What is the best public high school in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

23:08 says this poster keeps coming back with this 2010 Patch piece. I can only assume 13:36 is the same person who somehow is so vested in the rivalry that she keeps 2010 issues of the school newspaper around or saved on her computer. Bizarre. To remind: here's what 23:08 said which can be repeated again.

"OMG you save this one cite and parade it out every single time Langley is mentioned. It's ridiculous. You mean you can't find an article about the last food fight in the cafeteria? But please let's not blow anything out of proportion."


I'm not familiar with this article but the Patch piece smacks of yellow journalism to me. If this stupid piece gets pulled out every time there's a McLean/Langley debate then clearly someone has a need to slam Langley students by posting old examples and slandering the entire student body with it. How can the Langley students respond to that incident fairly now?

I agree that Bobbi was the one to start with the race-baiting. She could have written that entire piece without inferring that the Langley students (all 10,000 of them who have graduated since then) are racist. They aren't and I find this unfortunate that someone has a need to keep reprinting something from a rag almost 3 years old.

Can't we focus on something more important? Like finding the guy who killed the 16 year old McLean girl last night? Or finding some good in the Langley student body? Or praise the principal for ending that color day thingy?

[Anonymous]

Can someone please list the high schools in Fairfax County to avoid?

Also, is there a presence of MS-13 gang members at either of the high schools in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:23:08 says this poster keeps coming back with this 2010 Patch piece. I can only assume 13:36 is the same person who somehow is so vested in the rivalry that she keeps 2010 issues of the school newspaper around or saved on her computer. Bizarre. To remind: here's what 23:08 said which can be repeated again.

"OMG you save this one cite and parade it out every single time Langley is mentioned. It's ridiculous. You mean you can't find an article about the last food fight in the cafeteria? But please let's not blow anything out of proportion."


I'm not familiar with this article but the Patch piece smacks of yellow journalism to me. If this stupid piece gets pulled out every time there's a McLean/Langley debate then clearly someone has a need to slam Langley students by posting old examples and slandering the entire student body with it. How can the Langley students respond to that incident fairly now?

I agree that Bobbi was the one to start with the race-baiting. She could have written that entire piece without inferring that the Langley students (all 10,000 of them who have graduated since then) are racist. They aren't and I find this unfortunate that someone has a need to keep reprinting something from a rag almost 3 years old.

Can't we focus on something more important? Like finding the guy who killed the 16 year old McLean girl last night? Or finding some good in the Langley student body? Or praise the principal for ending that color day thingy?

I thought it was very nice when both Langley and McLean kids joined together to raise money for the daughter of the Langley basketball coach after she was diagnosed with cancer last year.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you sure you want Langley? I'm not sure I'd want to hang out with the parents who have completely, utterly, rudely hijacked this thread with their petty concerns about an article in a local paper.

Start your own thread, people!

[Anonymous]

It's not the Langley parents its all the Langley haters!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:23:08 says this poster keeps coming back with this 2010 Patch piece. I can only assume 13:36 is the same person who somehow is so vested in the rivalry that she keeps 2010 issues of the school newspaper around or saved on her computer. Bizarre. To remind: here's what 23:08 said which can be repeated again.

"OMG you save this one cite and parade it out every single time Langley is mentioned. It's ridiculous. You mean you can't find an article about the last food fight in the cafeteria? But please let's not blow anything out of proportion."


I'm not familiar with this article but the Patch piece smacks of yellow journalism to me. If this stupid piece gets pulled out every time there's a McLean/Langley debate then clearly someone has a need to slam Langley students by posting old examples and slandering the entire student body with it. How can the Langley students respond to that incident fairly now?

I agree that Bobbi was the one to start with the race-baiting. She could have written that entire piece without inferring that the Langley students (all 10,000 of them who have graduated since then) are racist. They aren't and I find this unfortunate that someone has a need to keep reprinting something from a rag almost 3 years old.

Can't we focus on something more important? Like finding the guy who killed the 16 year old McLean girl last night? Or finding some good in the Langley student body? Or praise the principal for ending that color day thingy?

I thought it was very nice when both Langley and McLean kids joined together to raise money for the daughter of the Langley basketball coach after she was diagnosed with cancer last year.

There was also a huge outpouring of love when one of the girls on the Langley volleyball team found she had bone cancer.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not the Langley parents its all the Langley haters!

So true. And so nasty! We had a great four years there. I know Langley has its detractors but considering what they (and I include the principal, the admin, and the teachers) are trying to accomplish serving an enormous variety of needs from the extremely gifted to the physically handicapped and SN kids, I think they do a remarkable job of educating 2400 kids. My hats off to them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not the Langley parents its all the Langley haters!

So true. And so nasty! We had a great four years there. I know Langley has its detractors but considering what they (and I include the principal, the admin, and the teachers) are trying to accomplish serving an enormous variety of needs from the extremely gifted to the physically handicapped and SN kids, I think they do a remarkable job of educating 2400 kids. My hats off to them!

Remember they are not balkanized siloed groups of children. It is possible to have a physically handicapped child with an LD who is also extremely gifted. IME, it is those students that get the shaft in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not the Langley parents its all the Langley haters!

So true. And so nasty! We had a great four years there. I know Langley has its detractors but considering what they (and I include the principal, the admin, and the teachers) are trying to accomplish serving an enormous variety of needs from the extremely gifted to the physically handicapped and SN kids, I think they do a remarkable job of educating 2400 kids. My hats off to them!

There are fewer than 2000 kids there now. I have no idea when there were 2400 kids but it makes me think this poster has no recent experience with the school.

[Anonymous]

And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not the Langley parents its all the Langley haters!

So true. And so nasty! We had a great four years there. I know Langley has its detractors but considering what they (and I include the principal, the admin, and the teachers) are trying to accomplish serving an enormous variety of needs from the extremely gifted to the physically handicapped and SN kids, I think they do a remarkable job of educating 2400 kids. My hats off to them!

Remember they are not balkanized siloed groups of children. It is possible to have a physically handicapped child with an LD who is also extremely gifted. IME, it is those students that get the shaft in FCPS.

Oh for the love of God, can't anyone take a sentence without somehow inserting their own agenda item into and making it into an issue. OF COURSE the handicapped and the SN gifts can also be intellectually gifted. "Balkanized Siloed" - gotta save that one for my next IEP meeting for my kid with the 180 I.Q. and Aspergers. (oh, and now the lecturers will come about how it's all "on the spectrum now". Save it. I'm done with this website). How is that even possibly related to the discussion of "best public high school in Fairfax County?"

[Anonymous]

And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to say whether there is a "best" for everyone - FCPS is an extremely highly-rated school system and I would put a higher value on the commute as others have stated. Close-in to DC, it's hard to go wrong with Langley, McLean, Madison, or Marshall. I went to Marshall, so I'm biased there

One of these things is not like the others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to say whether there is a "best" for everyone - FCPS is an extremely highly-rated school system and I would put a higher value on the commute as others have stated. Close-in to DC, it's hard to go wrong with Langley, McLean, Madison, or Marshall. I went to Marshall, so I'm biased there

One of these things is not like the others.

True 3 are AP and one is IB. All are fine options. What is your point?