FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Maybe I am in the minority viewpoint, or it is just that people like me are not too concerned about all this because our houses are not close to a boundary.

You may think you are not close to a boundary, but that does not matter anymore. When I moved here, we were not close to a boundary. We haven't moved, but the boundaries have.
Elementary is safe for us because we are walkers. At least, I think it is safe. Middle school is very close--yet we are close to a boundary. High school is very close--yet we are close to a boundary.

When the boundaries were drawn, there were valid reasons for them. Traffic patterns, overcrowding at some schools, etc. With limited exceptions, that is not true with this boundary study.

This is kind of like going on vacation and having others come in to rearrange your furniture. They throw away what they think is not useful--but is important to you. And, yes, they also rearrange your kitchen so that you cannot find what you frequently use.

Did FCPS promise you that high school in perpetuity?

Did FCPS promise you an equity-based hand-out paid for by your neighbors?

[Anonymous]

What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

There are areas walkable to Kent Gardens, Longfellow, and McLean, and to Churchill Road, Cooper, and Langley.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

There are areas walkable to Kent Gardens, Longfellow, and McLean, and to Churchill Road, Cooper, and Langley.

I think you’re missing the point here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

Can someone identify this poster’s logical fallacy/fallacies? There is definitely a name for it, I just can’t recall at the moment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

There are areas walkable to Kent Gardens, Longfellow, and McLean, and to Churchill Road, Cooper, and Langley.

Ditto Herndon - Herndon - Herndon

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

There are areas walkable to Kent Gardens, Longfellow, and McLean, and to Churchill Road, Cooper, and Langley.

Ditto Herndon - Herndon - Herndon

Adding Clearview/Dranesville-Herndon-Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

There are areas walkable to Kent Gardens, Longfellow, and McLean, and to Churchill Road, Cooper, and Langley.

Ditto Herndon - Herndon - Herndon

Adding Clearview/Dranesville-Herndon-Herndon.

I guess I should’ve clarified, walkable like a mile or two, not several miles. I guess theoretically everyone can walk to every school with enough time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.

I'd say no greater than 1%. South Lakes and Hughes basically share a campus. Terraset is hardly 1% of the county.

There are areas walkable to Kent Gardens, Longfellow, and McLean, and to Churchill Road, Cooper, and Langley.

Ditto Herndon - Herndon - Herndon

Adding Clearview/Dranesville-Herndon-Herndon.

I guess I should’ve clarified, walkable like a mile or two, not several miles. I guess theoretically everyone can walk to every school with enough time.

Sure, two miles across very busy streets. Totally walkable.......

[Anonymous]

Some of Cardinal Forest’s walkers would be able to walk to Irving and WSHS. Laurel Hill neighborhood kids can walk across the street to SCMS and HS. Some Hayfield kids in bounds for Hayfield ES. Springfield Estates neighborhood kids to Key and Lewis. Oak View and Laurel Ridge to Robinson if they already live near Robinson.

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Anonymous wrote:We are a timber lane/longfellow/mclean family and the tone about our kids on here is really sad. We want our kids to stay with their friends and at their schools just like most other people here.

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.

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.

There also are people who are rabidly against boundary changes because their property value might go down. It’s shameful.

That’s not as shameful as favoring boundary changes merely because you desperately want to see other people’s property values decline.

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.

Cool story, 🤡.

The fact is that you’re talking about natural risk vs. something that is very much in control of human beings. Two very different things.

Buying on a boundary border is a risk that people should avoid because of the school board? Congratulations, you just decimated the county’s tax rolls because a ton of houses fall in that category. You are off the extreme minority viewpoint here.

Maybe I am in the minority viewpoint, or it is just that people like me are not too concerned about all this because our houses are not close to a boundary. It could also be that a lot of people in Faifax County are more worried now in putting food on their tables and paying for rent. They don’t have extra time in the day to come on here to complain, or organize to fight the school board. And yes, people like us may not be contributing as much tax-wise, but our kids should not get the short end of the stick just because we don’t live in two million dollar homes. It is PUBLIC school after all.

Save your keystrokes. The people most active in this thread simply cannot fathom that there are actually residents who support the boundary review.

It’s funny how those same posters imply that folks supporting the boundary changes just want a bump in property values, when folks who are opposed to the changes are also clearly concerned about their property values. 🙄

Just a whole lotta hypocrisy in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe I am in the minority viewpoint, or it is just that people like me are not too concerned about all this because our houses are not close to a boundary.

You may think you are not close to a boundary, but that does not matter anymore. When I moved here, we were not close to a boundary. We haven't moved, but the boundaries have.
Elementary is safe for us because we are walkers. At least, I think it is safe. Middle school is very close--yet we are close to a boundary. High school is very close--yet we are close to a boundary.

When the boundaries were drawn, there were valid reasons for them. Traffic patterns, overcrowding at some schools, etc. With limited exceptions, that is not true with this boundary study.

This is kind of like going on vacation and having others come in to rearrange your furniture. They throw away what they think is not useful--but is important to you. And, yes, they also rearrange your kitchen so that you cannot find what you frequently use.

Did FCPS promise you that high school in perpetuity?

Did FCPS promise you an equity-based hand-out paid for by your neighbors?

Boundaries changes. All over the country, not just in Fairfax County.

Build a bridge and get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe I am in the minority viewpoint, or it is just that people like me are not too concerned about all this because our houses are not close to a boundary.

You may think you are not close to a boundary, but that does not matter anymore. When I moved here, we were not close to a boundary. We haven't moved, but the boundaries have.
Elementary is safe for us because we are walkers. At least, I think it is safe. Middle school is very close--yet we are close to a boundary. High school is very close--yet we are close to a boundary.

When the boundaries were drawn, there were valid reasons for them. Traffic patterns, overcrowding at some schools, etc. With limited exceptions, that is not true with this boundary study.

This is kind of like going on vacation and having others come in to rearrange your furniture. They throw away what they think is not useful--but is important to you. And, yes, they also rearrange your kitchen so that you cannot find what you frequently use.

Did FCPS promise you that high school in perpetuity?

Did FCPS promise you an equity-based hand-out paid for by your neighbors?

Boundaries changes. All over the country, not just in Fairfax County.

Build a bridge and get over it.

“Get over it.” This is about real impact to real kids so no, I won’t just “get over it”. Since ES, my MS-aged kid has built connections to their zoned HS through sports, music, and academic activities. They visit the HS and know so many of the kids they’ll soon go to school with. Taking that away (and worse, asking them to switch part way through!) isn’t necessary. I’m all for raising resilient kids, but we’ve already asked these kids to be resilient through a pandemic, which significantly disrupted their education and community. What are we trying to achieve through this exercise that’s worth the real impact it will have on kids? I’d prefer that public schools always prioritize the kids.
Also, any data being used to inform decisions isn’t reliable. This area is facing major changes through the ripple effects of downsizing the federal government and curbing immigration. The region needs to stabilize before we use data to make major and costly decisions.