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[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]

I care more about Marshall than Langley.  Langley is the only HS school in the area with space and an adjacent boundary.

As for the ES/MS, Cooper has fewer kids and is less crowded than Kilmer.  The ES might be a bit trickier.  If the area was moved from Westbriar (Marshall pyramid) to Spring Hill (Langley pyramid) some other Spring Hill areas might need to be reassigned to Westgate (split feeder to Marshall/McLean).

Quite honestly, it's disgusting how some Langley folks constantly look for reasons to raise objections when they have a renovated, under-enrolled school and other schools are near or over capacity.  But moving these developments could also allow Langley families who would like IB for their kids to send them to Marshall again. [/quote]

Cooper and Langley were built on their respective sites decades ago.  They are on the border of the county with limited 2 lane access roads-Balls Hill and Georgetown Pike.  Cooper is at the local road access to the Beltway's American Legion Bridge. Both on the Potomac River.

When Kilmer was renovated in the early 2000's the students from Great Falls Elementary and Forestville ES plus some Oakton schools were sent to Kilmer for AAP.  The alternative was Carson.  Numerous parents of base school Great Falls Elementary middle school AAP students requested Hughes be an option.
Years later they were sent back to Cooper, the base school, because frankly it was the school of last resort as the Kilmer student count exceeded capacity.

Those students attended Forest Edge in Reston and Great Falls had the highest percentage of AAP students choosing to attend Forest Edge.  Title 1 school.  The lowest % of those given the AAP option of attending actually attending the center was Aldrin.   Actual statistics from FCPS.

The Board of Supervisors eventually installed a traffic light at the intersection of Gallows Road and Wolftrap Road.  Prior to that light , the increased numbers of students-bus-car traffic was a major problem on Gallows Road. There are no such options to improve traffic flow for Cooper and Langley.

Do people in Great Falls get what they want?  Not by a long shot.  Newer residents might not be aware of what many expected to happen.  New secondary  school in North Reston.

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