Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

I was giving those numbers just as an example. Not actual numbers. And yes - it absolutely would change how many kids are in a class. With only 2 students difference at our school we ended up with 4 sections of a class instead of 5. And that made that class size huge.

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Anonymous wrote:The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June.

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year. After that, the classes continue to get smaller. There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates. After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices.

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful.

I am absolutely one of those parents. My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago. I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned. Some areas need to be rezoned. FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country. There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June.

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year. After that, the classes continue to get smaller. There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates. After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices.

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful.

I am absolutely one of those parents. My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago. I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned. Some areas need to be rezoned. FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country. There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.

A perfect example of move them out...as long as it's not my kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June.

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year. After that, the classes continue to get smaller. There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates. After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices.

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful.

I am absolutely one of those parents. My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago. I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned. Some areas need to be rezoned. FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country. There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.

Which school did you buy close to, elementary, middle, or high? Because this is such a dumb argument unless someone has found the thirdary school that combines all three.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June.

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year. After that, the classes continue to get smaller. There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates. After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices.

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful.

I am absolutely one of those parents. My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago. I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned. Some areas need to be rezoned. FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country. There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.

A perfect example of move them out...as long as it's not my kid.

Yes, which is exactly what the parents who want to stay at WSHS and Oakton are doing. Fix the problem but not with my kid, use them instead.

No one wants their kids in an overcrowded school. The families upset with being moved are the families on the boundaries. The families not in jeopardy of moving probably support the boundary changes. They are not going to say so publicly or to your face but they want your kid moved so their kid is at a less crowded school.

I have no idea why this surprises people. Do the Great Falls families think that the other parents at Langley care that they are at Langley or Herndon? I am sure all their friends tell them to their faces that they don't want them to move but if the school gets to be too crowded they will be sympathetic when the Great Falls families are moved to Herndon but they are either not protesting or sending messages to the School Board to move the kids so the school isn't crowded.

10-1, the parents who are "as long as it's not my kid" are hoping it is someone else's kid because they don't want to move. The outrage is BS, it is there only because they want to make people feel guilty about supporting their kid being moved.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June.

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year. After that, the classes continue to get smaller. There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates. After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices.

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful.

I am absolutely one of those parents. My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago. I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned. Some areas need to be rezoned. FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country. There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.

A perfect example of move them out...as long as it's not my kid.

Yes, which is exactly what the parents who want to stay at WSHS and Oakton are doing. Fix the problem but not with my kid, use them instead.

No one wants their kids in an overcrowded school. The families upset with being moved are the families on the boundaries. The families not in jeopardy of moving probably support the boundary changes. They are not going to say so publicly or to your face but they want your kid moved so their kid is at a less crowded school.

I have no idea why this surprises people. Do the Great Falls families think that the other parents at Langley care that they are at Langley or Herndon? I am sure all their friends tell them to their faces that they don't want them to move but if the school gets to be too crowded they will be sympathetic when the Great Falls families are moved to Herndon but they are either not protesting or sending messages to the School Board to move the kids so the school isn't crowded.

10-1, the parents who are "as long as it's not my kid" are hoping it is someone else's kid because they don't want to move. The outrage is BS, it is there only because they want to make people feel guilty about supporting their kid being moved.

Langley parent here...and actual residency checks and more restrictions on pupil placement would solve many of the overcrowding issues...not all but many.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone attend the meeting with Meren at Wolftrap last night regarding the Northeast Town of Vienna potential changes?

Bump. Interested in hearing how this meeting went as well.

I did. Not much other than people voicing their concerns. Her saying Dr. Reid will do what she pleases. People stated that Dr Reid indicated with the NE part of TOv moving back to Madison some of wolftrap will have to stay Marshall. There was mention of westbriar TOV students moving out of westbriar to another elementary.

Thanks. I wonder if the reference wasn’t to possibly assigning the Westbriar attendance island to another school. The Westbriar kids in the NE part of the TOV live near Westbriar.

They have treated Marshall like crap throughout this entire boundary process but guess when you’re preoccupied with a new western HS you can’t do things carefully.

Nobody seemed concerned with the attendance island. I may have missed that part of the meeting though.

Hopefully they just key the sizable (40%) part of Wolftrap that goes to Marshall with Marshall. That will avoid the attendance island and keep Marshall well-balanced.

That still leaves an attendance island at Westbriar. They asked to move to closer Colvin Run and no surprise who blocked that and why.

Grumble grumble.

I wish Jeff would ban Grumble Grumble lady, she's so f'ing useless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It leads to hurt feelings and loud voices in part because FCPS does an atrocious job of facilities planning and managing its capital resources.

FCPS could do an amazing job and there would be hurt feelings and loud voices. There is a percentage of the population very tied to specific schools.

If moving to newly renovated buildings was important to most families, Herndon would be full and families would be fighting to move to KAA. Instead, Oakton families don't want to move, even with shorter commutes. Heck, McLean families fought to stay at McLean and not move to Langley, even though Langley has space and was renovated recently while McLean is falling apart and McLean is near capacity if not over capacity.

The McLean families have good reason to be miffed, their school has serious needs that need to be addressed. 100% but that has little to do with boundaries.

I'm sorry but you're getting this from a handful of people who spoke at the community meeting and group of Gen X moms who coordinated on the Franklin Farm Facebook page to create a fancy website full of lies. A LOT of families zoned to Oakton do want to move, because of the shorter commute.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone attend the meeting with Meren at Wolftrap last night regarding the Northeast Town of Vienna potential changes?

Bump. Interested in hearing how this meeting went as well.

I did. Not much other than people voicing their concerns. Her saying Dr. Reid will do what she pleases. People stated that Dr Reid indicated with the NE part of TOv moving back to Madison some of wolftrap will have to stay Marshall. There was mention of westbriar TOV students moving out of westbriar to another elementary.

Thanks. I wonder if the reference wasn’t to possibly assigning the Westbriar attendance island to another school. The Westbriar kids in the NE part of the TOV live near Westbriar.

They have treated Marshall like crap throughout this entire boundary process but guess when you’re preoccupied with a new western HS you can’t do things carefully.

Nobody seemed concerned with the attendance island. I may have missed that part of the meeting though.

Hopefully they just key the sizable (40%) part of Wolftrap that goes to Marshall with Marshall. That will avoid the attendance island and keep Marshall well-balanced.

That still leaves an attendance island at Westbriar. They asked to move to closer Colvin Run and no surprise who blocked that and why.

Grumble grumble.

I wish Jeff would ban Grumble Grumble lady, she's so f'ing useless.

I’ll stop posting when you stop incessantly posting about Langley.

[Anonymous]

There is this one single person from FF that keeps posting the same screed here over and over and over again about how only parents with older kids want to stay at Oakton, that is simply not true!

This person lives in FF and prefer the convenience of being closer to KAA. I also live in FF, and I do have young children. I bought my house so my kids can go to Oakton. This single person can only speak for himself and do not represent us who both live closer and have young children!

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There is this one single person from FF that keeps posting the same screed here over and over and over again about how only parents with older kids want to stay at Oakton, that is simply not true!

This person lives in FF and prefer the convenience of being closer to KAA. I also live in FF, and I do have young children. I bought my house so my kids can go to Oakton. This single person can only speak for himself and do not represent us who both live closer and have young children!

Yes. And, you cannot speak for others in Franklin Farm with young children, either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It leads to hurt feelings and loud voices in part because FCPS does an atrocious job of facilities planning and managing its capital resources.

FCPS could do an amazing job and there would be hurt feelings and loud voices. There is a percentage of the population very tied to specific schools.

If moving to newly renovated buildings was important to most families, Herndon would be full and families would be fighting to move to KAA. Instead, Oakton families don't want to move, even with shorter commutes. Heck, McLean families fought to stay at McLean and not move to Langley, even though Langley has space and was renovated recently while McLean is falling apart and McLean is near capacity if not over capacity.

The McLean families have good reason to be miffed, their school has serious needs that need to be addressed. 100% but that has little to do with boundaries.

I'm sorry but you're getting this from a handful of people who spoke at the community meeting and group of Gen X moms who coordinated on the Franklin Farm Facebook page to create a fancy website full of lies. A LOT of families zoned to Oakton do want to move, because of the shorter commute.

You can go to Herndon HS if you wish!

[Anonymous]

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There is this one single person from FF that keeps posting the same screed here over and over and over again about how only parents with older kids want to stay at Oakton, that is simply not true!

This person lives in FF and prefer the convenience of being closer to KAA. I also live in FF, and I do have young children. I bought my house so my kids can go to Oakton. This single person can only speak for himself and do not represent us who both live closer and have young children!

Yes. And, you cannot speak for others in Franklin Farm with young children, either.

You can send your older daughter to Herndon HS, we stay at Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was giving those numbers just as an example. Not actual numbers. And yes - it absolutely would change how many kids are in a class. With only 2 students difference at our school we ended up with 4 sections of a class instead of 5. And that made that class size huge.

You are speaking of an elementary school. It works quite differently there when the numbers are lower.

And, I do absolutely sympathize and understand what you are saying. I was a first grade teacher in a school that was cut a first grade slot the week before Halloween due to lower enrollment than expected. I went from 21 kids to 28--and a great teacher was sent to another school.

But, this can happen any time in any school--new boundaries or not. But, the class size in a high school getting cut will not work out the same as an elementary school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June.

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year. After that, the classes continue to get smaller. There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates. After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices.

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful.

I am absolutely one of those parents. My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago. I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned. Some areas need to be rezoned. FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country. There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.

A perfect example of move them out...as long as it's not my kid.

Yes, which is exactly what the parents who want to stay at WSHS and Oakton are doing. Fix the problem but not with my kid, use them instead.

No one wants their kids in an overcrowded school. The families upset with being moved are the families on the boundaries. The families not in jeopardy of moving probably support the boundary changes. They are not going to say so publicly or to your face but they want your kid moved so their kid is at a less crowded school.

I have no idea why this surprises people. Do the Great Falls families think that the other parents at Langley care that they are at Langley or Herndon? I am sure all their friends tell them to their faces that they don't want them to move but if the school gets to be too crowded they will be sympathetic when the Great Falls families are moved to Herndon but they are either not protesting or sending messages to the School Board to move the kids so the school isn't crowded.

10-1, the parents who are "as long as it's not my kid" are hoping it is someone else's kid because they don't want to move. The outrage is BS, it is there only because they want to make people feel guilty about supporting their kid being moved.

FCPS ran preliminary meetings at Mclean and Langley in 2019 to address the Mclean capacity issue. Karl Fritsch was there. Broke out to tables in cafeterias. Cordial exchange of ideas and other pyramids from South Lakes to Herndon to Falls Church were presented as options for out of Mclean plus Langley. Langley had space for Mclean students but the others did not - now there is space at Falls Church and Herndon.

Decrease in feeder membership from 2004-05 to 2024-25 except for Spring Hill. Many empty nesters are still in place and will eventually sell and the residences will repopulate. Colvin Run has AAP and the feeder is Great Falls and SH feeds to Churchill. Forestville refused the Colvin Run AAP center:
Churchill+Colvin Run +Great Falls+Forestville=-548
Spring Hill =+ 131