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FCPS comprehensive boundary review
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Anonymous
Not sure that all split feeders will be eliminated. I don't think that is possible. I think that they need to look at Justice (for a lot of reasons) but Justice right now only has one middle school that feeds it and that is Glasgow. That is a huge problem. Because there is nothing to break up the bad middle school culture and it carries to Justice. They should move some of the Glasgow population to Falls Church or another HS and take from McLean pyramid. Justice needs help. |
Anonymous
I have zero clue what you are saying in all of your abbreviated speak. |
Anonymous
Great Falls residents certainly have qualms about sending McLean kids to nearby Langley if it pushes them to Herndon. Remember, some Langley kids are 10 miles from Langley and 2 miles from Herndon. In contrast, parents who live closer to Langley, like myself, would have no issue it. I live near McLean Central Park and less than a half mile from the Langley-McLean HS boundary, and it would surely be more convenient for our son and daughter (now in ES) to visit friends who live 0.5 mile away rather than 6-10 miles away. |
Anonymous
McLean and Justice are not contiguous. The closest part of McLean, next to Fall Church is where a significant portion of McLean’s poor students live. You would not be changing any dynamics. |
Anonymous
It's amusing when someone takes the time to post on an internet forum, but intentionally tries to convey a sense of "my time is valuable self-importance" in the way they communicate. |
Anonymous
No one wants to go to Justice, even the kids at Justice. |
Anonymous
McLean and Longfellow are both attendance islands, so every student in the pyramid falls under “island” **, since it’s not a split feeders, the member has to be from KG, FS, Chesterbrook, or Haycock. If they were a *** that would mean they could come from Timber Lane, Lemon Road, Westgate, or Spring Hill, because even though Lemon Road and Westgate don’t have attendance islands, they are split feeders that eventually go to a school with an attendance island. For Marshall and Madison EVERYONE falls under split feeder because of the Thoreau/Kilmer split, but the attendance islands give it away in this case. |
Anonymous
It’s so cute that you think they’re not going to try to drag Langley down to the level of the rest of the schools. By the time your kids get to that level, you’ll be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in private school costs. ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for your kids. You should probably reconsider your hypocritical adherence to equity at some point. |
Anonymous
If I understand you are against any boundary changes and are telling people there can/will be no grandfathering toincrease opposition? Then just make the case that boundary changes aren’t needed right now. They could in fact end up with a limited set of boundary changes, grandfathering, and transportation to old/new schools. That is, in fact, what used to happen before when they did county-wide reviews. They treated the transportation constraints as limits on the number of boundaries they could change. |
Anonymous
So, you think that McLean should pony up kids to help Justice? Do you hear yourself? I've said it repeatedly: The Superintendent and School Board need to address and fix the problem The problem is not solved by pouring in more affluent kids. The problem is solved by addressing the needs of the current students and admitting what the problem is. I don't know anything about Glasgow, but if there is a serious problem there it should be addressed THERE. Spreading the problem around will not fix it. |
Anonymous
| And, naming the school "Justice" did not help. It sounds like a juvie facility. |
Anonymous
So it turns out Karl Frisch was a two-faced liar who never planned to do the things he said he’d work towards? What a phony. |
Anonymous
I’ve heard enough from the school board to know that grandfathering will be an afterthought and runs counter to a number of their goals. If people want to play a game of equity chicken with their kids’ school pyramids, I’m not going to stop them, but my point stands - if you want to make sure your kids get grandfathered into their school, the path that gives the best odds for that happening is to argue against boundary changes. |
Anonymous
+1. PP is just trying to intimidate McLean families by suggesting FCPS would replace one attendance island with another by zoning them to Justice (you have to cross through the Falls Church HS and FCC boundaries to get there). And, as you say, the part of McLean closest to Justice has similar demographics in any event. The sad thing is that this person could well be on the boundary review advisory committee as they’ve stacked it with people who deeply resent Langley and McLean. |
Anonymous
Longer term? It’s needed an expansion for years, and certainly more so than Justice and Madison, each of which was recently expanded outside the queue. Someone talked earlier about not threading a needle. That’s exactly what you’re doing here by suggesting FCPS is going to move more McLean kids to Langley without also moving part of Langley to Herndon. Some would argue they deliberately under-invest in McLean (which will have the smallest permanent capacity of any FCPS high school despite serving growing areas in Tysons, West Falls Church, and downtown McLean) precisely because they want to move Langley kids into Herndon and need more McLean kids at Langley to justify that. |