Should FCPS Reassign New Affordable Housing from Marshall to Langley?

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Anonymous wrote:If you are familiar with the boundaries and know where FCPS has spent or is spending money, it's clear they are on the path to maintaining/creating two very rich high schools - Langley and Madison - and letting all the other schools get poorer. It's probably no coincidence there are several School Board members (Tholen, Meren, Keys Gamarra) who live in the Langley or Madison districts, and no SB member who lives in the Marshall district.

i think Frisch lives in Marshall district

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Anonymous wrote:If you are familiar with the boundaries and know where FCPS has spent or is spending money, it's clear they are on the path to maintaining/creating two very rich high schools - Langley and Madison - and letting all the other schools get poorer. It's probably no coincidence there are several School Board members (Tholen, Meren, Keys Gamarra) who live in the Langley or Madison districts, and no SB member who lives in the Marshall district.

i think Frisch lives in Marshall district

If so, he moved, because when he ran in 2019 he lived in the western part of Providence District zoned to Oakton, not Marshall.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any potential residential developments that might come online in the next say 5-10 years that would provide a similarly substantial opportunity to add some much-needed SES diversity to Langley that are within or very near the current Langley boundaries... or is this the only realistic opportunity to do so? If there are, please indicate the location.

“Needed”

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Are Langley students suffering?

That’s just the concern troll speaking. She’s so very worried about the SES diversity of schools that her kids don’t attend.

DP. Isn’t a commitment to diversity of one of FCPS’s core values? Is there an asterisk where Langley is concerned?

All FCPS high schools are diverse.

FCPS is supposed to keep the main thing the main thing.

Langley is not economically diverse. Since it has more excess capacity than any other school in that area, they can add diversity and use capacity at the same time.

It would have had more poor kids if the school board didn’t block Jane Strauss.

Nevertheless, there is no mandate for them to add a certain amount of poor/rich/middle class children to any school.

Thank you for pointing that out.

So we should overcrowd one school and not use the available capacity at another because it might add more economic diversity to the wealthier school?

You are of course correct that overcrowding needs addressing. The Franklin Sherman split feeder could be closed. McLean shouldn’t be allowed to be so crammed when a school with space is two miles away.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any potential residential developments that might come online in the next say 5-10 years that would provide a similarly substantial opportunity to add some much-needed SES diversity to Langley that are within or very near the current Langley boundaries... or is this the only realistic opportunity to do so? If there are, please indicate the location.

“Needed”

?

Are Langley students suffering?

That’s just the concern troll speaking. She’s so very worried about the SES diversity of schools that her kids don’t attend.

DP. Isn’t a commitment to diversity of one of FCPS’s core values? Is there an asterisk where Langley is concerned?

All FCPS high schools are diverse.

FCPS is supposed to keep the main thing the main thing.

Langley is not economically diverse. Since it has more excess capacity than any other school in that area, they can add diversity and use capacity at the same time.

It would have had more poor kids if the school board didn’t block Jane Strauss.

Nevertheless, there is no mandate for them to add a certain amount of poor/rich/middle class children to any school.

Thank you for pointing that out.

So we should overcrowd one school and not use the available capacity at another because it might add more economic diversity to the wealthier school?

You are of course correct that overcrowding needs addressing. The Franklin Sherman split feeder could be closed. McLean shouldn’t be allowed to be so crammed when a school with space is two miles away.

FCPS looked at this when adjusting the Langley/McLean boundaries last year and concluded that moving the 90%+ of Franklin Sherman now at McLean to Langley would immediately overcrowd Cooper and leave McLean over 10% under-capacity. I gather that moving some of these new buildings in Tysons from Marshall to Langley might not have a comparable effect.

[Anonymous]

Moving Sherman to Langley also wouldn't do anything to put Marshall in a position where it had space to accept pupil placements for IB again.