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Anonymous
Yes well we are a Shrevewood family who would rather our whole school be sent to Longfellow/Mclean rather than Cherry picking the wealthiest neighborhood on our boundaries for that. |
Anonymous
| What I’m learning here is that McLean and Langley parents feel that they are entitled to more than everyone else because their house prices are higher. Except the Timber lane families they are trying to get rid of. |
Anonymous
She is completely useless. |
Anonymous
I agree, but to me, this countywide boundary change seems like a tacit admission that they are not going to build a new western high school. A new western high school would solve the three-way split issue at Carson. Now, they are probably going to propose a very unpopular proposal to address this. |
Anonymous
Most McLean families would be fine with keeping the Timber Lane attendance island that has been zoned to McLean for 40 years. They didn’t ask for this county-wide boundary review. The issue is that FCPS apparently wants to keep that island, but find some way to bridge it to the main McLean attendance area, which involves moving areas now zoned to Marshall and to other elementary schools besides Timber Lane. Then you have people from those schools concerned that FCPS is “cherry picking” neighborhoods from Shrevewood. The other issue is that the consultants have proposed not just to bridge the current island, but to reassign additional areas further south and much closer to other schools to Longfellow, but not McLean, which would create a very odd split feeder where only a small number of kids would attend Longfellow and then Falls Church. That flies directly in the face of the purported desire to avoid lopsided split feeders and minimize transportation costs. I don’t think Langley cares about the Timber Lane island at all, except to the extent that some there might prefer that FCPS address the continued overcrowding at McLean by reassigning the Timber Lane island to Falls Church or Marshall rather than moving the Tysons island to Cooper/Langley. That’s not based on any animus towards Timber Lane, but instead a desire to avoid overcrowding Cooper/Langley. |
Anonymous
What a mooch you are. |
Anonymous
The very few people I’ve heard who are actually for boundary changes for their kids (and they are very few and far between), are hoping to get a rise in their property value by being moved to a school they perceive as better. It’s shameful. |
Anonymous
There also are people who are rabidly against boundary changes because their property value might go down. It’s shameful. |
Anonymous
That’s not as shameful as favoring boundary changes merely because you desperately want to see other people’s property values decline. |
Anonymous
It’s not even close - looking out for our kids and trying to protect them from massive boundary change disruption vs. trying to take from your neighbors? GTFO. |
Anonymous
+1. Song people are really looking to soak their neighbors because they perceive them as having more than they do. Boundary changes are the left’s version of maga |
Anonymous
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Division Chief, Senior Manager, and Director spending grew from $20 million (actual 2021) to $43 million (proposed 2026). More than doubled.
That extra $23 million could instead be paid to students at $10,000 each to go to private high school. That would remove 2,300 students from enrollment. I estimate that could reduce enrollment by around 4% at FCPS high schools, assuming there are around 57,000 high school students, which is likely a better result than the boundary change plan. |
Anonymous
That’s on the people who chose to buy their homes along the school boundaries. They gambled, and now might loose. We had the chance of buying a bigger house close to a creek, in a flood zone. We did not want to take that chance. So we ended up buying a smaller one. We made that choice. |
Anonymous
We bought our house for Marshall. I don’t WANT my kids to move to McLean. But I do think it’s ridiculous that they chose the richest neighborhood in our s hook boundaries (the one that is literally across the street from the school) to be the one that they are moving. I don’t see anyone from that neighborhood up in arms here and I know for a fact (because they are my friends) that a ton of them read this forum and contribute prolifically. |
Anonymous
Let's also consider: $87 million increase for health insurance - In 2022, health insurance cost $248 million. In 2025, without Blue Choice or Aetna, total health insurance budget jumped to $335 million. Thats an $87 million or 35% increase in 3 years. A 15% increase would have been $50 million less. Would teachers have preferred Blue Choice + Aetna over Cigna? Would it have been cheaper? Is Cigna too expensive? Could $50 million per year be saved and spent on land for a new school? For 2026 proposed, it's up almost 10% again to $361 million, although it looks like a minimal # of people get Blue Choice again. Textbooks - why is $146 million being spent on textbooks for 2025 + 2026 when in recent years, that was a small line item? Like - $ 3m in 2022 $22m in 2023 $ 6m in 2024 . . . then. . $106 MILLION 2025 !!! $45 MILLION 2026 !!!! proposed Why the extra $130 million in 2 years (over average)?? The books cant be that spectacular. Again, couldnt some of these funds be paid to students to attend private schools? Particularly to kids with IEPs, as special ed spending has gone way way up and surely many parents would bail if paid for it. |