When are Herndon Middle and Herndon High going to get a break?!??

[Anonymous]

There are two ways to close a gap: from the bottom and from the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are two ways to close a gap: from the bottom and from the top.

They can make the stats average out to be more similar school to school. That's about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are two ways to close a gap: from the bottom and from the top.

They can make the stats average out to be more similar school to school. That's about.

And, it will not help the performance of any child. It will just cost money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

What other schools with 40% low-income share a boundary with a 1.5% low-income school?

Better to have two 20% FARMS schools, but the Langley parents are having an aneurysm about even raising the idea.

Blame all the middle class white people that abandoned Herndon. They exercised their free will to move or enroll their children in private school. They apparently didn't care what the rest of you thought about it.

They are the ones that contributed to the higher FARMs percentages by removing their middle-class children. Look to your own neighbors instead of blaming Langley parents for being content with theirs.

I don't think it's as much that as the huge influx of undocumented, poor immigrants. 818 unaccompanied minors in Fairfax County from October to May of this year. This is not sustainable for any school system.

Huge influx of poor, undocumented (probably not English speaking?) immigrants.
Huge outflow of middle and upper middle class and rich citizens, most of whom were white.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

See bold:

I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

See bold:

I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

But.... they are away from "racist GF families" right now! Why aren't you happy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

See bold:

I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

You keep saying these words.

I don't think they mean what you think they mean.

Anyway, more avoiding questions.

How many non-cheap, non-racist GREAT FALLS families do you need to have "HERNDON Pride?"

[Anonymous]

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I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

Perhaps we will... by forming a proper City and seceding from Fairfax County, like Vienna and Falls Church have done. I for one am tired of having our (high-achieving) children used as pawns, and our (quite signifigant) tax dollars spent on pet projects elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

See bold:

I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

You keep saying these words.

I don't think they mean what you think they mean.

Anyway, more avoiding questions.

How many non-cheap, non-racist GREAT FALLS families do you need to have "HERNDON Pride?"

But what if they are all racist and decide to buy up Herndon and turn Herndon high into the next Langley? (Rich. White. Racist according to its detractors)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

See bold:

I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

The cheap people buy houses in pyramids they hate and then beg others to fix it for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No you are correct - we don’t want the bully parents. But maybe those parents will send their kids to private school or move (which they were very quick to suggest us in Herndon do!). Then a new generation of families will move it and have Herndon pride again!

Why can't you have Herndon pride now?

Are you incapable of having pride without the presence of Great Falls families?

How many Great Falls families do you require for Herndon pride?

What is your plan for coping psychologically if too large a percentage of Great Falls students go private if their parents aren't satisfied (in the event that the boundaries are redrawn to assign some GF housing for Herndon)? Apparently there are nearby districts that have a good number of umc neighborhoods zoned for high FARMs schools, and those families are content to stay in their neighborhoods and send their children to private schools. GF is a lovely neighborhood and many would choose private over the inconvenience of moving.

How many GF families are needed for "Herndon pride"?

See bold:

I invite these GF families to go private. AS IF they will! I dare them! These people are way too cheap to leave. And if they do, it's better for the rest of the kids to be away from the racists.

In other words, families from Great Falls are worth so much that you only need a few to Make Herndon High School Great Again.

You dare most of them to go private, as you figure they are so cheap that they would rather be in a school that YOU have heavily implied is full of low-value families.

You have more issues than Sports Illustrated.

[Anonymous]

We just moved to the Langley pyramid. My kids are young and a long ways from high school and I would welcome some diversity.

However, there is a HUGE bottleneck to get to Langley. I live only 2 miles from Langley and it can easily take half an hour just to get past the 495 entrance on Georgetown Pike. When there is an accident or bad weather, forget about it. There is also no public transportation so I think these low income students could potentially get stranded at school.

I think it makes more sense for all tysons area apartments to go to Langley. Just my 2 cents.

I don’t think it makes sense to move great falls students from an under enrolled high school to an overcrowded school, especially if they are so dead against it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just moved to the Langley pyramid. My kids are young and a long ways from high school and I would welcome some diversity.

However, there is a HUGE bottleneck to get to Langley. I live only 2 miles from Langley and it can easily take half an hour just to get past the 495 entrance on Georgetown Pike. When there is an accident or bad weather, forget about it. There is also no public transportation so I think these low income students could potentially get stranded at school.

I think it makes more sense for all tysons area apartments to go to Langley. Just my 2 cents.

I don’t think it makes sense to move great falls students from an under enrolled high school to an overcrowded school, especially if they are so dead against it.

How many white people need to leave to make Langley ideal?

More than a third of the students aren't white.

Are you referring to socioeconomi diversity? Clearly it is nonexistent for you as a priority. Certainly not important enough for you to buy in another pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just moved to the Langley pyramid. My kids are young and a long ways from high school and I would welcome some diversity.

However, there is a HUGE bottleneck to get to Langley. I live only 2 miles from Langley and it can easily take half an hour just to get past the 495 entrance on Georgetown Pike. When there is an accident or bad weather, forget about it. There is also no public transportation so I think these low income students could potentially get stranded at school.

I think it makes more sense for all tysons area apartments to go to Langley. Just my 2 cents.

I don’t think it makes sense to move great falls students from an under enrolled high school to an overcrowded school, especially if they are so dead against it.

How many white people need to leave to make Langley ideal?

More than a third of the students aren't white.

Are you referring to socioeconomi diversity? Clearly it is nonexistent for you as a priority. Certainly not important enough for you to buy in another pyramid.

You are correct. Socioeconomic diversity was not the priority. Proximity to work and good schools were most important. We were looking at houses in Arlington and McLean. We chose the house we liked best in McLean and it happened to be in Langley pyramid.