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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only argument I hear for moving Langley’s students out of an under-enrolled school is fairness. Yet the same people expect our tax dollars to go up. [/quote]

Actually, that's not true. The reason why the county should move some great falls feeders from Langley has more to do with the fact that the schools that are geographically near langley like McLean, Marshall and Justice are all massively overenrolled and need capacity relief. Langley can do that and it is much cheaper, efficient to do a boundary change than to conduct even more capacity expansions.

That said, I find it interesting that the same people who complain about FCPS wasting money expanding school capacity are the same people who also stamp there feet and get angry when the idea of a boundary change to fix capacity issues is considered. I mean, look at West Potomac. What do you think would happen if the county chose to send fort hunt and Waynewood to Mount Vernon? People's heads would explode. The same thing with the idea of using Langley to fix capacity issue -- people are going nuts even considering the idea that their children might have to attend Herndon or South Lakes.

You really can't win with this crowd. Anything the county does is going to piss people off and it seems like the county is choosing to waste money expanding schools to avoid the craziness that this thread has encompassed. [/quote]

Bullsh*t. Their mandate is socioeconomic fairness. It's right on their darn website so stop lying and saying it's not true. You don't have to move ONE person out of under-enrolled Langley into over-enrolled Herndon. You can move students from McLean or Tyson into the empty spaces at Langley.

The problem with a boundary change is it will negatively affect (by as much as 30%) Great Falls home values in some areas. That's because Herndon High has such a bad reputation and has gang violence. What makes anyone  think that a county who destroyed their own schools has a right to use Great Falls kids and Great Falls money to fix it. It's YOUR liberal policies that created this mess.[/quote]

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