FCPS comprehensive boundary review

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You really need to educate yourself on how the boundaries of schools like Langley, Annandale, and Lewis ended up drawn as they currently are before you go off pontificating at such lengths.

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Herndon's boundaries are pretty much the same as they have been for a very long time. No one complained about Herndon twenty years ago. It is the population that has changed--not the boundaries. No one and no developer "did this."

Google Herndon High and gangs and see what you get back.

Don’t pretend Herndon was this sterling school tears ago.

I don’t have an issue with carve outs for the developers, but when there is a bait and switch then families are left holding the bag. These families likely would not have bought those homes if zoned to Herndon High.

The school board is taking from those families. Let’s call it what it is.

No one is guaranteed assignment to a specific school in a county-wide school system. You cannot be deprived of something that was never yours in the first place.

Absolutely ridiculous perspective.

And yet it’s the correct one.

Just try to recover damages on the theory that the SB infringed on your interests.

You want to use language that implies you had a “right” to stay zoned for a specific school, but of course you had no such right, only an expectation.

So cute. Someone is pretending to be a lawyer.

Ask around and you’ll see how out of step you are.

Not even pretending.

So you might want to stop dropping all the fancy references to “takings,” which make you sound like the one who is in well over their head here.

You’re conflating posters.

You’re interchangeable to be honest.

Me and all the other Fairfax families? On this topic, you’re right.

Do you mean the other FairFACTS families from Langley?

If the proposed changes are logical they’ll be met largely with support or indifference.

If they overplay their hand, they’ll be met with a different response.

Either way, most in the county would have no problem with FCPS moving kids at Langley to Herndon if they live closer to Herndon and Herndon has space.

You bury your head in the sand if you think this is just one school being changed. Dunne is on record that every pyramid will be affected.

No one can rely on their school pyramid going forward. The implicit bargain that has existed for years wrt stability will evaporate as soon as the maps come out.

Good luck stuffing that toothpaste back in the bottle.

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What is the timeline for the maps to be released?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the timeline for the maps to be released?

The Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet one more time. The staff likely have the maps ready to go.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the timeline for the maps to be released?

According to the October School Board meeting, the draft maps will be reviewed internally in early March and released late March/early April. I’m sure they are already being worked on.

Would be interested to see if there are any maps leaked out early.

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Either way, most in the county would have no problem with FCPS moving kids at Langley to Herndon if they live closer to Herndon and Herndon has space.

I think they are going to have a hard time figuring out why the SB would move kids from a school that had fewer students to a school that has more when their neighborhood has been attending the former school for decades.
Langley has fewer students than Herndon.
And, they will have a hard time figuring out why their kids have to go to a different school because one school has too many poor students--even though the current school is smaller.

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Either way, most in the county would have no problem with FCPS moving kids at Langley to Herndon if they live closer to Herndon and Herndon has space.

I think they are going to have a hard time figuring out why the SB would move kids from a school that had fewer students to a school that has more when their neighborhood has been attending the former school for decades.
Langley has fewer students than Herndon.
And, they will have a hard time figuring out why their kids have to go to a different school because one school has too many poor students--even though the current school is smaller.

Herndon got a big expansion and they can move Tysons kids to Langley and Langley kids living further away to Herndon.

They won't say it has anything to do with Herndon having "too many poor students," just that they are shortening commutes and looking at where the permanent seats are now located.

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FCPS is in a death spiral, if the board goes through with boundary changes there will be no pulling out of it.

But I suspect they are too prideful and stupid to do the right thing.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS is in a death spiral, if the board goes through with boundary changes there will be no pulling out of it.

But I suspect they are too prideful and stupid to do the right thing.

While they haven't done a county-wide study in years, there have been multipe boundary changes since 2008. They apparently didn't affect you, so you didn't blather on about a "death spiral" at the time.

Time to put on the big boy pants.

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I completely disagree with this. People make long term significant investments in real estate based on what school the property they buy is zoned for. This whole boundary review process (which frankly isn’t transparent) just stinks of a group of political hacks on a power trip doing make work which has real consequences for people’s children and, not to mention, the value of their property. Just wait for the lawsuits.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS is in a death spiral, if the board goes through with boundary changes there will be no pulling out of it.

But I suspect they are too prideful and stupid to do the right thing.

While they haven't done a county-wide study in years, there have been multipe boundary changes since 2008. They apparently didn't affect you, so you didn't blather on about a "death spiral" at the time.

Time to put on the big boy pants.

I was ten years away from having kids then.

Super dumb post.

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Anonymous wrote:I completely disagree with this. People make long term significant investments in real estate based on what school the property they buy is zoned for. This whole boundary review process (which frankly isn’t transparent) just stinks of a group of political hacks on a power trip doing make work which has real consequences for people’s children and, not to mention, the value of their property. Just wait for the lawsuits.

The threat of lawsuits doesn’t concern them. School boards have broad authority under Virginia law to adjust school boundaries, and the courts do not want to get involved in routine school-related matters lest they be turned into the equivalent of school boards themselves. Some parents sued in 2008 when the South Lakes boundaries were adjusted, and they lost. The same thing will happen again if there are more lawsuits.

They may worry more about the impact of unpopular boundary adjustments on their political futures, but there too they may not be too concerned given how completely Democrats have dominated elections in Fairfax for some time. It’s no coincidence that the last remaining Republican on the BOS is now seeking state office rather than re-election to a county seat.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS is in a death spiral, if the board goes through with boundary changes there will be no pulling out of it.

But I suspect they are too prideful and stupid to do the right thing.

While they haven't done a county-wide study in years, there have been multipe boundary changes since 2008. They apparently didn't affect you, so you didn't blather on about a "death spiral" at the time.

Time to put on the big boy pants.

I was ten years away from having kids then.

Super dumb post.

“Since 2008,” moron. Learn to read.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS is in a death spiral, if the board goes through with boundary changes there will be no pulling out of it.

But I suspect they are too prideful and stupid to do the right thing.

How many threads are you gonna paste this into?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS is in a death spiral, if the board goes through with boundary changes there will be no pulling out of it.

But I suspect they are too prideful and stupid to do the right thing.

While they haven't done a county-wide study in years, there have been multipe boundary changes since 2008. They apparently didn't affect you, so you didn't blather on about a "death spiral" at the time.

Time to put on the big boy pants.

I was ten years away from having kids then.

Super dumb post.

“Since 2008,” moron. Learn to read.

Who says that I haven’t been fighting changes?

Weirdly hostile for someone who is likely on the same side as you. 🙄

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You sound like you are responding for FCPS or the board. These don’t appear to be “routine” or just “adjustments”. As stated throughout, this is intended to impact every pyramid in a hugh county. Several of the suggestions in the leaked map are contrary their own data. You may be right about the board’s political calculations, but if the last few weeks have taught us anything, it’s that being out of step with families or people’s real interests may actually have some political consequences for them.