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FCPS comprehensive boundary review
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Anonymous
Not in the case of the new low income Development in Tyson’s - those will be new students that currently do not attend either Marshall or McLean. It would add lower income students to Langley and keep Marshall and McLean at their current load. |
Anonymous
That's correct. Langley could pick up that new development in Tysons and other nearby areas zoned to Marshall and McLean. It would add some multi-family housing to Langley. The bulk of the FARMS kids zoned to Marshall and McLean live elsewhere, either at the other end of Tysons off Anderson/Magarity, behind Marshall off Route 7, and off Route 29 in Falls Church. This wouldn't affect Madison or Oakton - their FARMS kids live further west (Cedar Park apartments in Town of Vienna in the case of Madison, off Blake Lane near Fairfax in the case of Oakton). You can't get any of these schools near the county FARMS average of 30-35% without creating new attendance islands or boundaries that look more gerrymandered than the existing boundaries. |
Anonymous
Which means the rest of the county will bear the brunt of one fairfax |
Anonymous
I mean, nothing short of radical bussing initiatives will touch houses that are located away from the boundaries with poorly performing school districts. |
Anonymous
That’s literally the opposite of one fairfax. One Fairfax stand for the proposition that everything needs to be equally crappy across the county. The only way the county gets there is to use the B word, as the old board used to say. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Not even sure what that means. It's not like they are going to start busing part of Justice to Centreville, either. |
Anonymous
Take a moment to do this geography experiment (especially Thru consultants and SB staffers): go on google maps and draw a line from HVES to Lewis. The line distance is 4.15 miles, but let's go ahead and round down to 4. Trace that line starting at HVES (Community #1) and move east/northeast crossing over Pohick Creek. At .75 miles off to your left is lovely Rolling Valley ES as you cross through the Rolling Valley neighborhood (Community #2) Continue across Rolling Rd to the 1.40 mile mark where the line intersects the southern edge of the WSES building and the Greeley neighborhood (Community #3). Continue another .6 miles and you are at the 2 mile halfway mark, where it intersects with the entry to Daventry at Hunter Village Drive (Community #4). You can argue about how the line is drawn and start and end points, but no matter the case your line is crossing through two elementary schools and 3 distinct neighborhood communities on its way to Lewis. So for the Saratoga mom and Daventry folks who continue to spout "HVES to Lewis," give us all a break. What you are posting is not rational. |
Anonymous
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PP, just want to add
Distance from HVES to SCHS: 3.08 miles Distance from HVES to WSHS: 1.67 miles |
Anonymous
Of course not. But moving kids from WSHS to Lewis? That's an easy equity fix |
Anonymous
I agree with you that HVES should not move to Lewis, but your line is completely nonsensical because you can't drive across Pohick creek, or barely walk across it (though we swam in it during covid - I still can't believe I let my kids do that). It's a natural barrier. And though Rolling Valley, WSES, and Keene Mill are probably closer to Lewis they also all have students that are closer to West Springfield High School than anyone at Hunt Valley. All three of those schools have walkers for either Irving or WSHS. I actually do agree with you about Hunt Valley staying at WSHS, but that's not your best argument. |
Anonymous
This. It’s the only school that doesn’t walk. HV folks need to find another argument, but there really isn’t one. |
Anonymous
They can tell the truth of why they don't want to be moved to Lewis! |
Anonymous
HV doesn't need to explain anything. The SB would need to explain why moving HV to Lewis makes sense compared to other less disruptive options. Also what problem are they trying to solve? "Overcrowding" at WSHS? Or Lewis under-enrollment? If the latter, there are other options to look at on the other side of the Mixing Bowl that could help with that which doesn't require bussing kids so far. There will be new development near Edison in the next few years if redevelopment plans for Top Golf and the old gov center go thru and that school is already pretty full given the academy classes. There are a lot of moving parts here and honestly, these transparent efforts by Daventry and Saratoga Mom to make this about HV are weird and unproductive. |
Anonymous
Even if they move part of Tysons to Langley its FARMS rate likely would stay under 10%. The issue is more whether they move one of the Langley feeders to Herndon, which is closer to 55% FARMS. That would take some real cojones on the part of the SB, of a type not displayed for many years. |