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Can you imagine the complaints then, from the mom who fights to eliminates centers because she thinks Larla will make the LL4 cut, only to discover that bringing those 15 or so center kids back into a LL4 class moves Larla from the bottom of the top students at the school to solidly in the middle of the class, where she is now placed with even lower performing students than she was when the AAP kids went somewhere else? And she has to watch the advanced LL4 AAP grouping together in one class at her school year after year, together from 3rd to 6th grade, while Larla is always in different classes, knowing that if AAP still had centers Larla would be back to being in the top group of students again? Eliminating centers at the elementary level is not going to be the utopia some think it will be. |
It’s Fairfax City that has the leverage because it has the additional seats to educate county kids. Some people in the western part of the county apparently think FCPS can just repudiate the agreement and then spend all its capital dollars for the foreseeable future adding capacity in western Fairfax. There’s no appetite for this. If anything it’s the current planned expansion of Centreville that needs to be scaled back. |
There is already a thread on eliminating AAP centers. Take your convo there. |
Well you wouldn't get the full 8 million because some schools don't have enough kids for even a half AAP / half level 3 pull-ins class... they'd still give AAP kids at those schools the option to transfer. But with those carveouts you'd probably get about 6 million in savings, which would be enough to restore the funding for an AART per school instead of splitting them across 2 schools. |
When did these schools get local. I don’t think so. |
A majority of Willow Springs kids can bike to Centreville. That’s how close it is. I don’t think you know the area |
I think the anti-expansion person is Herndon mom who thinks that they can just bump kids over to Herndon. It doesn't work that way. And, by the way, the last time Herndon was looked at in a boundary study, they turned down kids on the 20171 side of the DTR because they didn't like who they would get. But, an easy--and money savings solution--would be to begin by eliminating IB. That would likely bring back 160 kids to Herndon who are likely not FARMS--which is what Herndon is seeking. |
| (cont.) and they are certainly not going to bump Centreville kids to Chantilly. |
There are kids all over the county who can bike to schools to which they aren’t assigned. That doesn’t mean we expand all of those schools to absurd sizes. 3000 is a ridiculous size for a high school, and especially ridiculous when there are hundreds of empty seats at Herndon and other middle and high schools in need of expansions. |
You are wrong on every count. Not anti-expansion, just against wasting money on expanding Centreville all the way to 3000 when boundaries can be adjusted to take advantage of the seats already added at Herndon. And just because they refuse to eliminate IB does not mean we have to waste even more money at Centreville, which is simply doubling down on unnecessary spending. |
They can move Centreville kids to Chantilly, Chantilly kids to Westfield, and Westfield kids to Herndon, or leave Chantilly out of it and move Centreville kids to Westfield and Westfield kids to Herndon. Either would avoid wasting money on Centreville, which should only be expanded to 2500. |
| The Fairfax City agreement dates to 1978 versus the 60s. The city has a lot of county kids in it's schools. The county needs the seats at least until they expand Centerville or build the pi in the sky western high school. Another issue possibly larger more immediate problem is seats in Elementary school, Providence ES is at least 1/3 county kids including two large relatively low-income apartments on the city side of 66 but not in the city. If you kill the city agreement those kids need to go to Oakton or Mosaic and that would be an immediate issue. I think it's three loaded buses from those two complexes alone, never mind the neighborhoods across the street from Oakmont Rec and Flint High Upper School. Also the county is redeveloping an office building to townhouse across from Oakmont and the site work is in progress and the AT&T project of hundreds of town houses and condos. Of course, if Karl Firsch hadn't killed the Blake Lane School for the dog park and his Dunn Loring boondoggle the looming elementary capacity problem wouldn't be an issue. The City is not going to add more trailers to Providence beyond the two mostly used for specials. THe City and the County basically need each other, the City needs county kids to not have a crazy small high school and the county especially needs Providence and Katherine Johnson for seats. |
| Part of the capacity problem goes back to the baby bomb and post war eras and so many schools built in the eastern and central part of the county. Capacity was needed then the boomers grew up and capacity was way down due to less kids and the younger families moving west. In Central Fairfax you could almost walk between Madison, Oakton, Fairfax and Woodson. There is about 2 miles between Madison, Oakton and Fairfax and 3 miles between Fairfax and Woodson if you use local streets. |
FCPS School profile demographics are based on June membership. There's a lag from Facilities dashboard which is Sept. The dashboad includes total transfers for AAP [bus], sped [bus], immersion, student transfer regulation. The 2nd transfer data set is again Sept membership and shows the actual count per site transferring in. If <10 it shows 1. School Profiles average AAP level iv for SY21-22, 22-23,23-24/SY24-25 AAP total transfer in, per school: Carson : oakton 807 / SY24-25 266 AAP transfer in, total from Franklin 273- Franklin : chantilly 203 Liberty : centreville 181 Rocky Run : chantilly 544/ SY24-25 225 AAP transfer in, totals from Franklin 29+Liberty 124 + Stone 86 Stone : westfield 150 So is this the type of stuff that should be looked at in what is supposed to be a comprehensive review? Check the numbers on the 2 FCPS sources-school profiles and facilities dashboard. Year opened: Liberty [serve Centreville/Clifton area as per FCPS] 2002 Carson 1998, Stone 1991 |
I think you know what you are doing, but I really don't understand. Could you summarize in plain English what this proves? |