FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the Chantilly/Oakton change take Stone Heather Dr. too? I can't make it out on the map.

I don't think anyone can. And, the amazing part is that they are doing this (according to the chart) to send 34 kids from Chantilly to Oakton?

I've seen some dumb things, but this is ridiculous.

My guess is that it takes Ladybank and part of Stone Heather, but the map is really not helpful. I checked the government site--there are 108 houses on Ladybank.

#3 on the goals was to keep neighborhoods together.

[Anonymous]

I could’ve made better boundaries over the weekend for free

[Anonymous]

Obvious today's maps were much ado about nothing.

Now what's next?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at some of these proposed changes it’s really not clear that the juice is worth the squeeze. Moving 100 kids so you take the capacity down 5 or 6 percent? I don’t think it’s worth that given what it will do to kids who will lose all their friends given they aren’t planning much if any grandfathering.

Especially the McLean/Longfellow/Timber Lane adjustments where they generate even more split feeders to connect an attendance island/split feeder.

Or the Irving/West Springfield changes. Moving 90 kids and creating a new ES split feeder so you can drop MS and HS enrollment slightly? That doesn’t make a ton of sense.

What FCPS should have done was move all of Sangster to LB by moving that neighborhood from Irving/WSHS to LB, and leave all of Hunt Valley at WSHS.

Now, instead of going from one split feeder to zero split feeders, that neighborhood goes from one split feeder to two split feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

Why would Langley need to change at this point? Their capacity is fine. Herndon’s is fine too. Yes, parts of Forestville ES are slightly closer to Herndon than to Langley, but they’re still not exactly *close*, and those far flung areas have to go to school somewhere.

They are a good bit closer to Herndon, but at no point did Thru focus on commuting distance or transportation times as a separate consideration, as outlined in Policy 8130.

Langley has no attendance islands and with the Spring Hill move would have no split feeders. In terms of capacity, looking at the latest CIP projections and factoring in the Spring Hill move and future growth in that part of Tysons, Cooper could get overcrowded by 2030, but Thru also took modular seats into account. Cooper currently has no modular. If Cooper starts to get overcrowded, expect that modular to get fast tracked to bring down the capacity percentage.

[Anonymous]

How can we get them to not do this every 5 years? This is a brutal process and a ginormous waste of funds.

I still don’t understand why they touched Coates when that’s going through a more thorough process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at some of these proposed changes it’s really not clear that the juice is worth the squeeze. Moving 100 kids so you take the capacity down 5 or 6 percent? I don’t think it’s worth that given what it will do to kids who will lose all their friends given they aren’t planning much if any grandfathering.

Especially the McLean/Longfellow/Timber Lane adjustments where they generate even more split feeders to connect an attendance island/split feeder.

I read they might take another look and perhaps reassign some of Shrevewood to Lemon Road, which is already a split feeder to Marshall and McLean, rather than turn Shrevewood into a new split feeder. If they go that route, they shouldn't be assigning anything within walking distance of Shrevewood to Lemon Road. If they don't reassign part of Marshall to McLean, they will have pulled more kids out of McLean than any other school, including West Springfield, Centreville, and Chantilly, and that doesn't make sense given that the other schools are bigger and, except for Centreville, more over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obvious today's maps were much ado about nothing.

Now what's next?

It's not much ado about nothing if you were expecting to send your kid to West Springfield rather than South County, to Chantilly rather than Westfield or Oakton, etc. Show a little grace.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

Why would Langley need to change at this point? Their capacity is fine. Herndon’s is fine too. Yes, parts of Forestville ES are slightly closer to Herndon than to Langley, but they’re still not exactly *close*, and those far flung areas have to go to school somewhere.

The 20170 Forestville homes are closer to Herndon HS than most of the rest of Herndon HS's current students.

[Anonymous]

Moving 121 kids from Westfield (AP) to South Lakes (IB) is going to reopen old wounds from the 2008 South Lakes boundary study, where Westfield parents pleaded not to get redistricted or, if redistricted, for FCPS to add plenty of AP courses to South Lakes. They got redistricted and South Lakes never added the requested AP classes.

And, even if the numbers are smaller, moving Chantilly kids to Oakton when Chantilly is so much closer won't go down well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

Why would Langley need to change at this point? Their capacity is fine. Herndon’s is fine too. Yes, parts of Forestville ES are slightly closer to Herndon than to Langley, but they’re still not exactly *close*, and those far flung areas have to go to school somewhere.

The 20170 Forestville homes are closer to Herndon HS than most of the rest of Herndon HS's current students.

LOL. Knock it off.

I told you they will NEVER change the boundary to move Great Falls kids from Langley to Herndon.

It's a waste of time, but you won't give up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

Why would Langley need to change at this point? Their capacity is fine. Herndon’s is fine too. Yes, parts of Forestville ES are slightly closer to Herndon than to Langley, but they’re still not exactly *close*, and those far flung areas have to go to school somewhere.

The 20170 Forestville homes are closer to Herndon HS than most of the rest of Herndon HS's current students.

LOL. Knock it off.

I told you they will NEVER change the boundary to move Great Falls kids from Langley to Herndon.

It's a waste of time, but you won't give up.

DP. They're not proposing to move anyone, from Langley or elsewhere, into Herndon. So glad we spent all those millions building Herndon out to 2750 seats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving 121 kids from Westfield (AP) to South Lakes (IB) is going to reopen old wounds from the 2008 South Lakes boundary study, where Westfield parents pleaded not to get redistricted or, if redistricted, for FCPS to add plenty of AP courses to South Lakes. They got redistricted and South Lakes never added the requested AP classes.

And, even if the numbers are smaller, moving Chantilly kids to Oakton when Chantilly is so much closer won't go down well.

No, I think it will be different this time.

SLHS is now comparable to Westfield, if not better. Also, the majority of kids moving are from Bradley Farm HOA. The upper part of Bradley Farm already goes to SLHS.

This move won't be opposed as strongly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I’m reading this correctly, no changes to Langley? Just the poorer and middle class schools?

Why would Langley need to change at this point? Their capacity is fine. Herndon’s is fine too. Yes, parts of Forestville ES are slightly closer to Herndon than to Langley, but they’re still not exactly *close*, and those far flung areas have to go to school somewhere.

The 20170 Forestville homes are closer to Herndon HS than most of the rest of Herndon HS's current students.

LOL. Knock it off.

I told you they will NEVER change the boundary to move Great Falls kids from Langley to Herndon.

It's a waste of time, but you won't give up.

I didn't say they should change the boundary. I just stated a fact to refute a lie that was posted. Inferring that as proof showing that those homes should be zoned to Herndon is all on you.

[Anonymous]

Are these actually the proposed changes or just some draft to further show how the tool works?