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What are not very expensive neighborhoods zoned for Langley - Herndon? Reston?
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Anonymous
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Why don't you rent instead? That's what we do. We pay a very low rent for the area, as our home is on our landlord's property.
This is a similar house to ours and is available for rent: https://www.trulia.com/home/511-seneca-rd-great-falls-va-22066-51697795 |
Anonymous
I have no opinion about your last paragraph because I don't care who is assigned to Langley. And it doesn't look like anyone is arguing against that in the first place. But your first paragraph is simply untrue. There is no other high school that is closer to most of GF than Langley. The very far west GF neighborhoods are closer to Herndon, but that's it. And certainly, GF east of the Village is closer to Langley than any other school. I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here. |
Anonymous
You seem rather dense - you are both incorrect when it comes to the facts and apparently incapable of understanding their implications. |
Anonymous
I have no dog in this fight. Parts of great falls are closer to Langley and other parts are closer to Herndon. Langley is a better high school so no one is going to be happy being rezoned to Herndon. There are some people on here who really want part of great falls zoned to Herndon and obviously the great falls folks don’t want that. |
Anonymous
Speaking of dense - I see you're incapable of refuting what I wrote. Do tell: which high school is closer to GF east of the Village? We'll wait while you consult some maps and realize how ignorant you look. |
Anonymous
And what's so interesting is that the posters obsessed about this don't even have kids that attend Langley. One of them even admitted that their kids go to Mount Vernon - and yet, they are super-duper concerned about the Langley boundary. Very telling. |
Anonymous
Again, most of Great Falls is west of Great Falls Village. And these areas typically are closer to Herndon, South Lakes, and perhaps other schools than to Langley. With respect to Great Falls east of GFV, there are some areas to the northeast closer to Langley than to any other school. There are also areas southeast of GFV in Great Falls that are closer to Herndon, South Lakes, Madison, Marshall, and/or McLean than they are to Langley. To take but one example, the new Arden development in Great Falls is under 5 miles to Marshall, and just over 6 miles to McLean, but over 7 miles to Langley. And the point - which you keep ignoring - is that if we're already willing to send kids in expensive houses to Langley even though other schools are closer, there would be no harm and in fact some benefit in reassigning new affordable housing in Tysons like Dominion Square West from Marshall (near capacity and projected to see substantial growth) to Langley (under capacity and projected to see little growth) even if Marshall is closer. You really are an obnoxious defender of the status quo. |
Anonymous
Good grief. I stated above (bolded, for your convenience) that I DO NOT CARE who is assigned to Langley. Send the kids in the affordable housing you mentioned to Langley! No one cares. But you don't have a say and neither do I, so the point is moot. And speaking of obnoxious, you are obnoxiously obsessing over this. And you still haven't told us what school your kids are zoned to and why you care so very, very deeply. 
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Anonymous
I’m a Langley parent. I have no objection to some Tyson’s housing being assigned to Langley. I was following the boundary change scenarios a few years ago. The boundaries were changed on the elementary school level so that Tyson’s apartment would first have to be zoned for a McLean elementary school, most likely Spring Hill Elementary. School board is not going to create yet another split feeder just to assign an affordable apartment to Langley high. There is a recent boundary change within McLean where McLean kids are being shifted and it was all done at the elementary level as well. |
Anonymous
| Pp again. I also have a kid at Cooper, which is currently under construction. I remember when the boundary changes were happening, one issue that came up was while Langley was under capacity, Cooper could not handle the influx of more middle school students since it was under construction and did not have excess capacity even if Langley did. Parents did not want their kids to be at a different middle school to be moved from their friends to attend Langley. Perhaps boundaries will be studied again when the cooper renovation is complete. For now, my middle school kid still has half his classes in trailers. |
Anonymous
Seems you lied, and are pitching a hissy fit now that you got called out. It’s a simple observation that, with affordable housing getting built closer to Langley than many current Langley neighborhoods, the School Board - if it truly cares about equity and isn’t just totally full of crap - should assign some of it to under-enrolled Langley rather than load Marshall up with almost all of it. |
Anonymous
Not the prior poster, but I certainly didn’t read the post as a “hissy fit”. |
Anonymous
Sounds like the new affordable housing project in Tysons off Spring Hill will be finished around the time or after the Cooper renovation is completed. All the more reason to assign it to Cooper and Langley. |
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Anonymous
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Most replies have nothing to do with the OP/NP posts on HS options for good test scores.
Many MC families would like to have HS schools with good scores in their own neighborhoods. FCPS would spend the budget on academics with enough teachers and smaller classroom size to make more schools get in the good test scores list. |