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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.  [/quote]

The pyramid is unaffordable because many people with means want in. It's economics. If you try to make it more equitable by rezoning or some other scheme, what do you think will happen?[/quote]

These people who suggest that Langley keeps out the poors just aren’t familiar with the area.  Churchill is the closest elementary to Langley. If you drive by Langley or Churchill, you will find single family homes that are expensive. Churchill has nowhere to get these poors. Kings Manor is probably the most affordable housing in Churchill/Langley but they are still around $1m.[/quote]

Churchill Road boundaries could extend across 123 to apartments in McLean; Langley boundaries could scope in parts of Tysons and Reston now at other ES.

But given how some Churchill Road families complain about some of the Gen Ed kids from the wealthy families there, one can only speculate as to how they'd react to Gen Ed kids from apartments.   [/quote]

You're advocating for gerrymandering the boundaries in order to increase equity, but you don't or can't think of the logical implications. The only result is going to be that if the school quality starts to drop, it will keep dropping as more educated/wealthy will jump ship to private.

Likewise, you need to reflect only for a moment to recognize that these schools didn't become top pyramids overnight. It's not like the wealthy conspired to descend on an already-amazing school and then further conspired to keep everyone else out. They MADE the school what it is by choosing it (over time). The teachers choose to work their because the students are smart and well-behaved (mostly). New wealthy folks want to live and send their kids there because others do... [/quote]

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