FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:They are moving some of Shrevewood that currently goes to Kilmer to Longfellow (creating a change) and taking out neighborhood that timber lane to Longfellow. Unclear what problem they are solving by changing more kids schools and friends. And creating a small Shrevewood split feeder.

We’re in that area and Longfellow is closer to us than Kilmer so we’d be fine with that change.

Marshall is closer than McLean but Shreve just turns into Haycock on the other side of Route 7 and it’s fairly easy to get to McLean on Shreve/Haycock and then Westmoreland.

Do you have kids in Shrevewood? It's a tight knit community that has already been torn apart with a LLIV/AAP change. Not sure it can handle this change on top of that.

It would be sad if Shrevewood no longer served the very neighborhood that used to support it.

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Anonymous wrote:Wonder what the Timber Lane families north of 29 are feeling right now. I think a lot of people bought in those SFH neighborhoods around West St. because there was a path to McLean.

Wow that’s a big change and didn’t seem like it was happening in the original BRAC maps

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It is pretty $hitty to disrupt families like this, if you ask me, especially when there is zero benefit, not even an overcrowding issue at any of the schools involved, and no measurable transportation savings as both neighborhoods are bus neighborhoods at about the same distance.

My neighborhood is being split to ship estimated 34 students from a less than 10 minute commute to a likely 30 minute commute.
Why? They say the school is overcrowded. No matter that it is projected to lose membership over the next years. Freshman class is 100 member lower than senior class.

By the way, this creates an "attendance island" as this neighborhood is the only one on the other side of 286.

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Based on the comments on pigeonhole (what an unfortunate name for a website), the general feel is that they aren’t listening to communities and aren’t following their established criteria.

Also the Emerald Chase neighborhood seemed to be out in force. They are getting moved elementary schools and high schools, so I can imagine they are pretty fired up.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on the comments on pigeonhole (what an unfortunate name for a website), the general feel is that they aren’t listening to communities and aren’t following their established criteria.

Also the Emerald Chase neighborhood seemed to be out in force. They are getting moved elementary schools and high schools, so I can imagine they are pretty fired up.

Wonder if anyone from 20171 zip was on BRAC? (Neighborhoods between DTR and Highway 50).

Doesn't sound like there is any understanding of those neighborhoods.

Option #1 leaves Coates WAY overcrowded. No adjustment at all. Otherwise, it is the best option.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised (but not really) that they didn't do anything with Greenbriar East. Dr. Reid specifically mentioned that school in regards to why we're even doing this whole exercise at one of the very first board meetings on the topic last year.

What meeting did she mention it? What changes did she say she was going to make? What changes do you want to see?

I recall she made a comment about that school had gained something like 70 kids throughout the school year and she thought it was outrageous. It was at a meeting during the summer and I believe the very first one about boundary changes as I haven't listened to any others.

I used to live in an area zoned to there before I had kids but have since moved elsewhere so I don't really care. I thought her comment indicated they might move some kids from GBE to GBW.

The big jump in enrollment at Greenbriar East was over the course of the 2023-24 school year. The enrollment has been stable this school year and it's not above capacity, so not surprised they left it alone.

I remember the original “leaked maps” had the Fairfax HS zoned portion of GBE shifting to Oakton HS. Did Dixit ever mention this move to GBE families?

That original "leaked maps" poster has been proven to be a troll at this point. They were just making wild claims to stir the pot, and enough people here were so anxious about it all that they fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

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Anonymous wrote:Also the Emerald Chase neighborhood seemed to be out in force. They are getting moved elementary schools and high schools, so I can imagine they are pretty fired up.

They seem desperate to avoid South Lakes (an IB school, so I get it). The call was roughly 100 people and many of their duplicate posts about it had over 60 votes before I dropped off. Either they shared the link outside the meeting or someone there is tech savvy and made a little script to vote them up. Wouldn't be hard at all. If my neighborhood was affected negatively I'd have done the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Also the Emerald Chase neighborhood seemed to be out in force. They are getting moved elementary schools and high schools, so I can imagine they are pretty fired up.

They seem desperate to avoid South Lakes (an IB school, so I get it). The call was roughly 100 people and many of their duplicate posts about it had over 60 votes before I dropped off. Either they shared the link outside the meeting or someone there is tech savvy and made a little script to vote them up. Wouldn't be hard at all. If my neighborhood was affected negatively I'd have done the same.

They just made a good case. I was at the Oakton meeting and met an Emerald Chase parent. They talked to everyone, they made a strong case in the context of Policy 8130, and their story made it clear this could happen to any neighborhood on a line. My address is unaffected by all 3 scenarios. I upvoted every single Emerald Chase comment. It's just wrong what is happening to communities here.

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Anonymous wrote:Wonder what the Timber Lane families north of 29 are feeling right now. I think a lot of people bought in those SFH neighborhoods around West St. because there was a path to McLean.

Wow that’s a big change and didn’t seem like it was happening in the original BRAC maps

Moving the Timber Lane families to Falls Church HS makes the new Shrevewood split even more unnecessary. Especially since it literally divides a neighborhood in half that has always been zoned to the same schools, and there is no obvious dividing point. If FCPS is trying to balance Marshall and McLean or Kilmer and Longfellow enrollments, there are other ways to do so than ripping apart a physical community.

And FCPS, when can we see these mystery SPAs?!?

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Anonymous wrote:Option #1 leaves Coates WAY overcrowded. No adjustment at all. Otherwise, it is the best option.

Option 2 is all of Option 1 plus split feeder fixes. Option 3 is all of 1 & 2 plus the overcrowding fixes. I don't know why they named them that way. I don't think there is any scenario where they scrap the changes from 2 & 3 and just go with "Option 1", especially since overcrowding is the main reason forcing changes in the first place.
Maybe it's just the only way they could think of to present different "options" when they really already know what they are planning to do.

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Sangster orange hunt section being moved to Lake Braddock for MS and HS... isn't Lake Braddock massive already? Wouldn't it make more sense to move this section entirely to a different elementary school and feed into Irving/WSHS? Still eliminates the split feeder issue.

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Anonymous wrote:They are moving some of Shrevewood that currently goes to Kilmer to Longfellow (creating a change) and taking out neighborhood that timber lane to Longfellow. Unclear what problem they are solving by changing more kids schools and friends. And creating a small Shrevewood split feeder.

We’re in that area and Longfellow is closer to us than Kilmer so we’d be fine with that change.

Marshall is closer than McLean but Shreve just turns into Haycock on the other side of Route 7 and it’s fairly easy to get to McLean on Shreve/Haycock and then Westmoreland.

Do you have kids in Shrevewood? It's a tight knit community that has already been torn apart with a LLIV/AAP change. Not sure it can handle this change on top of that.

It would be sad if Shrevewood no longer served the very neighborhood that used to support it.

They haven’t proposed to move anyone out of Shrevewood.

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Thankfully someone listened and they switched the neighborhoods south of Lee Hwy back from Longfellow to Jackson. That change made no sense whatsoever.

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Anonymous wrote:Thankfully someone listened and they switched the neighborhoods south of Lee Hwy back from Longfellow to Jackson. That change made no sense whatsoever.

You mean on the tool that was released yesterday?

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Anonymous wrote:Thankfully someone listened and they switched the neighborhoods south of Lee Hwy back from Longfellow to Jackson. That change made no sense whatsoever.

You mean on the tool that was released yesterday?

DP. All three of the scenarios on the online tool have that area back at Jackson/Falls Church. It never made sense to send kids south of Route 29 to Longfellow or McLean, but especially not to Longfellow and then Falls Church as proposed.