Any updates on Mclean/Langley possible redistricting?

[Anonymous]

There was a lot of talk this summer but then nothing. Any updates?

[Anonymous]

This page has some information. I’d expect more activity after the new School Board approved the CIP and the budget.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/facilities-planning-future/school-boundary-adjustments/mclean-high-school-proposed

[Anonymous]

Have they provided an estimated number of students moved/affected for Scenarios B and C? Scenario A looks like it's just both B and C combined.

[Anonymous]

I think the affected families were upset because they wouldn’t be sent to Cooper for middle school. So a few kids from the rezoned schools would be sent to other middle schools that are not Langley feeders and then be sent to Langley. Not sure if school board cares about the feedback from affected families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the affected families were upset because they wouldn’t be sent to Cooper for middle school. So a few kids from the rezoned schools would be sent to other middle schools that are not Langley feeders and then be sent to Langley. Not sure if school board cares about the feedback from affected families.

Those areas should not move to Langley unless they also go to Cooper. Otherwise they’d end up in the minority (about 30%) of Colvin Run and Spring Hill students going to Longfellow rather than Cooper and then in an even smaller minority of Longfellow students (about 10-15%) going to Langley rather than McLean. At this point, it’s less an issue of the School Board not caring and more a reflection of how little thought FCPS staff has put into coming up with sensible responses to the overcrowding.

I have been impressed with Elaine Tholen, however. I don’t think she’ll let staff just do whatever is easiest for Jeff Platenberg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have they provided an estimated number of students moved/affected for Scenarios B and C? Scenario A looks like it's just both B and C combined.

No, and it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the affected families were upset because they wouldn’t be sent to Cooper for middle school. So a few kids from the rezoned schools would be sent to other middle schools that are not Langley feeders and then be sent to Langley. Not sure if school board cares about the feedback from affected families.

Those areas should not move to Langley unless they also go to Cooper. Otherwise they’d end up in the minority (about 30%) of Colvin Run and Spring Hill students going to Longfellow rather than Cooper and then in an even smaller minority of Longfellow students (about 10-15%) going to Langley rather than McLean. At this point, it’s less an issue of the School Board not caring and more a reflection of how little thought FCPS staff has put into coming up with sensible responses to the overcrowding.

I have been impressed with Elaine Tholen, however. I don’t think she’ll let staff just do whatever is easiest for Jeff Platenberg.

Yeah, the School Board has done this in the past - sent kids to one MS even though they’ll go to a different HS than the vast majority of their classmates. It’s a definite possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the affected families were upset because they wouldn’t be sent to Cooper for middle school. So a few kids from the rezoned schools would be sent to other middle schools that are not Langley feeders and then be sent to Langley. Not sure if school board cares about the feedback from affected families.

Those areas should not move to Langley unless they also go to Cooper. Otherwise they’d end up in the minority (about 30%) of Colvin Run and Spring Hill students going to Longfellow rather than Cooper and then in an even smaller minority of Longfellow students (about 10-15%) going to Langley rather than McLean. At this point, it’s less an issue of the School Board not caring and more a reflection of how little thought FCPS staff has put into coming up with sensible responses to the overcrowding.

I have been impressed with Elaine Tholen, however. I don’t think she’ll let staff just do whatever is easiest for Jeff Platenberg.

Yeah, the School Board has done this in the past - sent kids to one MS even though they’ll go to a different HS than the vast majority of their classmates. It’s a definite possibility.

They should not change an existing feeder pattern to make kids have to do this twice simply because the FCPS facilities staff is incompetent.

[Anonymous]

AAP parents from the Langley pyramid had no problem overcrowding Longfellow for many years so if it means Cooper has to deal with some overcrowding for a few years they can suck it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AAP parents from the Langley pyramid had no problem overcrowding Longfellow for many years so if it means Cooper has to deal with some overcrowding for a few years they can suck it up.

I do believe AAP kids from the Langley pyramid sent their kids to Kilmer, not Longfellow, before Cooper became a center. At any rate, AAP is a farce and centers should be done away with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AAP parents from the Langley pyramid had no problem overcrowding Longfellow for many years so if it means Cooper has to deal with some overcrowding for a few years they can suck it up.

I do believe AAP kids from the Langley pyramid sent their kids to Kilmer, not Longfellow, before Cooper became a center. At any rate, AAP is a farce and centers should be done away with.

They went to both Longfellow and Kilmer.

For many years the AAP kids from the Langley pyramid at Longfellow contributed to the overcrowding there, and some of those parents both insisted the overcrowding was not serious and fought having a new and “untested” AAP center at Cooper. They shouldn’t get to have FCPS impose a new screwed-up feeder pattern on some of the Colvin Run and Spring Hill kids because they are now worried about overcrowding at Cooper.

I actually don’t think FCPS has made up its mind. They’ve just tried to sidestep the middle school assignments so far and pretend that won’t also have to be considered.

[Anonymous]

I think the official decision is not until the summer, but there will something going on in the spring. You may want to get on the McSpaces listserv. I think it's highly likely both Springhill and Colvin Run islands will go to Langley. I don't recall the exact numbers, but it made the most sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the official decision is not until the summer, but there will something going on in the spring. You may want to get on the McSpaces listserv. I think it's highly likely both Springhill and Colvin Run islands will go to Langley. I don't recall the exact numbers, but it made the most sense.

Someone had posted some numbers previously and I remember it was like 100 kids or less per grade. Most of Spring Hill is already zoned for Langley.

[Anonymous]

Will they add more seats at Cooper? I know they were already renovating and adding capacity. Can they add even more seats since they will most likely get the Spring Hill and Colvin run kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will they add more seats at Cooper? I know they were already renovating and adding capacity. Can they add even more seats since they will most likely get the Spring Hill and Colvin run kids?

I had heard when they did this in maybe the 80s, the kids still went to the same middle school even though they would now be feeding into a different highschool.