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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at the McLean/Langley problem.
1. these schools were redistricted in 1984 and nothing has changed since that time, despite huge numbers of houses being built in the Tysons area that are all districted to Longfellow/McLean.
2. there are multiple neighborhoods in McLean that are much closer (even walkable) to Langley that continue to be sent to McLean - send those back to Langley
3. Great Falls needs its own high school.  The vast majority of kids at Langley live in GF (many drive more than 30 minutes to school).  Rather than expanding other schools there needs to be a 7-12 school that serves Great Falls.
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Why should great falls get its own high school when that is one of the least crowded areas in the entire county?[/quote]

because that would allow the rest of McLean to be split between McLean and Langely rather than having most of McLean at McLean HS.  The vast majority of students at Langley are from GF.
Right now Franklin Sherman ES (right in the center of McLean but far closer to LHS than MHS) goes almost entirely to McLean.  Each 6th grade class sends approximately 5% of their students to Langley.  this makes zero sense.[/quote]

Great Falls isn’t going to get its own high school.  That ship sailed a long time ago. Langley would have more kids from McLean if they weren’t sending so many kids to private schools.  Franklin Sherman ES is closer to McLean HS than to Langley HS.

Agree it doesn’t make sense for only 5-10% of FS to go to Langley; they should either assign that area to a different ES like Churchill Road or reassign the area to Longfellow/McLean.  However, FS is very small so if they moved kids to Churchill Road they should move some kids from Kent Gardens to FS. [/quote]

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