FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

So why has there been a mass exodus out of Shrevewood to Lemon Road? AAP is the front.

That has zero to do with Lemon Road and Shrevewood.

You're clearly not aware of the changes to the AAP model at Shrevewood. Many of us stayed with our children at Shrevewood, when there was a level 4 classroom. The cluster model is the reason people are leaving. It doesn't work.

It doesn't work because y'all don't want your kids mixing with the geneds. It's not as academic as most think it is because the difference between AAP and GendEd are negligble (other than Mathematics). This is a class thing and the Falls Hills parents are leading the charge.

Parent of a gen ed student at Shrevewood and the model doesn't work. Shrevewood is a poorly run school. The teachers are great but the administration has been terrible for the last 7+ years.

Shrevewood parents compete with Navy for the biggest whiners in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Who hurt you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Aw, I'm sorry that you lost out on the house you put an offer on in Falls Hill, sweetie! Better luck next time!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

So why has there been a mass exodus out of Shrevewood to Lemon Road? AAP is the front.

Before the previous principal got rid of the LLIV classes, very few people left for Lemon Road each year (maybe 2-3 per grade). But you're right, he got rid of the LLIV program because the mass exodus to Lemon Road was a very easy way to fix capacity issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

So why has there been a mass exodus out of Shrevewood to Lemon Road? AAP is the front.

That has zero to do with Lemon Road and Shrevewood.

You're clearly not aware of the changes to the AAP model at Shrevewood. Many of us stayed with our children at Shrevewood, when there was a level 4 classroom. The cluster model is the reason people are leaving. It doesn't work.

It doesn't work because y'all don't want your kids mixing with the geneds. It's not as academic as most think it is because the difference between AAP and GendEd are negligble (other than Mathematics). This is a class thing and the Falls Hills parents are leading the charge.

Parent of a gen ed student at Shrevewood and the model doesn't work. Shrevewood is a poorly run school. The teachers are great but the administration has been terrible for the last 7+ years.

The principal you seem to like was fired. The community got her fired.

[Anonymous]

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The principal you seem to like was fired. The community got her fired.

I didn't like either of the previous principals. Having been at another elementary school in Fairfax County with an excellent principal, I have seen what is possible.

[Anonymous]

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Moving to McLean would increase values no one wants a tier 2 school over tier 1 McLean. Maybe just to finish the school for the kids already in the Marshall pyramid.

Believe it our not, some people actually want diversity in their school. Don't worry, our property values are doing just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else get Mateo Dunne’s email? I’m not sure what to make of it. He said there were “obvious errors” in the draft scenarios from Thru and that “detailed scenarios” will be presented in October 2025.

So are we not going to get any updated maps or "scenarios" until October? Thru is getting a lot of feedback and it worries me that we will see nothing else until the actual draft maps are released.

If you look at their process map, it refers to "Phase 2 Data Analysis and Scenarios Update" from July to October 2025, followed by "Phase 2 Community Meetings" in October and November 2025.

I think Dunne and others refer to October to give themselves the maximum amount of time that's consistent with their process map before releasing updated scenarios. It's possible they could be released earlier.

And, to your point, given how different the initial "BRAC maps" (the three slide decks from the April 11, April 25, and May 5th BRAC meetings) were from the "Initial Boundary Scenarios" released in mid-May for some pyramids, a lot of us wouldn't be suprised to see major changes yet again later this year. A cynic would say they are sitting on what they really intend to propose so that there's ultimately less time to comment on the "real" proposals, and a lot of what's happening now is jerking people around so they can claim later there was a robust process.

I didn't realize that anything beyond the three sets of maps from Thru have been released. Do we know which pyramids have had "Initial Boundary Scenarios" released?

The “Initial Boundary Scenarios” refers to the three sets of maps from Thru. Before they were released, Thru presented the building of these scenarios to BRAC, stepping through impacted schools to show student movement. There was no comprehensive view of these maps only snapshots. The snapshots from these presentations are very different from what’s now in the interactive tool.

Thanks for clarifying this.

[Anonymous]

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Moving to McLean would increase values no one wants a tier 2 school over tier 1 McLean. Maybe just to finish the school for the kids already in the Marshall pyramid.

Believe it our not, some people actually want diversity in their school. Don't worry, our property values are doing just fine.

DP. I don’t believe it. Shrevewood families have complained for years about poor kids outside the Beltway off Gallows you think should be going to Stenwood. You complain about the cluster model where your LLIV kids are put in classes with poorer kids. You complain about the FARMS kids at Timber Lane who may get reassigned to Shrevewood and how they’re going to turn Shrevewood into a Title I school.

You also complain about every principal at your school, whether it’s Eugene, DeSmyter, or now Vandawalker.

I don’t know why your community is so agitated all the time, but it’s certainly not because you put a premium on diversity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poplar Heights and Donna Lee Gardens should be lobbying to move to Shrevewood in place of the apartments off Hollywood Rd. This would eliminate the risk of Shrevewood becoming an over capacity Title I school. They’d also be guaranteed their consolation pyramid (Kilmer/Marshall) and they’d physically share a border with the McLean HS boundary should the Shrevewood split feeder proposal stick.

Shrevewood parents crap all over their current poor kids (off Route 29 and outside the Beltway) so they probably aren't going to be very nice to the kids west of Hollywood Road, either. They want so bad to be Haycock South and instead the school is turning into Timber Lane West.

Shrevewood parents have given up on that community and school. Most families have taken their UMC kids to Lemon Road and it seems like most (all) would be happy to be redistricted to MHS. Pathetic little community of virtue signalers.

Actually you're wrong. Much of Falls Hill prefers to stay at Marshall.

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Moving to McLean would increase values no one wants a tier 2 school over tier 1 McLean. Maybe just to finish the school for the kids already in the Marshall pyramid.

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

PP wasn’t wrong. Getting redistricted to McLean would increase the value of a Marshall-zoned property or at least protect it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Moving to McLean would increase values no one wants a tier 2 school over tier 1 McLean. Maybe just to finish the school for the kids already in the Marshall pyramid.

Believe it our not, some people actually want diversity in their school. Don't worry, our property values are doing just fine.

DP. I don’t believe it. Shrevewood families have complained for years about poor kids outside the Beltway off Gallows you think should be going to Stenwood. You complain about the cluster model where your LLIV kids are put in classes with poorer kids. You complain about the FARMS kids at Timber Lane who may get reassigned to Shrevewood and how they’re going to turn Shrevewood into a Title I school.

You also complain about every principal at your school, whether it’s Eugene, DeSmyter, or now Vandawalker.

I don’t know why your community is so agitated all the time, but it’s certainly not because you put a premium on diversity.

I have been at Shrevewood for almost a decade. Had multiple children go through the school both AAP and Gen Ed. I have never heard anyone complain about poor kids from outside of the Beltway. Some of my kids closest friends live outside the Beltway. You are just making things up to hate on Shrevewood families.

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Anonymous wrote:PP wasn’t wrong. Getting redistricted to McLean would increase the value of a Marshall-zoned property or at least protect it.

Yes, and this is easily verifiable looking at recent Redfin comps.

I do think the Marshall community is less invested in tier 1/tier 2 prestige, which is why they ended up at Marshall and not McLean or Langley.

[Anonymous]

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Moving to McLean would increase values no one wants a tier 2 school over tier 1 McLean. Maybe just to finish the school for the kids already in the Marshall pyramid.

Believe it our not, some people actually want diversity in their school. Don't worry, our property values are doing just fine.

DP. I don’t believe it. Shrevewood families have complained for years about poor kids outside the Beltway off Gallows you think should be going to Stenwood. You complain about the cluster model where your LLIV kids are put in classes with poorer kids. You complain about the FARMS kids at Timber Lane who may get reassigned to Shrevewood and how they’re going to turn Shrevewood into a Title I school.

You also complain about every principal at your school, whether it’s Eugene, DeSmyter, or now Vandawalker.

I don’t know why your community is so agitated all the time, but it’s certainly not because you put a premium on diversity.

I have been at Shrevewood for almost a decade. Had multiple children go through the school both AAP and Gen Ed. I have never heard anyone complain about poor kids from outside of the Beltway. Some of my kids closest friends live outside the Beltway. You are just making things up to hate on Shrevewood families.

The effort at damage control is a few years too late.

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Anonymous wrote:PP wasn’t wrong. Getting redistricted to McLean would increase the value of a Marshall-zoned property or at least protect it.

Some families care more about their kids’ high school experience than they do about property values. Given the option, I’d choose both FCHS (gasp!) and Marshall over McLean.

Not everyone buys into this notion that the wealthiest school is the best one.