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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.[/quote]

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS.  That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.[/quote]

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.[/quote]

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it.  Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon.  Relative enrollments will not matter.  Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back.  Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles.  This will happen.  [/quote]

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. [b] There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them. [/b]

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.[/quote]

System-wide redistricting.  Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream.  She's good at getting what she wants.  She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.  [/quote]

There are only two such high schools in FCPS: TJ and Langley.  TJ is a sacred cow, and the way to increase the FARMS rate at Langley is to redistrict Tysons apartments out of Marshall and McLean to Langley.  Neither involves moving part of Great Falls out of Langley. [/quote]

Yes, and Herndon is 40% FARMS.  They want those <1% FARMS kids from Forestville in there.  [/quote]

When they have another high school in western Fairfax, they can move some other Herndon kids to it and move Forestville back to Herndon.  Until then, there is no room at Herndon to move Langley kids there.  Which part of that don't you understand?[/quote]

Which part of comprehensive redistricting do you not understand?  That's what's coming.  In that case, the relative under/over capacity of any individual school does not matter.  [/quote]

There is nothing to suggest comprehensive redistricting is on the horizon and, even if it were, there is still finite capacity at Herndon and students to fill it up who live closer to HHS than the Forestville area. Whether you fear or wish with all your heart for those kids to get kicked out of Langley, it is not going to happen any time soon.[/quote]

Wouldn't it make more sense to funnel the far western parts of McLean high into langley and then funnel in all the new Tysons into McLean/Marshall? From What I see there aren't any public housing or poor units slated to be built.[/quote]

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