FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

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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.

But that's the point. WSHS isn't likely to grow as much as the CIP suggests. The local elementary schools have decreasing enrollment. And if it turns out that in a few years the CIP happens by some miracle to be right and WSHS enrollment goes up, the school board can consider that then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Before moving students to Lewis, they need to get rid of IB at that school and move to AP. That will reduce the number of kids pupil placing out. Otherwise, you can redistrict WSHS kids to that school, but they'll just pupil place out, too.

[Anonymous]

It's always going to be better for the county in the long run to serve kids where they live in their existing pyramids rather than reshuffle them around like widgets. All these boundary changes will do is highlight FCPS's problems relative to other area school districts. They change boundaries in APS, too, but it's not nearly as half-assed an exercise as the debacle we're now witnessing with Thru Consulting. And LCPS changes boundaries, too, but that's when new schools open, which FCPS is completely incapable of pulling off (unless it's a totally unnecessary new facility like Karl Frisch's Dunn Loring ES boondoggle).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Before moving students to Lewis, they need to get rid of IB at that school and move to AP. That will reduce the number of kids pupil placing out. Otherwise, you can redistrict WSHS kids to that school, but they'll just pupil place out, too.

Bingo. But FCPS has shown its prefers band aids to anything approaching a root cause analysis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Before moving students to Lewis, they need to get rid of IB at that school and move to AP. That will reduce the number of kids pupil placing out. Otherwise, you can redistrict WSHS kids to that school, but they'll just pupil place out, too.

Wishing they had made this change years ago. People tried to tell them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Before moving students to Lewis, they need to get rid of IB at that school and move to AP. That will reduce the number of kids pupil placing out. Otherwise, you can redistrict WSHS kids to that school, but they'll just pupil place out, too.

Wishing they had made this change years ago. People tried to tell them.

It’s not fair to the kids districted for Lewis. They have to find another school which has the AP classes they want. And it’s not WSHS because it’s closed to transfers. IB may be great at some schools but it isn’t popular at Lewis. Why can’t FCPS fix things that will actually help kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Before moving students to Lewis, they need to get rid of IB at that school and move to AP. That will reduce the number of kids pupil placing out. Otherwise, you can redistrict WSHS kids to that school, but they'll just pupil place out, too.

Wishing they had made this change years ago. People tried to tell them.

It’s not fair to the kids districted for Lewis. They have to find another school which has the AP classes they want. And it’s not WSHS because it’s closed to transfers. IB may be great at some schools but it isn’t popular at Lewis. Why can’t FCPS fix things that will actually help kids?

Because it makes sense to eliminate it and our SB has not shown lots of that.

[Anonymous]

Yes. The FCPS School Board and Board of Supervisors are both populated by idiots.

[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 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.

I totally get it. Reading comprehension is hard for a lot of other people too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

I totally get it. Reading comprehension is hard for a lot of other people too.

It’s not a question of reading comprehension, only attribution.

Is every Langley poster a flaming jerk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

I totally get it. Reading comprehension is hard for a lot of other people too.

It’s not a question of reading comprehension, only attribution.

Is every Langley poster a flaming jerk?

Not attribution, you called it an inference.

When you assume you make an ass out of you. Or something like that.

And sure, stereotype away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

I totally get it. Reading comprehension is hard for a lot of other people too.

It’s not a question of reading comprehension, only attribution.

Is every Langley poster a flaming jerk?

Not attribution, you called it an inference.

When you assume you make an ass out of you. Or something like that.

And sure, stereotype away.

Keep digging that hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

I totally get it. Reading comprehension is hard for a lot of other people too.

It’s not a question of reading comprehension, only attribution.

Is every Langley poster a flaming jerk?

Not attribution, you called it an inference.

When you assume you make an ass out of you. Or something like that.

And sure, stereotype away.

Keep digging that hole.

Sick burn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smh that there will still be kids at the sterling end of GF commuting 50 minutes to Langley…

There you are! Enjoy gnashing your teeth over this non-issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smh that there will still be kids at the sterling end of GF commuting 50 minutes to Langley…

Where do your kids go that you’re so hyper fixated on Langley and other peoples kids. No one else in the county looks at a map and points out where they think other peoples kids should go or why borders are the way they are. There are a lot of things that looking at paper don’t make sense but just looking at a map doesn’t paint the whole picture. Focus on your own kids

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I have no knowledge of - or interest in - the commutes of any kids other than my own. I really feel sorry for the psycho who seems to live and breathe resentment over something that doesn't even affect them at all.