Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 18:30     Subject: How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounded like Hutchison is out for Plattenburg- said that a currently owned FCPS property has a surrounding park that gets so much community use for that area- that they would not be able to use that site.


Yep, sounds like they'll look for some vacant commercial building along Route 28 further south and probably retrofit it like Bailey's Upper in Seven Corners. I'm sure it will be great as long as it keeps Great Falls out of Herndon.

Plenty land in Great falls. The county can build a school there. Idk why we are looking in these locations where there isn’t enough property. Just doesn’t make sense.


Not even FCPS is dumb enough to build a high school with a septic field.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 18:00     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They need to stop playing around and expand McLean.

Did MCA press her on this issue?

To get them on the new que I mean.


The McLean HS facilities are embarrassingly outdated. All the surrounding high schools in FCPS and Arlington are new or recently overhauled and enlarged. It seems like the influence from the McLean community has waned.


Let the McLean PTA pay for it. The western area needs it more desperately. -parent of school that doesn’t need expanding


Centreville is in the CIP now for an upcoming renovation that will cost several multiples of what they spent renovating McLean in the early 00s and also expand Centreville's capacity, already larger than McLean's.

McLean would probably love to self-finance if their tax dollars could actually stay in the community.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 17:59     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hispanics in Fairfax County are an easy target for the DCUM-types, maybe because Hispanics here just want the opportunity to work and stay quiet because they're glad to have escaped war-torn Central America.

Now just imagine if Fairfax County's poor Hispanic population was instead replaced with the similar high-poverty African-American population from Prince George's county. Can you even fathom how it would look if the FCPS School Board was behaving in the same way as it is now, concentrating all the poor African-American families into a few poor schools, and listening to screaming rich parents who don't want to go to school with poor black children?

That already happens though?


Hardly. Hayfield, Mt. Vernon, and South County share the highest % of black students, around 25%. Totally different situation if Lewis, Justice, Annandale, Herndon, and Falls Church HS were all 50% African-American instead of Hispanic. Would the boundary-change deniers have the guts to be so publicly vocal in their repulsion to those schools? I think we'd be having very different conversations if those were the county's demographics.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 17:55     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Somehow I’m not feeling that changing school boundaries is analogous to the Holocaust, but maybe that’s just me.


Lord in Heaven pp is putting a lot of weirdness on the gf citizens club.


DP — guess you didn’t bother to read the post this pp was responding to. That post literally made that analogy via a holocaust poem.


I think PP saw the weird analogy the Asian guy from Oak Hill made to the Martin Niemoller quote, as did you. It was definitely weird.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 17:39     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They need to stop playing around and expand McLean.

Did MCA press her on this issue?

To get them on the new que I mean.


The McLean HS facilities are embarrassingly outdated. All the surrounding high schools in FCPS and Arlington are new or recently overhauled and enlarged. It seems like the influence from the McLean community has waned.


Let the McLean PTA pay for it. The western area needs it more desperately. -parent of school that doesn’t need expanding
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 17:36     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Somehow I’m not feeling that changing school boundaries is analogous to the Holocaust, but maybe that’s just me.


Lord in Heaven pp is putting a lot of weirdness on the gf citizens club.


DP — guess you didn’t bother to read the post this pp was responding to. That post literally made that analogy via a holocaust poem.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 16:57     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:Hispanics in Fairfax County are an easy target for the DCUM-types, maybe because Hispanics here just want the opportunity to work and stay quiet because they're glad to have escaped war-torn Central America.

Now just imagine if Fairfax County's poor Hispanic population was instead replaced with the similar high-poverty African-American population from Prince George's county. Can you even fathom how it would look if the FCPS School Board was behaving in the same way as it is now, concentrating all the poor African-American families into a few poor schools, and listening to screaming rich parents who don't want to go to school with poor black children?

That already happens though?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 16:41     Subject: How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounded like Hutchison is out for Plattenburg- said that a currently owned FCPS property has a surrounding park that gets so much community use for that area- that they would not be able to use that site.


Yep, sounds like they'll look for some vacant commercial building along Route 28 further south and probably retrofit it like Bailey's Upper in Seven Corners. I'm sure it will be great as long as it keeps Great Falls out of Herndon.

Plenty land in Great falls. The county can build a school there. Idk why we are looking in these locations where there isn’t enough property. Just doesn’t make sense.


And who is going to go to that?


The Bull Run area would make more sense than Great Falls if they actually did build a new school. I think it's a fiction. They've all but said Hutchison is DOA and trotting out the idea of retrofitting office buildings seems like a ploy to get people to object in advance.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 16:28     Subject: How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounded like Hutchison is out for Plattenburg- said that a currently owned FCPS property has a surrounding park that gets so much community use for that area- that they would not be able to use that site.


Yep, sounds like they'll look for some vacant commercial building along Route 28 further south and probably retrofit it like Bailey's Upper in Seven Corners. I'm sure it will be great as long as it keeps Great Falls out of Herndon.

Plenty land in Great falls. The county can build a school there. Idk why we are looking in these locations where there isn’t enough property. Just doesn’t make sense.


And who is going to go to that?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 16:16     Subject: How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sounded like Hutchison is out for Plattenburg- said that a currently owned FCPS property has a surrounding park that gets so much community use for that area- that they would not be able to use that site.


Yep, sounds like they'll look for some vacant commercial building along Route 28 further south and probably retrofit it like Bailey's Upper in Seven Corners. I'm sure it will be great as long as it keeps Great Falls out of Herndon.

Plenty land in Great falls. The county can build a school there. Idk why we are looking in these locations where there isn’t enough property. Just doesn’t make sense.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 16:11     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:#stopasianhate

Sounds to me like other groups are being hated against more than Asians in this thread. We don’t want to stop the hate directed at them?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 14:57     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They need to stop playing around and expand McLean.

Did MCA press her on this issue?

To get them on the new que I mean.


The McLean HS facilities are embarrassingly outdated. All the surrounding high schools in FCPS and Arlington are new or recently overhauled and enlarged. It seems like the influence from the McLean community has waned.


Elaine Tholen only looks out after Langley High and Great Falls. Totally useless and completely full of shit.

She’s looking out for the constituents who donate to her campaign.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 14:40     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They need to stop playing around and expand McLean.

Did MCA press her on this issue?

To get them on the new que I mean.


The McLean HS facilities are embarrassingly outdated. All the surrounding high schools in FCPS and Arlington are new or recently overhauled and enlarged. It seems like the influence from the McLean community has waned.


Elaine Tholen only looks out after Langley High and Great Falls. Totally useless and completely full of shit.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 14:35     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
Anonymous wrote:They need to stop playing around and expand McLean.

Did MCA press her on this issue?

To get them on the new que I mean.


The McLean HS facilities are embarrassingly outdated. All the surrounding high schools in FCPS and Arlington are new or recently overhauled and enlarged. It seems like the influence from the McLean community has waned.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2022 13:37     Subject: Re:How did Herndon/Westfield HS go from top to bottom?
They need to stop playing around and expand McLean.

Did MCA press her on this issue?

To get them on the new que I mean.