McLean to Explore Separating from FC & FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:moving forward with this would create a school that could rival TJ. Given the changes going on there, this would be welcomed

No it wouldn't. That's not what TJ is.

If you keep all the poors out, the scores will soar!!! Just look at Langley, PP.

So you’re in favor of busing students miles from their homes in order to provide “economic diversity” at Langley? Try actually proposing that and see what kind of reaction you get from those families whose kids you want to sit on buses for hours each day in the name of “equity.” Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, the top 9.9% hoarding their riches and only caring about their own kids.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

You mean after decades of footing the bill for the rest of the county’s kids? Yes. We’re now ready to focus on our OWN kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they want to segregate their schools more. How nice.

Just say you’re in favor of busing. Because clearly, you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, the top 9.9% hoarding their riches and only caring about their own kids.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

It gets harder to guilt-trip people after you've flipped them off for years.

Exactly this. After the last SB election, I have no qualms whatsoever about doing what’s right for my kids.

[Anonymous]

I’d like to see the fight between McLean and Fairfax County over who gets to keep the Tysons commercial tax base that supports the entire state as well as the metro stations now that Fairfax helped pay for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, the top 9.9% hoarding their riches and only caring about their own kids.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

It gets harder to guilt-trip people after you've flipped them off for years.

If you say so.

This thread is appalling.

Do you find FCCPS “appalling” as well?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a great idea. And it will be even better if there can be a wall built around McLean to keep the low-lifes out. Residents could get a tag that would allow quicker access at the gate. Visitors would have to pay a fee and undergo a check.

Agreed. And anyone moving to McLean would have to pass a background check to make sure they are of the right demographic. As a PP mentioned up thread, we don’t our resources to help those living in Annandale or Springfield. So we must ensure that only a certain demographic can move to McLean.

When you have an incredibly diverse area like McLean/Great Falls in favor of a move like this, your idiotic accusations kind of fall flat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a great idea. And it will be even better if there can be a wall built around McLean to keep the low-lifes out. Residents could get a tag that would allow quicker access at the gate. Visitors would have to pay a fee and undergo a check.

Agreed. And anyone moving to McLean would have to pass a background check to make sure they are of the right demographic. As a PP mentioned up thread, we don’t our resources to help those living in Annandale or Springfield. So we must ensure that only a certain demographic can move to McLean.

Stop making this about demographics, McLean has a very diverse population. These guilt trips don’t work anymore, we want better for our community and that’s what is behind this idea.

+1. But of course it's easier to make lazy claims about privilege hoarding than acknowledge just how inefficient FCPS has become (and how its agenda is largely controlled by a coalition of SJWs and pork-barrel politicians from the southern part of the county). Time to split off!

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a great idea. And it will be even better if there can be a wall built around McLean to keep the low-lifes out. Residents could get a tag that would allow quicker access at the gate. Visitors would have to pay a fee and undergo a check.

Agreed. And anyone moving to McLean would have to pass a background check to make sure they are of the right demographic. As a PP mentioned up thread, we don’t our resources to help those living in Annandale or Springfield. So we must ensure that only a certain demographic can move to McLean.

When you have an incredibly diverse area like McLean/Great Falls in favor of a move like this, your idiotic accusations kind of fall flat.

Umm, the demographic isn't diverse at all. It's all very high income.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a great idea. And it will be even better if there can be a wall built around McLean to keep the low-lifes out. Residents could get a tag that would allow quicker access at the gate. Visitors would have to pay a fee and undergo a check.

Agreed. And anyone moving to McLean would have to pass a background check to make sure they are of the right demographic. As a PP mentioned up thread, we don’t our resources to help those living in Annandale or Springfield. So we must ensure that only a certain demographic can move to McLean.

When you have an incredibly diverse area like McLean/Great Falls in favor of a move like this, your idiotic accusations kind of fall flat.

Umm, the demographic isn't diverse at all. It's all very high income.

What's your point? It is still demographically diverse. That's literally all anyone cares about in this country. Which the area is. Why does it matter if its high income?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the posts tossing out creative ideas about how the county could hold McLean hostage underscores the kidnapping has already occurred.

you can also say that the posts assuming McClean would continue to have access to county services after leaving show just how entitled people are

Are you really this dense or is it wishful thinking on your part? Fairfax Co. simply charges FCC a fee for the use of the landfill. Other services are handled in a similar way. It can - and has - been done. It’s beyond obvious how triggered the very idea of McLean splitting off makes you.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:I think maybe we disagree on what public schools mean in a fundamental way if you believe that the price of the house a child's family can afford should directly determine the quality of their public school education. Maybe you should get a cheaper house and pay for private school.

Or maybe you should acknowledge that FCPS short-changes the public schools in McLean and then takes credit for the high achievement of their students that is a result of the additional resources that the parents there have to fork over on their own.

The top schools in Va (after TJ) are Langley and Mclean HS. Langley got a beautiful renovation done recently. Apart from the over-crowding issue at Mclean HS, how exactly are these schools being "short-changed"?

Apart from the shooting, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Langley got got a renovation, now other schools in the county are- should McLean jump in line?

FCPS has not dealt with the over crowding at McLean. There was suppose to be a decision a few years ago about boundary change. They keep kicking the can down the road adding more trailers now a modular. Most of the athletic field are gone, there is no other space to put these outdoor learning facilities but they need more to fit the kids…… Or they need to change the boundaries or build a bigger HS. My understanding is even in 2 years with all the additional trailers/modular, there will not be enough space.

The solution is obviously to continue to invest all the money elsewhere, and let this school run down further so that people just avoid it. There are some signs that is already occurring, but it would be premature to declare victory until it's lost hundreds more kids and is completely mediocre.

Or incorporate a McLean City. If you include Great Falls and all current ES,MS, HS boundaries for the McLean Pyarmid. Then you have 2-3 MS and 2 HS plus however ES’s.

[Anonymous]

I like the idea of Mclean City taking over Langley and McLean HS buildings. North McLean HS and South McLean HS. That way one McLean HS is not overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the posts tossing out creative ideas about how the county could hold McLean hostage underscores the kidnapping has already occurred.

you can also say that the posts assuming McClean would continue to have access to county services after leaving show just how entitled people are

Are you really this dense or is it wishful thinking on your part? Fairfax Co. simply charges FCC a fee for the use of the landfill. Other services are handled in a similar way. It can - and has - been done. It’s beyond obvious how triggered the very idea of McLean splitting off makes you.
DP

There is no bitterness toward FCC, there would be bitterness towards McLean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the idea of Mclean City taking over Langley and McLean HS buildings. North McLean HS and South McLean HS. That way one McLean HS is not overcrowded.

And that way Langley HS families are responsible for paying for renovating McLean HS. That sounds like a great plan.