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Anonymous wrote:The support among McLean families for any boundary change has largely cratered, after FCPS failed to provide any data in the community meetings last December and was completely silent on how it planned to deal with grandfathering and middle school assignments.

At this point, they should probably just relocate the modular over the summer and take another year to figure things out.

The no move noise is Colvin Run-Shouse Village. Spring Hill contingent is fairly quiet. FCPS created a monster with random additions where the school is not in a renovation process. It also adds $ and seats after the public approves a bond.

There a mix on bonds from renovating legacy [old school buildings] like Falls Church to sheer audacious pork like West Potomac addition. If Mclean gets an addition in 10 years or a mod over the summer a reasonable size for either is not going to solve the scope of the problem.

Move SH to Langley makes Shouse a more isolated island. Perhaps it could stuff the Madison addition. There is no figuring it out. Shouse doesn't want to go to Langley and regards nothing but Mclean as suitable. This is the area that got special treatment from FCPS decades ago and refused Marshall.

yes some people at Marshall found Shouse's insistence on Mclean offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind even if there were plans drawn up to extend McLean years ago, it is currently not in line AT ALL for a renovation and I believe I was told the line is at least 5 years long so first McLean needs to get in that line and then you have many years to wait.

Oh, bullshit. They slotted Justice, Madison, and West Potomac in for additions outside the normal renovation cycle in 2017, put them on the 2017 and 2019 bonds, ramped up the budgets for those additions in the CIP to be voted on this week, and will start construction in the not-too-distant future.

If FCPS doesn’t come back by next year with a specific line item, heads will start to roll.

+1. There is a difference between additions and renovations.

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind even if there were plans drawn up to extend McLean years ago, it is currently not in line AT ALL for a renovation and I believe I was told the line is at least 5 years long so first McLean needs to get in that line and then you have many years to wait.

Oh, bullshit. They slotted Justice, Madison, and West Potomac in for additions outside the normal renovation cycle in 2017, put them on the 2017 and 2019 bonds, ramped up the budgets for those additions in the CIP to be voted on this week, and will start construction in the not-too-distant future.

If FCPS doesn’t come back by next year with a specific line item, heads will start to roll.

Keep in mind even if there were plans drawn up to extend McLean years ago, it is currently not in line AT ALL for a renovation and I believe I was told the line is at least 5 years long so first McLean needs to get in that line and then you have many years to wait.

Fine with me if they think Langley needs more seats. It has a huge attendance area so maybe it does, especially with the new developments in Great Falls.

But we have no desire to be moved out of an excellent pyramid just to justify decisions made without our input.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Does McLean have room for the addition?

The area around mclean high seems congested.

It will be on a field not that close to the regular building. i hope the include a covered walkway. Otherwise these kids have no time to get coats or umbrellas and make it to class.

I think you’re referring to the modular and PP was referring to where a permanent addition might get built.

They already drew up plans for an addition five years ago. Facilities just failed to follow up.

They probably planned to just send some kids to Langley since Langley was getting renovated.

In that case Janie Strauss should have told McLean parents that was the plan. She told them instead that McLean would get an addition before any kids were moved to Langley. Oops.

Or maybe FCPS should have been honest about the size of the Langley addition, and not put in the CIP for years that Langley’s capacity was being increased to 2100, only to change that number to 2350 after the renovations were finished in 2018. Oops again.

And very few want their neighborhoods moved to Langley unless current students are grandfathered and they are reassigned to Cooper as well. So right now they are batting at least 0 for 3.

FCPS needs someone in Facilities with strong planning and communications skills. Jeff Platenberg has neither; he is basically a general contractor with a fancy title. The longer this drags out without a firm commitment to building an addition at McLean, the angrier people will get.

Did the cooper renovation even begin yet?

I don’t see any construction trucks on site. I have a child to start Cooper in 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Does McLean have room for the addition?

The area around mclean high seems congested.

It will be on a field not that close to the regular building. i hope the include a covered walkway. Otherwise these kids have no time to get coats or umbrellas and make it to class.

I think you’re referring to the modular and PP was referring to where a permanent addition might get built.

They already drew up plans for an addition five years ago. Facilities just failed to follow up.

They probably planned to just send some kids to Langley since Langley was getting renovated.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Does McLean have room for the addition?

The area around mclean high seems congested.

It will be on a field not that close to the regular building. i hope the include a covered walkway. Otherwise these kids have no time to get coats or umbrellas and make it to class.

I think you’re referring to the modular and PP was referring to where a permanent addition might get built.

They already drew up plans for an addition five years ago. Facilities just failed to follow up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Does McLean have room for the addition?

The area around mclean high seems congested.

It will be on a field not that close to the regular building. i hope the include a covered walkway. Otherwise these kids have no time to get coats or umbrellas and make it to class.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Does McLean have room for the addition?

The area around mclean high seems congested.

They will probably need to build up, but McLean has more acreage than Justice and Madison (both getting additions) and more entrances/exits than Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Does McLean have room for the addition?

The area around mclean high seems congested.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

At the community meetings they handed out maps that only highlighted the Colvin Run and Spring Hill areas, but during the discussion afterwards some people asked why Franklin Sherman and Timber Lane weren’t being considered as alternatives.

FCPS staff thought CR/SH would be most amenable to a move since about 70-75% of the kids at those schools already go to Langley, but most do not want to switch, at least not without ironclad assurances as to grandfathering and the middle school assignment.

The sentiment is now overwhelmingly in favor of getting the modular this summer, working towards a permanent addition at MHS (there is plenty of money in FCPS for one) and no permanent boundary change without much more data sharing and community engagement.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.

+2. I know they haven't committed to anything but Franklin Sherman wasn't even up for discussion.

Anonymous wrote:There is no such plan, nor would the new School Board approve it.

+1. They've all but said where they are focusing and it doesn't appear to be Franklin Sherman.