Anonymous wrote:They may not move all of Hunt Valley, but they will move a huge part of it to Saratoga. South of the parkway.
Same goes for anyone sent to Sangster who lives south of the parkway. They will send those kids to Newington Forest.
All of Rolling Valley will attend WSHS.
This provides relief to Orange Hunt and eliminates split feeders as much as possible (not considering AAP).
Unlikely. In keeping with the policy the RVES population south of 289 and east of 286 will be rezoned to Saratoga, which results in no MS or HS change since they are the RVES split feeder population. The SB is not going to take an updated policy that prioritizes transportation and proximity/community, and then have kids bus longer distances on commuter highways when there are kids who can remain in the same MS and HS pyramid, can use a neighborhood access road, and create full population integrity for ES/MS/HS.
Very likely. What's the FARMS rate for those neighborhoods? Lewis would benefit from those kids shifting to WSHS and pulling in the Hunt Valley corridor.
Anonymous wrote:Trivia fact: at one time the part of Huntsman on the south side of the parkway (which was just two lane Pohick Road then) went to Lee. Along with the Gambrill part of HV and other neighborhoods along Pohick Rd. They had to use two lane Hooes road to get to school.
That was years before any school age children were alive, and back when that area was undeveloped semi rural.
Anonymous wrote:The best nugget of info out of this meeting (because boundary adjustments are a foregone conclusion) is from Dr. Reid's response to Mateo Dunne's question about boundary changes: she stated that HS boundaries will not change much at all, and most of the boundary changes will be at the ES level.
That’s interesting, I wonder why they decided to do that. Most kids attend the closest ES unless they’re at a split feeder or in an attendance island. The kids who have a long ES bus ride would have one regardless because they live in a far-flung area like Clifton or Great Falls. Or they’re getting bussed to the AAP center …
This is false. Anyone with eyes can look at a map of the school boundaries to see lots of elementary schools completely disconnected from their communities.
Such as??
Westbriar, Keene Mill, Flint Hill, Sangster, etc.
The one no-brainer move coming from a savant who spends too much time on Zillow and has no dog in the fight, the Groveland/Green Garland drive area zoned for Sangster will move to Newington Forest and will become part of the South County pyramid.
I can see that happening, although that’s a really small neighborhood that probably won’t make too much of a difference either way.
As a Lorton resident I wonder if the infamous Hagel Circle will continue to get bussed past 95 to Halley or if they will get sent to the much closer Gunston. That’s a hot potato.
I was shocked to learn that Hagel Ct students didn’t go to Lorton Station ES. It’s only a mile away!
That’s one of the equity bussing situations. Sending those kids to the comparatively rich Halley makes Halley and Gunston both around 40% FARMS, and Lorton Station around 55%. Otherwise Halley would have demographics similar to Silverbrook which has single digit FARMS, and Gunston or Lorton Station would be much higher needs.
I imagine if they changed it it would be to send those kids to Gunston so they can stay at South County, as opposed to Lorton Station/Hayfield. But also, without that big neighborhood Halley’s population would drop quite a bit and there’s really nowhere for them to pick up kids from since that is not a growth area of the county.
This may have been their intention when they assigned these attendance islands, but they’re seeing the negative impacts. If kids miss the bus, they’re likely missing school that day, when in some cases, there’s another elementary school within walking distance.
Very true and I’m sure there is a lot of absenteeism coming from that area. A lot of families don’t have cars. If the kid misses the school bus there’s no way to get them to school.
+ 1 never thought of this but I’m positive this is happening.
These are the types of nuances that people who support “keeping things the same” don’t think about. I’m glad that the school board is taking a look at this in a holistic way. Issues like chronic absenteeism only put kids in that community further and further behind, which leads to more stress on the educators and other school resources.
You don’t know what nuance I think about. You’re just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.
I don’t have to throw anything, the motion passed so it’s “up and it’s stuck” already! That reference will likely over your head, it just means your whining is pointless at this point. You should focus that energy on opening up your mind to the possibilities now, since this is no longer a question of IF but WHEN and HOW.
Gloat as much as you want. They’re well on their way to destroying the county schools. Those of us with money will leave, those of us like you will just be stuck with lower SES schools and will never stop your pathetic whining.
That’s the nuance that YOU and your SJW friends don’t think about. Oops.
Oh we did and…WE DO NOT CARE. You think you’re the only one in the county with money? ALL of the houses in FFX cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s just empty threats until/unless it happens and even then, things will be fine. Your house will be snapped up quickly and life will go on.
I have to agree. Houses will still be bought for location, etc. Some of the new buyers will simply expect to go private from the get go unlike whose who had the rug pulled out from under them.
Others will embrace the chance to let their child see how the other half lives so they don’t have to hear them whining about having Izumi for dinner AGAIN.
What I would implore any SJW, economically challenged ideologues on this board to do, is looking at property sales over the next few years in the jurisdictions that are at high risk of getting redistricted. You’ll of course try to spin the ensuing drop as something else, but we all know that the number one reason that people buy their houses is for the schools.
I know you don’t care, but each drop represents a loss for the county, both directly and indirectly.
There have been years not too long ago where the highest price appreciation in the county was in the Lee (now Franconia) District. But, sure, every FCPS decision should be made with a view towards protecting property values in Great Falls…
You shout like a madwoman on this board, and people just quietly go about behind the scenes making sure they aren’t impacted.
At the end of the day, you will never be happy, because those UMC families that you desperately, oh so desperately, seek to soak to Make Herndon Great Again, just ain’t interested and have the means not to care. Sure you’ll catch a few families with redistricting, but everyone I know has already moved on or is prepping to.
DP. Good riddance
Then why bother to redistrict in the first place? You’re just playing a game of swap the LMC/MC families.
Oh that’s right, we’re just trying to bring everyone down to the LCD.
Are you triggered?
I’m pissed for sure, but only about the loss of my community. Funny thing is I don’t even care about the financial hit that much, and as you already know my kids aren’t going to be going to school with yours.
Question for you. You just won. Why come on here and troll others who just lost? Is it because for you, the real win is dragging other people down? Think about that one for a bit.
DP
Firstly, a little trolling and gloating is fun and to be expected considering how long (yeeeeeaaars) people on this board have been bit-cha-ching about Langley and Great Falls supposedly controlling the school board.
Secondly. Petty is a thing I can appreciate but no one can really celebrate until they see the new boundaries.
The prior Dranesville rep on the SB was a shill for Langley. She’s gone, so their influence has waned, which is one reason they are so agitated now.
As for pettiness, if you look at where the growth is occurring in Fairfax compared to where FCPS is spending its capital resources it starts to look inevitable that part of Great Falls will need to move to Herndon. They could be gracious about it (like a Woodson-zoned community that supported a move to Falls Church years ago) but their instinct is to fight instead.
Let me get this straight, you think listening to your constituents makes you a shill? You might want to look that word up in the dictionary.
Second, last I checked, Langley is projected to remain underenrolled and Herndon town population is growing by like fifty percent. If anything, the opposite School move will need to occur. Imagine the SJWs when that happens!
Anyway, you all should realize that a big part of making your equity plan work is to play nice with the families that the SB is about to F over. Lot of raw feelings that isn’t going to make the transition to your school go that well. And a large part of that is just how incredibly nasty and vindictive the equity pushers are on this.
Anonymous wrote:The best nugget of info out of this meeting (because boundary adjustments are a foregone conclusion) is from Dr. Reid's response to Mateo Dunne's question about boundary changes: she stated that HS boundaries will not change much at all, and most of the boundary changes will be at the ES level.
That’s interesting, I wonder why they decided to do that. Most kids attend the closest ES unless they’re at a split feeder or in an attendance island. The kids who have a long ES bus ride would have one regardless because they live in a far-flung area like Clifton or Great Falls. Or they’re getting bussed to the AAP center …
This is false. Anyone with eyes can look at a map of the school boundaries to see lots of elementary schools completely disconnected from their communities.
Such as??
Westbriar, Keene Mill, Flint Hill, Sangster, etc.
The one no-brainer move coming from a savant who spends too much time on Zillow and has no dog in the fight, the Groveland/Green Garland drive area zoned for Sangster will move to Newington Forest and will become part of the South County pyramid.
I can see that happening, although that’s a really small neighborhood that probably won’t make too much of a difference either way.
As a Lorton resident I wonder if the infamous Hagel Circle will continue to get bussed past 95 to Halley or if they will get sent to the much closer Gunston. That’s a hot potato.
I was shocked to learn that Hagel Ct students didn’t go to Lorton Station ES. It’s only a mile away!
That’s one of the equity bussing situations. Sending those kids to the comparatively rich Halley makes Halley and Gunston both around 40% FARMS, and Lorton Station around 55%. Otherwise Halley would have demographics similar to Silverbrook which has single digit FARMS, and Gunston or Lorton Station would be much higher needs.
I imagine if they changed it it would be to send those kids to Gunston so they can stay at South County, as opposed to Lorton Station/Hayfield. But also, without that big neighborhood Halley’s population would drop quite a bit and there’s really nowhere for them to pick up kids from since that is not a growth area of the county.
This may have been their intention when they assigned these attendance islands, but they’re seeing the negative impacts. If kids miss the bus, they’re likely missing school that day, when in some cases, there’s another elementary school within walking distance.
Very true and I’m sure there is a lot of absenteeism coming from that area. A lot of families don’t have cars. If the kid misses the school bus there’s no way to get them to school.
+ 1 never thought of this but I’m positive this is happening.
These are the types of nuances that people who support “keeping things the same” don’t think about. I’m glad that the school board is taking a look at this in a holistic way. Issues like chronic absenteeism only put kids in that community further and further behind, which leads to more stress on the educators and other school resources.
You don’t know what nuance I think about. You’re just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.
I don’t have to throw anything, the motion passed so it’s “up and it’s stuck” already! That reference will likely over your head, it just means your whining is pointless at this point. You should focus that energy on opening up your mind to the possibilities now, since this is no longer a question of IF but WHEN and HOW.
Gloat as much as you want. They’re well on their way to destroying the county schools. Those of us with money will leave, those of us like you will just be stuck with lower SES schools and will never stop your pathetic whining.
That’s the nuance that YOU and your SJW friends don’t think about. Oops.
Oh we did and…WE DO NOT CARE. You think you’re the only one in the county with money? ALL of the houses in FFX cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s just empty threats until/unless it happens and even then, things will be fine. Your house will be snapped up quickly and life will go on.
I have to agree. Houses will still be bought for location, etc. Some of the new buyers will simply expect to go private from the get go unlike whose who had the rug pulled out from under them.
Others will embrace the chance to let their child see how the other half lives so they don’t have to hear them whining about having Izumi for dinner AGAIN.
What I would implore any SJW, economically challenged ideologues on this board to do, is looking at property sales over the next few years in the jurisdictions that are at high risk of getting redistricted. You’ll of course try to spin the ensuing drop as something else, but we all know that the number one reason that people buy their houses is for the schools.
I know you don’t care, but each drop represents a loss for the county, both directly and indirectly.
Ok, hypothetically:
Boundary changes happen and now more poor and diverse kids go to your pyramid. GreatSchools score takes a hit on Zillow. The ultra-wealthy from California and Seattle now refuse to pay 300k over the assessment for homes in your neighborhood. This leaves room for younger mid-grade federal employees and other public servants, from teachers to custodians, to buy and live and work in Fairfax County, just like they used to in the 90s.
How has your own child's education specifically been negatively impacted?
How my own child's education is impacted: now my kid is moving between 10th and 11th grade, completely loses continuity with her school clubs and sports and social groups/friends. Academically, everything is unfamiliar from the courses and path to graduation to the teachers who teach them. She is now exposed to more disciplinary problems, drugs, gang members (yes, not an exaggeration, they are a reality at Lewis). There is no explanation that paints a silver lining for her. But I will make sure she understands there are SJWs who believe she and her cohort are educational martyrs who are fixing the system for FARMS kids and no one else will have to go through what she is going through.
In terms of academics, it’s not just that it is unfamiliar it’s that many advanced courses may not even be available. At least one school board member made this point last night. Not committing to grandfather rising juniors tells me moving them is on the table. Junior year is critical for college admissions and the fact that the school board as whole will not commit to supporting at least that one cohort is disappointing to say the least.
Advocate for more AP in your new school. Contribute to the community.
It is not our community.
Our community is the school zone we originally purchased int, set roots in, and out kids grew up in.
Anonymous wrote:The best nugget of info out of this meeting (because boundary adjustments are a foregone conclusion) is from Dr. Reid's response to Mateo Dunne's question about boundary changes: she stated that HS boundaries will not change much at all, and most of the boundary changes will be at the ES level.
That’s interesting, I wonder why they decided to do that. Most kids attend the closest ES unless they’re at a split feeder or in an attendance island. The kids who have a long ES bus ride would have one regardless because they live in a far-flung area like Clifton or Great Falls. Or they’re getting bussed to the AAP center …
This is false. Anyone with eyes can look at a map of the school boundaries to see lots of elementary schools completely disconnected from their communities.
Such as??
Westbriar, Keene Mill, Flint Hill, Sangster, etc.
The one no-brainer move coming from a savant who spends too much time on Zillow and has no dog in the fight, the Groveland/Green Garland drive area zoned for Sangster will move to Newington Forest and will become part of the South County pyramid.
I can see that happening, although that’s a really small neighborhood that probably won’t make too much of a difference either way.
As a Lorton resident I wonder if the infamous Hagel Circle will continue to get bussed past 95 to Halley or if they will get sent to the much closer Gunston. That’s a hot potato.
I was shocked to learn that Hagel Ct students didn’t go to Lorton Station ES. It’s only a mile away!
That’s one of the equity bussing situations. Sending those kids to the comparatively rich Halley makes Halley and Gunston both around 40% FARMS, and Lorton Station around 55%. Otherwise Halley would have demographics similar to Silverbrook which has single digit FARMS, and Gunston or Lorton Station would be much higher needs.
I imagine if they changed it it would be to send those kids to Gunston so they can stay at South County, as opposed to Lorton Station/Hayfield. But also, without that big neighborhood Halley’s population would drop quite a bit and there’s really nowhere for them to pick up kids from since that is not a growth area of the county.
This may have been their intention when they assigned these attendance islands, but they’re seeing the negative impacts. If kids miss the bus, they’re likely missing school that day, when in some cases, there’s another elementary school within walking distance.
Very true and I’m sure there is a lot of absenteeism coming from that area. A lot of families don’t have cars. If the kid misses the school bus there’s no way to get them to school.
+ 1 never thought of this but I’m positive this is happening.
These are the types of nuances that people who support “keeping things the same” don’t think about. I’m glad that the school board is taking a look at this in a holistic way. Issues like chronic absenteeism only put kids in that community further and further behind, which leads to more stress on the educators and other school resources.
You don’t know what nuance I think about. You’re just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.
I don’t have to throw anything, the motion passed so it’s “up and it’s stuck” already! That reference will likely over your head, it just means your whining is pointless at this point. You should focus that energy on opening up your mind to the possibilities now, since this is no longer a question of IF but WHEN and HOW.
Gloat as much as you want. They’re well on their way to destroying the county schools. Those of us with money will leave, those of us like you will just be stuck with lower SES schools and will never stop your pathetic whining.
That’s the nuance that YOU and your SJW friends don’t think about. Oops.
Oh we did and…WE DO NOT CARE. You think you’re the only one in the county with money? ALL of the houses in FFX cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s just empty threats until/unless it happens and even then, things will be fine. Your house will be snapped up quickly and life will go on.
I have to agree. Houses will still be bought for location, etc. Some of the new buyers will simply expect to go private from the get go unlike whose who had the rug pulled out from under them.
Others will embrace the chance to let their child see how the other half lives so they don’t have to hear them whining about having Izumi for dinner AGAIN.
What I would implore any SJW, economically challenged ideologues on this board to do, is looking at property sales over the next few years in the jurisdictions that are at high risk of getting redistricted. You’ll of course try to spin the ensuing drop as something else, but we all know that the number one reason that people buy their houses is for the schools.
I know you don’t care, but each drop represents a loss for the county, both directly and indirectly.
Ok, hypothetically:
Boundary changes happen and now more poor and diverse kids go to your pyramid. GreatSchools score takes a hit on Zillow. The ultra-wealthy from California and Seattle now refuse to pay 300k over the assessment for homes in your neighborhood. This leaves room for younger mid-grade federal employees and other public servants, from teachers to custodians, to buy and live and work in Fairfax County, just like they used to in the 90s.
How has your own child's education specifically been negatively impacted?
How my own child's education is impacted: now my kid is moving between 10th and 11th grade, completely loses continuity with her school clubs and sports and social groups/friends. Academically, everything is unfamiliar from the courses and path to graduation to the teachers who teach them. She is now exposed to more disciplinary problems, drugs, gang members (yes, not an exaggeration, they are a reality at Lewis). There is no explanation that paints a silver lining for her. But I will make sure she understands there are SJWs who believe she and her cohort are educational martyrs who are fixing the system for FARMS kids and no one else will have to go through what she is going through.
In terms of academics, it’s not just that it is unfamiliar it’s that many advanced courses may not even be available. At least one school board member made this point last night. Not committing to grandfather rising juniors tells me moving them is on the table. Junior year is critical for college admissions and the fact that the school board as whole will not commit to supporting at least that one cohort is disappointing to say the least.
Advocate for more AP in your new school. Contribute to the community.
It is not our community.
Our community is the school zone we originally purchased int, set roots in, and out kids grew up in.
Agree, the school will be two schools within a school. Especially if the kids at the schools are like their smug petty SJW parents. My kids would want nothing to do with them, and I’d fully support that.
Anonymous wrote:Kids move in HS and they go onto college, many go on to excellent colleges. They can write their essay about the hardship of moving as a Junior and having to develop new relationships and how that helped them to grow as a person and a leader. It is great essay material for their applications.
Untkl you become the kid who only has 2 years of german at one school, and 2 years of spanish at another, with no leadersip opportunities since you moved junior year.
That kid can kiss half of their college choices goodbye on the language issue alone. Ask me how I know.
Kids change schools all the time due to family moves and still get in college
Not out of northern virginia with only 2 years of one language and 2 years of a different language.
Anonymous wrote:Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.
Let’s go vouchers!
Tim Kaine just sent a big email about fentanyl and illegal immigration today, after the RNC. It is his first email on real issues in around forever.
Virginia turning red in the polls has Kaine turning into a pretend republican. I guess the school board did not get the memo.
Wow. They must've seen polling to have one of our senators actually speak on the immigration issue. I never thought I'd see the day.
It was an entire letter talking about how his office has been flooded with constiuent calls over fentanyl and our border crisis, so he just took a visit to the border to talk to border control and is now "leading" on drafting legislation to combat fentanyl and the cartel/border crisis. What an insincere, opportunistic tool.
He only cares because everyone saw the family stories of the victims at the RNC, and he can read the Virginia polls, so now he has to pretend he is leading on the issue.
Too bad he didn't let the FCPS school board know pretending to support trump causes is the new playbook through November.
Anonymous wrote:Kids move in HS and they go onto college, many go on to excellent colleges. They can write their essay about the hardship of moving as a Junior and having to develop new relationships and how that helped them to grow as a person and a leader. It is great essay material for their applications.
Untkl you become the kid who only has 2 years of german at one school, and 2 years of spanish at another, with no leadersip opportunities since you moved junior year.
That kid can kiss half of their college choices goodbye on the language issue alone. Ask me how I know.
Kids change schools all the time due to family moves and still get in college
Not out of northern virginia with only 2 years of one language and 2 years of a different language.
Anonymous wrote:Kids move in HS and they go onto college, many go on to excellent colleges. They can write their essay about the hardship of moving as a Junior and having to develop new relationships and how that helped them to grow as a person and a leader. It is great essay material for their applications.
Untkl you become the kid who only has 2 years of german at one school, and 2 years of spanish at another, with no leadersip opportunities since you moved junior year.
That kid can kiss half of their college choices goodbye on the language issue alone. Ask me how I know.
Kids change schools all the time due to family moves and still get in college
Not out of northern virginia with only 2 years of one language and 2 years of a different language.
Take the language at Nova
What a,ridiculous suggestion.
Grandfather all high school students.
The parents can drive them.
Plenty of sah or wfh parents will be happy to take a carload of kids so they can stay at their owm schools. It is only 1 year until they get their drivers licenses and can drive themselves.
Anonymous wrote:Kids move in HS and they go onto college, many go on to excellent colleges. They can write their essay about the hardship of moving as a Junior and having to develop new relationships and how that helped them to grow as a person and a leader. It is great essay material for their applications.
Untkl you become the kid who only has 2 years of german at one school, and 2 years of spanish at another, with no leadersip opportunities since you moved junior year.
That kid can kiss half of their college choices goodbye on the language issue alone. Ask me how I know.
Kids change schools all the time due to family moves and still get in college
Not out of northern virginia with only 2 years of one language and 2 years of a different language.
Take the language at Nova
What a,ridiculous suggestion.
Grandfather all high school students.
The parents can drive them.
Plenty of sah or wfh parents will be happy to take a carload of kids so they can stay at their owm schools. It is only 1 year until they get their drivers licenses and can drive themselves.
Why not put all this effort into making the most of your new public school? Get all those parents together to help the kids learn to deal with change.
Anonymous wrote:Kids move in HS and they go onto college, many go on to excellent colleges. They can write their essay about the hardship of moving as a Junior and having to develop new relationships and how that helped them to grow as a person and a leader. It is great essay material for their applications.
Untkl you become the kid who only has 2 years of german at one school, and 2 years of spanish at another, with no leadersip opportunities since you moved junior year.
That kid can kiss half of their college choices goodbye on the language issue alone. Ask me how I know.
Kids change schools all the time due to family moves and still get in college
Not out of northern virginia with only 2 years of one language and 2 years of a different language.
Take the language at Nova
What a,ridiculous suggestion.
Grandfather all high school students.
The parents can drive them.
Plenty of sah or wfh parents will be happy to take a carload of kids so they can stay at their owm schools. It is only 1 year until they get their drivers licenses and can drive themselves.
I’m pretty sure they wanted to keep the grandfathering clause vague because they didn’t want to guarantee transportation. Have there been instances where they grandfathered students without offering transportation? Are the offering a bus to the Colvin Run kids who wanted to stay at McLean?
Anonymous wrote:Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.
Let’s go vouchers!
Tim Kaine just sent a big email about fentanyl and illegal immigration today, after the RNC. It is his first email on real issues in around forever.
Virginia turning red in the polls has Kaine turning into a pretend republican. I guess the school board did not get the memo.
Wow. They must've seen polling to have one of our senators actually speak on the immigration issue. I never thought I'd see the day.
Anonymous wrote:The best nugget of info out of this meeting (because boundary adjustments are a foregone conclusion) is from Dr. Reid's response to Mateo Dunne's question about boundary changes: she stated that HS boundaries will not change much at all, and most of the boundary changes will be at the ES level.
That’s interesting, I wonder why they decided to do that. Most kids attend the closest ES unless they’re at a split feeder or in an attendance island. The kids who have a long ES bus ride would have one regardless because they live in a far-flung area like Clifton or Great Falls. Or they’re getting bussed to the AAP center …
This is false. Anyone with eyes can look at a map of the school boundaries to see lots of elementary schools completely disconnected from their communities.
Such as??
Westbriar, Keene Mill, Flint Hill, Sangster, etc.
The one no-brainer move coming from a savant who spends too much time on Zillow and has no dog in the fight, the Groveland/Green Garland drive area zoned for Sangster will move to Newington Forest and will become part of the South County pyramid.
I can see that happening, although that’s a really small neighborhood that probably won’t make too much of a difference either way.
As a Lorton resident I wonder if the infamous Hagel Circle will continue to get bussed past 95 to Halley or if they will get sent to the much closer Gunston. That’s a hot potato.
I was shocked to learn that Hagel Ct students didn’t go to Lorton Station ES. It’s only a mile away!
That’s one of the equity bussing situations. Sending those kids to the comparatively rich Halley makes Halley and Gunston both around 40% FARMS, and Lorton Station around 55%. Otherwise Halley would have demographics similar to Silverbrook which has single digit FARMS, and Gunston or Lorton Station would be much higher needs.
I imagine if they changed it it would be to send those kids to Gunston so they can stay at South County, as opposed to Lorton Station/Hayfield. But also, without that big neighborhood Halley’s population would drop quite a bit and there’s really nowhere for them to pick up kids from since that is not a growth area of the county.
This may have been their intention when they assigned these attendance islands, but they’re seeing the negative impacts. If kids miss the bus, they’re likely missing school that day, when in some cases, there’s another elementary school within walking distance.
Very true and I’m sure there is a lot of absenteeism coming from that area. A lot of families don’t have cars. If the kid misses the school bus there’s no way to get them to school.
+ 1 never thought of this but I’m positive this is happening.
These are the types of nuances that people who support “keeping things the same” don’t think about. I’m glad that the school board is taking a look at this in a holistic way. Issues like chronic absenteeism only put kids in that community further and further behind, which leads to more stress on the educators and other school resources.
You don’t know what nuance I think about. You’re just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks.
I don’t have to throw anything, the motion passed so it’s “up and it’s stuck” already! That reference will likely over your head, it just means your whining is pointless at this point. You should focus that energy on opening up your mind to the possibilities now, since this is no longer a question of IF but WHEN and HOW.
Gloat as much as you want. They’re well on their way to destroying the county schools. Those of us with money will leave, those of us like you will just be stuck with lower SES schools and will never stop your pathetic whining.
That’s the nuance that YOU and your SJW friends don’t think about. Oops.
Oh we did and…WE DO NOT CARE. You think you’re the only one in the county with money? ALL of the houses in FFX cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s just empty threats until/unless it happens and even then, things will be fine. Your house will be snapped up quickly and life will go on.
I have to agree. Houses will still be bought for location, etc. Some of the new buyers will simply expect to go private from the get go unlike whose who had the rug pulled out from under them.
Others will embrace the chance to let their child see how the other half lives so they don’t have to hear them whining about having Izumi for dinner AGAIN.
What I would implore any SJW, economically challenged ideologues on this board to do, is looking at property sales over the next few years in the jurisdictions that are at high risk of getting redistricted. You’ll of course try to spin the ensuing drop as something else, but we all know that the number one reason that people buy their houses is for the schools.
I know you don’t care, but each drop represents a loss for the county, both directly and indirectly.
There have been years not too long ago where the highest price appreciation in the county was in the Lee (now Franconia) District. But, sure, every FCPS decision should be made with a view towards protecting property values in Great Falls…
You shout like a madwoman on this board, and people just quietly go about behind the scenes making sure they aren’t impacted.
At the end of the day, you will never be happy, because those UMC families that you desperately, oh so desperately, seek to soak to Make Herndon Great Again, just ain’t interested and have the means not to care. Sure you’ll catch a few families with redistricting, but everyone I know has already moved on or is prepping to.
DP. Good riddance
Then why bother to redistrict in the first place? You’re just playing a game of swap the LMC/MC families.
Oh that’s right, we’re just trying to bring everyone down to the LCD.
Are you triggered?
I’m pissed for sure, but only about the loss of my community. Funny thing is I don’t even care about the financial hit that much, and as you already know my kids aren’t going to be going to school with yours.
Question for you. You just won. Why come on here and troll others who just lost? Is it because for you, the real win is dragging other people down? Think about that one for a bit.
DP
Firstly, a little trolling and gloating is fun and to be expected considering how long (yeeeeeaaars) people on this board have been bit-cha-ching about Langley and Great Falls supposedly controlling the school board.
Secondly. Petty is a thing I can appreciate but no one can really celebrate until they see the new boundaries.
The prior Dranesville rep on the SB was a shill for Langley. She’s gone, so their influence has waned, which is one reason they are so agitated now.
As for pettiness, if you look at where the growth is occurring in Fairfax compared to where FCPS is spending its capital resources it starts to look inevitable that part of Great Falls will need to move to Herndon. They could be gracious about it (like a Woodson-zoned community that supported a move to Falls Church years ago) but their instinct is to fight instead.
Let me get this straight, you think listening to your constituents makes you a shill? You might want to look that word up in the dictionary.
Second, last I checked, Langley is projected to remain underenrolled and Herndon town population is growing by like fifty percent. If anything, the opposite School move will need to occur. Imagine the SJWs when that happens!
Anyway, you all should realize that a big part of making your equity plan work is to play nice with the families that the SB is about to F over. Lot of raw feelings that isn’t going to make the transition to your school go that well. And a large part of that is just how incredibly nasty and vindictive the equity pushers are on this.
Nasty SJW response in 3-2-1…
+1
It always amuses me that people like the PP feel families who are currently zoned to an excellent school should simply be "gracious" about being rezoned to a poorly-performing school. As if THEY would!
Anonymous wrote:Halfway through the school board members speaking, I am officially switching my party from Democrat to Republican. Smug Sandy Anderson was the final nail in the coffin, but to be fair, I was already heading that way after the board started down this path.
Let’s go vouchers!
Tim Kaine just sent a big email about fentanyl and illegal immigration today, after the RNC. It is his first email on real issues in around forever.
Virginia turning red in the polls has Kaine turning into a pretend republican. I guess the school board did not get the memo.
Wow. They must've seen polling to have one of our senators actually speak on the immigration issue. I never thought I'd see the day.
It was an entire letter talking about how his office has been flooded with constiuent calls over fentanyl and our border crisis, so he just took a visit to the border to talk to border control and is now "leading" on drafting legislation to combat fentanyl and the cartel/border crisis. What an insincere, opportunistic tool.
He only cares because everyone saw the family stories of the victims at the RNC, and he can read the Virginia polls, so now he has to pretend he is leading on the issue.
Too bad he didn't let the FCPS school board know pretending to support trump causes is the new playbook through November.
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