Should FCPS Reassign New Affordable Housing from Marshall to Langley?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

You’re disgusting.

How is this disgusting? We already know busing is counterproductive. For any demographic.

It’s not busing. Look at the location.

Langley is the furthest away.

Closest - Marshall (by far)
2nd - Madison
3rd - Mclean
4th Langley

You would have these kids get on a bus and pass two high schools to get to their school?

Marshall is at capacity already, you’d be creating an attendance island at Madison, and McLean is one of the most overcrowded schools in FCPS.

They should use the capacity where it’s available and right now that’s Langley. How do you think Great Falls ended up at Langley when it’s closer to Herndon and South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

You’re disgusting.

How is this disgusting? We already know busing is counterproductive. For any demographic.

It’s not busing. Look at the location.

Langley is the furthest away.

Closest - Marshall (by far)
2nd - Madison
3rd - Mclean
4th Langley

You would have these kids get on a bus and pass two high schools to get to their school?

Happens all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

You’re disgusting.

How is this disgusting? We already know busing is counterproductive. For any demographic.

It’s not busing. Look at the location.

Langley is the furthest away.

Closest - Marshall (by far)
2nd - Madison
3rd - Mclean
4th Langley

You would have these kids get on a bus and pass two high schools to get to their school?

Happens all the time.

Of course it does, all over the county. But somehow when we are talking about Langley, the rules are different.

[Anonymous]

Are Langley families this obnoxious in real life? I don't know any but the ones on this board surely are. Of course they need to absorb this new development. It's not far and Marshall is at capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Langley families this obnoxious in real life? I don't know any but the ones on this board surely are. Of course they need to absorb this new development. It's not far and Marshall is at capacity.

Why are all you posters on this board obsessed with Langley? I am a Madison parent and I would think Langley would be the last choice on the list considering how far it is.

[Anonymous]

So I see there’s a meeting about it. Will people bring up concerns about schools in the area and how FCPS will deal with it? Also-is this something that people can bring up to the school board meetings?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are Langley families this obnoxious in real life? I don't know any but the ones on this board surely are. Of course they need to absorb this new development. It's not far and Marshall is at capacity.

Why are all you posters on this board obsessed with Langley? I am a Madison parent and I would think Langley would be the last choice on the list considering how far it is.

It just makes sense when Marshall is already at it near capacity and is the only IB school in that part of the county, while Langley has surplus capacity. And obviously it would mean the School Board isn’t completely full of shit if they added some of this type of housing to Langley.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are Langley families this obnoxious in real life? I don't know any but the ones on this board surely are. Of course they need to absorb this new development. It's not far and Marshall is at capacity.

Why are all you posters on this board obsessed with Langley? I am a Madison parent and I would think Langley would be the last choice on the list considering how far it is.

Simply comes down to the fact that it hasn't been a fair use of taxpayer money to keep Langley functioning essentially equivalent to a small private school. Does Madison want to volunteer to absorb 500 new low-income families? Since Madison is slightly overcrowded right now, part of Madison's current catchment can be donated to Falls Church's boundary since they have space due to the renovation.

[Anonymous]

Langley's social climate could benefit greatly from lower-income students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

You’re disgusting.

How is this disgusting? We already know busing is counterproductive. For any demographic.

I agree busing long distances is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

You’re disgusting.

How is this disgusting? We already know busing is counterproductive. For any demographic.

I agree busing long distances is disgusting.

That’s a cop out.

[Anonymous]

Madison, Marshall, and Langley are at capacity with McLean at 120% overcapacity still desperately needing a renovation.

Given as such there is no school in the area that can accept those affordable units until the new Western HS is built, which will likely lead to a massive political clash between Great Falls parents desperately not wanting to be moved to Herndon and the reasons of logistics, to accommodate the Tysons growth.

until then the point is moot. This was discussed is past redistricting threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Madison, Marshall, and Langley are at capacity with McLean at 120% overcapacity still desperately needing a renovation.

Given as such there is no school in the area that can accept those affordable units until the new Western HS is built, which will likely lead to a massive political clash between Great Falls parents desperately not wanting to be moved to Herndon and the reasons of logistics, to accommodate the Tysons growth.

until then the point is moot. This was discussed is past redistricting threads.

Langley is not at capacity. It has a capacity of 2370 students and a current enrollment of 2026 students.

If you're arguing these units can't be built because there isn't school capacity, you might have a point. But since the Board of Supervisors are eager to add affordable housing in Tysons, and apparently willing to double the number of expected affordable housing units from 250 to 500, they should be assigned to Langley. They would be closer to Langley than many other neighborhoods currently assigned to Langley, and the area that would be reassigned would be adjacent to the area reassigned from McLean to Langley a few years ago. It would not create an attendance island. Any argument to the contrary is a rip-off for taxpayers who had to foot the bill when Langley was expanded to 2370 seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Madison, Marshall, and Langley are at capacity with McLean at 120% overcapacity still desperately needing a renovation.

Given as such there is no school in the area that can accept those affordable units until the new Western HS is built, which will likely lead to a massive political clash between Great Falls parents desperately not wanting to be moved to Herndon and the reasons of logistics, to accommodate the Tysons growth.

until then the point is moot. This was discussed is past redistricting threads.

Langley is not at capacity. It has a capacity of 2370 students and a current enrollment of 2026 students.

If you're arguing these units can't be built because there isn't school capacity, you might have a point. But since the Board of Supervisors are eager to add affordable housing in Tysons, and apparently willing to double the number of expected affordable housing units from 250 to 500, they should be assigned to Langley. They would be closer to Langley than many other neighborhoods currently assigned to Langley, and the area that would be reassigned would be adjacent to the area reassigned from McLean to Langley a few years ago. It would not create an attendance island. Any argument to the contrary is a rip-off for taxpayers who had to foot the bill when Langley was expanded to 2370 seats.[/

My bad with Langley, didn’t realize they had done a recent renovation and had the expanded capacity they do now.However, offsetting those vacant seats at Langley would be the overcrowded McLean hallways. My best guess would be that Madison/McLean/Langley acting collectively will push all the low income kids in the area to Marshall, and taking whatever million dollar housing in Marshall and divide those units among themselves. Otherwise those schools are going to fight tooth and nail to keep the undesirables out. Only someone like Stu Gibson would have the backbone to “diversity” Langley.

[Anonymous]

All I know is that if Elaine Tholen and Karl Frisch don't coordinate to assign these new affordable housing units to Langley, they should both be called out for their hypocrisy and neglect of duty.

And Abrar Omeish is concerned about interested students at AP schools not having access to IB at Marshall, which of course becomes even less likely if they load GCM up with more affordable housing.