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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When Langley had more kids and South Lakes was under-enrolled, Langley made darn sure it stayed out of that boundary study.  But some Langley parents have a hard time accepting that McLean families might want to stay there or ask FCPS to add space there like it has done elsewhere.  If FCPS ends up hurting McLean to justify all the seats added at Langley, it won’t bother them one bit. 
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Really not sure what you’re babbling about.  Of course McLean should be expanded.  But until they are, they have to do something about the overcrowding there.  What would you suggest?  More trailers?  Sane people with no axe to grind agree that changing the McLean/Langley boundary is a good first step.  What do you mean, “hurting McLean”?  The obvious immediate solution is to move some kids to the closest school with space - which happens to be Langley.  Get over yourself.[/quote]

You sound like an arrogant ass with no compassion for others.  This obviously isn’t going to have the same impact on Langley families as on McLean families.[/quote]

It’s “arrogant” to say that while waiting for FCPS to get its act together and expand McLean, a great way to alleviate McLean’s overcrowding is to adjust the boundaries and send some neighborhoods to Langley?   :shock:   Ok.  You’re right.  You guys should just have to suffer with your hideously overcrowded school until FCPS sees fit to build an addition at McLean.  Could be awhile, but sure, you just keep up the whining and victim act.  Good luck to you.[/quote]

Yes, it’s arrogant of you to keep suggesting that McLean families should eagerly embrace the opportunity to move to Langley, when Langley parents have always fought to keep their own kids there and resisted any boundary changes to reassign Langley students, even when Langley was overcrowded (and not under-enrolled as it is now).

Believe it or not, even with the trailers, we still love the school, prefer McLean to Langley, and view any boundary change as a necessary evil that’s a result of poor planning by FCPS.  And even if our own neighborhoods end up among those reassigned, we want to make sure FCPS does right by McLean, so that it remains a strong school in the future - and doesn’t see its academic and extra-curricular programs gutted just to fill empty seats at a school further away, in an area where more people turn up their noses at public schools and send their kids to privates.[/quote]

Wow. My kids are currently slated to attend McLean and while I agree with you that the SB completely dropped the ball on expanding McLean, you can’t just snap your fingers and make them do your bidding.  Stop acting as if you’re the spokesperson for the entire McLean community; you’re not.  And sending some kids to Langley will not in any way “gut” McLean.  Drama queen much?   :roll:  The school is so over crowded that sending a few neighborhoods to Langley won’t even be a drop in the bucket at McLean.

As for your last sentence, you just sound unhinged and bitter.  Sure, a lot of kids in the Langley district go to privates, but not the vast majority.  Again:  speak for yourself and not for the rest of the McLean families, many of whom are thrilled that they will probably get to avoid sending their kids to a school that is over crowded.[/quote]

At this point no one knows whether they will propose to move a few neighborhoods or many.  Those who have seen FCPS over the years know they tend to over-react because they want to make their problems go away in one fell swoop, often to the detriment of schools and communities.  Don’t kid yourself that it won’t happen again. [/quote]

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