When are Herndon Middle and Herndon High going to get a break?!??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Does it makes sense for the current situation where many students attend Langley at 16 miles from their houses when they actually live between 3-6 miles from HHS?

Does it make sense for parents who don't live in Great Falls to obsess over how long our children are on the bus or in the car?

Worry about yourself. We're good over here.

Well, if you're "good" with bussing kids 16+ miles, then you'll be even better if we go ahead and bus Herndon apartment kids to Langley! Hell, it's less than 16 miles away.

I can't decide if you're trolling or terribly desperate and stewing in resentment.

Why don't you just pupil place your kid into Langley and pipe down. Assuming you can get them there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now you are bashing herndon because it gets too many resources? Seriously. Get a life. Find a new hobby.

+1.

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Does it makes sense for the current situation where many students attend Langley at 16 miles from their houses when they actually live between 3-6 miles from HHS?

Does it make sense for parents who don't live in Great Falls to obsess over how long our children are on the bus or in the car?

Worry about yourself. We're good over here.

Well, if you're "good" with bussing kids 16+ miles, then you'll be even better if we go ahead and bus Herndon apartment kids to Langley! Hell, it's less than 16 miles away.

I can't decide if you're trolling or terribly desperate and stewing in resentment.

Why don't you just pupil place your kid into Langley and pipe down. Assuming you can get them there.

We live in McLean close to the GF border. We live 3 miles from Langley HS. I’m sure the furthest point of GF is 16 miles away but much of GF is closer to Langley. Not all of GF is 16 miles away from Langley. I’m sure if you took one end of McLean 22102 and the other end of 22101, it would be like 10 miles as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Does it makes sense for the current situation where many students attend Langley at 16 miles from their houses when they actually live between 3-6 miles from HHS?

Does it make sense for parents who don't live in Great Falls to obsess over how long our children are on the bus or in the car?

Worry about yourself. We're good over here.

Well, if you're "good" with bussing kids 16+ miles, then you'll be even better if we go ahead and bus Herndon apartment kids to Langley! Hell, it's less than 16 miles away.

I can't decide if you're trolling or terribly desperate and stewing in resentment.

Why don't you just pupil place your kid into Langley and pipe down. Assuming you can get them there.

We live in McLean close to the GF border. We live 3 miles from Langley HS. I’m sure the furthest point of GF is 16 miles away but much of GF is closer to Langley. Not all of GF is 16 miles away from Langley. I’m sure if you took one end of McLean 22102 and the other end of 22101, it would be like 10 miles as well.

McLean near the Great Falls border is about 6 miles from Langley HS, not 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Does it makes sense for the current situation where many students attend Langley at 16 miles from their houses when they actually live between 3-6 miles from HHS?

Does it make sense for parents who don't live in Great Falls to obsess over how long our children are on the bus or in the car?

Worry about yourself. We're good over here.

Well, if you're "good" with bussing kids 16+ miles, then you'll be even better if we go ahead and bus Herndon apartment kids to Langley! Hell, it's less than 16 miles away.

I can't decide if you're trolling or terribly desperate and stewing in resentment.

Why don't you just pupil place your kid into Langley and pipe down. Assuming you can get them there.

We live in McLean close to the GF border. We live 3 miles from Langley HS. I’m sure the furthest point of GF is 16 miles away but much of GF is closer to Langley. Not all of GF is 16 miles away from Langley. I’m sure if you took one end of McLean 22102 and the other end of 22101, it would be like 10 miles as well.

McLean near the Great Falls border is about 6 miles from Langley HS, not 3.

I just mapped myself to great falls park entrance. I live less than 5 miles from there. I don’t even know exactly where the great falls border is but I know it takes me about 10 min to get to the great falls park entrance.

I do live 3 miles from Langley High.

[Anonymous]

I have a great idea: let’s have the PTA from the GF and McLean schools collect and then donate their fundraising to the PTA at the Herndon school. This is how they do things in that area, right: pay to get their way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a great idea: let’s have the PTA from the GF and McLean schools collect and then donate their fundraising to the PTA at the Herndon school. This is how they do things in that area, right: pay to get their way?

Wouldn’t work - haven’t you read the new comments that now apparently Herndon gets TOO MANY resources.

[Anonymous]

It is still unclear to me why exactly Herndon people HATE Great Falls people. On one hand you seem to want GF kids to go to Herndon. On the other hand you hate Langley kids with a passion and have contempt for them.


Can someone please explain why the Herndon folks are so fired up about Langley students? Have they somehow wronged you?

[Anonymous]

Have you read this bored? Have you heard how poorly they speak about Herndon? There is zero chance anyone will ever move into the Herndon community after reading this board. If they could just shut their mouths and show empathy - even if it’s just fake - for the stress going on at their neighbors school, maybe we could all get along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a great idea: let’s have the PTA from the GF and McLean schools collect and then donate their fundraising to the PTA at the Herndon school. This is how they do things in that area, right: pay to get their way?

Wouldn’t work - haven’t you read the new comments that now apparently Herndon gets TOO MANY resources.

Did someone say Herndon schools get “too many” resources or only that they get a lot? FCPS just spent $106M to renovate and expand Herndon HS. There are many schools that have never seen that type of money or investment from FCPS. But, please, go on whining because there aren’t enough of the “right” kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you read this bored? Have you heard how poorly they speak about Herndon? There is zero chance anyone will ever move into the Herndon community after reading this board. If they could just shut their mouths and show empathy - even if it’s just fake - for the stress going on at their neighbors school, maybe we could all get along.

No, read this with keen interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you read this bored? Have you heard how poorly they speak about Herndon? There is zero chance anyone will ever move into the Herndon community after reading this board. If they could just shut their mouths and show empathy - even if it’s just fake - for the stress going on at their neighbors school, maybe we could all get along.

If you go to the very first post in this mess of a thread Langley parents were call "bullies". That set the tone for this back and forth and it never abated. If someone through a rock through your window would you feel empathy for the person that did it? That's what happened here.

Hoping with glee that other parents suffer the same fate you are screaming about does not make a constructive argument.

Speaking for myself, I think it is terrible that there are gang members roaming the halls of Herndon. I think it is irresponsible that our government on many levels force communities to educate illegal students without first planning for community input and school facilities. They just DUMP these kids who need a lot resources and it injures the ability of school staff to effective educate the general population.

This anger and energy should be directed at the fools who have done this to ALL OF US. We should force elected official at the local, state and federal level to stop the practice of caring for illegals more than they care about our kids.

Elections are right around the corner. We should be using this thread to reach out to all FCPS communities and post the actions and voting records of these do nothing jerks that are supposed to represent us. We can continue to bash each other or do something about it. If you in please say so by entering that comment and we can to begin to shine some light on this problem. These are our kids and this is our lives they are toying with.

[Anonymous]

Nice try, but I don’t think the county is going to vote in a bunch of Republicans just so Langley families can continue to live in their bubble of affluence and arrogance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice try, but I don’t think the county is going to vote in a bunch of Republicans just so Langley families can continue to live in their bubble of affluence and arrogance.

If you think this only affects Langley families, you are sadly mistaken. Read the new policy--any time they adjust boundaries the #1 concern is socioeconomic balance. That means that neighborhoods anywhere in Fairfax County can be broken up and sent to different high schools. It means that even though your child lives close to his school, he could be redistricted--not to the next closest school, but to another because they "need" his SES.

Have you followed this School Board? Have you ever seen common sense exercised there?

Even the school renaming.
First, they pretended it would be up to the community. The community did not want the name changed, so what did they do? They said the name needed to be changed anyway.

Next, they said the community would choose the new name. What name did they choose? Stuart instead of Jeb Stuart. That didn't fly either. They kept changing the rules until the SB decided on Justice--even though that was not the choice of the community.

Now, I'm not saying they didn't need to change the name--but, why go through that Kabuki theater to do it? Why go through all the pain.

Also, the SB has rules about transparency and private emails. This was violated by Hynes and Evans during the exercise. Turns out that the NAACP and another activist were big players behind the scenes. (The emails were posted on a website. Hynes and Evans had apparently been plotting for years and the Charleston shooting gave them the extra boost needed. This was revealed in the emails.)

Common sense and transparency are what is needed here.

All the focus on social issues (bathrooms) is another concern. Those issues could be solved on a case by case basis. And, they dramatically changed the FLE curriculum, as well. Do young kids really need to learn about anal sex?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try, but I don’t think the county is going to vote in a bunch of Republicans just so Langley families can continue to live in their bubble of affluence and arrogance.

If you think this only affects Langley families, you are sadly mistaken. Read the new policy--any time they adjust boundaries the #1 concern is socioeconomic balance. That means that neighborhoods anywhere in Fairfax County can be broken up and sent to different high schools. It means that even though your child lives close to his school, he could be redistricted--not to the next closest school, but to another because they "need" his SES.

Have you followed this School Board? Have you ever seen common sense exercised there?

Even the school renaming.
First, they pretended it would be up to the community. The community did not want the name changed, so what did they do? They said the name needed to be changed anyway.

Next, they said the community would choose the new name. What name did they choose? Stuart instead of Jeb Stuart. That didn't fly either. They kept changing the rules until the SB decided on Justice--even though that was not the choice of the community.

Now, I'm not saying they didn't need to change the name--but, why go through that Kabuki theater to do it? Why go through all the pain.

Also, the SB has rules about transparency and private emails. This was violated by Hynes and Evans during the exercise. Turns out that the NAACP and another activist were big players behind the scenes. (The emails were posted on a website. Hynes and Evans had apparently been plotting for years and the Charleston shooting gave them the extra boost needed. This was revealed in the emails.)

Common sense and transparency are what is needed here.

All the focus on social issues (bathrooms) is another concern. Those issues could be solved on a case by case basis. And, they dramatically changed the FLE curriculum, as well. Do young kids really need to learn about anal sex?

The right-wing platform of bashing the School Board for coming up with a more streamlined framework for necessary boundary changes, renaming a school named after a Confederate, and protecting the rights of LBGTQ kids doesn’t seem like a winning platform. And when you have crazy-ass Trump supporters showing up at School Board work sessions and screaming that the School Board is responsible for overcrowding “because you let all the illegals in,” it just turns people in Fairfax off even more.

Seriously, you might want to find a new state and/or county to peddle this.