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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percentage of the county has a house that is walkable to the trifecta of elementary middle and high school? Much less than 1%, right, if any?

Everyone else is just gambling on their house? Gtfo.[/quote]

I summo but greater than 1%. We can walk to all three of ours. Terraset(?)-Hughes-SLHS are adjacent and walkable for many.[/quote]

Can someone identify this poster’s logical fallacy/fallacies? There is definitely a name for it, I just can’t recall at the moment.
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I think enough people have chimed in about walking distance. [/quote]

I think it might be “confirmation bias”, but the funny thing is you can easily verify that a lot of the claimed trifecta walking areas are not really walkable to all three schools.

For instance, there may be a student who could hypothetically walk 1.25 miles on average to dranesville elementary or Herndon middle, but nobody closer, since the schools are 2.5 miles apart.

Turns out, there really are only few and far between areas, where you could live close enough to all 3 schools to be safe, and I don’t even think that is completely safe. I bet less than a thousand students fit into that category, perhaps far less.

The MFGA crowd is going to drive away our tax base with its us-vs-the supposed rich mentality. They might as well go support the orange Demi-God if they are going to advocate for short sighted boundary changes.[/quote]

You’re so full of it. My kids are are at HES and have friends at Clearview and Dranesville. In middle school they and their friends regularly WALKED directly from HMS to friends’ house near Clearview and Dranesville. Sometimes just is they could grab a snack or a slice of pizza in the little business district. On the weekends they bike between all three areas. Their friend groups were not the only ones. Heck, they even bike to RTC. They visit friends at nearby pyramids now that they are in high school.

It is really strange that children will be irreparably harmed by moving to a neighboring school. It is really a wonder that any of them will be able to cope going to college or moving out of mom and dad’s home 🏡 one day.

[b]Change the boundaries or don’t, but evaluate the situation every five to ten years. That should be non-negotiable.[/b][/quote]

Foolish me.  I thought there was an annual capacity review tied to a rolling 5-year capital improvement plan. Why isn’t that enough? What are you trying to fix that can’t be fixed with studies and reviews flagged in the CIP like Parklawn and Coates? Wouldn’t that give families and communities stability and notice?

It sounds like you have a great community. What are you looking to adjust? If those Langley folks don’t want to join your community, who cares? You don’t need them, do you?[/quote]

The advantage of the targeted studies was that they addressed the situations where there was a serious need, yet students were grandfathered because we weren’t trying to do too many things at once.

Now we’re getting this total nonsense, where some consultants who clearly don’t know the county play around with a software tool to generate boundary changes that will be highly disruptive, have minimal benefits in most cases, and are large enough in scale that grandfathering will be virtually impossible.

But it’s not fair to blame the consultants when the real blame lies with the current school board,  which is totally lacking in anything approaching common sense or any sense of restraint or humility.  [/quote]

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