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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP

Looks to me like Shouse Village wanted to go (back, as I think they had been a few decades ago) to Langley.

That Herndon community where the golf course used to be piped up during the comment period to ask the school board to move them from HHS to Langley since they were changing boundaries anyway.

It is right that Langley parents aren’t in the position to “offer a gift” of seats at LHS to McLean residents. That’s the school board’s authority. It’s also quite clear that McLean parents don’t gaf if growth pushes great falls out of Langley.

In the end, however, it’s the school board that told McLean years ago that they would get an addition and not have to leave.

It’s the school board that dissembled to McLean in late 2018/early 2019 about not re boundary ing some apartments from McLean to Langley (as reminder—they were in the process of overhauling boundary policy to prioritize racial and class mix in schools and disregard neighborhoods— and to allow themselves to change boundaries every three years.  They were going to change all the boundaries in the county once the policy was done)

It’s the school board that surprised everyone with the switcheroo at the last minute to go against staff rec for the boundary.

I think we can all agree that with growth in Tysons and the existing overcrowding, McLean needs the addition. We can all agree that the school board has mishandled pretty much everything they’ve touched.

We can be annoyed at GF or McLean parents, but we don’t elect them.

It’s the school board that needs to be held accountable for their constant failure and malfeasance.

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I would agree with this.  No one has said McLean doesn't need an addition.  And yes, I grew up here when Shouse went to Langley and now I have kids at Colvin Run - as I said earlier, we (and many other families) are thrilled that Colvin Run is no longer a split feeder and all the kids go to Langley.  That was common sense, even if certain McLean parents continue to whine about it.  Eliminating split feeders and islands is good policy.  Everything else FCPS has touched, however, has turned to crap.  [/quote]

DP, but there was nothing “common sense” about expanding Langley when it was below capacity and then expanding its already huge boundaries so that even more kids who live closer to other high schools end up attending Langley.  That’s wasteful and inefficient.

Tholen can trot out the usual platitudes about the benefits of eliminating split feeders but we all know FCPS creates as many split feeders as it eliminates, and that she’s done nothing about more lopsided split feeders in Dranesville than Colvin Run.

Sorry to hear you think everything else FCPS has touched has “turned to crap.”  I might have thought Langley parents would be more appreciative. [/quote]

Of course it's common sense to enlarge a school if you're renovating it anyway and have the space.  It would be foolish *not* to.  Look, we get that the boundary issue keeps you up at night, gnashing your teeth, but it is done.  You repeating yourself constantly about the same issue is just... exhausting.  Try voting for people who don't have a D next to their name next time.  And btw - we love Langley.  Just hate what FCPS as a whole is becoming, with its constant focus on race and "equity."  Glad to be moving on.[/quote]

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