FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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If you want to be floored - absolutely floored - go watch the February 8, 2024 school board meeting on YouTube. Starting around 1:05:30, there is a long discussion about the urgent need for boundary relief at Coates and Parklawn. Real dire need for relief.

That’s the meeting where they approved those two studies.

Fast forward to today, over 15 months later, and the overcapacity at the schools remains, and will likely remain until fall of 2026, 30 months after the emergency was discussed by the board. Why? So that FCPS could tweak other boundaries across the county.

Never forget that they actively hurt the communities at these schools to do the comprehensive review.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

Is it your kids? Because what I see here is a lot of people saying "these change impact my family and I don't want them" and some other people saying "but SOME people do want them." I want to hear from other families about what they want. Not activists that want to tell people what they want.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

DP. I find this rather contrived. Kids can easily maintain friendships these days when attending different schools. And attendance islands aren’t necessarily far flung. For example, the kids in the Timber Lane attendance island at McLean live about half the distance from McLean that a lot of kids zoned for Langley (which has no islands) live from Langley.

Your tone seems almost desperate - like you’re on retainer to convince people these boundary changes will produce a lot of benefits when the message that FCPS gets over and over again is that most people neither want them nor see the need for them.

Apparently you're not listening if you don't understand the benefits. They've been repeated over and over again. Feel free to read back through this thread and you'll see. But, this time, actually read rather than putting your head in the sand and reflexively dismissing anything said that doesn't conform to your own selfish views.

Nothing about my tone is desperate. My kids are not in a split feeder school currently and nor will they be with any of the proposals. You repeating that nobody wants these changes till until face turns blue does not make that true. Clearly there are loud people like you who keep screaming against it because it does affect you in a negative way and/or may affect property values. I'm dismissive of your arguments because I'm more concerned with the possibility of benefiting the most kids.

I'm still waiting for you to provide anything even close to a reasonable argument why your kids are more special than any other kids in the district. You're very good at deflecting and being loud, but you have yet to provide even something close to a decent argument.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

DP. I find this rather contrived. Kids can easily maintain friendships these days when attending different schools. And attendance islands aren’t necessarily far flung. For example, the kids in the Timber Lane attendance island at McLean live about half the distance from McLean that a lot of kids zoned for Langley (which has no islands) live from Langley.

Your tone seems almost desperate - like you’re on retainer to convince people these boundary changes will produce a lot of benefits when the message that FCPS gets over and over again is that most people neither want them nor see the need for them.

Apparently you're not listening if you don't understand the benefits. They've been repeated over and over again. Feel free to read back through this thread and you'll see. But, this time, actually read rather than putting your head in the sand and reflexively dismissing anything said that doesn't conform to your own selfish views.

Nothing about my tone is desperate. My kids are not in a split feeder school currently and nor will they be with any of the proposals. You repeating that nobody wants these changes till until face turns blue does not make that true. Clearly there are loud people like you who keep screaming against it because it does affect you in a negative way and/or may affect property values. I'm dismissive of your arguments because I'm more concerned with the possibility of benefiting the most kids.

I'm still waiting for you to provide anything even close to a reasonable argument why your kids are more special than any other kids in the district. You're very good at deflecting and being loud, but you have yet to provide even something close to a decent argument.

Ah, so it's not your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

Is it your kids? Because what I see here is a lot of people saying "these change impact my family and I don't want them" and some other people saying "but SOME people do want them." I want to hear from other families about what they want. Not activists that want to tell people what they want.

We are a split feeder that feeds a split feeder. We’d be happy if one were resolved. Ours could be solved as easily as sending Kilmer students assigned to Madison to Thoreau and Thoreau students assigned to Marshall to Madison, but Thru hasn’t gotten there quite yet.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

DP. I find this rather contrived. Kids can easily maintain friendships these days when attending different schools. And attendance islands aren’t necessarily far flung. For example, the kids in the Timber Lane attendance island at McLean live about half the distance from McLean that a lot of kids zoned for Langley (which has no islands) live from Langley.

Your tone seems almost desperate - like you’re on retainer to convince people these boundary changes will produce a lot of benefits when the message that FCPS gets over and over again is that most people neither want them nor see the need for them.

Apparently you're not listening if you don't understand the benefits. They've been repeated over and over again. Feel free to read back through this thread and you'll see. But, this time, actually read rather than putting your head in the sand and reflexively dismissing anything said that doesn't conform to your own selfish views.

Nothing about my tone is desperate. My kids are not in a split feeder school currently and nor will they be with any of the proposals. You repeating that nobody wants these changes till until face turns blue does not make that true. Clearly there are loud people like you who keep screaming against it because it does affect you in a negative way and/or may affect property values. I'm dismissive of your arguments because I'm more concerned with the possibility of benefiting the most kids.

I'm still waiting for you to provide anything even close to a reasonable argument why your kids are more special than any other kids in the district. You're very good at deflecting and being loud, but you have yet to provide even something close to a decent argument.

Just pointing out that you are conflating a lot of posters in this post. There are many boundary opponents here. I think some of your post was meant to address comments that I’ve made, but then you pivot and mention other people’s posts.

Try to be intellectually honest in your advocacy for boundary changes for once. Just because you repeat the same drivel over and over again, doesn’t make your equity crusade any less disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants boundary changes, ... blah blah blah.

DP. You keep posting this, but repeating something doesn't make it true. Families in split feeders want boundary changes. They don't want their kids to have to lose their friends either. Why are your kids more important than theirs? They're not. I say fix as many split feeders as they possibly can and plan capacity better in the future to avoid new ones.

This is not always true either. We are part of a split feeder and desperately want to stay in our current pyramid. In fact, most of the people in our split want to stay put.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

Is it your kids? Because what I see here is a lot of people saying "these change impact my family and I don't want them" and some other people saying "but SOME people do want them." I want to hear from other families about what they want. Not activists that want to tell people what they want.

We are a split feeder that feeds a split feeder. We’d be happy if one were resolved. Ours could be solved as easily as sending Kilmer students assigned to Madison to Thoreau and Thoreau students assigned to Marshall to Madison, but Thru hasn’t gotten there quite yet.

The analogy for what is happening here is these students being rezoned for Luther Jackson and Oakton - but hey no split feeder! This is what some families are facing and I fully believe that when people say "no one wants this type of rezoning" that is true. Please ask your neighbors if they would trade no split feeders for being rezoned 3 schools away.

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Nothing about my tone is desperate. My kids are not in a split feeder school currently and nor will they be with any of the proposals. You repeating that nobody wants these changes till until face turns blue does not make that true. Clearly there are loud people like you who keep screaming against it because it does affect you in a negative way and/or may affect property values. I'm dismissive of your arguments because I'm more concerned with the possibility of benefiting the most kids.



---- so you are not in a split feeder school, why do you think you can speak for those of us who are? Your arguments are consistently saying that these families want to eliminate splits - stating carpools and friendships, but you aren't actually affected at all. Some families would be happy to eliminate them, some families don't care and some communities are absolutely fine with their current split. We had an entire neighborhood meeting with our boundary reps about how the split does not bother us or our children and that the distance to our current school is actually shorter than to the proposed school - we want to stay.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the outlook for western Great Falls? I haven’t kept up with the debate, but I recall there was concern that homes west of Springvale could be rezoned to Herndon HS. At this point, how likely is that?

If they do move all those kids to Herndon, they would go with a bunch of their friends.

And leave a lot of their friends behind. We know you’re incapable of seeing this as a hit to mental health, but we all see it for what it is.

So what you're saying is that feeder schools are bad for our kids' mental health and each pyramid should be static with no split feeders. Your argument is that leaving friends behind is bad for their mental health. I agree. We don't want any kids to have to leave their friends behind. So, any movement in that direction will require boundary adjustment. It will be unfortunate for some kids in the present. But, assuming more split feeders are removed than created or maintained, it will be for the greater good. Clearly you see that is the logical conclusion of your argument.

There is a difference between a split feeder where kids feed to different schools at junctures where kids typically are arriving from multiple schools and receptive to making new friends (7th grade, 9th grade) and uprooting a bunch of kids already at their current schools to dump them into new schools because someone decided there shouldn't be a split feeder any longer.

Anyway, you're making your "point" in the context of a discussion as to whether western GF is going to be rezoned to Herndon. Right now there is zero indication that is happening this cycle, so you're kind of playing with yourself here.

It’s no use, she’s been at this for over two years now. She is the worst type of person - absolutely on the wrong side of the issue, but believing she is God’s gift to the county and thinks she’s the smartest person here.

No one wants boundary changes, and she’s fighting with all her might to maintain her cognitive dissonance on the issue. Who knows what she could’ve done by now if she had applied herself to a worthwhile pursuit instead of going after our kids.

I can guarantee you lots of kids in split feeders desperately want boundary changes so that they can maintain friendships with kids who are going to be shipped off to other schools. Same with kids living in attendance Islands who are unable to find a carpool home from basketball practice or whatever other extra curricular activity because their peers live so far away.

When you say "nobody wants" these changes, you're speaking of yourself and other parents who don't like the changes. You refuse to look at the benefits and how they help the community as a whole because you see them as a threat. The reality is that there are lots of benefits to boundary adjustment.

DP. I find this rather contrived. Kids can easily maintain friendships these days when attending different schools. And attendance islands aren’t necessarily far flung. For example, the kids in the Timber Lane attendance island at McLean live about half the distance from McLean that a lot of kids zoned for Langley (which has no islands) live from Langley.

Your tone seems almost desperate - like you’re on retainer to convince people these boundary changes will produce a lot of benefits when the message that FCPS gets over and over again is that most people neither want them nor see the need for them.

Apparently you're not listening if you don't understand the benefits. They've been repeated over and over again. Feel free to read back through this thread and you'll see. But, this time, actually read rather than putting your head in the sand and reflexively dismissing anything said that doesn't conform to your own selfish views.

Nothing about my tone is desperate. My kids are not in a split feeder school currently and nor will they be with any of the proposals. You repeating that nobody wants these changes till until face turns blue does not make that true. Clearly there are loud people like you who keep screaming against it because it does affect you in a negative way and/or may affect property values. I'm dismissive of your arguments because I'm more concerned with the possibility of benefiting the most kids.

I'm still waiting for you to provide anything even close to a reasonable argument why your kids are more special than any other kids in the district. You're very good at deflecting and being loud, but you have yet to provide even something close to a decent argument.

As PP said, you responded to my post as if I were the only poster opposed to the proposed boundary changes.

You continue to come across as if you’re a paid lobbyist for the Split Feeder Elimination Association, and not someone with a personal stake in the decision or any deep knowledge of the actual neighborhoods that will be affected.

The reality is that if FCPS fetishizes the elimination of split feeders, it will end up causing some kids to have longer commutes and breaking up some neighborhoods where kids may have attended split feeder elementary schools but ended up at the same middle and high school.

As a PP said, if there are families at a particular split feeder who want to see it eliminated, and it’s possible to do so without adverse domino effects, that’s worth considering. A blunderbuss approach, on the other hand, frequently just ends up solving one problem by creating another one.

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We are at Timber Lane ES which has been a recent topic of conversation, we are in the section that has always been zoned to go to Jackson/FCHS. I always thought the split feeder stunk because the kids they were friends with would not all continue on together. But anyhow, I never cared that the other kids went to McLean, it’s just the way it has been set up. But what I have found interesting, is some of the families on the McLean side who are unhappy with the split have been arguing on how it tears their community apart. This makes sense for families that have already started middle school and high school, but some of the loudest voices still just have elementary aged students. It’s like, all the sudden the “community” they had with the families across Lee Hwy that have been with their kids for years does not matter. And they make arguments about what sports teams they join (we still live in the same area, we all join the same teams) and their sudden deep concern for the education of their title 1 neighbors. Now, I want nothing more for them to be zoned back out of FCHS because I find the parents to be pretty insufferable and cannot believe the level of entitlement. I would much rather not have to have these people in my life after my kids finish elementary school.

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PP- to clarify- the McLean families are not unhappy with the split, they are upset with the reasoning to FCHS.

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I am most worried about my middle and high schooler who have long since done the split - and now have to be moved. Kids splitting at es level is far less disruptive than moving kids in middle/high.

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Anonymous wrote:I am most worried about my middle and high schooler who have long since done the split - and now have to be moved. Kids splitting at es level is far less disruptive than moving kids in middle/high.

Don’t be selfish though. Understand that most families don’t want to be moved - for whatever reason.

Don’t throw your neighbors under the bus.

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Anonymous wrote:PP- to clarify- the McLean families are not unhappy with the split, they are upset with the reasoning to FCHS.

The pro boundary change/SJW folks are tripping all over themselves on this one.

“Hell, no, no addition for McLean! Redistrict those kids (again) and eliminate the attendance islands and split feeders!”

“You mean we’re sending most of the FARMS kids there to Falls Church and slashing the FARMS rate at McLean? Hell, no!”

“You mean if we want to keep those FARMS kids at McLean, we have to create a new split feeder at Shrevewood so we don’t have a terrible, awful, very bad attendance island? Hell, no!”

McLean: “How about you just leave our families alone for now and let us know when you’re finally going to renovate our school?”