School Boundaries and "One Fairfax"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If they do something, it will be in response to the efforts of everyone involved but the One Great Falls people. The majority of the SB knows it’s primarily a front for the local Republicans that will not give them any credit for anything they do before their current terms expire.

So, only Great Falls Republicans care that McLean is overcrowded?
Only Great Falls Republicans care to keep their kids at Langley?

Sure.

I know right?

It couldn't be that these are just parents who decided to voice their own views.
There are many Democrats in both pyramids and I doubt any of them want McLean to stay over capacity and Langley under.

I'm a Democrat and call me disgusted. I posted Forest Edge because none of the main complainers about demographics including Keyes Gamarra and Corbett Sanders came up with any ideas to infuse Title 1 into Langley yet ran blockades on Strauss being able to effect logical resource stewardship.

The Edge is the only Title 1 elementary bordering Langley. In the east you have to down to Falls Church or Justice [getting addition] to find a Title 1 elementary. Of course Schultz is peevish. Capacity enhancements construction money wasted while she has students in schools with no relief. Watch the BOS 6/25/19 on the bond referendum. This is Fairfax County Public Schools with over 200 school sites plus other public property. Nonsensical that there is ONE boundary process scheduled for the 2019-20 school year and under this FCSB that means ONE boundary change for 2020-21.

BOS raised the cap on bond sales and bond referendums and FCPS is flagrantly wasting the money. What was the Corbett Sanders , Gamarra, etc plan for Mclean? Bus them to Lee and Mount Vernon while she builds more than connecting walkways at West Potomac? Even Platenburg couldn't respond to the BOS on if the Oakton area new build elementary school was needed based on available bricks and mortar. I'd rather spend public money on actual needy children than junk to retrofit Mclean … just the money to remove the lockers could have been used for teachers discretionary spending. Neighbors daughter spent 700 as a new teacher for classroom stuff. Teachers buy food for snacks.

They should be worried about more than Republican gaining seats. The Bond Referendum.

[Anonymous]

Valid.


Why give more money if they can't do right with what they have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If they do something, it will be in response to the efforts of everyone involved but the One Great Falls people. The majority of the SB knows it’s primarily a front for the local Republicans that will not give them any credit for anything they do before their current terms expire.

So, only Great Falls Republicans care that McLean is overcrowded?
Only Great Falls Republicans care to keep their kids at Langley?

Sure.

I know right?

It couldn't be that these are just parents who decided to voice their own views.
There are many Democrats in both pyramids and I doubt any of them want McLean to stay over capacity and Langley under.

I'm a Democrat and call me disgusted. I posted Forest Edge because none of the main complainers about demographics including Keyes Gamarra and Corbett Sanders came up with any ideas to infuse Title 1 into Langley yet ran blockades on Strauss being able to effect logical resource stewardship.

The Edge is the only Title 1 elementary bordering Langley. In the east you have to down to Falls Church or Justice [getting addition] to find a Title 1 elementary. Of course Schultz is peevish. Capacity enhancements construction money wasted while she has students in schools with no relief. Watch the BOS 6/25/19 on the bond referendum. This is Fairfax County Public Schools with over 200 school sites plus other public property. Nonsensical that there is ONE boundary process scheduled for the 2019-20 school year and under this FCSB that means ONE boundary change for 2020-21.

BOS raised the cap on bond sales and bond referendums and FCPS is flagrantly wasting the money. What was the Corbett Sanders , Gamarra, etc plan for Mclean? Bus them to Lee and Mount Vernon while she builds more than connecting walkways at West Potomac? Even Platenburg couldn't respond to the BOS on if the Oakton area new build elementary school was needed based on available bricks and mortar. I'd rather spend public money on actual needy children than junk to retrofit Mclean … just the money to remove the lockers could have been used for teachers discretionary spending. Neighbors daughter spent 700 as a new teacher for classroom stuff. Teachers buy food for snacks.

They should be worried about more than Republican gaining seats. The Bond Referendum.

So, are you promoting sending Forest Edge to Langley?

Why? They likely don't want to switch. Have you considered that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the Langley pyramid who watched her speak or who will catch it on video later are perfectly happy with her advocacy to keep all current neighborhoods in the pyramid.

Tholen? She’s lying to get elected.

How so? Among the Dranesville candidates, the biggest whopper I’ve seen was Ardavan Mobasheri’s suggestion that he was somehow going to convince the county in short order to build a new secondary school in the middle of Tysons.

No one takes him seriously at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If they do something, it will be in response to the efforts of everyone involved but the One Great Falls people. The majority of the SB knows it’s primarily a front for the local Republicans that will not give them any credit for anything they do before their current terms expire.

So, only Great Falls Republicans care that McLean is overcrowded?
Only Great Falls Republicans care to keep their kids at Langley?

Sure.

I know right?

It couldn't be that these are just parents who decided to voice their own views.
There are many Democrats in both pyramids and I doubt any of them want McLean to stay over capacity and Langley under.

I'm a Democrat and call me disgusted. I posted Forest Edge because none of the main complainers about demographics including Keyes Gamarra and Corbett Sanders came up with any ideas to infuse Title 1 into Langley yet ran blockades on Strauss being able to effect logical resource stewardship.

The Edge is the only Title 1 elementary bordering Langley. In the east you have to down to Falls Church or Justice [getting addition] to find a Title 1 elementary. Of course Schultz is peevish. Capacity enhancements construction money wasted while she has students in schools with no relief. Watch the BOS 6/25/19 on the bond referendum. This is Fairfax County Public Schools with over 200 school sites plus other public property. Nonsensical that there is ONE boundary process scheduled for the 2019-20 school year and under this FCSB that means ONE boundary change for 2020-21.

BOS raised the cap on bond sales and bond referendums and FCPS is flagrantly wasting the money. What was the Corbett Sanders , Gamarra, etc plan for Mclean? Bus them to Lee and Mount Vernon while she builds more than connecting walkways at West Potomac? Even Platenburg couldn't respond to the BOS on if the Oakton area new build elementary school was needed based on available bricks and mortar. I'd rather spend public money on actual needy children than junk to retrofit Mclean … just the money to remove the lockers could have been used for teachers discretionary spending. Neighbors daughter spent 700 as a new teacher for classroom stuff. Teachers buy food for snacks.

They should be worried about more than Republican gaining seats. The Bond Referendum.

So, are you promoting sending Forest Edge to Langley?

Why? They likely don't want to switch. Have you considered that?

How does this help overcrowding at McLean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

If they do something, it will be in response to the efforts of everyone involved but the One Great Falls people. The majority of the SB knows it’s primarily a front for the local Republicans that will not give them any credit for anything they do before their current terms expire.

So, only Great Falls Republicans care that McLean is overcrowded?
Only Great Falls Republicans care to keep their kids at Langley?

Sure.

I know right?

It couldn't be that these are just parents who decided to voice their own views.
There are many Democrats in both pyramids and I doubt any of them want McLean to stay over capacity and Langley under.

I'm a Democrat and call me disgusted. I posted Forest Edge because none of the main complainers about demographics including Keyes Gamarra and Corbett Sanders came up with any ideas to infuse Title 1 into Langley yet ran blockades on Strauss being able to effect logical resource stewardship.

The Edge is the only Title 1 elementary bordering Langley. In the east you have to down to Falls Church or Justice [getting addition] to find a Title 1 elementary. Of course Schultz is peevish. Capacity enhancements construction money wasted while she has students in schools with no relief. Watch the BOS 6/25/19 on the bond referendum. This is Fairfax County Public Schools with over 200 school sites plus other public property. Nonsensical that there is ONE boundary process scheduled for the 2019-20 school year and under this FCSB that means ONE boundary change for 2020-21.

BOS raised the cap on bond sales and bond referendums and FCPS is flagrantly wasting the money. What was the Corbett Sanders , Gamarra, etc plan for Mclean? Bus them to Lee and Mount Vernon while she builds more than connecting walkways at West Potomac? Even Platenburg couldn't respond to the BOS on if the Oakton area new build elementary school was needed based on available bricks and mortar. I'd rather spend public money on actual needy children than junk to retrofit Mclean … just the money to remove the lockers could have been used for teachers discretionary spending. Neighbors daughter spent 700 as a new teacher for classroom stuff. Teachers buy food for snacks.

They should be worried about more than Republican gaining seats. The Bond Referendum.

Yeah, the bond referendum is in danger

You can’t be that delusional.

It might only get 70% of the vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the Langley pyramid who watched her speak or who will catch it on video later are perfectly happy with her advocacy to keep all current neighborhoods in the pyramid.

Tholen? She’s lying to get elected.

How so? Among the Dranesville candidates, the biggest whopper I’ve seen was Ardavan Mobasheri’s suggestion that he was somehow going to convince the county in short order to build a new secondary school in the middle of Tysons.

No one takes him seriously at this point.

To respond to another post, NO I am not promoting sending Forest Edge to Langley. It's an example of a Title 1 school adjacent to the Langley attendance area. Mobasheri short order build in Tysons? He'd have FCPS lease the closed Macy's at the Galleria? Call it a magnet and many could get there on metro- get out at the Tyson's stop.

I understand why Voices of Fairfax evolved- waste of public resources and a non-partisan [Hah] school board fretting because it doesn't like the fact that a school site is inconveniently located to move in disadvantaged + Hispanic ELs. These people pay property taxes and have a school board that resents their presence and access to FAPE-Free Appropriate Public Education in eduspeak.

[Anonymous]

Renovating a Macy's into a high school is an interesting idea.

My first thought was that getting buses in and out would be a mess with mall traffic. However, with school starting g and ending before peak times it could work. I don't know how they would handle events though, and what about outdoor sports? Unless they made it an arts magnet like Duke Ellington, I don't know how it would work.

Anyway one person can't promise that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Renovating a Macy's into a high school is an interesting idea.

My first thought was that getting buses in and out would be a mess with mall traffic. However, with school starting g and ending before peak times it could work. I don't know how they would handle events though, and what about outdoor sports? Unless they made it an arts magnet like Duke Ellington, I don't know how it would work.

Anyway one person can't promise that.

I missed that the idea was a middle school. I would think it a middle school would want some outdoor space though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't vote on who the parents at other high schools and local organizations will be.

I do vote for school board reps. That's the difference.

Uh huh. Most of the Board that takes office in January 2020 will likely consist of new members.

Half, I thought.

One or two of them are trying to make the move to B.O.S. Still relevant.

Half are not seeking re-election and at least half of the incumbents seeking re-election are vulnerable.

My impressions

Keys gamarra--- okay overall. Not alot of Dranesville fans. Could win but not without effort.

Moon-- pretty well respected, probably safe. (I thought he was withdrawing)

Wilson--alright.Has his moments

Schultz--people seem to love or hate. Actually has sone feeling when speaking about her constituents

McLaughlin--solid and unbeatable



Corbett Sanders-- probably will be safe, I guess most don't care about that expansion with capacity nearby thing. Maybe the building is really old though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean high school parents have been pushing, I think that they arranged meetings with Brabrand and Strauss.

It made local news.

I am sure that the video Voices of Fairfax made on the boundary policy and One Fairfax also made a difference.

It's got 5,000 or so views.

7.5 thousand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There just aren't that many spots in local private schools -- Potomac has about 110 kids in each graduating class, and it pulls from all over the area (though yes, a lot from McLean). St Albans is even smaller and has about 80 in each graduating class (and really not that many from anywhere in NoVa). I can't see how private schools are drawing SO many kids out of Fairfax schools.

Georgetown Prep; Stone Bridge; St.Stephens St Agnes; Episcopal High School; Bishop O'Connell; Madeira; etc.etc.

Also: there are homeschoolers and homeschool coops--even in top-performing pyramids.

[Anonymous]

Brabrand attempting damage control before a FCCPTA group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLl0svbSJ8&feature=youtu.be

I'm not quite sure why he thinks continuing to tell people over and over again that he's not actually doing anything yet to address the severe overcrowding within FCPS is a message that everyone would find reassuring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brabrand attempting damage control before a FCCPTA group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLl0svbSJ8&feature=youtu.be

I'm not quite sure why he thinks continuing to tell people over and over again that he's not actually doing anything yet to address the severe overcrowding within FCPS is a message that everyone would find reassuring.

So. He's going to hire an outside consultant to recommend policy changes. How much $$? Just how many different issues are there? Do they think the consultant is a magician?

And, we all know what will happen, it will come back to the SB and they will argue and yak and do what they intended to do to start with.

[Anonymous]

And, so the boundary policy hasn't changed in 30 years? Maybe, because it made sense? They just did not wish to implement it, so they did nothing. It's not the policy that was the problem.