School Board Forum on "Boundary and Capacity"

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

See, you're doing it again. If, if, if, if. A mature person would actually wait to see IF any of this was going to take place. Instead, you want to hypothesize about something that *hasn't even happened* yet. So again: if this county-wide study is done, then we'll discuss. Until then, you really should seek therapy about this obsession that has you so fretful and anxious. And you never told us where your kids go to school! Do you even have kids?

You seem to be the one hyper-ventilating here.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

P.S. I’ve always considered myself a public school proponent, but man, Fairfax county school board members really know how to eviscerate that belief.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

See, you're doing it again. If, if, if, if. A mature person would actually wait to see IF any of this was going to take place. Instead, you want to hypothesize about something that *hasn't even happened* yet. So again: if this county-wide study is done, then we'll discuss. Until then, you really should seek therapy about this obsession that has you so fretful and anxious. And you never told us where your kids go to school! Do you even have kids?

You seem to be the one hyper-ventilating here.

-1. She’s really not, you just don’t have the guts to answer her question.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

See, you're doing it again. If, if, if, if. A mature person would actually wait to see IF any of this was going to take place. Instead, you want to hypothesize about something that *hasn't even happened* yet. So again: if this county-wide study is done, then we'll discuss. Until then, you really should seek therapy about this obsession that has you so fretful and anxious. And you never told us where your kids go to school! Do you even have kids?

You seem to be the one hyper-ventilating here.

Not at all. I find all of this speculation and drama - before anything at all has even been proposed - to be sort of pathetically amusing. So, where did you say your kids go to school again?

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

An adult, perhaps, but it’s debatable whether you’re a grown-up.

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Honestly, I can't take some of these posters (or maybe it's just the one loon) seriously, especially since they won't truthfully disclose where their kids go to school. It just makes their entire "argument" (such as it is) completely invalid.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

P.S. I’ve always considered myself a public school proponent, but man, Fairfax county school board members really know how to eviscerate that belief.

The new board has been in office less than two full months but you’re already prepared to make sweeping declarations, rather than let them do their work and see what they come up with.

It’s very much the product of an insecure mindset that assumes they are motivated by a desire to screw Langley rather than simply take a fresh look at what makes the most sense given existing resources and future expectations.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I can't take some of these posters (or maybe it's just the one loon) seriously, especially since they won't truthfully disclose where their kids go to school. It just makes their entire "argument" (such as it is) completely invalid.

In case you haven’t noticed, when posters do share that information, its veracity is quickly challenged by a Langley poster, so why bother? You think you’re the only people whose views matter in any case.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

P.S. I’ve always considered myself a public school proponent, but man, Fairfax county school board members really know how to eviscerate that belief.

The new board has been in office less than two full months but you’re already prepared to make sweeping declarations, rather than let them do their work and see what they come up with.

It’s very much the product of an insecure mindset that assumes they are motivated by a desire to screw Langley rather than simply take a fresh look at what makes the most sense given existing resources and future expectations.

DP. Let's be honest here. It is you - and just you - who keeps peddling this line.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I can't take some of these posters (or maybe it's just the one loon) seriously, especially since they won't truthfully disclose where their kids go to school. It just makes their entire "argument" (such as it is) completely invalid.

In case you haven’t noticed, when posters do share that information, its veracity is quickly challenged by a Langley poster, so why bother? You think you’re the only people whose views matter in any case.

In a discussion about where my kids should go to school, I'm not about to take seriously someone who won't even come clean about where THEIR kids go to school. Do you understand that it's the height of arrogance to demand something of kids who aren't even yours, and whose school has nothing to do with whatever school your kids attend? So again, unless you tell us where your kids go and why you have even the slightest reason to care about where Forestville kids go, then anything you have to say on the subject is irrelevant.

And we all know you'd be saying *exactly* the same thing if Langley families were actually opining about where YOUR kids should go to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

P.S. I’ve always considered myself a public school proponent, but man, Fairfax county school board members really know how to eviscerate that belief.

The new board has been in office less than two full months but you’re already prepared to make sweeping declarations, rather than let them do their work and see what they come up with.

It’s very much the product of an insecure mindset that assumes they are motivated by a desire to screw Langley rather than simply take a fresh look at what makes the most sense given existing resources and future expectations.

Wait, are you the one that was mocking non native English speakers earlier? We haven’t forgotten about that one yet. Just because you want redistricting, doesn’t mean you can be overtly racist.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I can't take some of these posters (or maybe it's just the one loon) seriously, especially since they won't truthfully disclose where their kids go to school. It just makes their entire "argument" (such as it is) completely invalid.

In case you haven’t noticed, when posters do share that information, its veracity is quickly challenged by a Langley poster, so why bother? You think you’re the only people whose views matter in any case.

You’ve literally had dozens of opportunities to disclose that info, and even now you won’t. I promise you I’ll take you at your word.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I can't take some of these posters (or maybe it's just the one loon) seriously, especially since they won't truthfully disclose where their kids go to school. It just makes their entire "argument" (such as it is) completely invalid.

In case you haven’t noticed, when posters do share that information, its veracity is quickly challenged by a Langley poster, so why bother? You think you’re the only people whose views matter in any case.

In a discussion about where my kids should go to school, I'm not about to take seriously someone who won't even come clean about where THEIR kids go to school. Do you understand that it's the height of arrogance to demand something of kids who aren't even yours, and whose school has nothing to do with whatever school your kids attend? So again, unless you tell us where your kids go and why you have even the slightest reason to care about where Forestville kids go, then anything you have to say on the subject is irrelevant.

And we all know you'd be saying *exactly* the same thing if Langley families were actually opining about where YOUR kids should go to school.

Yep, this one SJW just doesn’t know when to quit. Remember how the admin removed a whole bunch of her posts from the other thread? She’s relentlessly absurd in her redistricting quest.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

What’s sad about it? Parents should advocate for their kids. I’d take that any day of the week over someone who wants to upend the apple cart based on some vague misguided sense of social justice.

And deep down most people on this board know they would feel the exact same way if it were their kids’ educations on the line.

Whoa. That is quite the accusation about another FCPS school. You should see your therapist. That is next level overreacting.

I know, right? It’s like I have this obsession with trying to screw over other people’s kids. It’s really next level f-ed up. I pretend to care about poor people, but I really just hate a subset of our county that I believe has money.

It’s infuriating, I just can’t sleep at night, it tears me apart. I seethe.

Oh wait, that’s you, the paternalistic social engineer looking to have Forestville kids play savior for other people’s kids.

It turns out that wanting what’s best for one’s child is typically not grounds to see a therapist. You however, sweetie, should consider it.

Actually, you are a flat out racist. I’m not even sure you have a child in school.

Hi pot, I’m kettle!

At least I’m not overtly railing against non native English speakers in this board like some pretend SJWs.

If some non-native speaker thinks “social engineering” means everything they personally dislike, consider it a teaching moment.

Otherwise, get a grip. There’s no bigger group of overt racists in the county than Langley families when it comes to the Hispanic population at Herndon.

Says the racist social engineer, who doubled down on calling out non native speakers twice now. Maybe you are an oblivious racist?

Yawn. If you want to come up with arguments why Langley alone should be uniquely excluded from future FCPS boundary studies in perpetuity, you’re going to have to come up with something better than this nonsense.

DP. Now you're just making things up. No one has said this. It's been acknowledged repeatedly that sure, in the future, boundary studies might impact Langley. That time is not anywhere close, however. That's the part you can't (won't) accept and you're looking like a complete fool every time you stomp your feet and insist that it WILL BE SO, just because it bothers you so very much. Oh - almost forgot. Where do your kids go to school?

If FCPS undertakes a county-wide study, as a number of the new School Board members have said they support, that time may be closer than you’d like, but it almost surely will be based on an assessment of where growth is occurring or is projected, which schools might have capacity, and how FCPS might reduce commuting distances in the process. And if that’s where FCPS eventually does land, Langley posters have sent very mixed messages at best as to whether they’d accept that result or instead stomp their feet and falsely claim everything was politically motivated. Grow up.

No mixed messages. I’ll be clear. If redistricting happened I would do everything I could legally do within my power to destroy the school boards’ political careers. And there are many well-resourced great falls residents who would likely do the same.

See, I’m a grown up!

An adult, perhaps, but it’s debatable whether you’re a grown-up.

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
A racist redistricting advocate paternalistically pushing for Langley to colonize Herndon High.

Get it? You. Are. The. Joke. Get it?

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Anonymous wrote:Will the Langley bastion finally fall? I hope so. Rooting for this board.

Bitter much?

Gatehouse should make the best use of facilities, giving weight to efficiency and budget.
If the Langley boundaries change due to that then whatever.

The Langley boundaries may well need to change in a few years based on capacity and logistical issues, but if that happens they'll still claim it's being done to "punish" them. Hopefully with Robyn Lady representing the district rather than Elaine Tholen, decisions will be based on the merits and not just a desire to place Langley's interests over everyone else's.

“still?”
Where/when did Langley parents protest possible boundary changes with the argument that the school board wanted to punish them for something?

As to hoping the latest Dranesville rep will advocate for boundaries based on the merits of different options (which will apparently be demonstrated only if she wants to alter boundaries in a way that you desire)
—- I am old enough to remember all the crowing about Jane Strauss not being around to “protect” the Langley boundaries anymore after Elaine was elected, and we see how that worked out for people emotionally invested in some drastic change.

+100
There is no rational discussion to be had with the PP, who continues to rant about schools which her children don’t even attend. Interesting how she’ll never disclose where her kids actually do go to school.

+1. Her social engineering crusade is truly pathetic at this point. She is likely as insufferable in real life as she is on this forum.

Are you sock puppeting or do all these Langley posters sound EXACTLY the same?

I mean people will point out that changes should only be made, if at all, if needed based on capacity and logistics, and you'll still flail away about "social engineering."

Report the post and claim it’s a sock puppet post. It’s not, but you can see for yourself that I’m a DP when the admin doesn’t remove it. On the other hand, I’m quite certain that you are a one woman social engineering crusader.

Honest question - do you think "social engineering" means anything that might run counter to the wishes of a Langley family? Because there may be valid reasons to move kids in and out of Langley at some point that bear no resemblance to what "social engineering" generally is understood to connote.

Perhaps, but her posts are of one flavor - to soak the “rich” Forestville families. She’s got a real chip on her shoulder about it, especially since, as the board member recently pointed out, redistricting is bad for all involved, especially poor students. Her hatred of Forestville is just that great, that she’d be willing to hurt Herndon students to stick it to Forestville.

I am in favor of doing everything we can to improve schools, but it really feels like a paternalistic “savior” move to do what she advocates.

Except multiple posters have said Forestville should only move if there’s a compelling logistical need to move it and you keep claiming we’re all the same poster with a “social engineering” agenda. It’s just very odd.

Any suggestion that has a whiff of possibly affecting certain schools in certain ways is labeled social engineering around here — even before the renovations over the past few years occurred. It is sad. Just wait until next year when standards based grading is applied to all schools.

Agreed. It’s like some posters are only capable of a knee-jerk reaction or aren’t very familiar with the English language. If anything potentially interferes with their expectations, it’s “social engineering.”

Throw back to last night’s racist comment of the thread award, where the redistricting advocate looks down upon those who “aren’t very familiar with the English language”.

Give me an R. Give me an A. Give me a C. Give me an I… You know where I’m going with this.