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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Any information from the meeting?[/quote]

Went to the meeting. A couple of things to note:

- Interim plan is to install a modular (it's coming from Cooper Middle) "in the area behind the existing modular and the girls softball field." They were cagey about this - they said "there is room," yet there were talks of it going ON the girls softball field.

- "Immediate" solution is that Janie Strauss brings this up again in a couple of months at her final school board meeting. If she is lucky and they don't shoot her down again, the boundaries would change slightly (there was talk of the kids in the Rotunda building in Tysons moving to a Spring Hill (where they already go) Cooper Longfellow pyramid vs. Longfellow McLean).

Should this "immediate" plan be voted in, it will be implemented IN THE FALL OF 2021. Then any child affected who has started McLean high school has the option to transfer to Langley at that point or be grandfathered and remain at McLean.

My read on the whole boundary vote-down is that Janie and Mr. Snead thought this was a slam dunk. They were asking to move 300 kids - not a large number - and those kids, coming from Spring Hill would stay with their "cohorts" and continue on to Langley. I think they were honestly shocked when they got voted down.

There was a lot of "this is up to the community" jargon during the whole meeting. Parents asked a lot of good questions, and it kind of always came back to "this is up to the community." They mentioned actual high school students (vs. parents) getting involved and that likely seeing more results than parents doing it.

- There were also shocking things put out there like 11.5% of FCPS students do not attend their districted school(s); schools are on a 37 year renovation timeline; developers who are building new real estate (e.g. high rises) don't have to contribute $$ to improving schools because of some arcane proffering law in VA; and students anywhere at anytime, if there is a school that is UNDERenrolled, can apply for a transfer. So, if kids wanted to move to Langley, they could. Right now. Theoretically, could solve itself!

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