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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the new housing getting built in Tysons currently feeds into Marshall and McLean.

Marshall's enrollment is up 38 kids since the school year began.  McLean is up 27 kids.  Langley's enrollment hasn't increased at all from September 2021 to April 2022.

If they don't reassign this new housing project off Spring Hill Road to under-enrolled Langley, Jason Miyares should open an investigation into the School Board's neglect of duty.  [/quote]

If nothing happened when millions were spent expanded West Potomac even though Mt. Vernon had space, I doubt the Langley boundary will warrant much attention.

Besides, 46 has promise us food shortages and inflation shows no sign of stopping.  I’ll bet that the percentage of Langley-boundaried children that goes to private school decreases next year and the year after.  A bad economy is great for public school enrollment. [/quote]

I doubt the private school enrollment decreases, but I doubt the school board will be too interested in dealing with anymore boundary adjustments in that area for a while. Your example of west Potomac was spot on. [/quote]

You could argue it’s an opportunity for the SB members to try and redeem themselves.  Of course, it may be too late for some, given how little support they have left.[/quote]

Picking boundary fights may "redeem" SB members in the eyes of a select few, but politically-speaking its the easiest way to lose an election.  The fact of the matter is that most people could not care less about boundaries until and unless it directly impacts them.  Boundary fights will almost always lose you more votes than they gain.[/quote]

That might be the case if you're talking about reassigning kids from an existing development to a new, lower-ranked school.

There is little downside from reassigning some apartments from Marshall to Langley, especially when most of the apartments will be new construction where kids never attended Marshall.  On the other hand, it might indicate that the School Board isn't completely full of crap when it talks about equity all the time but leaves Langley renovated, under capacity, and without any lower or moderate-income housing.  That might stem some of the losses they are looking at next year.  There are already going to be quite a few voters who usually vote Democratic breaking ranks next year for reasons unrelated to boundaries. [/quote]

You are not thinking about the big picture. You for some reason just care about Langley.  What about elementary and middle schools?[/quote]

What about ES and MS? At least from the MS perspective, Cooper was recently renovated and expanded, whereas Kilmer has the math department out in a modular. Seems pretty clear where new west Tysons growth should be zoned from a capacity standpoint. [/quote]

Cooper will already be over capacity when it is done with the expansion. Cooper was over capacity for so long they had a modular there and the expansion will not be enough.

I don’t necessarily disagree that kids should be moved there, but you are acting like this is an easy decision and there aren’t other factors involved. 
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It's hard to believe Cooper can't be expanded to the size of other middle schools during its renovation, unless the expansion is intentionally capped to keep out the kids Langley doesn't want.  Looking at the "big picture" would be to make sure that doesn't happen. [/quote]

Cooper parent here. My kid spends half his time in a trailer. I have gone on a tour and been on some zoom pta calls and when they go through the renovation, it doesn’t sound like a huge amount of expansion. I could be wrong. All I know is my kid spends a lot of time in trailers.

I believe Longfellow was expanded but McLean high has not been renovated and is severely overcrowded. I don’t think Cooper is being expanded as much as it can be.[/quote]

Most schools have trailers when they are being renovated and expanded like Cooper.

The issue here is whether kids in the new developments in Tysons currently within the Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall boundary will be in temporary classrooms at Kilmer or Marshall or potentially push Cooper and/or Langley to near full capacity.  [/quote]

The trailers were there before the renovation.

I welcome new developments to be zoned or rezoned to Langley/Cooper. As much as people on DCUM think that Langley parents don’t want any multi family, that just isn’t true. Your kid will hang out with their group of friends and not care about others.[/quote]

Yikes.  You make it sound like your kid’s “group of friends” would never include kids from multi-family housing (the “others”) in any event.  Please tell us that wasn’t your intent.  [/quote]

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