FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

I don't think it is Langley people posting this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

I don't think it is Langley people posting this.

I think 15:55 is indeed a Langley poster who has previously posted in the thread that an end-run around rezoning Forestville to Herndon is renting in the Tysons area that might get rezoned to Langley.

It's not like there are great private schools easily accessible from Great Falls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, according to Zillow there are 91 active rental units under $2,500/month available in the McLean attendance island that they propose to move to Langley. That seems pretty affordable for any folks that want to buy into Langley.

What size are they?

Size doesn’t matter, lady.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

I don't think it is Langley people posting this.

I think 15:55 is indeed a Langley poster who has previously posted in the thread that an end-run around rezoning Forestville to Herndon is renting in the Tysons area that might get rezoned to Langley.

It's not like there are great private schools easily accessible from Great Falls.

Wait, so anyone rezoned to HHS from Langley just has to pay 2-2.5k per month for a rental in the pyramid to stay at Langley? It’s that easy to thwart this BS?

Does the same opportunity exist for the Lewis pyramid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it so brazen and telling that they don’t even pretend to care about minimizing disruption to students. At least include it among other priorities and/or as some sort of guiding principle. Instead, it’s buried in the community feedback. It’s a priority for the community but not the board. I find that incredibly disappointing.

Agreed. Especially after their prior consultant told them it should be one of the core pillars of any boundary policy. The. They the SB just ignored them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

Most of the private schools around here are way more than 2,500 a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

I don't think it is Langley people posting this.

I think 15:55 is indeed a Langley poster who has previously posted in the thread that an end-run around rezoning Forestville to Herndon is renting in the Tysons area that might get rezoned to Langley.

It's not like there are great private schools easily accessible from Great Falls.

Wait, so anyone rezoned to HHS from Langley just has to pay 2-2.5k per month for a rental in the pyramid to stay at Langley? It’s that easy to thwart this BS?

Does the same opportunity exist for the Lewis pyramid?

DP. The situation is different in that PP is talking about apartments in Tysons currently zoned to McLean now getting rezoned into Langley, and then someone who gets moved from Langley to Herndon renting one of those properties for the mailing address.

In comparison, nothing is going to get moved into West Springfield, just possibly out of it. And there aren't nearly as many rentals in the WSHS district under $2500/month as there are in Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow is attending Langley this big of a deal? Why not just spent those $2,500 a month on a private school? I must be living in a different reality

I don't think it is Langley people posting this.

I think 15:55 is indeed a Langley poster who has previously posted in the thread that an end-run around rezoning Forestville to Herndon is renting in the Tysons area that might get rezoned to Langley.

It's not like there are great private schools easily accessible from Great Falls.

Wait, so anyone rezoned to HHS from Langley just has to pay 2-2.5k per month for a rental in the pyramid to stay at Langley? It’s that easy to thwart this BS?

Does the same opportunity exist for the Lewis pyramid?

It might- there is a large apartment complex on Old Keene that is probably safe and a number of rentals in the Cardinal Forest condo areas. It just depends if they really intend to crack down on people using a rental address that they don’t actually live at.

If you have older kids, there’s always the IB to AP loophole but that would just get you placed out of Lewis and into likely SoCo or Hayfield, since WSHS is closed to transfers.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone chime in and play devil’s advocate, from the school board’s perspective, how is this boundary shift supposed to benefit the students?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that those in favor of the adjustment cannot give good, valid reasons why it is needed. FCPS will spend buckets of money on this.

A)Some schools are over capacity.
B)Some schools are under capacity.
Schools A and B share boundaries.
The end.

Maybe a school is over capacity because FCPS planning sucks and we have School Board members like Karl Frisch ignoring it while wasting tens of millions on an unnecessary new elementary school in Dunn Loring.

I want smarter planning and capital investments, not kids moved around like widgets to cover up their incompetence and inattention to detail.

This really is the major point.

FCPS isn't trusted to make good faith decisions, decisions ACTUALLY taken to benefit the students and community and based on accurate data. All appearances are that they will waste money budgeted for the system for the sake of advancing their political careers and make decisions for personal reasons rather than the good of the system.

If FCPS is so terrible, please move to another school district. I have heard fabulous reviews of Howard County Public Schools and Arlington Public Schools. Nobody is forcing you to stay in fcps.

You sound like a MAGA, PP; telling people to move out of the U.S. if they point out things not being done the way you want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that those in favor of the adjustment cannot give good, valid reasons why it is needed. FCPS will spend buckets of money on this.

A)Some schools are over capacity.
B)Some schools are under capacity.
Schools A and B share boundaries.
The end.

Maybe a school is over capacity because FCPS planning sucks and we have School Board members like Karl Frisch ignoring it while wasting tens of millions on an unnecessary new elementary school in Dunn Loring.

I want smarter planning and capital investments, not kids moved around like widgets to cover up their incompetence and inattention to detail.

This really is the major point.

FCPS isn't trusted to make good faith decisions, decisions ACTUALLY taken to benefit the students and community and based on accurate data. All appearances are that they will waste money budgeted for the system for the sake of advancing their political careers and make decisions for personal reasons rather than the good of the system.

If FCPS is so terrible, please move to another school district. I have heard fabulous reviews of Howard County Public Schools and Arlington Public Schools. Nobody is forcing you to stay in fcps.

You sound like a MAGA, PP; telling people to move out of the U.S. if they point out things not being done the way you want.

Someone suggested MFGA for the SB shills, which I absolutely love because it fits so perfectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone chime in and play devil’s advocate, from the school board’s perspective, how is this boundary shift supposed to benefit the students?

They believe that by reducing split feeders and attendance islands, that school attendance will improve. Especially in lower income areas. If a kid in a low income apartment complex misses the bus, they might not have another way to get to school. But if they lived close enough, they could at least walk. And that parent participation/involvement/sense of community will increase if all the kids are attending their closest schools. Again, this is more an issue in the lower SES areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that those in favor of the adjustment cannot give good, valid reasons why it is needed. FCPS will spend buckets of money on this.

A)Some schools are over capacity.
B)Some schools are under capacity.
Schools A and B share boundaries.
The end.

Maybe a school is over capacity because FCPS planning sucks and we have School Board members like Karl Frisch ignoring it while wasting tens of millions on an unnecessary new elementary school in Dunn Loring.

I want smarter planning and capital investments, not kids moved around like widgets to cover up their incompetence and inattention to detail.

This really is the major point.

FCPS isn't trusted to make good faith decisions, decisions ACTUALLY taken to benefit the students and community and based on accurate data. All appearances are that they will waste money budgeted for the system for the sake of advancing their political careers and make decisions for personal reasons rather than the good of the system.

If FCPS is so terrible, please move to another school district. I have heard fabulous reviews of Howard County Public Schools and Arlington Public Schools. Nobody is forcing you to stay in fcps.

I see you don't deny their wasteful spending. Heaven forbid, we get upset at poor governance. Damn peasants think we should get a say!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone chime in and play devil’s advocate, from the school board’s perspective, how is this boundary shift supposed to benefit the students?

They believe that by reducing split feeders and attendance islands, that school attendance will improve. Especially in lower income areas. If a kid in a low income apartment complex misses the bus, they might not have another way to get to school. But if they lived close enough, they could at least walk. And that parent participation/involvement/sense of community will increase if all the kids are attending their closest schools. Again, this is more an issue in the lower SES areas.

Agree that is important. Please tell me which low income areas do not go to the closest schools. I've seen equity supporters on here suggest busing low income areas to schools that are further away in the name of "equity."