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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many go home if they can to get homework completed.  Nearly all class content is now online and they need their computers to complete work.   (The school library is only open until 4:45pm.)  Additionally, if students were to stay at school until 7:00pm when their practice ends, when are they supposed to eat?  Many have lunch hour well before NOON.  There aren't any food places within walking distance to LHS for freshman and sophomores who don't have cars.  And then there are games that don't begin until 7:00pm with warm-ups around 6:00pm.  Games go until 10:00pm.  Who in their right mind would want their kid at the school for 14 hours?  [/quote]

If the Langley kids have a practice at 5, and the library is open until 4:45, why don’t they stay at school and do their homework at the library until it closes? The Arlington high schools all have WiFi and the kids all have Mac books - are you telling me this is not true at Langley? I do take the point about wanting to go home to eat, but presumably kids aren’t eating a full meal before a sports practice anyway. Why can’t they just bring a snack? Maybe school could provide refrigerators they could keep food in (presumably they have a microwave?) Or the school could arrange for a small afternoon cafeteria offering if this is a real problem affecting lots of kids? Kids could pick up something light/pre-made for 30 minutes after school lets out so cafeteria workers don’t stay all night. Don’t Langley parents work? Who is even at home to drive kids back to school at 5? This whole notion of traffic driving BACK to school is totally foreign to me. We live in Arlington and our high schooler stays after school until activities begin, and then either takes a late bus home or gets a ride or we pick him up on our way home.

I do agree that adding toll roads is making the traffic on other roads worse. Arlington secondary roads are also more congested and neighborhood roads have turned into secondary roads because of chronic congestion. Local government will never make up for totally missing the boat on public transportation - development is too far gone to fix it now. The only way people will switch to public is for it to be easier, faster and cheaper than the driving alternative, but I can’t see how that could even be possible at this point.

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APS parent, take a look at the boundary for Langley that stretches all the way to Loudoun and then ask yourself if VDOT/Fairfax County/FCPS's first move should be to close off an access to 495 and MD so the far reaches of Fairfax can get across the beltway to an afterschool activity. It's sick. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/2018-2019%20High%20School%20Boundaries.pdf[/quote]

If this happens, guaranteed, Loudoun Co. will vote out the pols responsible for this, starting with Northam. You forget that 
Loudoun Co. holds the key in all state elections.[/quote]

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