FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:I've asked for this before:

Please show us how you would redo the boundaries. You can start by putting Great Falls in Herndon. Do that. And, then please figure out who goes to Langley, McLean, and Marshall. Go around the beltway adjacent schools all the way to Alexandria. Then, come back on the outside boundary of Fairfax.

I think you will find that if you send Great Falls to Langley, that you will create many, many problems that are not easily solved.

signed,

Parent who does not live in Great Falls or McLean

Yes, sending Great Falls to Langley has created problems that aren’t easily solved, starting with the sense of entitlement.

It’s obvious that, if two schools both have capacity, we should send kids to the closer school, in this case Herndon.

But, as PP suggested, it will probably take another five years to clean this up.

If 2 schools have capacity, then you don't mive anyone.

Rezoning should only occur as a last resort to fix significant overcrowding, if requested by the community.

Rezoning should never occur "just because".

You’ve just rewritten the revised policy that the School Board adopted last year. They could have adopted a policy that reflects your views. They didn’t. Nor do the Thru proposals align with what you’ve suggested. They’ve just targeted a few schools with parents who aren’t as wealthy as Langley.

DP.

Wrong. You just want them to focus on one of the four factors at the exclusion of all else.

Your focus is not on well being of kids, in fact, it’s the opposite. Your focus is on soaking your neighbors out of hatred. Pathetic.

Policy 8130 does not say the fourth factor is only relevant if there is "significant overcrowding" at a school. I understand that you've recently become a big cheerleader for Thru, but your bias is showing. You're more than prepared for plenty of others to get redistricted as long as you are not.

Nah, that’s your lame narrative. I don’t want anyone to be moved unless the families being moved want it.

Face it, you don’t have public opinion on your side.

No, it's the obvious reading of Policy 8130. And you would be among the first to limit access to Langley if everyone who wanted to go there was given that opportunity.

It's hard to say what public opinion on these issues is. You live in an echo chamber so hardly know.

Go look at the feedback from last fall. It’s obvious that equity warriors looking to move kids for farms purposes do not have public opinion on their side. That’s why you continue to complain on anonymous forums.

The feedback from a couple of years ago (not last fall) was that people opposed boundary changes generally.

No one asked whether, if FCPS was going to make other changes, it should go ahead and move kids to a closer school with plenty of excess capacity.

Feedback from last fall was overwhelmingly to keep kids in their current pyramids absent a compelling reason to move them.

Don’t take my word for it. Go look at the feedback.

The reasons they are now effectively treating as compelling are no more compelling than reasons they're ignoring. It's devolved mostly into an exercise in placating those most likely to complain the loudest while still allowing Reid to claim she did something. Pathetic.

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Feedback from last fall was overwhelmingly to keep kids in their current pyramids absent a compelling reason to move them.

Don’t take my word for it. Go look at the feedback.

Again:

The reasons they are now effectively treating as compelling are no more compelling than reasons they're ignoring. It's devolved mostly into an exercise in placating those most likely to complain the loudest while still allowing Reid to claim she did something. Pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:I've asked for this before:

Please show us how you would redo the boundaries. You can start by putting Great Falls in Herndon. Do that. And, then please figure out who goes to Langley, McLean, and Marshall. Go around the beltway adjacent schools all the way to Alexandria. Then, come back on the outside boundary of Fairfax.

I think you will find that if you send Great Falls to Langley, that you will create many, many problems that are not easily solved.

signed,

Parent who does not live in Great Falls or McLean

Yes, sending Great Falls to Langley has created problems that aren’t easily solved, starting with the sense of entitlement.

It’s obvious that, if two schools both have capacity, we should send kids to the closer school, in this case Herndon.

But, as PP suggested, it will probably take another five years to clean this up.

If 2 schools have capacity, then you don't mive anyone.

Rezoning should only occur as a last resort to fix significant overcrowding, if requested by the community.

Rezoning should never occur "just because".

You’ve just rewritten the revised policy that the School Board adopted last year. They could have adopted a policy that reflects your views. They didn’t. Nor do the Thru proposals align with what you’ve suggested. They’ve just targeted a few schools with parents who aren’t as wealthy as Langley.

DP.

Wrong. You just want them to focus on one of the four factors at the exclusion of all else.

Your focus is not on well being of kids, in fact, it’s the opposite. Your focus is on soaking your neighbors out of hatred. Pathetic.

Policy 8130 does not say the fourth factor is only relevant if there is "significant overcrowding" at a school. I understand that you've recently become a big cheerleader for Thru, but your bias is showing. You're more than prepared for plenty of others to get redistricted as long as you are not.

Nah, that’s your lame narrative. I don’t want anyone to be moved unless the families being moved want it.

Face it, you don’t have public opinion on your side.

No, it's the obvious reading of Policy 8130. And you would be among the first to limit access to Langley if everyone who wanted to go there was given that opportunity.

It's hard to say what public opinion on these issues is. You live in an echo chamber so hardly know.

Go look at the feedback from last fall. It’s obvious that equity warriors looking to move kids for farms purposes do not have public opinion on their side. That’s why you continue to complain on anonymous forums.

The feedback from a couple of years ago (not last fall) was that people opposed boundary changes generally.

No one asked whether, if FCPS was going to make other changes, it should go ahead and move kids to a closer school with plenty of excess capacity.

Feedback from last fall was overwhelmingly to keep kids in their current pyramids absent a compelling reason to move them.

Don’t take my word for it. Go look at the feedback.

The reasons they are now effectively treating as compelling are no more compelling than reasons they're ignoring. It's devolved mostly into an exercise in placating those most likely to complain the loudest while still allowing Reid to claim she did something. Pathetic.

Again:

Feedback from last fall was overwhelmingly to keep kids in their current pyramids absent a compelling reason to move them.

Don’t take my word for it. Go look at the feedback.

Again:

The reasons they are now effectively treating as compelling are no more compelling than reasons they're ignoring. It's devolved mostly into an exercise in placating those most likely to complain the loudest while still allowing Reid to claim she did something. Pathetic.

Well, go find a new political party then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've asked for this before:

Please show us how you would redo the boundaries. You can start by putting Great Falls in Herndon. Do that. And, then please figure out who goes to Langley, McLean, and Marshall. Go around the beltway adjacent schools all the way to Alexandria. Then, come back on the outside boundary of Fairfax.

I think you will find that if you send Great Falls to Langley, that you will create many, many problems that are not easily solved.

signed,

Parent who does not live in Great Falls or McLean

Yes, sending Great Falls to Langley has created problems that aren’t easily solved, starting with the sense of entitlement.

It’s obvious that, if two schools both have capacity, we should send kids to the closer school, in this case Herndon.

But, as PP suggested, it will probably take another five years to clean this up.

If 2 schools have capacity, then you don't mive anyone.

Rezoning should only occur as a last resort to fix significant overcrowding, if requested by the community.

Rezoning should never occur "just because".

You’ve just rewritten the revised policy that the School Board adopted last year. They could have adopted a policy that reflects your views. They didn’t. Nor do the Thru proposals align with what you’ve suggested. They’ve just targeted a few schools with parents who aren’t as wealthy as Langley.

DP.

Wrong. You just want them to focus on one of the four factors at the exclusion of all else.

Your focus is not on well being of kids, in fact, it’s the opposite. Your focus is on soaking your neighbors out of hatred. Pathetic.

Policy 8130 does not say the fourth factor is only relevant if there is "significant overcrowding" at a school. I understand that you've recently become a big cheerleader for Thru, but your bias is showing. You're more than prepared for plenty of others to get redistricted as long as you are not.

Nah, that’s your lame narrative. I don’t want anyone to be moved unless the families being moved want it.

Face it, you don’t have public opinion on your side.

No, it's the obvious reading of Policy 8130. And you would be among the first to limit access to Langley if everyone who wanted to go there was given that opportunity.

It's hard to say what public opinion on these issues is. You live in an echo chamber so hardly know.

Go look at the feedback from last fall. It’s obvious that equity warriors looking to move kids for farms purposes do not have public opinion on their side. That’s why you continue to complain on anonymous forums.

The feedback from a couple of years ago (not last fall) was that people opposed boundary changes generally.

No one asked whether, if FCPS was going to make other changes, it should go ahead and move kids to a closer school with plenty of excess capacity.

Feedback from last fall was overwhelmingly to keep kids in their current pyramids absent a compelling reason to move them.

Don’t take my word for it. Go look at the feedback.

The reasons they are now effectively treating as compelling are no more compelling than reasons they're ignoring. It's devolved mostly into an exercise in placating those most likely to complain the loudest while still allowing Reid to claim she did something. Pathetic.

Would you be this vocal if they had moved some of Langley out and ignored attendance islands? Probably not. I seriously don’t understand the hatred of people you don’t even know. I don’t want anyone moved. I definitely am not rooting for one area or another area to be moved like so many were hoping parts of Langley would

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've asked for this before:

Please show us how you would redo the boundaries. You can start by putting Great Falls in Herndon. Do that. And, then please figure out who goes to Langley, McLean, and Marshall. Go around the beltway adjacent schools all the way to Alexandria. Then, come back on the outside boundary of Fairfax.

I think you will find that if you send Great Falls to Langley, that you will create many, many problems that are not easily solved.

signed,

Parent who does not live in Great Falls or McLean

Yes, sending Great Falls to Langley has created problems that aren’t easily solved, starting with the sense of entitlement.

It’s obvious that, if two schools both have capacity, we should send kids to the closer school, in this case Herndon.

But, as PP suggested, it will probably take another five years to clean this up.

If 2 schools have capacity, then you don't mive anyone.

Rezoning should only occur as a last resort to fix significant overcrowding, if requested by the community.

Rezoning should never occur "just because".

You’ve just rewritten the revised policy that the School Board adopted last year. They could have adopted a policy that reflects your views. They didn’t. Nor do the Thru proposals align with what you’ve suggested. They’ve just targeted a few schools with parents who aren’t as wealthy as Langley.

DP.

Wrong. You just want them to focus on one of the four factors at the exclusion of all else.

Your focus is not on well being of kids, in fact, it’s the opposite. Your focus is on soaking your neighbors out of hatred. Pathetic.

Policy 8130 does not say the fourth factor is only relevant if there is "significant overcrowding" at a school. I understand that you've recently become a big cheerleader for Thru, but your bias is showing. You're more than prepared for plenty of others to get redistricted as long as you are not.

Nah, that’s your lame narrative. I don’t want anyone to be moved unless the families being moved want it.

Face it, you don’t have public opinion on your side.

No, it's the obvious reading of Policy 8130. And you would be among the first to limit access to Langley if everyone who wanted to go there was given that opportunity.

It's hard to say what public opinion on these issues is. You live in an echo chamber so hardly know.

Go look at the feedback from last fall. It’s obvious that equity warriors looking to move kids for farms purposes do not have public opinion on their side. That’s why you continue to complain on anonymous forums.

The feedback from a couple of years ago (not last fall) was that people opposed boundary changes generally.

No one asked whether, if FCPS was going to make other changes, it should go ahead and move kids to a closer school with plenty of excess capacity.

Feedback from last fall was overwhelmingly to keep kids in their current pyramids absent a compelling reason to move them.

Don’t take my word for it. Go look at the feedback.

The reasons they are now effectively treating as compelling are no more compelling than reasons they're ignoring. It's devolved mostly into an exercise in placating those most likely to complain the loudest while still allowing Reid to claim she did something. Pathetic.

Would you be this vocal if they had moved some of Langley out and ignored attendance islands? Probably not. I seriously don’t understand the hatred of people you don’t even know. I don’t want anyone moved. I definitely am not rooting for one area or another area to be moved like so many were hoping parts of Langley would

“so many” = two anonymous posters in DCUM.

Let’s not pretend a lot of people are that petty.

[Anonymous]

DP. I don't want Langley (or anyone not currently overcrowded) to move, but I can see how people who have been moved would be upset at the fact that most or all of Forestville was not moved. I could even see McLean people upset over it, since more room at Langley could help with the numbers at McLean (although they're probably just happy to not move like everyone else).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. I don't want Langley (or anyone not currently overcrowded) to move, but I can see how people who have been moved would be upset at the fact that most or all of Forestville was not moved. I could even see McLean people upset over it, since more room at Langley could help with the numbers at McLean (although they're probably just happy to not move like everyone else).

I can’t see it. Very few people want their kids to move school pyramids.

McLean wants an addition though. They should get it.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I don't want Langley (or anyone not currently overcrowded) to move, but I can see how people who have been moved would be upset at the fact that most or all of Forestville was not moved. I could even see McLean people upset over it, since more room at Langley could help with the numbers at McLean (although they're probably just happy to not move like everyone else).

I can’t see it. Very few people want their kids to move school pyramids.

McLean wants an addition though. They should get it.

It's a lot cheaper, and faster, to free up space at Langley and use that though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I don't want Langley (or anyone not currently overcrowded) to move, but I can see how people who have been moved would be upset at the fact that most or all of Forestville was not moved. I could even see McLean people upset over it, since more room at Langley could help with the numbers at McLean (although they're probably just happy to not move like everyone else).

I can’t see it. Very few people want their kids to move school pyramids.

McLean wants an addition though. They should get it.

It's a lot cheaper, and faster, to free up space at Langley and use that though.

They would have to address transfers out of Herndon first. If many are leaving for IB or whatever you will just have 600 kids transferring out instead of the 300 they have now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I don't want Langley (or anyone not currently overcrowded) to move, but I can see how people who have been moved would be upset at the fact that most or all of Forestville was not moved. I could even see McLean people upset over it, since more room at Langley could help with the numbers at McLean (although they're probably just happy to not move like everyone else).

I can’t see it. Very few people want their kids to move school pyramids.

McLean wants an addition though. They should get it.

It's a lot cheaper, and faster, to free up space at Langley and use that though.

Yes- I doubt Mclean HS will get an addition. In 2019/20 Herndon was projected to get an addition for 2500 capacity. The actual build was about 250 more. Madison and Falls Church additions approximated the stated new capacity prior to the builds. Thru Regional meetiing comments aren't always accurate representations of all comments actually made during prior limited scope boundary processes. 2 big ones for Langley/Mclean pyramids were Colvin Run opening and the more recent Mclean to Langley. Meeting attendees suggesting other pyramids be included in the scope were NOT outliers.

Could Reid/Thru junk impact the 2025 bond referendum? By Reid/Thru parameters and including modulars, FCPS could build out Centreville to 3000 and not use the new capacity. Planning was on a prior referendum.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I don't want Langley (or anyone not currently overcrowded) to move, but I can see how people who have been moved would be upset at the fact that most or all of Forestville was not moved. I could even see McLean people upset over it, since more room at Langley could help with the numbers at McLean (although they're probably just happy to not move like everyone else).

I can’t see it. Very few people want their kids to move school pyramids.

McLean wants an addition though. They should get it.

It's a lot cheaper, and faster, to free up space at Langley and use that though.

Simpleton thinking.

[Anonymous]

It’s really funny to see the whining from the equity warriors right now because thru saw through their pretext and saw the naked equity attempt.

Glad that the school board and superintendent came to their senses on it. They saved the county tax base and the Fairfax county Democratic Party by not listening to the extreme left flank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s really funny to see the whining from the equity warriors right now because thru saw through their pretext and saw the naked equity attempt.

Glad that the school board and superintendent came to their senses on it. They saved the county tax base and the Fairfax county Democratic Party by not listening to the extreme left flank.

This is not over. They have made some really weird recommendations in some neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really funny to see the whining from the equity warriors right now because thru saw through their pretext and saw the naked equity attempt.

Glad that the school board and superintendent came to their senses on it. They saved the county tax base and the Fairfax county Democratic Party by not listening to the extreme left flank.

This is not over. They have made some really weird recommendations in some neighborhoods.

I think any further changes amount to political suicide at this point. If anything, they’ll have to take away changes.

[Anonymous]

Registrations for community meetings are up. Even if you can’t attend in-person, there are virtual options. My neighborhood is not moving but I’m still advocating others to join and continue to push back.

[Anonymous]

Not sure if we have Thru consultants monitoring DCUM, but if you're checking in just want to say thank you for considering the community's feedback that overwhelmingly supports NO boundary changes. We understand you had to make some compromises on the attendance islands and split feeders, but you didn't cave on the SB's equity goals for Langley/Herndon and WSHS/Lewis.