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

[Anonymous]

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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.

They created a Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall attendance island to pacify the Langley families who didn’t want to get moved to Marshall when Colvin Run ES opened.

But an affordable housing island closer to Langley in Tysons would be improper? GTFOH.

Anyway as noted it wouldn’t even have to be an island.

I honestly don’t care. I live in McLean and zoned for Langley. I don’t know how or why tiny parts of Reston, Herndon and Vienna go to Langley. Also I don’t care if some apartment building or buildings get zoned for Langley.

No one is afraid of some apartment building. Add the building. Just seems odd to add one building vs an entire neighborhood.

Sure, Jan. I’m sure you’re really worried about splitting up a “neighborhood.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

They created a Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall attendance island to pacify the Langley families who didn’t want to get moved to Marshall when Colvin Run ES opened.

But an affordable housing island closer to Langley in Tysons would be improper? GTFOH.

Anyway as noted it wouldn’t even have to be an island.

I honestly don’t care. I live in McLean and zoned for Langley. I don’t know how or why tiny parts of Reston, Herndon and Vienna go to Langley. Also I don’t care if some apartment building or buildings get zoned for Langley.

No one is afraid of some apartment building. Add the building. Just seems odd to add one building vs an entire neighborhood.

Sure, Jan. I’m sure you’re really worried about splitting up a “neighborhood.”

I was actually suggesting adding an entire neighborhood vs one building.

I grew up in an apartment building feeding into a top school so I am not against it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with all the prior posters that there are many good schools with less expensive housing.

If your child is a great student, there are many schools where they will flourish. If you child is average student, a school like Langley might actually offer fewer advantages and a risk of being lost in the shuffle.

Which got me thinking - do families regret being so focused on a single pyramid/school at the cost of $/housing/commute/logistics?

FWIW, we did the opposite - stayed at the less prestigious/lower scores/lower SES school. It worked out great in the end - kept our money and our kids thrived, but there were definitely some times I worried that we were not "sacrificing" enough for the "best" education.

OP. We are looking for a HS school with good test scores that we can work to afford. If Kids work hard to be average that is okay. If they work hard to go to any local state school like GMU or if they some courses from NOVA and have no pressure of student loans is okay. Hard work habits and study any major is okay.

So we are looking for public HS with good test scores to require hard work habits for kids from HS.

OP. Thank you for helpful suggestions for HS schools and neighborhoods.

You can get a HS for good test scores for budget of 900. Theres more houses for sale in the spring and summer season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with all the prior posters that there are many good schools with less expensive housing.

If your child is a great student, there are many schools where they will flourish. If you child is average student, a school like Langley might actually offer fewer advantages and a risk of being lost in the shuffle.

Which got me thinking - do families regret being so focused on a single pyramid/school at the cost of $/housing/commute/logistics?

FWIW, we did the opposite - stayed at the less prestigious/lower scores/lower SES school. It worked out great in the end - kept our money and our kids thrived, but there were definitely some times I worried that we were not "sacrificing" enough for the "best" education.

OP. We are looking for a HS school with good test scores that we can work to afford. If Kids work hard to be average that is okay. If they work hard to go to any local state school like GMU or if they some courses from NOVA and have no pressure of student loans is okay. Hard work habits and study any major is okay.

So we are looking for public HS with good test scores to require hard work habits for kids from HS.

OP. Thank you for helpful suggestions for HS schools and neighborhoods.


You can get a HS for good test scores for budget of 900. Theres more houses for sale in the spring and summer season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Let’s face it, they really should move all of Forrestville from Langley to Herndon HS. They probably even have room for it now since the renovation. And then they should eliminate Spring Hill as a split feeder. All of Spring Hill should go to Langley. Spring Hill has plenty of apartments. That would solve a lot of problems. No more overcrowding at McLean. People from Forrestville wouldn’t have to be bussed so far to school and there would be no attendance islands.

It’s common sense at this point. I get why Forrestville families would fight it though.

[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.

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The people who are obsessed with Langley clearly have a screw loose. And don't understand geography.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

DP. No one is "coming up with" anything of the sort. We are simply responding to your wacky insistence and obsession with a school your own kids don't even attend.

And if you want to do battle with FCPS re: segregation, maybe focus your efforts on getting rid of AAP centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

DP. No one is "coming up with" anything of the sort. We are simply responding to your wacky insistence and obsession with a school your own kids don't even attend.

And if you want to do battle with FCPS re: segregation, maybe focus your efforts on getting rid of AAP centers.

You shit a brick any time someone (and there have been multiple posters on this thread) points out how Langley could have even a little diversity. Hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

DP. No one is "coming up with" anything of the sort. We are simply responding to your wacky insistence and obsession with a school your own kids don't even attend.

And if you want to do battle with FCPS re: segregation, maybe focus your efforts on getting rid of AAP centers.

You shit a brick any time someone (and there have been multiple posters on this thread) points out how Langley could have even a little diversity. Hilarious.

Yes, as you say, there are multiple posters on this thread and you just keep responding as if you're talking to one person. You still haven't told us which high school your kids go to and why you're so obsessed with Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

DP. No one is "coming up with" anything of the sort. We are simply responding to your wacky insistence and obsession with a school your own kids don't even attend.

And if you want to do battle with FCPS re: segregation, maybe focus your efforts on getting rid of AAP centers.

You shit a brick any time someone (and there have been multiple posters on this thread) points out how Langley could have even a little diversity. Hilarious.

Yes, as you say, there are multiple posters on this thread and you just keep responding as if you're talking to one person. You still haven't told us which high school your kids go to and why you're so obsessed with Langley.

Serious question - why is it “obsessed” for county residents to point out how the county could make use of surplus capacity at Langley and increase the diversity there at the same time? We all pay taxes, not just the rich Langley residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

DP. No one is "coming up with" anything of the sort. We are simply responding to your wacky insistence and obsession with a school your own kids don't even attend.

And if you want to do battle with FCPS re: segregation, maybe focus your efforts on getting rid of AAP centers.

You shit a brick any time someone (and there have been multiple posters on this thread) points out how Langley could have even a little diversity. Hilarious.

I'm not the PP, but we've already told you -- it's not about diversity, it's about property value. A neighborhood being rezoned from Langley to Herndon will lose value; it's as simple as that. Nobody wants their home to lose value, so they will do anything they can to keep the neighborhood in the Langley district.

[Anonymous]

Agree with all the prior posters that there are many good schools with less expensive housing.

If your child is a great student, there are many schools where they will flourish. If you child is average student, a school like Langley might actually offer fewer advantages and a risk of being lost in the shuffle.

Which got me thinking - do families regret being so focused on a single pyramid/school at the cost of $/housing/commute/logistics?

FWIW, we did the opposite - stayed at the less prestigious/lower scores/lower SES school. It worked out great in the end - kept our money and our kids thrived, but there were definitely some times I worried that we were not "sacrificing" enough for the "best" education.




OP. We are looking for a HS school with good test scores that we can work to afford. If Kids work hard to be average that is okay. If they work hard to go to any local state school like GMU or if they some courses from NOVA and have no pressure of student loans is okay. Hard work habits and study any major is okay.

So we are looking for public HS with good test scores to require hard work habits for kids from HS.

OP. Thank you for helpful suggestions for HS schools and neighborhoods.




You can get a HS for good test scores for budget of 900. Theres more houses for sale in the spring and summer season.



You will townhouse or house options in your budget of 850 to 900K for a HS with good test scores. But don’t assume that big boundaries will give you cheaper options if you are willing to live far from the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anything in Great Falls, Reston, Herndon, or Vienna zoned to Langley is closer to another high school than to Langley, and some neighborhoods in McLean zoned to Langley are also closer to McLean.

Again, no reason why the new affordable housing in Tysons/Vienna off Spring Hill Road couldn’t be assigned to Langley. Y’all always come up with phony reasons to justify the continued segregation.

DP. No one is "coming up with" anything of the sort. We are simply responding to your wacky insistence and obsession with a school your own kids don't even attend.

And if you want to do battle with FCPS re: segregation, maybe focus your efforts on getting rid of AAP centers.

You shit a brick any time someone (and there have been multiple posters on this thread) points out how Langley could have even a little diversity. Hilarious.

Yes, as you say, there are multiple posters on this thread and you just keep responding as if you're talking to one person. You still haven't told us which high school your kids go to and why you're so obsessed with Langley.

Serious question - why is it “obsessed” for county residents to point out how the county could make use of surplus capacity at Langley and increase the diversity there at the same time? We all pay taxes, not just the rich Langley residents.

What high school do your kids attend? As a county resident, I'd like to know so I can research all the things your school has that mine does not.

[Anonymous]

Will be curious to see if the next school board takes a fresh look at boundaries. The new rep for Langley is from the Herndon area, not Great Falls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will be curious to see if the next school board takes a fresh look at boundaries. The new rep for Langley is from the Herndon area, not Great Falls.

Well, we all know you’ll be obsessing about it 24/7.