FCPS comprehensive boundary review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The events of the last few weeks are likely to make local residents more supportive of Democrats, not less. Even if you’re frustrated with some of their decisions, they start to look better by comparison. They may deprive you of the public school you were hoping for; the Republicans may take away your job or gut the local economy in ways that would have far more impact on your housing equity than a mere reassignment to Herndon.

This is 💯 false. I hate what Trump is doing to our country and would never vote for any MAGA supporter, but I voted Republican for our school board and will continue to vote Republican in the future. The current school board is completely out of line and not representing their constituents who OVERWHELMINGLY do not want their kids to be redistricted away from the schools and friends that they have grown up with.

Republicans who aren’t MAGA are few and far between these days. They’ve been purged from the party, down to the local level.

If they were truly centrist, they might have a shot, but that would require the party to stop being the party of Trump, DOGE, and the evisceration of public schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You do realize that many Herndon High athletes grew up playing youth/club sports in Great Falls, and vice-versa. Many, on my DD’s club sport team said they were glad to leave their Great Falls club team because the parents and the vibes were too toxic.

Ok, so then don’t advocate to bring those great falls families to your school. Win win all around.

(Though my kids, having played many seasons of great falls sports, have never encountered anything close to toxic on any of their teams, so I think you are probably just lying to try to vilify your neighbors).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

The events of the last few weeks are likely to make local residents more supportive of Democrats, not less. Even if you’re frustrated with some of their decisions, they start to look better by comparison. They may deprive you of the public school you were hoping for; the Republicans may take away your job or gut the local economy in ways that would have far more impact on your housing equity than a mere reassignment to Herndon.

This is 💯 false. I hate what Trump is doing to our country and would never vote for any MAGA supporter, but I voted Republican for our school board and will continue to vote Republican in the future. The current school board is completely out of line and not representing their constituents who OVERWHELMINGLY do not want their kids to be redistricted away from the schools and friends that they have grown up with.

Republicans who aren’t MAGA are few and far between these days. They’ve been purged from the party, down to the local level.

If they were truly centrist, they might have a shot, but that would require the party to stop being the party of Trump, DOGE, and the evisceration of public schools.

The party currently doing more damage to Fairfax schools is the one that controls every seat on the school board. There are enough intelligent people in the county to understand the nuance here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

The events of the last few weeks are likely to make local residents more supportive of Democrats, not less. Even if you’re frustrated with some of their decisions, they start to look better by comparison. They may deprive you of the public school you were hoping for; the Republicans may take away your job or gut the local economy in ways that would have far more impact on your housing equity than a mere reassignment to Herndon.

This is 💯 false. I hate what Trump is doing to our country and would never vote for any MAGA supporter, but I voted Republican for our school board and will continue to vote Republican in the future. The current school board is completely out of line and not representing their constituents who OVERWHELMINGLY do not want their kids to be redistricted away from the schools and friends that they have grown up with.

Republicans who aren’t MAGA are few and far between these days. They’ve been purged from the party, down to the local level.

If they were truly centrist, they might have a shot, but that would require the party to stop being the party of Trump, DOGE, and the evisceration of public schools.

The party currently doing more damage to Fairfax schools is the one that controls every seat on the school board. There are enough intelligent people in the county to understand the nuance here.

This exactly. People vote in reaction to what happens to them. Sometimes they even vote in reaction to things that happen to them that are outside of the direct control of a party in power.

This is a problem of the current SB’s own creation. No one will blame MAGA or bless a democrat just for being a democrat if you mess with their kids. If you shove someone’s kids into an over-capacity school after the school in their own pyramid just completed a renovation to secure capacity concerns for years to come, they will vote you out! People know who is doing this.

It’s time for more transparency and real community engagement. The more you shove stuff through in the dark and give the community the finger, the more united we become. United for change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You do realize that many Herndon High athletes grew up playing youth/club sports in Great Falls, and vice-versa. Many, on my DD’s club sport team said they were glad to leave their Great Falls club team because the parents and the vibes were too toxic.

Ok, so then don’t advocate to bring those great falls families to your school. Win win all around.

(Though my kids, having played many seasons of great falls sports, have never encountered anything close to toxic on any of their teams, so I think you are probably just lying to try to vilify your neighbors).

Here I am trying to figure out if we are neighbors or not. I keep getting mixed messages. If we were neighbors then we would be part of the same community, right? I don’t think you see it that way, though.

At no point did I say that ALL parents on GF youth teams were toxic. The GF parents on our teams were fabulous. I was just sharing what they told us. No need to get so defensive, neighbor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

It’s your call sign on this board to repeat the same discredited talking point about distance. You put no substance behind it other than crying about ten miles.

A real analysis would include how much time and or money would be saved, and we know why you don’t ever bring either up, because you’ve got nothing to back up your rather vapid complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they will touch Langley/Herndon. Enrollment seems meh at both.

But they sure will move WSHS kids to Lewis. Enrollment numbers are too skewed.

Tysons says hello.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You do realize that many Herndon High athletes grew up playing youth/club sports in Great Falls, and vice-versa. Many, on my DD’s club sport team said they were glad to leave their Great Falls club team because the parents and the vibes were too toxic.

Ok, so then don’t advocate to bring those great falls families to your school. Win win all around.

(Though my kids, having played many seasons of great falls sports, have never encountered anything close to toxic on any of their teams, so I think you are probably just lying to try to vilify your neighbors).

Here I am trying to figure out if we are neighbors or not. I keep getting mixed messages. If we were neighbors then we would be part of the same community, right? I don’t think you see it that way, though.

At no point did I say that ALL parents on GF youth teams were toxic. The GF parents on our teams were fabulous. I was just sharing what they told us. No need to get so defensive, neighbor.

This you:

“were glad to leave their Great Falls club team because the parents and the vibes were too toxic”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they will touch Langley/Herndon. Enrollment seems meh at both.

But they sure will move WSHS kids to Lewis. Enrollment numbers are too skewed.

Tysons says hello.

Wtf are you even trying to say here? Such a lazy post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

It’s your call sign on this board to repeat the same discredited talking point about distance. You put no substance behind it other than crying about ten miles.

A real analysis would include how much time and or money would be saved, and we know why you don’t ever bring either up, because you’ve got nothing to back up your rather vapid complaints.

You seem to be forgetting that years ago when both Herndon and Langley had capacity, western Great Falls went to Herndon. They only started schlepping kids to Langley when Herndon got overcrowded. Now it has extra capacity again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

So, with that attitude, we could switch them every year depending on space. Great.

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

It’s your call sign on this board to repeat the same discredited talking point about distance. You put no substance behind it other than crying about ten miles.

A real analysis would include how much time and or money would be saved, and we know why you don’t ever bring either up, because you’ve got nothing to back up your rather vapid complaints.

You seem to be forgetting that years ago when both Herndon and Langley had capacity, western Great Falls went to Herndon. They only started schlepping kids to Langley when Herndon got overcrowded. Now it has extra capacity again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

It’s your call sign on this board to repeat the same discredited talking point about distance. You put no substance behind it other than crying about ten miles.

A real analysis would include how much time and or money would be saved, and we know why you don’t ever bring either up, because you’ve got nothing to back up your rather vapid complaints.

You seem to be forgetting that years ago when both Herndon and Langley had capacity, western Great Falls went to Herndon. They only started schlepping kids to Langley when Herndon got overcrowded. Now it has extra capacity again.

I think it makes sense for some Great Falls / Herndon neighborhoods to be moved to Herndon High School because of it’s location.

As a Herndon High parent, it really wouldn’t make a difference in my kids’ education. Herndon is a great school with supportive teachers. It’s central location means my kids friends are all a close distance. A big plus is all the extra parking.

If you get moved to Herndon, and you are too afraid to send your kids there, please go to private. I don’t want my DC to have to share a class with a disgruntled former Langley bound student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

Why should they move when there is room at Langley and they want to stay there?

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

It’s your call sign on this board to repeat the same discredited talking point about distance. You put no substance behind it other than crying about ten miles.

A real analysis would include how much time and or money would be saved, and we know why you don’t ever bring either up, because you’ve got nothing to back up your rather vapid complaints.

You seem to be forgetting that years ago when both Herndon and Langley had capacity, western Great Falls went to Herndon. They only started schlepping kids to Langley when Herndon got overcrowded. Now it has extra capacity again.

I think it makes sense for some Great Falls / Herndon neighborhoods to be moved to Herndon High School because of it’s location.

As a Herndon High parent, it really wouldn’t make a difference in my kids’ education. Herndon is a great school with supportive teachers. It’s central location means my kids friends are all a close distance. A big plus is all the extra parking.

If you get moved to Herndon, and you are too afraid to send your kids there, please go to private. I don’t want my DC to have to share a class with a disgruntled former Langley bound student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people who appear to be for new boundaries are the people who hate Langley and want to see families who go there now suffer. I can’t for the life of me understand how so many people whose kids don’t go to Forestville could possibly care where Forestville students go to high school. Some people are super passionate about this particular boundary change possibility.

Don’t expect a bunch of students from Forestville to show up at Herndon High School if boundaries change. A majority of the families will send their kids to private after elementary school or use the transfer process to attend Langley.

**My kids do not attend Forestville, but are in the Langley district. Great Falls is united as a community. We want our kids to stay together. These kids are all friends and have been playing sports together in Great Falls for years. We don’t want to see our community torn apart. ESPECIALLY considering Langley is not at capacity (and the even has availability to admit a ton of transfer kids).

You think the county-wide boundary study is prompted by “hate” for Langley?

I think they just realized they’d built out schools like Herndon to have hundreds of empty seats while other schools are overcrowded, and it was time to look at boundaries holistically with an eye towards consolidating attendance areas rather than continue to make odd, one-off adjustments.

Can’t really see the logic for continuing to bus kids over 10 miles to Langley if there is now space available closer at Herndon. Great Falls is unincorporated Fairfax just like other areas where kids are assigned to multiple schools. And your apparent readiness to send your kids off to different privates suggests you’re more intent on avoiding Herndon than keeping kids together anyway.

It’s your call sign on this board to repeat the same discredited talking point about distance. You put no substance behind it other than crying about ten miles.

A real analysis would include how much time and or money would be saved, and we know why you don’t ever bring either up, because you’ve got nothing to back up your rather vapid complaints.

You seem to be forgetting that years ago when both Herndon and Langley had capacity, western Great Falls went to Herndon. They only started schlepping kids to Langley when Herndon got overcrowded. Now it has extra capacity again.

I think it makes sense for some Great Falls / Herndon neighborhoods to be moved to Herndon High School because of it’s location.

As a Herndon High parent, it really wouldn’t make a difference in my kids’ education. Herndon is a great school with supportive teachers. It’s central location means my kids friends are all a close distance. A big plus is all the extra parking.

If you get moved to Herndon, and you are too afraid to send your kids there, please go to private. I don’t want my DC to have to share a class with a disgruntled former Langley bound student.

What a mooch. Move your kids even though it won’t make a difference in my kids education. Go private so I can mooch off your tax dollars. You aren’t a serious person.