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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people are not unreasonable.  I think in FCPS that lack of transparency has caused a lot of problems.  Most people want to stay where they are.  Yes, it does affect property values, but I think that school and community loyalty is the bigger issue.

People pay closer attention to what the SB is doing now, but in the past, some boundary redistrictings seemed to come out of nowhere.  My community went through a middle and two high school redistrictings over the last twenty years.  Two of them involved new schools and did not take anyone by surprise.  The third was totally a surprise to our community.  We ended up being unaffected, but we had to fight for it. Our property values would not likely have been affected as one option was actually a "better rated" school than the one we are assigned and the other was quite similar.  Distance and community were the driving factors to us.[/quote]

All good points. I agree that FCPS has not been transparent. I can also see why folks would be concerned about community related issues.

But you can’t argue that those in the far west side of GF are truly part of the Langley community some 14 miles away?  I can assure you those in McLean do not care about that side of GF. [/quote]

That is not my community and I would not wish for my kids to be going that far away to school.  However, we all know there is not currently room at Herndon.  I think some of those neighborhoods might have been in the wash for South Lakes, but Janie kept them out of consideration.  I'm not that familiar with the roads and geography, but some of them are nearer South Lakes, I think.  Since I am not that familiar with them, I really cannot say.  But, right now, if they wish to stay at Langley, I think it makes sense.  If Langley were overcrowded, that might be different. Right around the time of the South Lakes redistricting  Langley was being expanded.  Maybe, Janie arranged that in order to keep them out of the redistricting.

To me, in this mess of traffic gridlock, distance and commute should be the driving factors.  I think people resent being sent farther away to "balance" a school.  As long as logic is involved, I think most people would accept the results.  They might not like it, but they would accept it.  Ultimately, I think that resulted in the success of the South Lakes redistricting.  The neighborhoods selected were closer to South Lakes than to the high schools they were previously attending.  In one instance, South Lakes was much, much closer.  In the other, it was likely pretty much the same.  I'm not at all familiar with those from Wolf Trap who were reassigned to South Lakes from Madison, so I cannot say how that worked out.[/quote]

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