Chantilly High or Langley?

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

Have you ever driven to Langley High? The neighborhood surrounded Langley is all single family homes that mostly cost $2m+. I don’t know where these free lunch people would live. Langley is low FARMs because the high school is located on some prime expensive real estate.

DP here. The school’s boundaries are huge so your observation is stupid. They absolutely could pull from some neighborhoods less wealthy than the area immediately adjacent to the school but they’ve manipulated the process and the politicians for years to make sure that never happens.

And then they come on here and pretend to be middle-class because the last thing they want is scrutiny of the special treatment.

The immediate adjacent area is McLean. They did move over some kids from McLean High.

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How about McLean high or does it have to be Langley? We are Asian Americans living in McLean, we are zoned for McLean high and love the community.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Wait, so you think the honest portrayal of the negative aspects of Langley is to acknowledge some Langley families are merely “middle class” (although they are more than that) and live in smaller houses?

That ought to tell OP all they need to know right there.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Nobody actually cares about your middle-class or wealthy lifestyle. The only thing we care about relevant to Langley is how the School Board continues to misuse the space available in the Langley pyramid for relieving overcrowding and concentration of FARMs children in surrounding areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Nobody actually cares about your middle-class or wealthy lifestyle. The only thing we care about relevant to Langley is how the School Board continues to misuse the space available in the Langley pyramid for relieving overcrowding and concentration of FARMs children in surrounding areas.

I realize that I am beating a dead horse, but where are these magical people who can be moved into Langley? As a PP noted, the communites abutting's Langley boundaries are also primarily upper middle class and above. The only way to materially change Langley's current economic diversity is to draw an incredibly awkward boundary map, which is the same thing that a certain group of people complain about with regard to Langley's boundary extending to the Loudoun border. In fact, it's even more awkward because you'd literally need to have kids bypassing closer schools -- on the same route -- to get them to Langley. Anyone trying to have it both ways is just trying to pick a fight.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Nobody actually cares about your middle-class or wealthy lifestyle. The only thing we care about relevant to Langley is how the School Board continues to misuse the space available in the Langley pyramid for relieving overcrowding and concentration of FARMs children in surrounding areas.

I realize that I am beating a dead horse, but where are these magical people who can be moved into Langley? As a PP noted, the communites abutting's Langley boundaries are also primarily upper middle class and above. The only way to materially change Langley's current economic diversity is to draw an incredibly awkward boundary map, which is the same thing that a certain group of people complain about with regard to Langley's boundary extending to the Loudoun border. In fact, it's even more awkward because you'd literally need to have kids bypassing closer schools -- on the same route -- to get them to Langley. Anyone trying to have it both ways is just trying to pick a fight.

Meh. If you want to beat a dead horse, it's no coincidence that every pocket in Herndon, Reston, and Vienna on the other side of Route 7 that ended up at Langley (rather than at Herndon, South Lakes, and Marshall) is single-family homes, or that the rich School Board member from the Langley district made sure last year that the FCPS staff recommendation to adjust the Langley/McLean boundaries was ignored so she could move more single-family houses in Vienna further away to Langley and keep all the Tysons apartments closer to Langley zoned for McLean and Marshall.

But since Langley's boundaries aren't going to change unless there's a county-wide redistricting there are certainly people both within and outside Langley's boundaries who'll claim that's just how it has to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Nobody actually cares about your middle-class or wealthy lifestyle. The only thing we care about relevant to Langley is how the School Board continues to misuse the space available in the Langley pyramid for relieving overcrowding and concentration of FARMs children in surrounding areas.

I realize that I am beating a dead horse, but where are these magical people who can be moved into Langley? As a PP noted, the communites abutting's Langley boundaries are also primarily upper middle class and above. The only way to materially change Langley's current economic diversity is to draw an incredibly awkward boundary map, which is the same thing that a certain group of people complain about with regard to Langley's boundary extending to the Loudoun border. In fact, it's even more awkward because you'd literally need to have kids bypassing closer schools -- on the same route -- to get them to Langley. Anyone trying to have it both ways is just trying to pick a fight.

Boundaries are already incredibly awkward in the majority of pyramids, except that they've existed in this way for decades so they seem normal to everyone. It's also not awkward for students to bypass closer schools, that currently happens across the entire county near the borders of each boundary. People who live along the edges are almost certainly closer to another school than the one they are assigned to.

Clifton is closer to Centreville than Robinson, Franklin Farm is closer to South Lakes and Chantilly than Oakton. Groveton closer to Edison and West Potomac than Hayfield. I could go on and on. So to say that revamping boundaries would create awkward situations is nothing new because these situations must always exist due to geographical limitations. No one can ever be perfectly equidistant.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Nobody actually cares about your middle-class or wealthy lifestyle. The only thing we care about relevant to Langley is how the School Board continues to misuse the space available in the Langley pyramid for relieving overcrowding and concentration of FARMs children in surrounding areas.

I realize that I am beating a dead horse, but where are these magical people who can be moved into Langley? As a PP noted, the communites abutting's Langley boundaries are also primarily upper middle class and above. The only way to materially change Langley's current economic diversity is to draw an incredibly awkward boundary map, which is the same thing that a certain group of people complain about with regard to Langley's boundary extending to the Loudoun border. In fact, it's even more awkward because you'd literally need to have kids bypassing closer schools -- on the same route -- to get them to Langley. Anyone trying to have it both ways is just trying to pick a fight.

Boundaries are already incredibly awkward in the majority of pyramids, except that they've existed in this way for decades so they seem normal to everyone. It's also not awkward for students to bypass closer schools, that currently happens across the entire county near the borders of each boundary. People who live along the edges are almost certainly closer to another school than the one they are assigned to.

Clifton is closer to Centreville than Robinson, Franklin Farm is closer to South Lakes and Chantilly than Oakton. Groveton closer to Edison and West Potomac than Hayfield. I could go on and on. So to say that revamping boundaries would create awkward situations is nothing new because these situations must always exist due to geographical limitations. No one can ever be perfectly equidistant.

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Langley is the most expensive pyramid. Why not Vienna or Oakton?

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is the most expensive pyramid. Why not Vienna or Oakton?

Or McLean High.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

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So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Covid was probably the best thing that happened to Great Falls since the 2008 recession. Of course, as employers return to the office gradually, more people will find out what it's like to have to commute from Great Falls to their jobs.

GF wasn't having any issues in the home sales department prior to Covid - what a weird post. And many - if not most - people in GF have short commutes to their jobs in the Reston/Tysons/Vienna corridor - or from home. Sour grapes are so unbecoming.

Nope. GF was lagging behind other areas for many years.

Meh. People tend to stay for many years in GF rather than constant turnover of housing.

Meh. People tend not to sell when they are sitting on less appreciation. It’s hardly a convenient area to age in place.

I would age in place too if I had money to spend on landscape maintenance, delivery of everything, home health aides and those chair lifts for stairs.

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I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

DP. And so your solution is busing kids into the area, for "diversity"? Sorry. This isn't the 70s anymore.

Oh that's hilarious. Do you even realize your hypocrisy? Do you genuinely deny that kids from the furthest northwestern part of the county are being bussed to Langley? Of course, it's not "bussing" when it's in your favor.

Those boundaries were changed back in the nineties due to capacity issues. No one cared because the schools involved were very majority white and middle class. People only cry about the Langley boundaries now because they think their own schools are TOO “diverse.”

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is the most expensive pyramid. Why not Vienna or Oakton?

Or McLean High.

The OP doesn’t seem concerned about academics but more so about social status and getting in with a (perceived) elite crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

DP. And so your solution is busing kids into the area, for "diversity"? Sorry. This isn't the 70s anymore.

Oh that's hilarious. Do you even realize your hypocrisy? Do you genuinely deny that kids from the furthest northwestern part of the county are being bussed to Langley? Of course, it's not "bussing" when it's in your favor.

Those boundaries were changed back in the nineties due to capacity issues. No one cared because the schools involved were very majority white and middle class. People only cry about the Langley boundaries now because they think their own schools are TOO “diverse.”

You must be quite delightful in real life.

People point out that Langley, unique among the high schools in FCPS, has boundaries that get drawn and then redrawn to only include wealthy areas, due to rich people throwing their money around and coercing School Board members.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously.

Plenty of us have done just that. It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact. We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc. We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have. Is there wealth in this area? Of course. There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people. No one cares. No one but you, that is.

Wait, so you think the honest portrayal of the negative aspects of Langley is to acknowledge some Langley families are merely “middle class” (although they are more than that) and live in smaller houses?

That ought to tell OP all they need to know right there.

I'm sorry - where did you say your kids go to school again? I'd love to hear an honest portrayal of the negative aspects of that school. What is it, exactly, you'd like to hear that would satisfy your need to hear something negative? There are negatives at all schools. The distance to the school is one negative, but it's not something that's a dealbreaker. Somehow, I think you want to hear something really sordid that will align with whatever narrative you have in your mind. I have nothing like that to tell you - and I've had four kids at Langley. Sorry to disappoint.