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Anonymous
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More money to Thru last night per the FCPS meeting.
The proposed amendment will add 1) development of a boundary explorer website in the amount of $20,000 and 2) the option to purchase an interactive, multi-language tool to support hybrid community engagement sessions, Pigeonhole, in the amount of $2,700. |
Anonymous
Those changes in the Falls Church/Graham Road/Timber Lane/Pine Spring area are huge. Lots of unhappy people—especially about kids being shipped all the way to Longfellow for MS. |
Anonymous
And I guess this is why we need to #fundFCPS? Yes, yes, I know 23K-ish won't actually move the needle, but why do we think these people are good stewards of our tax dollars again? |
Anonymous
I don’t see how that stands. Either they keep “new” Timber Lane as a fairly even split feeder to Longfellow/McLean and Jackson/Falls Church with Route 29 as the dividing line, which makes more sense, or they send all of “new” Timber Lane to Longfellow/McLean. Turning Longfellow into a split feeder where only 7% or so of the kids go to Falls Church makes no sense. It’s the exact type of split feeder they are looking to unwind. If they send all of “new” Timber Lane to Longfellow/McLean they drive up the FARMS rates with all the Kingsley Commons kids, which no doubt would please the School Board, but they’d also double the commutes for the poorer kids off Route 50 who’d benefit by living closer to their schools, which does not align with best practices. It would be a boost for the real estate prices for the single-family homes in that area, but on the other hand it might suck for some of the families who’ve been putting up with the Falls Church renovation for years to have their kids moved to dumpy McLean right around the time the very expensive FCHS renovation wraps up. Another thing they haven’t really drilled down on is how much they’d be gutting the enrollment of Pine Spring between the changes associated with the Graham Road realignment and the reassignment of the Pine Spring island to Westlawn. |
Anonymous
So. they put in a bid to draw boundaries, but did not already have the software to do it? Drip, drip, drip. Just wait until they need to make maps and do more community engagement. Anyone who thinks that Thru will not be making $$millions is very naive. In government contracting, anyone who thinks it is a "fixed price" has no experience. The School Board knows that, but $500K as the "price" is much more attractive at the beginning. |
Anonymous
I'm guessing you're one of the handful of posters who got into a spat with a Langley poster on the FairFACTS Matters FB page or Next Door that turned personal, and now you've brought it over here where you can take pot shots anonymously. The fact is that Great Falls posters, because of their interest in boundaries, have spent the most time questioning FCPS's projections. That includes challenging a methodology that only takes future residential growth into account if a developer has broken ground, and asserting that the projections for Herndon in the latest CIP are significantly understated. On the other hand, people who have nothing to do with Langley or Great Falls have questioned the need to expand Centreville HS all the way to 3000 seats, when other schools with capacity needs are left unaddressed. It's odd that you don't see the irony in claiming that the Langley community is "entitled" and "selfish" when you'd lay claim to the lion's share of the capital budget for years to come on a Centreville expansion to 3000, all to gain greater assurance that one current Fairfax feeder would be reassigned to Centreville. The bottom line is that you've convinced more people that you have a weird vendetta than you've turned "public sentiment" against Langley. Sorry. |
Anonymous
DP. Most of the houses that feed into Forestville are MUCH closer to Herndon, especially those neighborhoods south of Route 7 on the western end. Forestville ES is on the south eastern edge of the boundary zone, so calculating distance from the school to Langley does not paint the whole picture. |
Anonymous
Falls Church HS renovation site includes added program capacity of 543. Scheduled completion date summer 2026. https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project Any students at that school now who after going through the major construction get moved to Mclean or Marshall, trailers and big modular? Capacity deficits for SY 2029-30 including the modulars: Mclean -58, Marshall -73. |
Anonymous
Don’t be dumb, there are also houses east and west. You’re just a cherry picking doofus. |
Anonymous
0% of Forestville kids are closer to Langley than Herndon. The vast majority are even farther from Langley than Forestville ES is. That poster is not cherry picking. |
Anonymous
Yes, that could happen. It's hard to believe they'll create a split feeder at Longfellow where only 7% of the kids would go to Falls Church, as sketched out in the 4/11 presentation. So if they close the split feeder and send all of the "new" Timber Lane-zoned area* to McLean, you could have kids who've been at Falls Church while it was a construction zone moved over to McLean. Given the magnitude of the changes being discussed, grandfathering seems increasingly unlikely. Of course, they could also revert to keeping Timber Lane a split feeder, with north of 29 at Longfellow/McLean and south of 29 at Jackson/Falls Church. That would still be a fairly balanced split feeder (closer to 50%-50% than the current situation, which is 60% McLean, 40% Falls Church). * For those not familiar with the Timber Lane proposal, they are talking about keeping the Timber Lane area north of 29 largely as is, except for the area west of Hollywood Road, which would move to Shrevewood, but then sending the entire area south of 29 now at Timber Lane to Graham Road and reassigning a larger area between Routes 29 and 50 now at Pine Spring and Graham Road to Timber Lane. |
Anonymous
Wow! The name-calling! Defensive much? I was just stating a fact. I don’t really care if they rezone any kids to any school. My kids are almost done with high school, but the facts are the facts, and the name-calling seems a bit childish. Why am I on this site, before you ask? Well because I like to be informed, and because it is a free country. |
Anonymous
0% of kids in the McLean attendance island are closer to Langley than McLean. I’m not advocating either way for that attendance island to stay or move, but just calling you out for being inconsistent. But we all know why you two are being inconsistent. |
Anonymous
‘Merica! 🙄 |
Anonymous
DP. Some of the areas in that island are closer to Cooper MS than to Longfellow MS, though. I assume the Forestville areas are closer to both Herndon MS and Herndon HS than to Cooper MS and Langley HS, no? |