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Anonymous
That post was not by that guy. That post was by someone who sees the that the AT&T site will be used to push current families out of Oakton. I don’t like that Falls Church guy either, but you are missing the mark with your attack. I am currently in the Oakton pyramid and don’t want to see my kids moved out so someone can sell high density housing at a higher rate as “part of the Oakton pyramid” then use that capacity bump to push my kids out of Oakton. No one lives in the AT&T building. |
Anonymous
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Just give it to AI. Feed in the current school capacities and where the current students live and see what AI does to create a completely new map.
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Anonymous
The only reason that Herndon High School has excess capacity is because 300 students transfer to other high schools. Most students in Great Falls would have long bus rides no matter what high school they attend. Houses are far apart so the buses have to make more stops. If anyone actually cared about transportation costs they would recommend not paying to bus elementary and middle school students to AAP Centers. Most schools have school based AAP at this point. The school board should make it a priority to have AAP in every elementary and middle school. |
Anonymous
Class warfare on your neighbors. Stay classy, hypocrite. |
Anonymous
My bad. He was blathering on the FB page today so made the wrong assumption he was holding court here again as well. |
Anonymous
Garbage in, garbage out. Why should I be asked to send my kid a longer distance to school because some moron at FCPS made a bad decision to over-expand one school and under-invest in another one years ago? |
Anonymous
You don't know what hypocrisy means. I want the same thing for you as FCPS appears to want for me, and they have discretion to do so under their policy since cutting down on transportation times and costs gets just as much prominence as addressing a capacity deficit. Plus you have money to hire the lawyers to challenge them. Not all of us do. They know that, and that's why you get left out of boundary studies while others are not so fortunate. |
Anonymous
Well, despite your attitude, I will continue to fight against all unnecessary boundary changes across the county, not just the ones that impact my pyramid. I think it’s worth fighting for the greater good. |
Anonymous
Yes! How was this the outcome of the $500k+ and public outrage this has all caused? Will see what capacity maps create. They are creating new problems vs solving what’s actually needed. |
Anonymous
No. Herndon HS also has excess capacity because it got a big expansion during its renovation, which likely was justified internally within FCPS at the time on the grounds that it could help with overcrowding elsewhere in the county or allow students living closer to Herndon than other schools to go there. If every student transferring out of Herndon stayed at Herndon, including those going to TJHSST, Herndon still would have over 200 surplus seats this year. And, yes, Great Falls is a "school desert" at the MS/HS level, but some commutes are longer than others. What they do with AAP centers is a different issue, and one they appear to have no intention of addressing in conjunction with the boundary study. |
Anonymous
To recap your view is if something bad has to happen to me i hope it happens to everyone else too (specifically Langley). You can use the transportation cost reasons all you want but that was debunked over and over. The cost to save 2-9 minutes each way for a few buses isn’t adding up to any amount of savings. The problem with how big Herndon was built out it does not match capacity of Herndon MS. There is not space to move an entire elementary into that pyramid. Especially since it appears they are moving part of the very over crowded Coates to Herndon ES which feeds into Herndon Ms and Herndon HS |
Anonymous
Or, stated differently, if some are to benefit from the advantages of county-wide redistricting, it would be unfair to deprive Langley families of that same opportunity. In the case of students in western Great Falls, the shorter commutes to Herndon and potential transportation savings were never "debunked" simply because you chose to downplay them ad nauseam on this thread. You're confusing the frequency of your objections with the quality of your argument. The mismatch of MS capacity with HS capacity isn't unique to Herndon. Even so, HMS is also projected to be well under capacity through 2029. And moving Coates kids who already are zoned to HMS/HHS to HES doesn't impact the enrollment at HMS or HHS. It only changes the ES assignment. Look forward to your continuing to advocate on behalf of everyone who'd rather stay put. After all, if you can successfully advocate on Langley's behalf here, advocating on behalf of the rest of us who actually live close to our current schools ought to be a slam dunk. |
Anonymous
You’re responding to a different poster. You also sound like a pretty awful person. |
Anonymous
Oh, so you wouldn't advocate on anyone else's behalf but your own, but you take issues with others expecting Langley to be subject to the same scrutiny as other areas? Got it. |
Anonymous
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I live in Langley and have been advocating for other people’s pyramids to not have changes. I attended enough school board meetings and community feedback meetings to see no one wants this. Except for the select few who want better students moved into their schools or who want to move into better pyramids (falls church guy). The majority of people - even at the overcrowded schools - do not want to move. The last consulting firm fcps hired told fcps do big changes like this as a last result. They don’t listen and have an agenda on their hands. My kids won’t be moved to fix some test scores. Nor should anyone else’s kid
Also i agree that you sound like a pretty awful Person. I can’t imagine hating a group of people so much without even knowing them |