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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they considering sending the Timberlane/Longfellow/McLean pyramid to Luther. Jackson and Falls Church? [/quote]

chip on the shoulder poster here.  I meant to quote this.  I don't care if your snowflake is grandfathered.  It's just that folks in the mcLean pyramid are always trying to get rid of the Timberlane pyramid.  Scared of a little diversity, I guess.[/quote]

I have lived here for almost 20 years and I have never seen an attempt to "get rid" of the Timberlane students in the McLean pyramid.  You can't count troll posts on DCUM as evidence.   The changes I have ever seen spoken are for the south of Rte 7 Island to be moved and that is because FCPS is trying get rid of islands. [/quote]

A major driver here is that Cooper and Langley have seen declining enrollments around the same time that FCPS planned to renovate the schools to expand their capacities.  So FCPS has a huge incentive to project big increases in the Longfellow/McLean enrollments, and move kids from those schools into Cooper/Langley to fill up seats.  The areas in Vienna near Route 7 are close to other areas already assigned to Langley; Timber Lane is not.  It really doesn't have that much to do with getting rid of "islands."  FCPS claims not to like them, but it regularly creates new ones and tolerates many others.

I am glad FCPS is monitoring the enrollments at Longfellow and McLean and has options to address potential overcrowding down the road.  On the other hand, some of their recent projections (like McLean having over 2500 students in a few years) seem absurd, and I don't want to see students yanked out of our schools just so Facilities can justify the decisions to expand the capacities of two schools with flat or declining enrollments, rather than add seats where they are actually needed.  I also don't see how they can make any decisions until they figure out what they're doing with AAP, since overcrowding at Longfellow and Kilmer is largely due to all the AAP kids from the Langley pyramid attending those schools rather than Cooper.  But, again, identifying options earlier gets people talking about it, so maybe that's good.

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