

Even Tysons growth likely doesn't change that analysis. The only way that Great Falls kids are getting moved is through an across-the-board redistricting . . . and that would likely be political suicide for the School Board.

The above post is just bogus. The low density areas that feed to Langley are western Mclean - outside the special tax district which go to Spring Hill ES, most of the Great Falls ES attendance area, a portion of the Colvin Run attendance area that used to go to Great Falls ES, small portion of what remained at Forestville.

Exactly what parts of Great Falls have Herndon, Reston, or Vienna addresses? " Parts of Great Falls closest to Herndon HS" is so wrong because those residences are not in Great Falls except for Holly Knoll which is not low density and neither are those Herndon addresses.

Pull up boundary maps- easy to find. Here's who got sent to Colvin Run from Forestville [on green spot on the left called Nike Park], Great Falls [near green spot called Great Falls Grange], and Spring Hill. Across Route 7 from Colvin Run is the Toll Bros development. No administrative boundary change from Spring Hill. Find the logic. I cannot unless FCPS is waiting for something big.

Safa Court, Herndon-Forestville, Cooper, Langley. 2.6 miles to Herndon HS. 14.2 to 17 miles to Langley depending on the route.

Dog with bone. JFC.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, FCPS should stupidly continue to expand Langley and Cooper so even more kids whose parents are rich can be bussed to schools nowhere near they live.

Once more:

The reason kids are bused so far:
1. Closest school cannot absorb the extra numbers.
2. I'm not familiar with Forestville--but do all the kids go to Langley? It is a good thing to keep the kids with the same cohort.

3. If the parents are happy and the school is happy, then why do you care? Win/win.

Are you as upset about kids who live near Centreville/Clifton being bused to Fairfax? Some live one mile from Centreville and way less distance than Fairfax.
How about the kids that live less than 2 miles from Chantilly and go to Oakton? Are you concerned about them?

I'm guessing that this goes on all over Fairfax County. Again, why is this so important to you?

Good question. You won’t get an answer, but I have one. This is super-duper important to the PP - even more so than the ACTUAL SCHOOLS MENTIONED IN THE CIP - because the PP has a fixation on a school and community that she sees as somehow getting something that her kids are not. What that “something” is, is anyone’s guess.
DP