Comments on Our Loudoun Schools: Lansdowne to Tuscarora HS?

Option 2 is a great recommendation to allow curren...

2009-11-22T10:30:45.023-05:00

Option 2 is a great recommendation to allow current Stone Bridge High Schoool students to remain at SBHS. It's a four-year phased approach in which rising 9th graders will be impacted by the proposed attendance area change in Fall 2010. It's the best compromise being proposed.

where is anyone getting the idea that Briar Woods ...

2009-11-21T18:32:30.432-05:00

where is anyone getting the idea that Briar Woods is less than 3 miles from Ashburn Farm. It is over 6 miles from my front door to Briar Woods, I live across the street from Stone Bridge! By the way I measured the distance from Seldens to Tuscarora-- a bit over 5miles. It would not be a hardship to go to Briar Woods if Stone Bridge was not ACROSS the street and was not going to be over capacity

In the short-term, Lansdowne is going to THS. We ...

2009-11-20T16:49:41.808-05:00

In the short-term, Lansdowne is going to THS. We need focus on two things 1)Getting Option 2 pahsing passed. That is as close to win-win as anyone can get in this situation. It gives THS another year to get up and running and it allows children who started in a school to finish in that school. The rising 10th grade has relationships with teachers, counselors and coaches that offer them

There is no feeder system for elementary schools. ...

2009-11-16T08:51:57.500-05:00

There is no feeder system for elementary schools.

For middle and high schools, it all depends on where you live and where the boundaries are at that time.

Here's a question. Currently, some students in...

2009-11-13T09:59:35.068-05:00

Here's a question. Currently, some students in Lansdowne (the town center and the Camdem apartments) attend Belmont Station Elementary in Ashburn and Belmont Ridge Middle. Will these kids also be moved to Tuscarora or will they stay in the Stonebridge feed? What about other kids who get overflowed from Seldens to other elementary schools (as is likely to happen in the next few years)? How

Feeder System .... Well if we put in a feeder sys...

2009-11-12T16:10:54.390-05:00

Feeder System ....

Well if we put in a feeder system then what if it is this.

Stone Bridge HS is feed by Belmont Ridge Middle School which is feed by Newton-Lee, Belmont Station and Sanders Corner.

Now what ... Has anyone from Lansdowne really thought about the feeder system is the high school proximity is followed as the priority.

I am not suggesting

For those saying Ashburn Farm would never suggest ...

2009-11-10T17:18:07.500-05:00

For those saying Ashburn Farm would never suggest Lansdowne kids leaving Belmont Ridge MS, please see the middle school plan you proudly endorsed in the Spring. You were in favor of moving 2 Lansdowne zones out of BRMS!!!!

http://www.ashburnfarmassociation.org/PDFFiles/AFPU_MSPlanEndorsement.pdf

Mr. DuPree is in a closed door session at the Scho...

2009-11-10T16:44:56.930-05:00

Mr. DuPree is in a closed door session at the School Board building that started at 4:00. Take a look at the School Board Calendar. That wasn't him.

Don't be ridiculous, Lansdowne residents would...

2009-11-10T16:44:47.625-05:00

Don't be ridiculous, Lansdowne residents would never be fine with a temporary move to a distant location with nobody that we or our kids interact with, who would go for that? For what, so we could be with "excellent students". We have our own excellent students.

And believe me, Lansdowne won't ever come back to SBHS if they are thrown out now. It will be off to some

If moving to THS were to be permanent, I think man...

2009-11-10T16:20:29.693-05:00

If moving to THS were to be permanent, I think many Lansdowne residents would be fine with that. Other communities going to THS include Beacon Hill and Raspberry Falls -- I'm sure those kids are excellent students and there is appeal in going to a brand new, uncrowded school. But so far, the only plan the school board has offered is to move Lansdowne there temporarily and then move us back to

Nice try, Mr DuPree. Please make any future commen...

2009-11-10T16:18:18.222-05:00

Nice try, Mr DuPree. Please make any future comments as an Ashburn resident.

As a Lansdowne resident, I am not against moving t...

2009-11-10T15:48:52.490-05:00

As a Lansdowne resident, I am not against moving to THS, yes, someone has to move and thatis just the way it goes around here. I think many of us are fine with this, we would like to just see some future planning for where we go next. Why would lansdowne be the first to move out of THS when it is overdrowded anyway? At that point it will be as much a Lansdowne school as any other area (

It isn't that Lansdowne shouldn't be consi...

2009-11-10T15:43:49.785-05:00

It isn't that Lansdowne shouldn't be considered to move. It should, just like all other communities. Lansdowne is on the edge of the district though. If HS6 is going to be built to the south of Ashburn, it only seems logical that the entire planning district be shifted that way. The goods new for Ashburn is that all of the schools are in Ashburn so their "shift" would be very

I'm not trying to bully or banish anyone. Fro...

2009-11-10T15:28:25.227-05:00

I'm not trying to bully or banish anyone. From what it sounds like here, Lansdowne residents feel that everyone in DN should be shifted to alleviate the overcrowding that is happening. This is at the MS and HS level. I just want to know where Lansdowne residents feel they should be shifted to (either at the MS or the HS level).

Doesn't seem fair to ask everyone else in the

I guess I don't understand the assumption that...

2009-11-10T15:20:29.450-05:00

I guess I don't understand the assumption that Lansdowne gets shifted at all. Why Lansdowne? Is Lansdowne somehow responsible for the overcrowded schools in all of Dulles North? If a community in Dulles North should be moved, there may be better candidates than Lansdowne. Belmont CC is smaller and could perhaps find a permanent home at THS rather than over-flowing it in a few years (for

Whoever says that Ashburn Farm is going to move La...

2009-11-10T15:17:28.328-05:00

Whoever says that Ashburn Farm is going to move Lansdowne out of Belmont Ridge is talking crazy. That has never been suggested. When the last middle school boundaries were done, Ashburn Farm recognized the problem and friends of mine helped to split the community. Why? Because it was the right thing! Belmont Ridge is IN Lansdowne. There was no way that Ashburn Farm fit too. Sound familiar?

So where do you propose that Lansdowne gets shifte...

2009-11-10T13:29:24.447-05:00

So where do you propose that Lansdowne gets shifted to?

Also, remember that the 3 sections of Ashburn Farm that were proposed to move to BWHS last spring were moved out of Belmont Ridge MS 2 years ago.

I completely agree that the seats at THS MUST be u...

2009-11-10T13:11:17.408-05:00

I completely agree that the seats at THS MUST be used. This doesn't imply that Lansdowne should be filling them though. A big shift needs to happen throughout the area in order to ever have stable attendance zones. Moving Lansdowne to THS doesn't fix the problem at all. All communities should "give" and shift so that all communities would attend local (nearby) schools with

It is decision time, please. My 8th grader would ...

2009-11-10T12:39:11.697-05:00

It is decision time, please. My 8th grader would really like to know where she is going to school next year. She will soon be asked to pick classes, but doesn't have a clue where she will be going to school. When she was in 5th grade at Seldens, it was an easy adjustment as she spent the year prepping for Belmont Ridge MS. She doesn't have a sense of what next year holds. She doesn&

While we wait for schools to be built, we MUST uti...

2009-11-10T12:31:43.356-05:00

While we wait for schools to be built, we MUST utilize seats we have now. This means, Lansdowne to Tuscarora. It is a difficult decision, but one that must be made. Please keep in mind, Ashburn Farm utilized seats previosly in both Leesburg and Sterling. We MUST ease the overcrowding at Stone Bridge.

As a Lansdowne parent, I'd be a lot more comfo...

2009-11-10T11:32:30.200-05:00

As a Lansdowne parent, I'd be a lot more comfortable with the Tuscarora plan if the county would just come out and say what they plan to do with our community when THS is full in a few years. (I realize that would require some political courage, lol.) Are we going to get divvied up among 3 or 4 high schools? Eventually, Lansdowne will be able to fill almost half a high school by itself. I'

Your solution doesn't address the long term gr...

2009-11-10T10:55:27.809-05:00

Your solution doesn't address the long term growth expected in the LVE/Brambleton area, nor the growth expected in the Lansdowne/Route 7 corridor. It just keeps shifting it around to every other community in the DN. Which, by the way, does affect more students.

While a HS north of the greenway would be ideal, t...

2009-11-10T10:17:26.632-05:00

While a HS north of the greenway would be ideal, the cost of buying land that is suitable for a high school would be very expensive. A parcel of land in LV Estates has been proffered for HS6 to be built. While this location is not ideal, it is alot cheaper ( and a more realistic way to get a school built in the next 5 years) than buying land and building a school. I know communities do not

Many more kids will need to be pulled out of Belmo...

2009-11-10T09:23:51.353-05:00

Many more kids will need to be pulled out of Belmont Ridge, and many more kids will need to be pulled out of Farmwell (already with trailers) because both of these Ashburn middle schools have overcrowding problems. Stone Bridge HS will never go below 109% of capacity based upon the plans out there. Broad Run HS (already with trailers) and Briar Woods HS will equal or surpass the extreme

A new MS and a new HS in northern ashburn would be...

2009-11-10T08:46:54.953-05:00

A new MS and a new HS in northern ashburn would be a great long term solution, but with no money and no plan in sight for either of these, a middle school change will have to happen before we get a new school, just as a high school change is happening now.