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Anonymous
+1. It worked great for the people who stood to gain, including Stu Gibson and Kathy Smith. |
Anonymous
And many Fox Mill Japanese immersion students come from outside Fox Mill boundary. |
Anonymous
So what would Melanie Meren do about the Carson three-way split issue? Would she move Fox Mill students to Hughes or Crossfield students to SLHS? |
Anonymous
| Did anyone catch a school year that they plan to implement approved proposed attendance island shifts? |
Anonymous
| People were worried about Waples being rezoned, but it sounds like the bigger concern might actually be crossfield! |
Anonymous
It’s all supposed change 2026-2027. The school board mistakenly thinks families will forget or forgive after a year. They’re fooling themselves. |
Anonymous
I think their plan to bridge Timber Lane to the rest of the McLean boundary might involve swapping some of Shrevewood and Lemon Road where its boundary dips below 7. That way Shrevewood would remain a single feeder and Lemon Road would be a >25% split. |
Anonymous
Attendance islands are just the start. Split feeders are next week. Capacity early may. All to be implemented fall 2026. |
Anonymous
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Has anyone at FCPS done a study to see how much this will cost?
$$$$ Double buses; communications with families--paperwork, mailing, etc; staffing at many schools (this is bigger than most realize); administration; redistricting of schools; lawsuits; surge in pupil placements; administrative time to sort this all out; moving of textbooks and equipment. This is far more than $500K paid to THRU which will likely get far more than $500K. Has anyone examined this contract? And, the loss of public support will be immeasurable. |
Anonymous
The transfer dashboard says 135 transfer into Fox Mill for JIP. JIP also used to be at Floris, contiguous boundary for Fox Mill. That was a function of the random FLI initial site placements. Amenable school board membrs and site based administrators. Now Floris only sends 11 to Fox Mill and what's the FLI JIP send on the 11? JIP counts per grade level? Fox Mill? Great Falls? GFES receives 28 transfers for JIP and <10 total transfers are from Forestville. No sending school sends 10 or more. No one looks at AAP boundaries unless a new school opens or there is severe overcrowding and FCPS is running a limited scope boundary process. Dogwood is assigned to Sunrise Valley when in a base school boundary process would be in scope first with Hunters Woods. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/SY2024-25AAPElementarySchools.pdf AAP Centers at Clearview and Colvin Run [one goal was to load the new school] were spinoffs from Forest Edge when it was over capacity with a major whole school renovation planned. |
Anonymous
They can't actually bridge the Timber Lane island to the rest of the Longfellow/McLean area because of the land that Falls Church City now owns near Haycock Road and Route 7 (the area that includes Meridian HS and Maryl Ellen Henderson MS). The 4/11 presentation pretends they can eliminate the attendance island by moving part of Shrevewood to Longfellow/McLean. It shrinks the distance between the island and the rest of the Longfellow/McLean attendance area, but it doesn't actually eliminate it (the map in the 4/11 presentation appeares to be misleading in this regard) and it creates a new split feeder at Shrevewood, where some kids would go to Longfellow/McLean and most to Kilmer/Marshall. I'm also not sure how this swap you've described would work. The Lemon Road area is further west of the current Timber Lane island, and the Lemon Road area on the other side of Route 7 is within walking distance of Marshall. The area described above that would shrink but not eliminate the island includes an area within walking distance of Shrevewood. So I'm missing how you swap their boundaries and eliminate the island. The reality is that if they really care so much about eliminating attendance islands they ought to reassign the Timber Lane island to either Marshall or Falls Church, but they apparently want to bump up the FARMS percentage at Longfellow and/or McLean, as illustrated by the proposal to move the area much further south near Graham Road and Route 50 area to Longfellow. Why they aren't doing this, and then reassigning even more of closer Westgate to Longfellow/McLean escapes me. |
Anonymous
Are you questioning Thru’s crayon coloring ability? Surely the bridge of the Timberlane attendance island is the most importantly thing they’ve done. Having that handful of extra households going to a different school is just so critical. They should just leave that attendance island as is, and just call it what it is, an equity bridge. |
Anonymous
+1. Either they drew their map wrong, or they didn't bridge the island. I'm with you. Just leave it alone as is. Timber Lane is a fairly even split feeder, so it falls in the category of those they claim not to be a priority on 4/25 (the > 25% split feeders). |
Anonymous
I have not looked at the numbers, but I would guess that about 1/3 of the Fox Mill student population comes from outside the boundaries for JI. I know many of those students continue to Carson and participate in JI at Carson. I am not certain how many of them will continue to SLHS or Oakton, the two HS I know with Japanese. I am guessing Langley has Japanese because I think that is where the GFES kids attend HS? Someone said that Floris used to have JI, that is news to me, interesting fact. I know of the GFES JI program but had never heard about Floris. |
Anonymous
Isn’t Dunne hyper focused on getting rid of trailers? Don’t they need to move the Timberlane attendance island to achieve that goal? If One Fairfax is still at play and that is why the attendance island isn’t moving, they should make it crystal clear for us |