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.

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.

Langley is inside the beltway close to DC and MD. It is a desirable and expensive area to live. Great Falls borders Langley high and then McLean high boundaries. I don’t know where else Langley should pull from to make it more economically diverse.

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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.

Huh. Could've fooled me. Anytime a thread mentions "Langley" in the title, all the haters pile on, making the usual stale barbs about "wealth" in the area. The amount of time many of you spend obsessing about a school your kids don't even attend is really something.

As for FARMs kids, please do show us where - within range of Langley's boundaries - these FARMs kids live.

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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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The people who constantly grouse about this simply won't admit that what they're advocating for is social engineering. Plain and simple.

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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.

DP. The obsession is real. The PP was correct: you continue to beat this dead horse. Move on.

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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.

DP. Talk about "quite delightful" - you're downright charming. No one is "throwing their money around and coercing SB members." Though I understand you need to tell yourself this so that you can manage to sleep at night without grinding your teeth over this (STILL).

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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.

DP. The obsession is real. The PP was correct: you continue to beat this dead horse. Move on.

It's nothing anyone should obsess about, as it's not going to change soon.

But if another poster decides to "beat a dead horse" with an inaccurate spin, they can expect to get called out. As can you.

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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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The people who constantly grouse about this simply won't admit that what they're advocating for is social engineering. Plain and simple.

No dog in this fight but get serious. There isn't a better example of "social engineering" to be found in FCPS that making sure Langley has no poors.

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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.

School in well-off area draws well-off students. Also, sun rises in east. Why do you care?

Because it. A public school system, one high school shouldn’t be “protected” from the poors. If you need you kid to got to school with only wealthy kids, go private.

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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.

The piece of Franklin Farm that is closer to Chantilly goes to Chantilly.

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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.

DP. Talk about "quite delightful" - you're downright charming. No one is "throwing their money around and coercing SB members." Though I understand you need to tell yourself this so that you can manage to sleep at night without grinding your teeth over this (STILL).

Ask Elaine Tholen whether she agrees with your assertion.

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We live in Chantilly, two of my friends moved to Langley before HS, more stayed in Chantilly HS and Centreville HS.
After 4 years, two moved to Langley, one went to Columbia U, one went to VA Tech.
Two other friends stayed in Chantilly, one went to Harvard, one went to Duke
Two stayed in Centreville, one went to MIT, one went to UCLA.
Also, there are two about the same age in the same community went to TJ, one went to MIT, one went to CMU.

Kids are all friends, they are all from Rocky Run MS, but, went to different HS. I couldn't see any big differences among these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Chantilly, two of my friends moved to Langley before HS, more stayed in Chantilly HS and Centreville HS.
After 4 years, two moved to Langley, one went to Columbia U, one went to VA Tech.
Two other friends stayed in Chantilly, one went to Harvard, one went to Duke
Two stayed in Centreville, one went to MIT, one went to UCLA.
Also, there are two about the same age in the same community went to TJ, one went to MIT, one went to CMU.

Kids are all friends, they are all from Rocky Run MS, but, went to different HS. I couldn't see any big differences among these schools.

Again you guys seem to be missing OP’s agenda/goal. Not academics, but social status. It’s as stupid as it sounds.

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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.

DP. The obsession is real. The PP was correct: you continue to beat this dead horse. Move on.

It's nothing anyone should obsess about, as it's not going to change soon.

But if another poster decides to "beat a dead horse" with an inaccurate spin, they can expect to get called out. As can you.

Right back atcha.

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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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The people who constantly grouse about this simply won't admit that what they're advocating for is social engineering. Plain and simple.

No dog in this fight but get serious. There isn't a better example of "social engineering" to be found in FCPS that making sure Langley has no poors.

I completely disagree. The obsession with making sure Langley has more FARMs kids (or "poors," as you so nicely put it) is the very definition of social engineering. Why? Because, as multiple posters have noted, there are zero FARMs areas anywhere near Langley - NONE. So in order to move FARMs kids to Langley, a complicated and convoluted busing system would have to be rigged, taking kids way past their zoned schools to Langley. All for "economic diversity" and to appease people like you, who are absolutely fixated on this.

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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.

School in well-off area draws well-off students. Also, sun rises in east. Why do you care?

Because it. A public school system, one high school shouldn’t be “protected” from the poors. If you need you kid to got to school with only wealthy kids, go private.

DP. So you're suggesting the "poors" be bused in from - where, exactly? Give us details. This should be good.