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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tholen has been fundamentally dishonest about the whole situation.  No doubt there are capacity challenges at McLean and elsewhere but we deserve better,

It was amusing, though, that she let slip to the MCA last week that it was important that boundaries reflect "geographical boundaries, such as Route 7."  That had to have been a Freudian slip, since the area that she moved to Langley (overriding the FCPS staff recommendation) consisted entirely of single-family neighborhoods [i]on the other side of Route 7 from Langley.[/i]  Just like every other l[b]ittle pocket in Herndon and Reston[/b] that's been scoped into the Langley boundary over the years consists of expensive single-family homes and no apartments.

And, of course, she paid lip service to the idea of eliminating split feeders, while failing to acknowledge that she's left Spring Hill as a split feeder, but now created a situation where every kid who lives in an expensive house goes to Cooper/Langley and every kid who lives in a rental or condo zoned to Spring Hill goes to Longfellow/McLean.  She similarly failed to acknowledge that she did nothing about the incredibly lopsided split feeder at Franklin Sherman, where 90% of the kids go to Longfellow/McLean and only 10% to Cooper/Langley.  She could have cleaned that up, but didn't touch it.

She also claimed it would be untenable to have a situation where kids zoned to McLean might pass by Langley neighborhoods on their way to McLean, but neither she nor other School Board members have lifted a finger to address the fact that kids in the [b]Westbriar ES island[/b] have passed by Colvin Run ES neighborhoods every day for years on their way to Westbriar.

She couldn't be more of a liar and a hypocrite if she tried.

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When Colvin Run opened part of the Westbriar ES island located north of Route 7 was re assigned to Colvin Run.  Those students had no change in middle or high school assignments.  Nothing east of Towlston got moved and now Tholen isn't getting Scottie B to move the new Toll Bros at the intersection of Route 7 and Towlston. I doubt Tholen is even aware of yield per developement and school assignments.  Obviously she doesn't look at capacity and projections.  Nor does she look at budgets and equitable allocations.

Herndon Pyramid has grossly overcrowded schools that share boundaries with some at less than 80%.  Overcrowded elementary schools could have relief by changing boundaries and/or moving programs.  There are lots of schools between 70 and 80% but no one on the board does anything.  Gibson used to do stuff.  Strauss was a blockade on movement into Reston schools but one reason was capacity.  Now Hunter Mill and Dranesville have under capacity that boundary changes could load from Tysons area schools.  They used to call it dominoe.

One thing about Fritsch on Blake Lane Park.  That specific school didn't need to be built if they used open cap at Hunter Mill Corridor schools etc.  [/quote]

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