BTSN: I fricking LOVE Langley

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Anonymous wrote:So impressed with all of the teachers.

There have been a few duds over the years but having sent several children, I have been overall VERY happy.

Above and beyond the teachers, the clubs and activities, and sports have made high school fun and productive.

Hail Saxons!

“I love my mostly white, zero FARMS school that keeps out the poor!”

Langley is 53.5% White but you already knew that, oh I forgot, acceptable diversity is only black kids.

To be fair, it could be considered closer to 60% since it is safe to assume the 7% classified as "two or more" races are assuredly White/Asian.

Diversity means reasonable representation of all groups. Langley is dominated by two of the four tracked ethnicities. The other two are extremely underrepresented relative to the county as a whole. That's not diverse.

And yes, I'd also say that a school is not diverse if >90% of the students are Hispanic and Black, with only a few Asian and White students. Or >90% White and Hispanic.

An increasing percentage of FCPS kids will be in the “Other” category, although at Langley it’s fair to assume that category is mostly “White/Asian.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean the rest of us were already jealous, you don't need to rub it in.

(OP here)

This is a nonsense response.

Lots of posters get on here from time to time and express how pleased they are with various high schools across the county.

Other parents love their high schools too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck with the house sale.

LOL. IKR?

Nope, staying for the foreseeable future.

I will be one of those old ladies meeting the girls for breakfast at Katie’s and walking around the farmers market with the grandkids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck with the house sale.

LOL. IKR?

Nope, staying for the foreseeable future.

I will be one of those old ladies meeting the girls for breakfast at Katie’s and walking around the farmers market with the grandkids.

Sad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with the house sale.

LOL. IKR?

Nope, staying for the foreseeable future.

I will be one of those old ladies meeting the girls for breakfast at Katie’s and walking around the farmers market with the grandkids.

Sad.

Sounds great to me.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So impressed with all of the teachers.

There have been a few duds over the years but having sent several children, I have been overall VERY happy.

Above and beyond the teachers, the clubs and activities, and sports have made high school fun and productive.

Hail Saxons!

“I love my mostly white, zero FARMS school that keeps out the poor!”

It’s “poors” my friend. The poors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So impressed with all of the teachers.

There have been a few duds over the years but having sent several children, I have been overall VERY happy.

Above and beyond the teachers, the clubs and activities, and sports have made high school fun and productive.

Hail Saxons!

“I love my mostly white, zero FARMS school that keeps out the poor!”

Langley is 53.5% White but you already knew that, oh I forgot, acceptable diversity is only black kids.

Don’t forget that Middle Eastern families self identify as White. Like JMHS, numbers are skewed and inaccurate. Langley is quite diverse but not the gold standard diversity that apparently to you PPs includes only Black students.

Middle eastern here. Most of us don’t identify as white but we don’t have any other option to check on the form

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So impressed with all of the teachers.

There have been a few duds over the years but having sent several children, I have been overall VERY happy.

Above and beyond the teachers, the clubs and activities, and sports have made high school fun and productive.

Hail Saxons!

“I love my mostly white, zero FARMS school that keeps out the poor!”

Langley is 53.5% White but you already knew that, oh I forgot, acceptable diversity is only black kids.

White people are weird AF these days, getting all sensitive and defensive about places that are majority white.

So what if Langley *were* 70 or 99.9% white, would that factor alone be a bad thing? A place being majority ANY ethnicity doesn’t automatically = something terrible.

It performed well when it was super white and it performs well now that it’s significantly less white.

Ice is cold no matter if it’s in this cup or that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. The diversity I really care about is economic diversity. Of which I'm quite certain Langley has about zero, thanks in part to creatively drawn school boundaries. I think it's disgusting that our public schools are so completely separated into "rich schools" and "poor schools". It starts with housing policies and zoning laws, but then the school boundaries reinforce and exaggerate the divide.

what would be a better method to ensure all schools have equal rich kids and. poor kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So impressed with all of the teachers.

There have been a few duds over the years but having sent several children, I have been overall VERY happy.

Above and beyond the teachers, the clubs and activities, and sports have made high school fun and productive.

Hail Saxons!

“I love my mostly white, zero FARMS school that keeps out the poor!”

Langley is 53.5% White but you already knew that, oh I forgot, acceptable diversity is only black kids.

Liberal white people are weird AF these days, getting all sensitive and defensive about places that are majority white.

So what if Langley *were* 70 or 99.9% white, would that factor alone be a bad thing? A place being majority ANY ethnicity doesn’t automatically = something terrible.

It performed well when it was super white and it performs well now that it’s significantly less white.

Ice is cold no matter if it’s in this cup or that one.

I agree with you, but I've made one small correction above ^

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. The diversity I really care about is economic diversity. Of which I'm quite certain Langley has about zero, thanks in part to creatively drawn school boundaries. I think it's disgusting that our public schools are so completely separated into "rich schools" and "poor schools". It starts with housing policies and zoning laws, but then the school boundaries reinforce and exaggerate the divide.

what would be a better method to ensure all schools have equal rich kids and. poor kids?

Can't wait to hear the busing proposal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The diversity I really care about is economic diversity. Of which I'm quite certain Langley has about zero, thanks in part to creatively drawn school boundaries. I think it's disgusting that our public schools are so completely separated into "rich schools" and "poor schools". It starts with housing policies and zoning laws, but then the school boundaries reinforce and exaggerate the divide.

what would be a better method to ensure all schools have equal rich kids and. poor kids?

Can't wait to hear the busing proposal.

PP here. No, bussing sucks and doesn't really work. Like I said, it starts with housing policies and zoning laws. Introduce more affordable housing into the "good" neighborhoods. Economically integrated neighborhoods will eventually lead to economically integrated schools. It will take a while, and the richy-riches will scream and yell about traffic and crime and property values and whatnot. But if we actually care about equity, that's the path forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The diversity I really care about is economic diversity. Of which I'm quite certain Langley has about zero, thanks in part to creatively drawn school boundaries. I think it's disgusting that our public schools are so completely separated into "rich schools" and "poor schools". It starts with housing policies and zoning laws, but then the school boundaries reinforce and exaggerate the divide.

what would be a better method to ensure all schools have equal rich kids and. poor kids?

Can't wait to hear the busing proposal.

PP here. No, bussing sucks and doesn't really work. Like I said, it starts with housing policies and zoning laws. Introduce more affordable housing into the "good" neighborhoods. Economically integrated neighborhoods will eventually lead to economically integrated schools. It will take a while, and the richy-riches will scream and yell about traffic and crime and property values and whatnot. But if we actually care about equity, that's the path forward.

The county will introduce more affordable housing into “good” neighborhoods and Langley will pay off the politicians to make sure none of those neighborhoods are zoned to Langley. You don’t stay 3% FARMS without knowing how to play the game.

[Anonymous]

Non Langley parent here … I’m glad you had a great BTSN and I am sorry that DCUM doesn’t let you like your school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So impressed with all of the teachers.

There have been a few duds over the years but having sent several children, I have been overall VERY happy.

Above and beyond the teachers, the clubs and activities, and sports have made high school fun and productive.

Hail Saxons!

“I love my mostly white, zero FARMS school that keeps out the poor!”

Langley is 53.5% White but you already knew that, oh I forgot, acceptable diversity is only black kids.

Langley has upper middle class and upper class kids of ever color. Everyone is welcome as long as they aren't poor