Impact of McLean/Langley boundary change on McLean real estate choice

[Anonymous]

We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

I have significant thoughts and extensive knowledge of that area, but I would never share insight with someone who says that the change is logical.

If you think that the change is logical, good luck figuring it all out. In the meantime, stop trying to buy your way out of the situation.

You’re gross to want to insulate your child at the expense of your neighbors.

[Anonymous]

What a strange and unhelpful response

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

The goal is to roll out new boundaries in 2016-17. No one knows yet what those boundaries might be or how extensive the grandfathering might be.

The single change with the highest probability of affecting the Langley/McLean boundary might be the elimination of the current split feeder at Spring Hill to send all those kids to Cooper/Langley. That wouldn’t automatically affect the Langley/Herndon boundary because Langley has had slightly over 100 pupil placements in recent years. They could rezone more of McLean to Langley, close Langley to pupil placements (just like McLean has been closed to most pupil placements for years) and leave the Langley/Herndon boundary alone for now.

There are a small number of houses zoned to McLean that are closer to Langley, but those houses are zoned to Chesterbrook and Franklin Sherman, which are two of the main feeders to McLean (along with Haycock and Kent Gardens). They just changed the boundaries for those four elementary schools last year, and moving any of those houses to Langley would create a split feeder at Chesterbrook or FS, which is contrary to FCPS’s stated goals. So those areas will likely be left alone.

Of course other things could happen, but they are considerably more speculative and it’s really not worth getting into it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

I have significant thoughts and extensive knowledge of that area, but I would never share insight with someone who says that the change is logical.

If you think that the change is logical, good luck figuring it all out. In the meantime, stop trying to buy your way out of the situation.

You’re gross to want to insulate your child at the expense of your neighbors.

This is a weird response. Lots of kids want to stay at the same school.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, 2026-27!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a strange and unhelpful response

What a strange question in the first place, traitor.

Zero self awareness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

I have significant thoughts and extensive knowledge of that area, but I would never share insight with someone who says that the change is logical.

If you think that the change is logical, good luck figuring it all out. In the meantime, stop trying to buy your way out of the situation.

You’re gross to want to insulate your child at the expense of your neighbors.

This is a weird response. Lots of kids want to stay at the same school.

PP said it was logical. She should deal with the consequences of such a logical move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

I have significant thoughts and extensive knowledge of that area, but I would never share insight with someone who says that the change is logical.

If you think that the change is logical, good luck figuring it all out. In the meantime, stop trying to buy your way out of the situation.

You’re gross to want to insulate your child at the expense of your neighbors.

This is a weird response. Lots of kids want to stay at the same school.

PP said it was logical. She should deal with the consequences of such a logical move.

Why are you being so weird?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are trying to stay in the Langley pyramid only because we have a child at Cooper who wants to stay with her friends. We have already had quite a bit of disruption for this particular child and need to limit it going forward.

That said, does anyone have thoughts on when we might know the final decisions about potential changes in the pyramid? Are we looking at six months, a year, two years? I really have no idea.

It does seem to me like a logical change, albeit a sad one for many in the Langley community, would be to cut off the western part of Great Falls and Herndon or South Lakes. I personally think that is a likely outcome.

What I do not know is what will likely happen to McLean and the east side of the Langley boundary. For example, there are homes near downtown McLean that are closer to likely than McLean. Will all of these likely stay zoned to McLean?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating the merits of rezoning, and I know that nobody can predict the future. I’m just wondering if anyone with more knowledge about this particular area than me has any thoughts on what may be most likely to happen in the future.

I have significant thoughts and extensive knowledge of that area, but I would never share insight with someone who says that the change is logical.

If you think that the change is logical, good luck figuring it all out. In the meantime, stop trying to buy your way out of the situation.

You’re gross to want to insulate your child at the expense of your neighbors.

This is a weird response. Lots of kids want to stay at the same school.

That didn’t offend me, it’s the poster saying that the move is logical and then asking how she can avoid the consequences for her child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange and unhelpful response

What a strange question in the first place, traitor.

Zero self awareness.

DP, but I’ve talked to some Langley parents who live fairly close to Langley say they can understand if FCPS decides to reassign the Langley kids who currently live out towards Loudoun (now that Herndon got such a big expansion). They don’t think of themselves as traitors, just realists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange and unhelpful response

What a strange question in the first place, traitor.

Zero self awareness.

DP, but I’ve talked to some Langley parents who live fairly close to Langley say they can understand if FCPS decides to reassign the Langley kids who currently live out towards Loudoun (now that Herndon got such a big expansion). They don’t think of themselves as traitors, just realists.

I live right by Langley (my kids go to private so I have no horse in this race) and totally understand why the kids who are towards Loudoun might get rezoned. How that makes me a traitor is not clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange and unhelpful response

What a strange question in the first place, traitor.

Zero self awareness.

DP, but I’ve talked to some Langley parents who live fairly close to Langley say they can understand if FCPS decides to reassign the Langley kids who currently live out towards Loudoun (now that Herndon got such a big expansion). They don’t think of themselves as traitors, just realists.

But op is in the zone that will get redistricted. If she thinks it’s logical then why would anyone want to help her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange and unhelpful response

What a strange question in the first place, traitor.

Zero self awareness.

DP, but I’ve talked to some Langley parents who live fairly close to Langley say they can understand if FCPS decides to reassign the Langley kids who currently live out towards Loudoun (now that Herndon got such a big expansion). They don’t think of themselves as traitors, just realists.

I live right by Langley (my kids go to private so I have no horse in this race) and totally understand why the kids who are towards Loudoun might get rezoned. How that makes me a traitor is not clear.

You aren’t op trying to avoid the boundary moves. You aren’t a traitor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a strange and unhelpful response

What a strange question in the first place, traitor.

Zero self awareness.

DP, but I’ve talked to some Langley parents who live fairly close to Langley say they can understand if FCPS decides to reassign the Langley kids who currently live out towards Loudoun (now that Herndon got such a big expansion). They don’t think of themselves as traitors, just realists.

But op is in the zone that will get redistricted. If she thinks it’s logical then why would anyone want to help her?

What? Who cares. It is logical to rezone that area. OP doesn’t control that. She just wants her child to stay at the school. That is a normal parenting thing. You are an odd duck.