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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP, but as long as the Langley posters keep arrogantly insisting that in no way, shape, or form can they possibly be affected by a new western high school, when kids living next door to Loudoun are getting bussed 12 miles or so to a school near Arlington, the more others will keep reminding them they live in the same county as the rest of us.

And the whole “look at the map” shtick is getting old when the map highlights how far we’ve been bussing rich kids to their rich-kid school. [/quote]
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This thread is starting to go in circles, but posts like this one keep ignoring that bussing Great Falls kids to Langley is the right thing to do from a capacity management standpoint -- Langley is well under capacity (i.e. needs students) and Great Falls parents want their kids to go there.[/b]  There is literally no incentive for the School Board -- irrespective of who is on the School Board -- to change that.  The comments on this thread largely reinforce the point.  There don't appear to be any Langley parents from outside Great Falls saying "get those snotty kids out of our school."  There also don't appear to be any parents looking to get redistricted into Langley.

Yes, there are parts of Great Falls that are closer to Herndon.  But there are also plenty of high schools in the western part of the county that need capacity relief.  If the new school gets built, that will be the target for redistricting.  It would be huge stretch to lump Langley -- on the other side of the county -- into that discussion.  And, like it or not, there is no logical reason to move kids out of a school that is below capacity even if another school is more convenient.

([b]Although worth noting is that the parts of Great Falls that are closest to Herndon are also the most lightly populated.  So you aren't talking about a lot of students[/b].)

Even Tysons growth likely doesn't change that analysis.  The only way that [b]Great Falls kids[/b] are getting moved is through an across-the-board redistricting . . . and that would likely be political suicide for the School Board.[/quote]

The above post is just bogus.  The low density areas that feed to Langley are western Mclean - outside the special tax district which go to Spring Hill ES, most of the Great Falls ES attendance area, a portion of the Colvin Run attendance area that used to go to Great Falls ES, small portion of what remained at Forestville.

Exactly what parts of Great Falls have Herndon, Reston, or Vienna addresses? " Parts of Great Falls closest to Herndon HS" is so wrong because those residences are not in Great Falls except for Holly Knoll which is not low density and neither are those Herndon addresses.

Pull up boundary maps- easy to find.  Here's who got sent to Colvin Run from Forestville [on green spot on the left called Nike Park], Great Falls [near green spot called Great Falls Grange], and Spring Hill.  Across Route 7 from Colvin Run is the Toll Bros development.  No administrative boundary change from Spring Hill.   Find the logic.  I cannot unless FCPS is waiting for something big.

Safa Court, Herndon-Forestville, Cooper, Langley. 2.6 miles to Herndon HS. 14.2 to 17 miles to Langley depending on the route.

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I'm the PP whose post you called bogus.  [b]The highest-density parts of Great Falls -- on a relative scale -- are east of Springvale and south of Georgetown Pike.  Those areas all go to GEFS or Colvin Run.[/b]  Most of that area, especially east of Great Falls Village, is closer to Langley than to Herndon (though pretty far from both).  There are certainly some higher-density pockets west of Springvale -- you note one -- but there is unquestionably less density in that area.  Those are all facts.

Also facts: Langley is well under capacity (it's at ~90%, that's as low as it gets outside of the southernmost parts of the county).  Great Falls parents like sending their kids to Langley.

We can argue all day about whether Forestville should feed to Herndon.  Herndon is certainly closer.  My point is simply that FCPS has much bigger capacity issues to address.[b]  Unless Forestville parents want to go to Herndon over Langley (and perhaps some or most do . . . I don't live there so I have no idea)[/b], there is no incentive for FCPS to move them out of below-capacity middle and high schools.[/quote]

I guess you really do not live in northwestern Fairfax County: north Reston,  Great Falls, Herndon PO, Vienna PO.  Forestville has standard Fairfax County developments like Holly Knoll and Riva Ridge area.  Both of these are similar to Shouse Village [Vienna PO] which is the site of Colvin Run.

Nor are you familiar with what was not included or not included in any of the boundary change processes over the last 30 plus years.  So start at the elementary level and first look at who goes where.  The whole mess was designed to infill Colvin Run and 1st fill Forestville with the Herndon, Holly Knoll, south of Route 7 developments. Backfill Great Falls with what's left. So anything towards or in the Tysons area could utilize Colvin Run [domino] and there are other schools in the Hunter Mill corridor that are under like Forest Edge and Sunrise Valley.

FCPS selects groups of schools for boundary processes and has not done anything big since the South Lakes change.  It used to be active but now is really just political but never had such oddities as the West Potomac-Mount Vernon situation in prior decades.  This prior board hands down wins least responsible.    So people complain about Fritsch but spend an hour on program capacity and enrollment for a block of elementary schools and it's obvious Blake Lane Park was not necessary. It's also obvious that Hunter Mill reps and an at large member [therefore all 3]who lives in that area were negligent.

So despite Moon's contributions for years I was not sorry to see Omeish get the FCDC endorsement instead of him.  Keyes Gamarra should have been replaced.

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