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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's clear from the boundary map that the areas with apartments are much closer to Spring Hill than many of the Langley neighborhoods.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/boundary-maps/springhilles.pdf

If the Langley parents don't like more kids from apartments at the school, they should ask to be reassigned and stop assuming that other people should change schools to accommodate their whims. [/quote]

Again:  why do you assume it's Langley parents who are directing the zoning to "accommodate their whims"?  Do you have evidence of this?  Last I checked, the SB - [i]and only the SB [/i]- is in charge of zoning.  Otherwise, it's just you blowing smoke and clearly demonstrating that huge chip on your shoulder.  It obviously makes you feel better to have a scapegoat, when your efforts would be better served lobbying the SB.[/quote]

Because your School Board member keeps bringing up the purported "concerns" of Spring Hill parents, and Spring Hill parents alone, and Spring Hill is overwhelmingly a Langley feeder. Interesting that the parents at Westbriar and Westgate are not similarly whining about the prospect of more kids from Tysons apartments or getting School Board members to refer to their "concerns."

You just want this all taken care of behind the scenes without anyone calling attention to your lobbying - just like in 2008 when Langley managed to escape being included in the South Lakes redistricting study. You are so used to getting special treatment that you think it's normal.

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Oh, good grief.  Neither I, nor ANYONE I know, has "lobbied the School Board" in any way, shape, or form.  Frankly, I imagine the reference to "concerns of Spring Hill parents" is simply a way for our SB member (are we talking Janie Strauss?) to make us into the scapegoats for [b]her[/b] plans.  It's much easier to blame it on the pesky parents than to take the heat for her own decisions.  Predictably it looks like you're feeding right into that.  Sorry you're so bitter, but your energies and rage would be better directed toward the SB member who told you this.

Perhaps you should look into moving since you seem unreasonably upset at the wrong people.   :roll: [/quote]

Again, it's a matter of public record that Strauss is telling Facilities Staff they need to be responsive to the "concerns" voiced only by Spring Hill (Langley) parents about having to educate children from more Tysons apartments. No one else is complaining to Strauss and she obviously would not be bringing this up if Spring Hill parents weren't badgering her.

If you don't like the boundaries, you should be the ones to volunteer to move, and not assume that someone else should always bear the burden.[/quote]

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