FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[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.

What are you talking about? Plenty of neighborhoods (including mine) are slated to get moved. Nothing has been decided yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What are you talking about? Plenty of neighborhoods (including mine) are slated to get moved. Nothing has been decided yet.

It's just a Forestville, Great Falls, or even worse one of the "good" Herndon address homeowners doing a victory lap because they weren't moved. They don't care about you or your family, only that they got what they wanted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What are you talking about? Plenty of neighborhoods (including mine) are slated to get moved. Nothing has been decided yet.

The people who are pushing for Forestville to move are just trying to hurt their neighbors because “equity”.

I don’t want anyone else to be moved absent those areas wanting to move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What are you talking about? Plenty of neighborhoods (including mine) are slated to get moved. Nothing has been decided yet.

It's just a Forestville, Great Falls, or even worse one of the "good" Herndon address homeowners doing a victory lap because they weren't moved. They don't care about you or your family, only that they got what they wanted.

Nope. Wrong.

And you’re a tool. I very much care about my neighbors and don’t want anyone moved. Just because you want to F with kids doesn’t mean others are losers like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

That's some hard-core trolling there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What are you talking about? Plenty of neighborhoods (including mine) are slated to get moved. Nothing has been decided yet.

It's just a Forestville, Great Falls, or even worse one of the "good" Herndon address homeowners doing a victory lap because they weren't moved. They don't care about you or your family, only that they got what they wanted.

Nope. Wrong.

And you’re a tool. I very much care about my neighbors and don’t want anyone moved. Just because you want to F with kids doesn’t mean others are losers like you.

Yes. I don't understand why people want other people to move their kids. Seems kind of mean.

[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 a very odd take on what's going on.

It's not clear the School Board is fully on board with what Thru proposed, and Thru's proposals seem like a fairly simplistic effort to collect a $500K consulting fee with minimal effort. I say that because many of their proposals, while purporting to "fix" one "problem," create as many new problems as they solve. It's not the result of thoughtful work.

If you think any proposal to redistrict Langley would be "extreme left," and any proposal that doesn't do so reflects the work of people who "came to their senses," perhaps that's how you'll spin it. But these proposals will result in a lot of opposition. Many of them are objectively bad, and they frequently target areas that would have preferred to have been left alone.

[Anonymous]

At this point I don't want to see my tax dollars spent on ANY expansions if there is a way to change boundaries to relieve overcrowding. Use the space that is available. In a county system that is how things are supposed to work. No more West Potomac nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point I don't want to see my tax dollars spent on ANY expansions if there is a way to change boundaries to relieve overcrowding. Use the space that is available. In a county system that is how things are supposed to work. No more West Potomac nonsense.

The overcrowded high schools share boundaries with overcrowded high schools. Boundary adjustments won't help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 a very odd take on what's going on.

It's not clear the School Board is fully on board with what Thru proposed, and Thru's proposals seem like a fairly simplistic effort to collect a $500K consulting fee with minimal effort. I say that because many of their proposals, while purporting to "fix" one "problem," create as many new problems as they solve. It's not the result of thoughtful work.

If you think any proposal to redistrict Langley would be "extreme left," and any proposal that doesn't do so reflects the work of people who "came to their senses," perhaps that's how you'll spin it. But these proposals will result in a lot of opposition. Many of them are objectively bad, and they frequently target areas that would have preferred to have been left alone.

Welcome to a discussion thread where Langley families constantly get told they are racists and bigots after the redistricting proponents are the ones who repeatedly bring up race. Where a poster early today proclaimed that they should try to set a floor farms rate, and where a poster at one point last month proclaimed that everyone had to run to look at google maps to see a traffic accident on Georgetown pike which slowed the morning commute that day. That poster has been at it for well over a year in this message board. She’s absolutely obsessed with moving those kids.

You put words in my mouth when you pretend that I’m on board with any of the proposed changes, which I’m not. I was just talking about that one particular situation. I think all of these changes should be voted down as completely unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point I don't want to see my tax dollars spent on ANY expansions if there is a way to change boundaries to relieve overcrowding. Use the space that is available. In a county system that is how things are supposed to work. No more West Potomac nonsense.

That's not how things worked in the past. FCPS closed schools in eastern Fairfax years ago at the same time it was building new schools in western Fairfax. They did so because they knew that people wanted schools in their communities, and not to be bused long distances just because enrollment had declined elsewhere in the county.

In any event, a lot of those claiming they don't want expansions "at this point" were fine with earlier expansions that benefitted their own schools. They just draw the line when it comes to letting other kids stay in their schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point I don't want to see my tax dollars spent on ANY expansions if there is a way to change boundaries to relieve overcrowding. Use the space that is available. In a county system that is how things are supposed to work. No more West Potomac nonsense.

Look at the actual school membership for the elementary schools.

The overcrowded high schools are going to drop by a couple hundred students over the years following 2026 rezoning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 a very odd take on what's going on.

It's not clear the School Board is fully on board with what Thru proposed, and Thru's proposals seem like a fairly simplistic effort to collect a $500K consulting fee with minimal effort. I say that because many of their proposals, while purporting to "fix" one "problem," create as many new problems as they solve. It's not the result of thoughtful work.

If you think any proposal to redistrict Langley would be "extreme left," and any proposal that doesn't do so reflects the work of people who "came to their senses," perhaps that's how you'll spin it. But these proposals will result in a lot of opposition. Many of them are objectively bad, and they frequently target areas that would have preferred to have been left alone.

Welcome to a discussion thread where Langley families constantly get told they are racists and bigots after the redistricting proponents are the ones who repeatedly bring up race. Where a poster early today proclaimed that they should try to set a floor farms rate, and where a poster at one point last month proclaimed that everyone had to run to look at google maps to see a traffic accident on Georgetown pike which slowed the morning commute that day. That poster has been at it for well over a year in this message board. She’s absolutely obsessed with moving those kids.

You put words in my mouth when you pretend that I’m on board with any of the proposed changes, which I’m not. I was just talking about that one particular situation. I think all of these changes should be voted down as completely unnecessary.

Of course it's impossible not to conflate posters at times, but if you're the poster who said the School Board and Reid "came to their senses" and that Thru "saw through the pretext," it's a reasonable inference that you were supporting what Thru came up with, and not suggesting earlier that all of the changes are completely unnecessary.

It feels like a rope-a-dope right now where Langley posters alternate between singing Thru's praises and proclaiming they don't support any boundary changes. Those positions conflict with one another, because Thru is still proposing dozens of boundary changes. They just don't involve Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point I don't want to see my tax dollars spent on ANY expansions if there is a way to change boundaries to relieve overcrowding. Use the space that is available. In a county system that is how things are supposed to work. No more West Potomac nonsense.

That's not how things worked in the past. FCPS closed schools in eastern Fairfax years ago at the same time it was building new schools in western Fairfax. They did so because they knew that people wanted schools in their communities, and not to be bused long distances just because enrollment had declined elsewhere in the county.

In any event, a lot of those claiming they don't want expansions "at this point" were fine with earlier expansions that benefitted their own schools. They just draw the line when it comes to letting other kids stay in their schools.

Sure they built new schools and they closed schools, but they MOVED students as well. I was not fine with them expanding West Potomac when there were hundreds of seats available at Mt. Vernon. If we continue that, we are throwing good money after bad. And nobody is talking about busing kids across the county (that would be extreme). But domino effects could see more students shifted. Once again, in a county system boundary changes should happen to make the best use of space when possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point I don't want to see my tax dollars spent on ANY expansions if there is a way to change boundaries to relieve overcrowding. Use the space that is available. In a county system that is how things are supposed to work. No more West Potomac nonsense.

Look at the actual school membership for the elementary schools.

The overcrowded high schools are going to drop by a couple hundred students over the years following 2026 rezoning.

OK. That may be. But for example, if West Springfield continues to grow the first option should be to move students, possibly to Lewis since it has hundreds of open seats. No modulars, no more expansions until we use the existing space.