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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really doubt there's anything as blatant as PP is implying.  In FCPS, at least, it's usually SB members being utterly self-serving (elevating the interests of their own communities and schools over everyone else) rather than explicitly corrupt.  [/quote]

A politician representing an area is supposed to advocate for that area[/quote]

There’s a difference between representing the district you were elected to serve and favoring your own neighborhood’s schools. [/quote]

That's so McLean. So want to be Langley, but aren't. So any decision not expressly pro McLean is ant-McLean. I don;t hear Herndon griping. I guess they don't have Langley envy like some...[/quote]

There’s no Langley envy involved in thinking Tholen made a poor decision (one of many) when she refused to accept the recommendation of FCPS staff to have Langley share some of the growth in Tysons.  As it turns out, most of the rising 9th graders from the Vienna single-family neighborhoods Tholen waited until the last minute to cherry-pick opted to attend McLean, not Langley. [/quote]

Actually, there was a committee formed to decide on the best course of action for the boundary change. It involved the whole community, including neighborhoods and larger associations. That group, after months of work, recommended to FCPS and Tholen the course of action that was eventually adopted by the school board. Gatehouse decided to completely ignore what all the people actually affected wanted, and recommended a completely different boundary change.  When Tholen and the rest of the school board finally decided on the actual boundary change, they followed the recommendation of the committee rather that gatehouse. Would you rather they go with gatehouse?  By the way, it’s not actually about Langley capacity, it’s about the middle school. The middle school is already above capacity and will be over capacity after an addition as well. The middle school can’t support the growth from Tysons.

I wonder who these people are who are so upset by this boundary change. I get being upset about schools being closed, but why do people keep going on about this?[/quote]

The boundary change was delayed for almost four years because Scott Brabrand said there needed to be complete transparency and the School Board claimed any change needed to take “equity” into account.  Some of us are unhappy because, after hearing that for years, the exact opposite happened courtesy of Tholen.

The “committee” that you mention was hand-picked by Tholen, spoke privately, and had no transparency, whereas the FCPS staff recommendation that Tholen tossed aside at the last minute (literally two hours before the board meeting) was developed after multiple community meetings where feedback was widely solicited from community members.

Sorry, but Tholen screwed up.  Her last-minute flip-flop lacked transparency, will relieve Langley from sharing in any of the projected growth in Tysons (while putting all that burden on McLean and Marshall, each of which has less capacity now than Langley), and over time will increase the demographic gap between Langley and every other high school in the county - despite the SB’s prior talk about the need for “equity.”   Quite a few of us will be happy to see her go, whether by recall or otherwise. [/quote]

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