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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids goto McLean and I've asked them about the differences between McLean and Langley. They joke around that the Langley kids are the drug users, but the McLean kids are the dealers. Again, just a joke but the truth behind it is that the McLean kids seem to be more down to earth while the Langley kids are more about money/looks. [/quote]

You're not exactly an unbiased source if your kids go to McLean, are you?  You'd want to push the stereotype that your kids are more down-to-earth.

I live in McLean (zoned for Langley), and the reality is that very few wealthy families are sending their kids to Langley.  Of all the kids in our neighborhood (which is within a mile of the school), exactly 0 go to public schools.  They all go private.  People who earn a decent living do, but most families with a lot of money don't.  So no need to worry about your classmates jetting of to Gstaad for ski weekends, or whatever the problem is.[/quote]

EXACTLY.  The uber-wealthy have kids at privates.  Plenty of mini-van families at Langley (I am one).  The people who constantly hate on Langley are revealing far more about themselves than about the school.[/quote]

The difference, though, is that Langley parents think they are down-to-earth because they drive older cars and send their kids to public school.  Others will still think of Langley as elitist because the school's boundaries have been carefully maintained over the years to include only UMC and UC neighborhoods composed primarily of single-family homes, and with no rental apartments.

Janie Strauss actually went into Langley neighborhoods back in 2011 and said she should be re-elected her because she'd kept Langley out of boundary studies that might have moved part of Langley to South Lakes.  [/quote]

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