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03/19/2025 16:49

Subject: Re:FCPS Boundary Review Updates

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Anonymous wrote:Found it!

I'd forgotten how egregious this is. Talk about bigotry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJi-tHjWXg

If I recall this correctly, there was some guy from Reston interviewing Omeish when she was a candidate in 2019 and complaining about the Langley boundaries. She went along with it, but it wasn't like she brought it up or added much.

You say "Talk about bigotry." If I recall, the Reston guy claimed that Langley was skimming the "creme of the crop" from Herndon and Reston neighborhoods. So you can claim that's bigoted if he was equating wealthier families, mostly White and Asian, with the "creme of the crop." On the other hand, FCPS has curated Langley's boundaries over the years so that, in 2025, it still has no condos and apartments and only a small number of townhouses. That didn't happen by accident, so there may have been some bigotry at play there as well.

It will be interesting to see if, once again, other parts of the county are subjected to boundary changes while no one gets moved out of Langley.

big·ot
[ˈbiɡət]
noun
a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group:
"don't let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city" · "a racist bigot"

The vitriol in his speech was troubling. The definition of bigot seems applicable. These are kids he is talking about. And, I looked it up--Langley is around 50% white. Using the term "lily white" seems like a slur.

It was probably over 60% White at the time of the Omeish interview, but of course not "lily white" even then.

But, again, people can argue over who was more bigoted or race/status conscious - the guy from Reston complaining about Langley's demographics, the people from Langley who sought out those demographics, or the folks from FCPS like Elaine Tholen who kept Langley without the housing diversity that might have brought the percentage of FARMS kids at Langley somewhat more in line with other schools.

If I were you, I'd stop poking this particular bear.

But where could they even get “housing diversity” from in that area of the county? Even the townhomes and condos in Tyson’s are $$$, the condos probably don’t have HS age kids living there anyway, and isn’t the Tysons area affordable housing much physically closer to McLean than to Langley?

Very few of the neighborhoods zoned to Langley are closer to Langley than to other schools. That's a function of its location in the NE corner of the county. If only kids who lived closer to Langley than another school went there, its enrollment would probably be around 1000-1200 tops.

So, yes, the affordable housing in Tysons is closer to McLean and Marshall than to Langley, but so too is the area in Vienna that got rezoned to Langley in 2021. And, of course, western Great Falls is closer to Herndon and several other high schools than it is to Langley. [And, by the way, some of the condos in Tysons like the Rotonda have a lot of kids.]

I can see the argument for leaving the boundaries alone unless there's some acute overcrowding or under-enrollment at a school (not the case now w/Langley, McLean, Marshall, or Herndon). People value stability. But if they do start moving kids around, the idea that they can't move part of Tysons to Langley because it's closer to other schools raises the question as to what they should do with areas assigned to Langley that are also closer to other schools.