how many trailers are acceptable?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to redraw its school boundaries to redistribute the student population.

And then the same parents screaming about trailers will scream about either moving schools or more people coming into theirs.

Literally anything they do y’all will hate.

If FCPS approached facilities and boundaries sensibly that wouldn’t be the case - and insofar as Kent Gardens is concerned moving kids to under-enrolled ES that feed to the same MS and HS would be efficient and generate relatively few complaints.

If you look at the last boundary change involving ES, it involved a bunch of ES that all fed into Glasgow MS and Justice HS to relieve overcrowding at Glen Forest ES. Parents mostly went along with it, other than pointing out that FCPS hadn’t redrawn the boundaries carefully enough, as a result of which they largely transferred the overcrowding problem at one school (Glen Forest) to another school (Parklawn).

But, yeah, go ahead and blame parents for all the problems. That’s been working out really well.

“Sensibly” to y’all means “what I agree with” and not what’s actually sensible. The latter might mean your kid has to go to a school with more of The Poors and, we’ll, that’s just unacceptable!

Your entire “y’all” shtick is totally irrelevant to this discussion as kids at overcrowded Kent Gardens could be moved to two nearby under-capacity elementary schools with very similar demographics in the same pyramid, if FCPS just got its act together.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you be okay with getting rid of the immersion program at Kent Gardens? Because I think that would get rid of your overcrowding. If that’s not enough, get rid of local level IV and have kids who want to have a Level Iv program go to a center.

I am guessing OP wouldn’t be okay with either of these options or with changing boundaries. But complaining on DCUM is a good idea, too, OP.

All that is needed to reduce the overcrowding at KG is to reduce the number of kids in the immersion program who live outside KG’s base boundaries and to move part of Kent Gardens to nearby Franklin Sherman, which is under capacity. The former has already started to happen but it’s being phased in very slowly.

I sense you like the idea of stripping that pyramid further of any special programs, but it’s neither necessary nor appropriate. As for LLIV, KG already sends kids to the AAP center at Churchill Road. They don’t really have space for more without adding trailers there.

There is no need for an immersion program that serves only one school. Keep it and stay overcrowded or get rid of it and don’t be overcrowded.

I am tired of parents complaining but being unwilling to make changes that affect them.

The immersion program will continue to serve students from many feeder schools, but the percentage of kids from our-of-boundary schools will be reduced, as it should be at least until other actions are taken such as a boundary change with Chesterbrook or Franklin Sherman.

In general, FCPS invests very little in the McLean pyramid compared to other pyramids in the county (McLean HS being another example) and treats it like a cash cow instead. There are also very few special programs in the pyramid compared to other pyramids. Parents like OP have every right to be frustrated.

Maybe that's because your PTAs can raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and use those on specials/extracurriculars/etc., while parents in other pyramids can't afford to do that.

You are just making those PTSA numbers up and, even if they were true, they wouldn’t justify the glaring disparities in capital spending within FCPS, which involves much larger amounts. No PSTA is raising the type of money needed to add a wing to overcrowded McLean HS nor can any PTSA decide to change an overcrowded elementary school’s boundaries.

Not making those numbers up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am pretty mad that the entire 6th grade of my kids elementary school is happening in a a trailer. Kent Gardens is over crowded! How do we resolve
this? I realize this won’t get solved in a year, but who solves it? What is the plan when these trailers have mold
issues? Let alone an active shooter? God forbid. Help me be pro public school!

Nearly every ES in FCPS has several trailers and have had them since my oldest was in kindergarten in 2003. It is how the county gets out of building more buildings. They keep waiting for the population to fall.

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The problem with Kent Gardens is that the school board closed Lewinsville ES when the student population went down from the baby boom. They gave the property to the county who just recently tore it down to build senior housing and meeting places. They should have leased it or used it for school offices like they did with Dunn Loring so they could rebuild when it was needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with Kent Gardens is that the school board closed Lewinsville ES when the student population went down from the baby boom. They gave the property to the county who just recently tore it down to build senior housing and meeting places. They should have leased it or used it for school offices like they did with Dunn Loring so they could rebuild when it was needed.

Pimmit Hills has an old school building that they could repurpose.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you be okay with getting rid of the immersion program at Kent Gardens? Because I think that would get rid of your overcrowding. If that’s not enough, get rid of local level IV and have kids who want to have a Level Iv program go to a center.

I am guessing OP wouldn’t be okay with either of these options or with changing boundaries. But complaining on DCUM is a good idea, too, OP.

All that is needed to reduce the overcrowding at KG is to reduce the number of kids in the immersion program who live outside KG’s base boundaries and to move part of Kent Gardens to nearby Franklin Sherman, which is under capacity. The former has already started to happen but it’s being phased in very slowly.

I sense you like the idea of stripping that pyramid further of any special programs, but it’s neither necessary nor appropriate. As for LLIV, KG already sends kids to the AAP center at Churchill Road. They don’t really have space for more without adding trailers there.

There is no need for an immersion program that serves only one school. Keep it and stay overcrowded or get rid of it and don’t be overcrowded.

The numbers are fabricated and also irrelevant to a discussion about facilities.
I am tired of parents complaining but being unwilling to make changes that affect them.

The immersion program will continue to serve students from many feeder schools, but the percentage of kids from our-of-boundary schools will be reduced, as it should be at least until other actions are taken such as a boundary change with Chesterbrook or Franklin Sherman.

In general, FCPS invests very little in the McLean pyramid compared to other pyramids in the county (McLean HS being another example) and treats it like a cash cow instead. There are also very few special programs in the pyramid compared to other pyramids. Parents like OP have every right to be frustrated.

Maybe that's because your PTAs can raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and use those on specials/extracurriculars/etc., while parents in other pyramids can't afford to do that.

You are just making those PTSA numbers up and, even if they were true, they wouldn’t justify the glaring disparities in capital spending within FCPS, which involves much larger amounts. No PSTA is raising the type of money needed to add a wing to overcrowded McLean HS nor can any PTSA decide to change an overcrowded elementary school’s boundaries.

Not making those numbers up.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you be okay with getting rid of the immersion program at Kent Gardens? Because I think that would get rid of your overcrowding. If that’s not enough, get rid of local level IV and have kids who want to have a Level Iv program go to a center.

I am guessing OP wouldn’t be okay with either of these options or with changing boundaries. But complaining on DCUM is a good idea, too, OP.

All that is needed to reduce the overcrowding at KG is to reduce the number of kids in the immersion program who live outside KG’s base boundaries and to move part of Kent Gardens to nearby Franklin Sherman, which is under capacity. The former has already started to happen but it’s being phased in very slowly.

I sense you like the idea of stripping that pyramid further of any special programs, but it’s neither necessary nor appropriate. As for LLIV, KG already sends kids to the AAP center at Churchill Road. They don’t really have space for more without adding trailers there.

There is no need for an immersion program that serves only one school. Keep it and stay overcrowded or get rid of it and don’t be overcrowded.

I am tired of parents complaining but being unwilling to make changes that affect them.

The immersion program will continue to serve students from many feeder schools, but the percentage of kids from our-of-boundary schools will be reduced, as it should be at least until other actions are taken such as a boundary change with Chesterbrook or Franklin Sherman.

In general, FCPS invests very little in the McLean pyramid compared to other pyramids in the county (McLean HS being another example) and treats it like a cash cow instead. There are also very few special programs in the pyramid compared to other pyramids. Parents like OP have every right to be frustrated.

Maybe that's because your PTAs can raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and use those on specials/extracurriculars/etc., while parents in other pyramids can't afford to do that.

You are just making those PTSA numbers up and, even if they were true, they wouldn’t justify the glaring disparities in capital spending within FCPS, which involves much larger amounts. No PSTA is raising the type of money needed to add a wing to overcrowded McLean HS nor can any PTSA decide to change an overcrowded elementary school’s boundaries.

Not making those numbers up.

The numbers are fabricated and also irrelevant to a discussion about facilities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would you be okay with getting rid of the immersion program at Kent Gardens? Because I think that would get rid of your overcrowding. If that’s not enough, get rid of local level IV and have kids who want to have a Level Iv program go to a center.

I am guessing OP wouldn’t be okay with either of these options or with changing boundaries. But complaining on DCUM is a good idea, too, OP.

All that is needed to reduce the overcrowding at KG is to reduce the number of kids in the immersion program who live outside KG’s base boundaries and to move part of Kent Gardens to nearby Franklin Sherman, which is under capacity. The former has already started to happen but it’s being phased in very slowly.

I sense you like the idea of stripping that pyramid further of any special programs, but it’s neither necessary nor appropriate. As for LLIV, KG already sends kids to the AAP center at Churchill Road. They don’t really have space for more without adding trailers there.

And herein lies the problem with KG. They don't want to get rid of immersion, they just want to get rid of outsiders. Typical Mclean.

Hmm. Did you say that when Marshall HS in Falls Church stopped accepting pupil placements for IB (or full-time Marshall Academy) enrollment when it was at capacity? More likely you just save your BS for threads involving McLean schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with Kent Gardens is that the school board closed Lewinsville ES when the student population went down from the baby boom. They gave the property to the county who just recently tore it down to build senior housing and meeting places. They should have leased it or used it for school offices like they did with Dunn Loring so they could rebuild when it was needed.

Pimmit Hills has an old school building that they could repurpose.

That is too small of a lot to build a normal sized ES.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with Kent Gardens is that the school board closed Lewinsville ES when the student population went down from the baby boom. They gave the property to the county who just recently tore it down to build senior housing and meeting places. They should have leased it or used it for school offices like they did with Dunn Loring so they could rebuild when it was needed.

Pimmit Hills has an old school building that they could repurpose.

That is too small of a lot to build a normal sized ES.

DP, but there’s already a building on the Pimmit Hills site and the acreage is larger than some other ES currently in use, including Louise Archer in Vienna, which FCPS is about to renovate and expand.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to redraw its school boundaries to redistribute the student population.

This! There are so many ES under capacity. They need to do a Full County Boundary adjustment to level out the playing field. When they just do a boundary study within a community it does not fix the problem. It just makes another school overcrowded a few years down the line. Parents should be furious there are ES at 40 percent capacity to 120 percent capacity. It is ridiculous.

I agree with fixing the boundaries but there is no regular ES at 40% capacity -- the lowest is 70% capacity and majority of schools are at 90%+. There are special ed schools at 40%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to redraw its school boundaries to redistribute the student population.

This! There are so many ES under capacity. They need to do a Full County Boundary adjustment to level out the playing field. When they just do a boundary study within a community it does not fix the problem. It just makes another school overcrowded a few years down the line. Parents should be furious there are ES at 40 percent capacity to 120 percent capacity. It is ridiculous.

I agree with fixing the boundaries but there is no regular ES at 40% capacity -- the lowest is 70% capacity and majority of schools are at 90%+. There are special ed schools at 40%.

Bucknell ES is at 40 percent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to redraw its school boundaries to redistribute the student population.

This! There are so many ES under capacity. They need to do a Full County Boundary adjustment to level out the playing field. When they just do a boundary study within a community it does not fix the problem. It just makes another school overcrowded a few years down the line. Parents should be furious there are ES at 40 percent capacity to 120 percent capacity. It is ridiculous.

I agree with fixing the boundaries but there is no regular ES at 40% capacity -- the lowest is 70% capacity and majority of schools are at 90%+. There are special ed schools at 40%.

Literally every overcrowded ES has several schools under capacity surrounding it. They could absolutely do a full scale boundary adjustment.

[Anonymous]

Only the poor schools get expanded and new facilities the rich areas live in squalor, it's the woke thing to do

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to redraw its school boundaries to redistribute the student population.

And then the same parents screaming about trailers will scream about either moving schools or more people coming into theirs.

Literally anything they do y’all will hate.

true story