What are not very expensive neighborhoods zoned for Langley - Herndon? Reston?

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How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

I'm the PP and also a Langley parent, and I really don't care who attends the school (including the apartments) -- we are feds and thus at the lower end of the Langley financial pyramid, and I would welcome some more diversity. I'm just noting that the apartments aren't cheap, and anyone who buys an apartment there in order to attend Langley will be paying a lot -- particularly since the trend now in Tysons is to build luxury apartments. That said, I don't think the issue is segregation so much as it is keeping the western part of Great Falls within the Langley pyramid: if they move the apartments to Langley and Langley becomes overcrowded, then the western part of the pyramid is at risk of being moved to another school, which could affect their property values.

Over 1/3 of the housing units now getting built in Tysons are designated as affordable housing. Snotty Langley resident Elaine Tholen overrode an FCPS staff recommendation to make sure none of it fed into Langley. Langley representatives fight at every turn to keep Langley free of any economic diversity, and then they claim their hands are tied due to “geography.”

I’m genuinely curious where the affordable housing in Tyson’s is located.

I’m totally open to apartments at Langley. I don’t think anyone is opposed to that. What gets people upset is when great falls students have to switch schools to make space for those students. I’ve read online the reason Langley didn’t take more students (including apartments?) is that Cooper could not handle the extra kids before renovation and families got upset at having kids go to Langley without going to Cooper.

I have one kid at cooper and one kid at Langley. My kids have their friends. We would not notice or care where people lived. It is true my kids don’t have friends who live in apartments. I don’t think it would matter.

I'm assuming you think of affordable housing as tower ghettos in Manhattan. Not the case anymore. Affordable housing is integrated into the more expensive units. I know, I was a single Mom in them in Tysons. You say that you don't care but there are a ton of people in the Langley pyramid that do care. You could always speak up and see what kind of reaction you get. Don't be surprised if you hear the n word.

Your last sentence is absurd. You make it sound like people in Great Falls and McLean walk around casually dropping N bombs. Of course, you know that isn’t the case.

I’m in Great Falls and care about my kids’ education (as most parents do) and bought where I did with the hope that my kids go to the schools we are currently zoned in. I also want all kids in Fairfax to thrive. I don’t believe rezoning really does anything to improve students on the whole (it’s a zero sum game), and I think it really is just meant to be a soak the “rich” scheme.

Sincerely, a staunch democrat

DP. Redistricting in FCPS isn’t a “soak the rich” scheme. It’s the opposite - the rich get rewarded through either boundary changes to wealthier schools or additions to their schools, while the poor get neglected and concentrated in increasingly high FARMS schools.

Langley has been a prime beneficiary of this in recent years. Individuals parents come on here and say they’d welcome more diversity but behind the scenes the neighborhood groups and local School Board members make sure it never happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say one house under $1m.

How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

I'm the PP and also a Langley parent, and I really don't care who attends the school (including the apartments) -- we are feds and thus at the lower end of the Langley financial pyramid, and I would welcome some more diversity. I'm just noting that the apartments aren't cheap, and anyone who buys an apartment there in order to attend Langley will be paying a lot -- particularly since the trend now in Tysons is to build luxury apartments. That said, I don't think the issue is segregation so much as it is keeping the western part of Great Falls within the Langley pyramid: if they move the apartments to Langley and Langley becomes overcrowded, then the western part of the pyramid is at risk of being moved to another school, which could affect their property values.

Over 1/3 of the housing units now getting built in Tysons are designated as affordable housing. Snotty Langley resident Elaine Tholen overrode an FCPS staff recommendation to make sure none of it fed into Langley. Langley representatives fight at every turn to keep Langley free of any economic diversity, and then they claim their hands are tied due to “geography.”

I’m genuinely curious where the affordable housing in Tyson’s is located.

I’m totally open to apartments at Langley. I don’t think anyone is opposed to that. What gets people upset is when great falls students have to switch schools to make space for those students. I’ve read online the reason Langley didn’t take more students (including apartments?) is that Cooper could not handle the extra kids before renovation and families got upset at having kids go to Langley without going to Cooper.

I have one kid at cooper and one kid at Langley. My kids have their friends. We would not notice or care where people lived. It is true my kids don’t have friends who live in apartments. I don’t think it would matter.

I'm assuming you think of affordable housing as tower ghettos in Manhattan. Not the case anymore. Affordable housing is integrated into the more expensive units. I know, I was a single Mom in them in Tysons. You say that you don't care but there are a ton of people in the Langley pyramid that do care. You could always speak up and see what kind of reaction you get. Don't be surprised if you hear the n word.

Your last sentence is absurd. You make it sound like people in Great Falls and McLean walk around casually dropping N bombs. Of course, you know that isn’t the case.

I’m in Great Falls and care about my kids’ education (as most parents do) and bought where I did with the hope that my kids go to the schools we are currently zoned in. I also want all kids in Fairfax to thrive. I don’t believe rezoning really does anything to improve students on the whole (it’s a zero sum game), and I think it really is just meant to be a soak the “rich” scheme.

Sincerely, a staunch democrat

DP. Redistricting in FCPS isn’t a “soak the rich” scheme. It’s the opposite - the rich get rewarded through either boundary changes to wealthier schools or additions to their schools, while the poor get neglected and concentrated in increasingly high FARMS schools.

Langley has been a prime beneficiary of this in recent years. Individuals parents come on here and say they’d welcome more diversity but behind the scenes the neighborhood groups and local School Board members make sure it never happens.

Trends come and go. Current trend is equity, dei, etc... next would be something else. I am all for trends and vote democratic, but also have personal preference like choosing to live in a quiet neighborhood, send kids to quality schools, etc. I am neutral at heart, and choose to be empathetic with all trends and social fashions, but my personal preference is decided by me, not for social themes to dictate.

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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say one house under $1m.

How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

I'm the PP and also a Langley parent, and I really don't care who attends the school (including the apartments) -- we are feds and thus at the lower end of the Langley financial pyramid, and I would welcome some more diversity. I'm just noting that the apartments aren't cheap, and anyone who buys an apartment there in order to attend Langley will be paying a lot -- particularly since the trend now in Tysons is to build luxury apartments. That said, I don't think the issue is segregation so much as it is keeping the western part of Great Falls within the Langley pyramid: if they move the apartments to Langley and Langley becomes overcrowded, then the western part of the pyramid is at risk of being moved to another school, which could affect their property values.

Over 1/3 of the housing units now getting built in Tysons are designated as affordable housing. Snotty Langley resident Elaine Tholen overrode an FCPS staff recommendation to make sure none of it fed into Langley. Langley representatives fight at every turn to keep Langley free of any economic diversity, and then they claim their hands are tied due to “geography.”

I’m genuinely curious where the affordable housing in Tyson’s is located.

I’m totally open to apartments at Langley. I don’t think anyone is opposed to that. What gets people upset is when great falls students have to switch schools to make space for those students. I’ve read online the reason Langley didn’t take more students (including apartments?) is that Cooper could not handle the extra kids before renovation and families got upset at having kids go to Langley without going to Cooper.

I have one kid at cooper and one kid at Langley. My kids have their friends. We would not notice or care where people lived. It is true my kids don’t have friends who live in apartments. I don’t think it would matter.

I'm assuming you think of affordable housing as tower ghettos in Manhattan. Not the case anymore. Affordable housing is integrated into the more expensive units. I know, I was a single Mom in them in Tysons. You say that you don't care but there are a ton of people in the Langley pyramid that do care. You could always speak up and see what kind of reaction you get. Don't be surprised if you hear the n word.

Your last sentence is absurd. You make it sound like people in Great Falls and McLean walk around casually dropping N bombs. Of course, you know that isn’t the case.

I’m in Great Falls and care about my kids’ education (as most parents do) and bought where I did with the hope that my kids go to the schools we are currently zoned in. I also want all kids in Fairfax to thrive. I don’t believe rezoning really does anything to improve students on the whole (it’s a zero sum game), and I think it really is just meant to be a soak the “rich” scheme.

Sincerely, a staunch democrat

DP. Redistricting in FCPS isn’t a “soak the rich” scheme. It’s the opposite - the rich get rewarded through either boundary changes to wealthier schools or additions to their schools, while the poor get neglected and concentrated in increasingly high FARMS schools.

Langley has been a prime beneficiary of this in recent years. Individuals parents come on here and say they’d welcome more diversity but behind the scenes the neighborhood groups and local School Board members make sure it never happens.

Trends come and go. Current trend is equity, dei, etc... next would be something else. I am all for trends and vote democratic, but also have personal preference like choosing to live in a quiet neighborhood, send kids to quality schools, etc. I am neutral at heart, and choose to be empathetic with all trends and social fashions, but my personal preference is decided by me, not for social themes to dictate.

Translation: “I like buying in a rich area with no economic diversity, especially when other people do the dirty work for me to keep it that way.”

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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say one house under $1m.

How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

I'm the PP and also a Langley parent, and I really don't care who attends the school (including the apartments) -- we are feds and thus at the lower end of the Langley financial pyramid, and I would welcome some more diversity. I'm just noting that the apartments aren't cheap, and anyone who buys an apartment there in order to attend Langley will be paying a lot -- particularly since the trend now in Tysons is to build luxury apartments. That said, I don't think the issue is segregation so much as it is keeping the western part of Great Falls within the Langley pyramid: if they move the apartments to Langley and Langley becomes overcrowded, then the western part of the pyramid is at risk of being moved to another school, which could affect their property values.

Over 1/3 of the housing units now getting built in Tysons are designated as affordable housing. Snotty Langley resident Elaine Tholen overrode an FCPS staff recommendation to make sure none of it fed into Langley. Langley representatives fight at every turn to keep Langley free of any economic diversity, and then they claim their hands are tied due to “geography.”

I’m genuinely curious where the affordable housing in Tyson’s is located.

I’m totally open to apartments at Langley. I don’t think anyone is opposed to that. What gets people upset is when great falls students have to switch schools to make space for those students. I’ve read online the reason Langley didn’t take more students (including apartments?) is that Cooper could not handle the extra kids before renovation and families got upset at having kids go to Langley without going to Cooper.

I have one kid at cooper and one kid at Langley. My kids have their friends. We would not notice or care where people lived. It is true my kids don’t have friends who live in apartments. I don’t think it would matter.

I'm assuming you think of affordable housing as tower ghettos in Manhattan. Not the case anymore. Affordable housing is integrated into the more expensive units. I know, I was a single Mom in them in Tysons. You say that you don't care but there are a ton of people in the Langley pyramid that do care. You could always speak up and see what kind of reaction you get. Don't be surprised if you hear the n word.

Your last sentence is absurd. You make it sound like people in Great Falls and McLean walk around casually dropping N bombs. Of course, you know that isn’t the case.

I’m in Great Falls and care about my kids’ education (as most parents do) and bought where I did with the hope that my kids go to the schools we are currently zoned in. I also want all kids in Fairfax to thrive. I don’t believe rezoning really does anything to improve students on the whole (it’s a zero sum game), and I think it really is just meant to be a soak the “rich” scheme.

Sincerely, a staunch democrat

DP. Redistricting in FCPS isn’t a “soak the rich” scheme. It’s the opposite - the rich get rewarded through either boundary changes to wealthier schools or additions to their schools, while the poor get neglected and concentrated in increasingly high FARMS schools.

Langley has been a prime beneficiary of this in recent years. Individuals parents come on here and say they’d welcome more diversity but behind the scenes the neighborhood groups and local School Board members make sure it never happens.

Trends come and go. Current trend is equity, dei, etc... next would be something else. I am all for trends and vote democratic, but also have personal preference like choosing to live in a quiet neighborhood, send kids to quality schools, etc. I am neutral at heart, and choose to be empathetic with all trends and social fashions, but my personal preference is decided by me, not for social themes to dictate.

Translation: “I like buying in a rich area with no economic diversity, especially when other people do the dirty work for me to keep it that way.”

Economic diversity is a concept popularized by social discourse. No matter what, there will always be people richer than me, and there will always be people poorer than me. This is how it was when I was born and that is how it will be when I die. So its foolish to given up personal preference. However I dont mind participating in trending social discourse and being empathetic to hearing others over a nice chilled beer.

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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say one house under $1m.

How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

I'm the PP and also a Langley parent, and I really don't care who attends the school (including the apartments) -- we are feds and thus at the lower end of the Langley financial pyramid, and I would welcome some more diversity. I'm just noting that the apartments aren't cheap, and anyone who buys an apartment there in order to attend Langley will be paying a lot -- particularly since the trend now in Tysons is to build luxury apartments. That said, I don't think the issue is segregation so much as it is keeping the western part of Great Falls within the Langley pyramid: if they move the apartments to Langley and Langley becomes overcrowded, then the western part of the pyramid is at risk of being moved to another school, which could affect their property values.

Over 1/3 of the housing units now getting built in Tysons are designated as affordable housing. Snotty Langley resident Elaine Tholen overrode an FCPS staff recommendation to make sure none of it fed into Langley. Langley representatives fight at every turn to keep Langley free of any economic diversity, and then they claim their hands are tied due to “geography.”

I’m genuinely curious where the affordable housing in Tyson’s is located.

I’m totally open to apartments at Langley. I don’t think anyone is opposed to that. What gets people upset is when great falls students have to switch schools to make space for those students. I’ve read online the reason Langley didn’t take more students (including apartments?) is that Cooper could not handle the extra kids before renovation and families got upset at having kids go to Langley without going to Cooper.

I have one kid at cooper and one kid at Langley. My kids have their friends. We would not notice or care where people lived. It is true my kids don’t have friends who live in apartments. I don’t think it would matter.

I'm assuming you think of affordable housing as tower ghettos in Manhattan. Not the case anymore. Affordable housing is integrated into the more expensive units. I know, I was a single Mom in them in Tysons. You say that you don't care but there are a ton of people in the Langley pyramid that do care. You could always speak up and see what kind of reaction you get. Don't be surprised if you hear the n word.

DP. WTH are you talking about? You clearly have a huge chip on your shoulder. Why haven’t you said where your kids go to school?

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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say one house under $1m.

How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

In your dream scenario, unless they are rent-controlled, those apartments will have their rent increase based on the Langley zoning, so your problem doesn’t really get solved, good try though.

I find it telling that you rail against supposed discrimination with the stereotyping “you people” language above. Most people don’t care at all about keeping “Langley segregated” and just want their kids in a good school. I’m guessing you just own a condo in Tyson’s and want it to go up in value. Best of luck to you.

They can't raise the rent on county-mandated affordable housing. There is 1 condo building in that part of Tysons to over a dozen apartment buildings. Even so, condos at 600K would be a steal compared to homes starting at $1 million and up.

600k is not exactly diversifying Langley. Other schools have section 8 building within their catchments, not 600k condos that people pretend are filled with poor people

Don’t forget to add in the HOA/condo fee!

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They are building an all-affordable housing rental complex in Tysons off Spring Hill Road in Vienna. No indication the units will have big “condo fees.” Send it to Langley rather than Marshall.

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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say one house under $1m.

How TF does Fairfax County get away with modern school segregation?

It isn’t segregation. If you look at a map and where Langley High is located, there really aren’t any poor areas to pull from. It is in a very expensive location. Across the river is MD and to the east is DC. West is Great Falls and then you start going into McLean High areas.

There have been a few boundary studies in recent years about moving some families to Langley from McLean High.

Another boundary study was done recently for Kent Gardens but they didn’t touch the high school zoning, only moved elementary schools.

Langley's map looks like one of the manhandled political districts. Like he'll Langley's geography couldn't possibly incorporate one condo or apartment building. Plenty in Tysons to pick from.

Many/most of those apartments are expensive — especially if you include the condo fees! I live in a modest home in Great Falls, and the mortgage on those apartments is more than my own!

Most of them are rentals, not condos, and many are moderate-income. You people really are ridiculous in the excuses you come up with to keep Langley segregated.

I'm the PP and also a Langley parent, and I really don't care who attends the school (including the apartments) -- we are feds and thus at the lower end of the Langley financial pyramid, and I would welcome some more diversity. I'm just noting that the apartments aren't cheap, and anyone who buys an apartment there in order to attend Langley will be paying a lot -- particularly since the trend now in Tysons is to build luxury apartments. That said, I don't think the issue is segregation so much as it is keeping the western part of Great Falls within the Langley pyramid: if they move the apartments to Langley and Langley becomes overcrowded, then the western part of the pyramid is at risk of being moved to another school, which could affect their property values.

Over 1/3 of the housing units now getting built in Tysons are designated as affordable housing. Snotty Langley resident Elaine Tholen overrode an FCPS staff recommendation to make sure none of it fed into Langley. Langley representatives fight at every turn to keep Langley free of any economic diversity, and then they claim their hands are tied due to “geography.”

I’m genuinely curious where the affordable housing in Tyson’s is located.

I’m totally open to apartments at Langley. I don’t think anyone is opposed to that. What gets people upset is when great falls students have to switch schools to make space for those students. I’ve read online the reason Langley didn’t take more students (including apartments?) is that Cooper could not handle the extra kids before renovation and families got upset at having kids go to Langley without going to Cooper.

I have one kid at cooper and one kid at Langley. My kids have their friends. We would not notice or care where people lived. It is true my kids don’t have friends who live in apartments. I don’t think it would matter.

I'm assuming you think of affordable housing as tower ghettos in Manhattan. Not the case anymore. Affordable housing is integrated into the more expensive units. I know, I was a single Mom in them in Tysons. You say that you don't care but there are a ton of people in the Langley pyramid that do care. You could always speak up and see what kind of reaction you get. Don't be surprised if you hear the n word.

Your last sentence is absurd. You make it sound like people in Great Falls and McLean walk around casually dropping N bombs. Of course, you know that isn’t the case.

I’m in Great Falls and care about my kids’ education (as most parents do) and bought where I did with the hope that my kids go to the schools we are currently zoned in. I also want all kids in Fairfax to thrive. I don’t believe rezoning really does anything to improve students on the whole (it’s a zero sum game), and I think it really is just meant to be a soak the “rich” scheme.

Sincerely, a staunch democrat

DP. Redistricting in FCPS isn’t a “soak the rich” scheme. It’s the opposite - the rich get rewarded through either boundary changes to wealthier schools or additions to their schools, while the poor get neglected and concentrated in increasingly high FARMS schools.

Langley has been a prime beneficiary of this in recent years. Individuals parents come on here and say they’d welcome more diversity but behind the scenes the neighborhood groups and local School Board members make sure it never happens.

Title 1 schools with high farms gets more funding, support and smaller class sizes.

I moved from a high farms fcps to Langley high pyramid. I have written this over the years but the actual teaching isnt better. The student population is very different as their parents are well educated. My kids have multiple kids in their elementary class who have parents who went to ivy schools. The parents have to be successful and earn a high income to be able to afford to live in a $2m+ house.

In our old high farms area, there was a large blue collar population. I believe many of these people were illegal and definitely not college educated. While in Langley, tear down homes go for over $1m for just the land, the most expensive house in our old neighborhood was $1m. Our old school had mostly townhouses, condos, apartments and modest single homes. Multiple households sometimes would live in one small house.

I actually liked the teachers at our high farms school better. One huge difference was that my good student kid was often ignored at the high farms school. Those schools often focus on the bottom kids to bring them up. If your kid is already at benchmark or above, your kid may be given busywork to work on alone while teachers focus on the other kids. In McLean, a class will have mostly all families with involved parents who care about education. The teacher doesnt do more. The parents do more.

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Anonymous wrote:They are building an all-affordable housing rental complex in Tysons off Spring Hill Road in Vienna. No indication the units will have big “condo fees.” Send it to Langley rather than Marshall.

What elementary school will it be zoned for?

Spring Hill is a split feeder to McLean and Langley. I don’t think any Tyson’s areas go to Langley but I could be wrong. I know some parts of Vienna (not Tyson’s) feeds to Langley and a tiny part of Reston and Herndon. They are really small areas of Vienna, Herndon and Reston.

I don’t think anyone at Langley objects to apartments and let’s not kid ourselves, those rentals or affordable condos are still not section 8 housing. They will still be UMC. You can’t afford 5k rent if you are poor.

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Anonymous wrote:They are building an all-affordable housing rental complex in Tysons off Spring Hill Road in Vienna. No indication the units will have big “condo fees.” Send it to Langley rather than Marshall.

What elementary school will it be zoned for?

Spring Hill is a split feeder to McLean and Langley. I don’t think any Tyson’s areas go to Langley but I could be wrong. I know some parts of Vienna (not Tyson’s) feeds to Langley and a tiny part of Reston and Herndon. They are really small areas of Vienna, Herndon and Reston.

I don’t think anyone at Langley objects to apartments and let’s not kid ourselves, those rentals or affordable condos are still not section 8 housing. They will still be UMC. You can’t afford 5k rent if you are poor.

Clueless as always.

Langley parents at Spring Hill actually tried years ago to get some of the apartments at Spring Hill moved to Westbriar. They were doing it behind the back of those parents and likely would have succeeded but for Brabrand putting a halt to administrative boundary changes.

Just because those units aren’t Section 8 doesn’t mean they are UMC or aren’t much more affordable than the Langley housing.

[Anonymous]

Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

I don’t think this is true. You are only talking about certain part of great falls.

We are zoned for Langley and on the McLean/Great Falls border and Langley is our closest high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, FCPS. Show you really give a crap about equity and assign this building to Langley, not Marshall:

https://www.ffxnow.com/2023/12/20/affordable-housing-development-breaks-ground-near-spring-hill-metro-station/#more-281987

Madison, Marshal and McLean are closer to Springhill Metro than Langley. What is the obsession with Langley.

Most neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to other schools than to Langley. No reason why this complex couldn’t be assigned to Langley.

So you want to create an island just to put some multi family housing to Langley.