Langley/McLean/Marshall Boundaries

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Anonymous wrote:McLean beat Langley at girls and boys varsity basketball last Friday. You can see how much school spirit there is at McLean and why people wouldn't want to be rezoned out of the school in this clip:

https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083890067221942273

We were at both those games with friends and what your clip doesn't show is how rude McLean was to the Langley visitors. All sorts of profane chants directed at them. Not welcoming in the least, and if that's their version of "school spirit," count us out.

You must be joking. The Langley and McLean kids acted like they do at every rivalry game. Or almost: the Langley kids didn't do thousands of dollars of damage punching holes in the McLean bleachers like they did a few years ago.

There were large student sections from both schools (Langley in white and McLean in black): https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083875471971008512

When the Langley students walked out towards the end, the McLean students waved "bye" at them and some Langley kids responded by flipping the bird: https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083907510527029248

My advice is that you not attend Langley/McLean games in the future if you can't handle losing or rowdy kids. You'll probably want to avoid Robinson/Lake Braddock, Yorktown/W-L, and Centreville/Westfield games too.

McLean kids weren’t innocently “waving bye” - spare us. They were flipping off Langley kids too. I was at that game. Langley was responding to the rudeness of McLean. Please don’t pretend McLean kids aren’t equally rude during Langley/McLean games. Anyone who’s ever attended one knows you’re lying.
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I was at the game and did not see any McLean kids "flipping off" Langley kids. They chanted the things the winning side chants: "I believe that we will win" and "nah nah nah nah, hey hey-ey goodbye." The Langley kids kids were flipping the bird on their way out while the McLean side celebrated.

It's mostly just kids being kids, but only Langley kids have had to repay thousands of dollars in damage to McLean. This was a while back and the Langley principal made the kids write letters apologizing.

I was at this game as well and the McLean kids most definitely were flipping off Langley. They were also chanting their ridiculous "Silver Spoon" chant, directed at Langley. Real mature.

OMG! "Silver Spoon"! I also heard "Daddy's Money," plus "Traitor" directed towards the player who transferred from McLean to Langley. As welll as Langley kids chanting "Let's Play Football" to remind McLean that Langley beat them.

Of course it's immature, they're in high school. But I didn't see any McLean kids flipping off Langley. That's what you do when you're losing. And if "Silver Spoon" gets under your skin, maybe you need to ask FCPS to add a little diversity to your school.

As if McLean is any more diverse than Langley... kind of funny to see a group of kids from basically the same demographic, razzing another group due to perceived wealth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Langley attract enough kids? Are there issues with the school or neighborhoods?

Just a thought, but perhaps more parents do value SES diversity these days.

I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t attract enough kids.” People move into this area specifically so that their kids can attend Langley. That there aren’t as many kids as some of the overcrowded schools is a plus, not a negative.

The "monthly membership" reports on the FCPS website go back to 2006-07. They show Langley's current enrollment is the lowest it's been at any time since 2006. Why is that when the county as a whole is growing?

I also don't understand why FCPS added seats at Langley when there was a greater need for them at other schools.

DP- what is there to understand? That school doesn’t have much turn over. Those are big beautiful homes that people stay in. The population ages and it can be decades before another student bubble. It doesn’t have a bunch of cheap apts that see new tenants every few years.

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[Anonymous]

^^^ If all of the above is accurate, then those of you insisting that Tysons, etc. move more kids to Langley really need to understand that it's the School Board who controls these decisions - not the parents. A lot of you *love* to blame Langley parents for boundary decisions, when the reality is, the SB has full control. Something to keep in mind.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean beat Langley at girls and boys varsity basketball last Friday. You can see how much school spirit there is at McLean and why people wouldn't want to be rezoned out of the school in this clip:

https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083890067221942273

We were at both those games with friends and what your clip doesn't show is how rude McLean was to the Langley visitors. All sorts of profane chants directed at them. Not welcoming in the least, and if that's their version of "school spirit," count us out.

You must be joking. The Langley and McLean kids acted like they do at every rivalry game. Or almost: the Langley kids didn't do thousands of dollars of damage punching holes in the McLean bleachers like they did a few years ago.

There were large student sections from both schools (Langley in white and McLean in black): https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083875471971008512

When the Langley students walked out towards the end, the McLean students waved "bye" at them and some Langley kids responded by flipping the bird: https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083907510527029248

My advice is that you not attend Langley/McLean games in the future if you can't handle losing or rowdy kids. You'll probably want to avoid Robinson/Lake Braddock, Yorktown/W-L, and Centreville/Westfield games too.

McLean kids weren’t innocently “waving bye” - spare us. They were flipping off Langley kids too. I was at that game. Langley was responding to the rudeness of McLean. Please don’t pretend McLean kids aren’t equally rude during Langley/McLean games. Anyone who’s ever attended one knows you’re lying.
DP

I was at the game and did not see any McLean kids "flipping off" Langley kids. They chanted the things the winning side chants: "I believe that we will win" and "nah nah nah nah, hey hey-ey goodbye." The Langley kids kids were flipping the bird on their way out while the McLean side celebrated.

It's mostly just kids being kids, but only Langley kids have had to repay thousands of dollars in damage to McLean. This was a while back and the Langley principal made the kids write letters apologizing.

I was at this game as well and the McLean kids most definitely were flipping off Langley. They were also chanting their ridiculous "Silver Spoon" chant, directed at Langley. Real mature.

OMG! "Silver Spoon"! I also heard "Daddy's Money," plus "Traitor" directed towards the player who transferred from McLean to Langley. As welll as Langley kids chanting "Let's Play Football" to remind McLean that Langley beat them.

Of course it's immature, they're in high school. But I didn't see any McLean kids flipping off Langley. That's what you do when you're losing. And if "Silver Spoon" gets under your skin, maybe you need to ask FCPS to add a little diversity to your school.

As if McLean is any more diverse than Langley... kind of funny to see a group of kids from basically the same demographic, razzing another group due to perceived wealth.

Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?

McLean is around 10% low-income (similar to Madison, Oakton, Woodson, Robinson, and West Springfield), while Langley is less than 2.0% low-income. One of the elementary school feeders to McLean is a Title 1 school with close to 60% FARMS eligibility, but the Langley elementary school feeder with the most low-income kids is still under 5%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^ If all of the above is accurate, then those of you insisting that Tysons, etc. move more kids to Langley really need to understand that it's the School Board who controls these decisions - not the parents. A lot of you *love* to blame Langley parents for boundary decisions, when the reality is, the SB has full control. Something to keep in mind.

That's kind of a straw-man argument. School Board members make the decisions, but they usually listen to active, connected and vocal parents. For example, in 2011, Janie Strauss went to Great Falls when she was seeking re-election and emphasized that she'd kept Langley out of the 2008 South Lakes HS boundary study that moved kids from Westfield, Oakton and Madison to South Lakes. Do you really think she would have done that if some Langley parents hadn't been urging her to get Langley excluded?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Langley attract enough kids? Are there issues with the school or neighborhoods?

Just a thought, but perhaps more parents do value SES diversity these days.

I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t attract enough kids.” People move into this area specifically so that their kids can attend Langley. That there aren’t as many kids as some of the overcrowded schools is a plus, not a negative.

The "monthly membership" reports on the FCPS website go back to 2006-07. They show Langley's current enrollment is the lowest it's been at any time since 2006. Why is that when the county as a whole is growing?

I also don't understand why FCPS added seats at Langley when there was a greater need for them at other schools.

DP- what is there to understand? That school doesn’t have much turn over. Those are big beautiful homes that people stay in. The population ages and it can be decades before another student bubble. It doesn’t have a bunch of cheap apts that see new tenants every few years.

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Odd to use language like that, and then object when kids at another school yell "Silver Spoons" during a game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Langley attract enough kids? Are there issues with the school or neighborhoods?

Just a thought, but perhaps more parents do value SES diversity these days.

I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t attract enough kids.” People move into this area specifically so that their kids can attend Langley. That there aren’t as many kids as some of the overcrowded schools is a plus, not a negative.

The "monthly membership" reports on the FCPS website go back to 2006-07. They show Langley's current enrollment is the lowest it's been at any time since 2006. Why is that when the county as a whole is growing?

I also don't understand why FCPS added seats at Langley when there was a greater need for them at other schools.

DP- what is there to understand? That school doesn’t have much turn over. Those are big beautiful homes that people stay in. The population ages and it can be decades before another student bubble. It doesn’t have a bunch of cheap apts that see new tenants every few years.

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Odd to use language like that, and then object when kids at another school yell "Silver Spoons" during a game.

It was my language and I was zoned to a GS 3 school. It is what it is. Toughen up buttercup.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Langley attract enough kids? Are there issues with the school or neighborhoods?

Just a thought, but perhaps more parents do value SES diversity these days.

I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t attract enough kids.” People move into this area specifically so that their kids can attend Langley. That there aren’t as many kids as some of the overcrowded schools is a plus, not a negative.

The "monthly membership" reports on the FCPS website go back to 2006-07. They show Langley's current enrollment is the lowest it's been at any time since 2006. Why is that when the county as a whole is growing?

I also don't understand why FCPS added seats at Langley when there was a greater need for them at other schools.

DP- what is there to understand? That school doesn’t have much turn over. Those are big beautiful homes that people stay in. The population ages and it can be decades before another student bubble. It doesn’t have a bunch of cheap apts that see new tenants every few years.

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Odd to use language like that, and then object when kids at another school yell "Silver Spoons" during a game.

It was my language and I was zoned to a GS 3 school. It is what it is. Toughen up buttercup.

All the more reason to move some MFH to Langley to get them through the decades before the next bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean beat Langley at girls and boys varsity basketball last Friday. You can see how much school spirit there is at McLean and why people wouldn't want to be rezoned out of the school in this clip:

https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083890067221942273

We were at both those games with friends and what your clip doesn't show is how rude McLean was to the Langley visitors. All sorts of profane chants directed at them. Not welcoming in the least, and if that's their version of "school spirit," count us out.

You must be joking. The Langley and McLean kids acted like they do at every rivalry game. Or almost: the Langley kids didn't do thousands of dollars of damage punching holes in the McLean bleachers like they did a few years ago.

There were large student sections from both schools (Langley in white and McLean in black): https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083875471971008512

When the Langley students walked out towards the end, the McLean students waved "bye" at them and some Langley kids responded by flipping the bird: https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083907510527029248

My advice is that you not attend Langley/McLean games in the future if you can't handle losing or rowdy kids. You'll probably want to avoid Robinson/Lake Braddock, Yorktown/W-L, and Centreville/Westfield games too.

McLean kids weren’t innocently “waving bye” - spare us. They were flipping off Langley kids too. I was at that game. Langley was responding to the rudeness of McLean. Please don’t pretend McLean kids aren’t equally rude during Langley/McLean games. Anyone who’s ever attended one knows you’re lying.
DP

I was at the game and did not see any McLean kids "flipping off" Langley kids. They chanted the things the winning side chants: "I believe that we will win" and "nah nah nah nah, hey hey-ey goodbye." The Langley kids kids were flipping the bird on their way out while the McLean side celebrated.

It's mostly just kids being kids, but only Langley kids have had to repay thousands of dollars in damage to McLean. This was a while back and the Langley principal made the kids write letters apologizing.

I was at this game as well and the McLean kids most definitely were flipping off Langley. They were also chanting their ridiculous "Silver Spoon" chant, directed at Langley. Real mature.

OMG! "Silver Spoon"! I also heard "Daddy's Money," plus "Traitor" directed towards the player who transferred from McLean to Langley. As welll as Langley kids chanting "Let's Play Football" to remind McLean that Langley beat them.

Of course it's immature, they're in high school. But I didn't see any McLean kids flipping off Langley. That's what you do when you're losing. And if "Silver Spoon" gets under your skin, maybe you need to ask FCPS to add a little diversity to your school.

As if McLean is any more diverse than Langley... kind of funny to see a group of kids from basically the same demographic, razzing another group due to perceived wealth.

Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?

McLean is around 10% low-income (similar to Madison, Oakton, Woodson, Robinson, and West Springfield), while Langley is less than 2.0% low-income. One of the elementary school feeders to McLean is a Title 1 school with close to 60% FARMS eligibility, but the Langley elementary school feeder with the most low-income kids is still under 5%.

So you'd like to see the boundaries gerrymandered so that low-income kids are bused long distances to Langley - just to even out the "diversity"? Sure, go for it. I'm sure the parents won't appreciate having their kids bused across N.VA just to fulfill your desired quota.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t Langley attract enough kids? Are there issues with the school or neighborhoods?

Just a thought, but perhaps more parents do value SES diversity these days.

I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t attract enough kids.” People move into this area specifically so that their kids can attend Langley. That there aren’t as many kids as some of the overcrowded schools is a plus, not a negative.

The "monthly membership" reports on the FCPS website go back to 2006-07. They show Langley's current enrollment is the lowest it's been at any time since 2006. Why is that when the county as a whole is growing?

I also don't understand why FCPS added seats at Langley when there was a greater need for them at other schools.

DP- what is there to understand? That school doesn’t have much turn over. Those are big beautiful homes that people stay in. The population ages and it can be decades before another student bubble. It doesn’t have a bunch of cheap apts that see new tenants every few years.

+1

Odd to use language like that, and then object when kids at another school yell "Silver Spoons" during a game.

Those are different posters. And what is objectionable about "cheap apartments"? What would you prefer them to be called?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ If all of the above is accurate, then those of you insisting that Tysons, etc. move more kids to Langley really need to understand that it's the School Board who controls these decisions - not the parents. A lot of you *love* to blame Langley parents for boundary decisions, when the reality is, the SB has full control. Something to keep in mind.

That's kind of a straw-man argument. School Board members make the decisions, but they usually listen to active, connected and vocal parents. For example, in 2011, Janie Strauss went to Great Falls when she was seeking re-election and emphasized that she'd kept Langley out of the 2008 South Lakes HS boundary study that moved kids from Westfield, Oakton and Madison to South Lakes. Do you really think she would have done that if some Langley parents hadn't been urging her to get Langley excluded?

Sounds like your issue is with Janie Strauss then. Take it up with her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McLean beat Langley at girls and boys varsity basketball last Friday. You can see how much school spirit there is at McLean and why people wouldn't want to be rezoned out of the school in this clip:

https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083890067221942273

We were at both those games with friends and what your clip doesn't show is how rude McLean was to the Langley visitors. All sorts of profane chants directed at them. Not welcoming in the least, and if that's their version of "school spirit," count us out.

You must be joking. The Langley and McLean kids acted like they do at every rivalry game. Or almost: the Langley kids didn't do thousands of dollars of damage punching holes in the McLean bleachers like they did a few years ago.

There were large student sections from both schools (Langley in white and McLean in black): https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083875471971008512

When the Langley students walked out towards the end, the McLean students waved "bye" at them and some Langley kids responded by flipping the bird: https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083907510527029248

My advice is that you not attend Langley/McLean games in the future if you can't handle losing or rowdy kids. You'll probably want to avoid Robinson/Lake Braddock, Yorktown/W-L, and Centreville/Westfield games too.

McLean kids weren’t innocently “waving bye” - spare us. They were flipping off Langley kids too. I was at that game. Langley was responding to the rudeness of McLean. Please don’t pretend McLean kids aren’t equally rude during Langley/McLean games. Anyone who’s ever attended one knows you’re lying.
DP

I was at the game and did not see any McLean kids "flipping off" Langley kids. They chanted the things the winning side chants: "I believe that we will win" and "nah nah nah nah, hey hey-ey goodbye." The Langley kids kids were flipping the bird on their way out while the McLean side celebrated.

It's mostly just kids being kids, but only Langley kids have had to repay thousands of dollars in damage to McLean. This was a while back and the Langley principal made the kids write letters apologizing.

I was at this game as well and the McLean kids most definitely were flipping off Langley. They were also chanting their ridiculous "Silver Spoon" chant, directed at Langley. Real mature.

OMG! "Silver Spoon"! I also heard "Daddy's Money," plus "Traitor" directed towards the player who transferred from McLean to Langley. As welll as Langley kids chanting "Let's Play Football" to remind McLean that Langley beat them.

Of course it's immature, they're in high school. But I didn't see any McLean kids flipping off Langley. That's what you do when you're losing. And if "Silver Spoon" gets under your skin, maybe you need to ask FCPS to add a little diversity to your school.

As if McLean is any more diverse than Langley... kind of funny to see a group of kids from basically the same demographic, razzing another group due to perceived wealth.

Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?

McLean is around 10% low-income (similar to Madison, Oakton, Woodson, Robinson, and West Springfield), while Langley is less than 2.0% low-income. One of the elementary school feeders to McLean is a Title 1 school with close to 60% FARMS eligibility, but the Langley elementary school feeder with the most low-income kids is still under 5%.

So you'd like to see the boundaries gerrymandered so that low-income kids are bused long distances to Langley - just to even out the "diversity"? Sure, go for it. I'm sure the parents won't appreciate having their kids bused across N.VA just to fulfill your desired quota.

I'd like to see FCPS address the current and future overcrowding at McLean, which is expected to be the most overcrowded high school in FCPS in a few years. That will require either an addition or a boundary change. To date, FCPS hasn't lifted a finger to increase the capacity at McLean, even though it's known the enrollments were increasing, so we're probably looking at kids moving to Langley.

Janie Strauss has now floated a proposal to move the apartments and townhouses in Tysons zoned for Spring Hill/Longfellow/McLean to Cooper/Langley. Since most of Spring Hill already feeds to Langley, those parents might not object any more than other parents from, say, Great Falls, whose kids currently travel much longer distances than from Tysons to get to Cooper/Langley. But their views absolutely need to be solicited and considered. It's possible they'd rather stay at Longfellow/McLean because they're familiar with those schools and know they draw from a more diverse population.

Under Strauss's proposal, the other 2/3 of the Tysons apartments (i.e., those that feed into Westbriar ES and Westgate ES) would remain zoned for Marshall and McLean, and additional apartment buildings will be built in those areas (for example, Scotts Run South is zoned for McLean and Scotts Run North and The Boro are zoned for Marshall). Spreading the multi-family housing in that area among three rather than two high schools seems like a good idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ If all of the above is accurate, then those of you insisting that Tysons, etc. move more kids to Langley really need to understand that it's the School Board who controls these decisions - not the parents. A lot of you *love* to blame Langley parents for boundary decisions, when the reality is, the SB has full control. Something to keep in mind.

That's kind of a straw-man argument. School Board members make the decisions, but they usually listen to active, connected and vocal parents. For example, in 2011, Janie Strauss went to Great Falls when she was seeking re-election and emphasized that she'd kept Langley out of the 2008 South Lakes HS boundary study that moved kids from Westfield, Oakton and Madison to South Lakes. Do you really think she would have done that if some Langley parents hadn't been urging her to get Langley excluded?

Sounds like your issue is with Janie Strauss then. Take it up with her.

Come up with a better argument next time. Portraying Langley parents as besieged victims doesn't quite cut it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ If all of the above is accurate, then those of you insisting that Tysons, etc. move more kids to Langley really need to understand that it's the School Board who controls these decisions - not the parents. A lot of you *love* to blame Langley parents for boundary decisions, when the reality is, the SB has full control. Something to keep in mind.

That's kind of a straw-man argument. School Board members make the decisions, but they usually listen to active, connected and vocal parents. For example, in 2011, Janie Strauss went to Great Falls when she was seeking re-election and emphasized that she'd kept Langley out of the 2008 South Lakes HS boundary study that moved kids from Westfield, Oakton and Madison to South Lakes. Do you really think she would have done that if some Langley parents hadn't been urging her to get Langley excluded?

Sounds like your issue is with Janie Strauss then. Take it up with her.

Come up with a better argument next time. Portraying Langley parents as besieged victims doesn't quite cut it.

No one has portrayed Langley parents as "besieged victims" - sounds like you have quite the chip on your shoulder. The point is that if Janie Strauss is ultimately responsible for her own decisions, then you might want to try actually contacting Strauss, rather than cowardly lumping all Langley parents together as the root of all your woes. If anything, it's you and others like you who love portraying yourselves as some kind of victims because you feel all schools should have exactly the same amount of "diversity," regardless of geography.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean beat Langley at girls and boys varsity basketball last Friday. You can see how much school spirit there is at McLean and why people wouldn't want to be rezoned out of the school in this clip:

https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083890067221942273

We were at both those games with friends and what your clip doesn't show is how rude McLean was to the Langley visitors. All sorts of profane chants directed at them. Not welcoming in the least, and if that's their version of "school spirit," count us out.

You must be joking. The Langley and McLean kids acted like they do at every rivalry game. Or almost: the Langley kids didn't do thousands of dollars of damage punching holes in the McLean bleachers like they did a few years ago.

There were large student sections from both schools (Langley in white and McLean in black): https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083875471971008512

When the Langley students walked out towards the end, the McLean students waved "bye" at them and some Langley kids responded by flipping the bird: https://twitter.com/jonroetman/status/1083907510527029248

My advice is that you not attend Langley/McLean games in the future if you can't handle losing or rowdy kids. You'll probably want to avoid Robinson/Lake Braddock, Yorktown/W-L, and Centreville/Westfield games too.

McLean kids weren’t innocently “waving bye” - spare us. They were flipping off Langley kids too. I was at that game. Langley was responding to the rudeness of McLean. Please don’t pretend McLean kids aren’t equally rude during Langley/McLean games. Anyone who’s ever attended one knows you’re lying.
DP

I was at the game and did not see any McLean kids "flipping off" Langley kids. They chanted the things the winning side chants: "I believe that we will win" and "nah nah nah nah, hey hey-ey goodbye." The Langley kids kids were flipping the bird on their way out while the McLean side celebrated.

It's mostly just kids being kids, but only Langley kids have had to repay thousands of dollars in damage to McLean. This was a while back and the Langley principal made the kids write letters apologizing.

I was at this game as well and the McLean kids most definitely were flipping off Langley. They were also chanting their ridiculous "Silver Spoon" chant, directed at Langley. Real mature.

OMG! "Silver Spoon"! I also heard "Daddy's Money," plus "Traitor" directed towards the player who transferred from McLean to Langley. As welll as Langley kids chanting "Let's Play Football" to remind McLean that Langley beat them.

Of course it's immature, they're in high school. But I didn't see any McLean kids flipping off Langley. That's what you do when you're losing. And if "Silver Spoon" gets under your skin, maybe you need to ask FCPS to add a little diversity to your school.

As if McLean is any more diverse than Langley... kind of funny to see a group of kids from basically the same demographic, razzing another group due to perceived wealth.

Nothing as fierce as a rivalry between the haves and the have-mores?

McLean is around 10% low-income (similar to Madison, Oakton, Woodson, Robinson, and West Springfield), while Langley is less than 2.0% low-income. One of the elementary school feeders to McLean is a Title 1 school with close to 60% FARMS eligibility, but the Langley elementary school feeder with the most low-income kids is still under 5%.

So you'd like to see the boundaries gerrymandered so that low-income kids are bused long distances to Langley - just to even out the "diversity"? Sure, go for it. I'm sure the parents won't appreciate having their kids bused across N.VA just to fulfill your desired quota.

Dude, you need to look at a map. Most Langley kids live closer to Herndon, South Lakes, Marshall, Madison and McLean than they do to Langley. There may be gerrymandered boundaries, but it’s high-income kids who were gerrymandered.