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Anonymous
Yeah, let’s reward the developers who got to charge inflated prices for those homes, and screw over the Fairfax neighbors who bought there with the expectation of the Langley pyramid F those neighbors, right? 🙄 |
Anonymous
You should have no expectation of attending a high school 13 miles away when there’s one 3 miles away (Herndon), 7 miles away (South Lakes) or 12 miles away (Madison). |
Anonymous
What do you consider to be "Herndon kids?" |
Anonymous
How about blame the right people: the Board of Supervisors who approved the assignment. Builder could not have received that Langley designation without their help. |
Anonymous
Uhhh…kids who live in Herndon? |
Anonymous
Might as well close Langley. That is unless you wan etct to domino McLean kids into Langley. Marshall kids into McLean. Etc. Why would you take out a neighborhood who wants to stay there when there are not kids to fill the school otherwise? |
Anonymous
All the kids who live in the Town of Herndon are in the Herndon High boundary. |
Anonymous
Or how about all the kids that live in the same zip code as the Town of Herndon? 20170 |
Anonymous
So, you don't want the Reston kids from Aldrin and Armstrong? |
Anonymous
I should have said, “at least all the kids in the 20170 zip code”. |
Anonymous
DP. Obviously they are not going to close Langley, which got a major renovation that wrapped up in 2018. They could close the current Spring Hill ES split feeder, and move the Spring Hill kids at McLean to Langley. I estimate that would add about 180 kids to Langley. They could also reassign the areas that are zoned to Forestville in Herndon and Reston to Herndon HS feeders (Dranesville, Armstrong, and/or Aldrin ES), and leave the rest of Forestville at Langley. Under that scenario, Langley would have a net gain of students. No one would need to move into McLean since it's overcrowded. They might separately adjust the McLean/Marshall boundaries, but to eliminate other split feeders (Westgate, Lemon Road) rather than to adjust enrollments per se. I'm not advocating for this, but it would align to some extent with the logic of focusing on major roads (in this case, Route 7) as a dividing line (I say "to some extent" because this would still leave a bunch of Vienna neighborhoods further east on the other side of Route 7 at Langley). If push comes to shove, the Langley families in McLean and Great Falls won't fight to keep the Herndon/Reston families zoned to Langley there. FCPS can say they made some use of the additional capacity at Herndon following its expansion while taking further steps to address overcrowding at McLean and avoiding a fight with Great Falls. If Herndon hadn't been expanded as much as it was, or if they'd built an addition at McLean when it first became obvious that one was needed, this scenario wouldn't arise, but here we are. |
Anonymous
Classic misdirection. So you are fine with the bait and switch that rewards developers. Equity warrior love to line those rich developers’ pockets at the expense of their neighbors. Dumb dumb dumb dumb |
Anonymous
Are you saying it is jist fine for us, the taxpayers, to continue funding the transprtation all the way to Langley because some board members many years ago approved this deal? |
Anonymous
The "equity warrior" stuff is getting a bit stale. I don't know when these particular developments in Herndon and Reston zoned to Langley were built. I do know that some later developers tried to get new developments in Herndon and Vienna administratively reassigned to Langley and FCPS refused. |
Anonymous
| If Langley were overcrowded, it would make sense. But, why move kids just because you can? |