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School boundary study concerns parents
About 50 parents were at Herndon's McNair Elementary School Oct. 9 to voice their concerns about an upcoming school boundary study.
Floris, Herndon, Hutchison, McNair and Oak Hill elementary schools will be subjects of the study being implemented by Fairfax County Public Schools to populate Coppermine Elementary School. The school is currently being constructed at 2480 River Birch Road in the Herndon area.
The Fairfax Coalition of Advocates for Public Schools (FairfaxCAPS) gave a presentation at McNair Oct. 9 to organize the concerns of the affected parents. "We need to prioritize your criteria so we can send it to the School Board," said CAPS President Scott Chronister.
Participants identified criteria for redistricting that were important to them and came up with several priority items.
"Let kids who walk to school keep walking," boomed Spring Lake Estates resident Leigh Renfrow.
Another speaker suggested opening a Cluster 8 GT center that would feed Rachel Carson Middle School, eliminating the "split feeder" system that sends elementary school children to two different middle schools.
"With a $200 million reduction projected in the upcoming school system budget, these are very serious decisions," said Chronister.
Frank Q. Williams, a Floris-area resident, had just retired from the military and purchased a $700,000 house when he first heard about the recent Western Boundary study which redistricted some students to Reston's South Lakes High School.
"I have a second-grade daughter at Floris Elementary," he said. "One of the reasons you buy a house in a particular location is because of the schools. The last study took me by surprise, so I am getting in on the ground floor of this one."
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