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They already favor lower performing schools with smaller classroom sizes. At a certain point it's just throwing good money after bad to increase class sizes at Langley further so there are 13 kids per class at Mount Vernon. |
PP. Did not say increase class sizes at schools with good scores. Reduce class size limit to around 25 at all FCPS HS schools. Smaller classes help all teachers and will help to improve scores at all schools. Spend budget for more teachers and education. - HS Teacher |
"Lied"? About what? Most of GF east of the Village is indeed closer to Langley than any other school. You cherrypicked ONE development that is not. Which is weird that you would care about that - all of the houses in that area go to Langley. They're not going to carve out a special island and send it to a grossly overcrowded school, just to please you. And no one is stopping you from lobbying the SB with your incessant demands - go for it. Not sure what repeatedly whining on this forum is going to do to help your cause. |
Well, yes - the school is under construction. One of my kids spent almost his entire four years at Langley while it was under construction. |
+1 And note, the PP still refuses to disclose what school her kids go to. |
You are very immature ^^. DP |
Those trailers were always there at Cooper. I don’t think the trailers were added because of construction. The trailers were there before construction began. I actually don’t think the trailers are that bad. They feel like normal classrooms. It just looks like a trailer park out there. |
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Of course you have to add trailers during a school renovation.
But even if there are still trailers after the renovation, it’s not a good excuse to avoid Cooper and Langley picking up some of the affordable housing in the area, especially if it would otherwise lead to worse overcrowding at Kilmer and Marshall. |
Are you really that stupid, or just disingenuous? The point was that Langley already has a ton of neighborhoods closer to other schools than to Langley. To some extent that’s inevitable because of Langley’s location. Since that is the case, however, it’s then disingenuous to claim that some of the affordable housing getting built in Tysons - not far from current Langley neighborhoods- couldn’t be assigned there because it’s closer to Marshall. |
Tell the school board and take it up to them. We live close to Langley and our kids attend school there. It seems odd that people who don’t live here or have kids who go to Langley care so much about having affordable housing being zoned to Langley. I honestly don’t care one way or another. We won’t get moved since we live close by. Great Falls people may care since if too many people get zoned to Langley, parts of great falls would potentially get rezoned, which is what these other people who don’t live in Langley want. I don’t think or care about any other pyramids. Other people seem to care too much about the demographics of Langley. |
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OP started off by asking about affordable areas zoned to Langley.
There are very few because officials have by design excluded more affordable areas from Langley while students living in expensive houses at the other end of the county go there. It’s crazy. The situation would be different if some more affordable units were assigned to Langley. Some of these new projects are closer to Langley than many current Langley neighborhoods. Since Elaine Tholen, who was a shill for Langley, has retired from the School Board, it’s an appropriate time to take a fresh look at the situation. |
OP asked for affordable areas zoned to Langley and for any other options for HS with good test scores with (town)house budget of $850-900K. Other posters also asked for suggestions. Some replies have suggestions, some have links to real estate listing, but many are not helpful. |
OP did not originally ask about other HS options. Sorry if it bothers you if posters have provided context for why it's a fool's errand to look for $850-900K housing zoned for a school whose boundaries have been deliberately crafted over the years to exclude more affordable housing. |
Yes- not originally, but subsequently. Does not bother me kids are beyond K-12. |
DP. Are you talking about the modular? Because that's not really "trailers" and definitely doesn't feel like it once inside. Regardless, all of that will be gone once the reno is done. |