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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?[/quote]

You would not be poor at Langley.  You’d be average.

- Langley mom[/quote]

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution.  The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean.  Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson. [/quote]

DP.  You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers.  Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.  [/quote]

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says. [/quote]

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If I were the OP (who, btw, is probably a troll), I'd much prefer hearing from people with actual experience with said schools, rather than those who constantly make up absurd claims because they know nothing about it.  [/quote]

Personally I’d prefer hearing from someone humble enough to only speak for themselves and who wasn’t pushing some candy-coated narrative. Give us the good and the bad if you want to be taken seriously. [/quote]

Plenty of us have done just that.  It's the good that you don't want to hear - you can't stand hearing the good, in fact.  We've pointed out that many of us are indeed middle class, live in small homes, drive minivans, etc.  We simply don't have this weird inferiority complex that some of you so clearly have.  Is there wealth in this area?  Of course.  There are also neighborhoods of modest homes and far less wealthy people.  No one cares.  No one but you, that is.[/quote]

Nobody actually cares about your middle-class or wealthy lifestyle. The only thing we care about relevant to Langley is how the School Board continues to misuse the space available in the Langley pyramid for relieving overcrowding and concentration of FARMs children in surrounding areas.[/quote]

I realize that I am beating a dead horse, but where are these magical people who can be moved into Langley?  As a PP noted, the communites abutting's Langley boundaries are also primarily upper middle class and above.  The only way to materially change Langley's current economic diversity is to draw an incredibly awkward boundary map, which is the same thing that a certain group of people complain about with regard to Langley's boundary extending to the Loudoun border.  In fact, it's even more awkward because you'd literally need to have kids bypassing closer schools -- on the same route -- to get them to Langley.  Anyone trying to have it both ways is just trying to pick a fight.[/quote]

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The people who constantly grouse about this simply won't admit that what they're advocating for is social engineering.  Plain and simple.[/quote]

No dog in this fight but get serious.  There isn't a better example of "social engineering" to be found in FCPS that making sure Langley has no poors.  [/quote] Yup. This is a well known fact. And precisely the reason my kid will attend MHS although he could have transferred to Langley (for language).  Place your kids in a decent school with values that align with yours, in my opinion. [/quote]

That’s nice.  Still waiting on those examples of magical FARMs kids who could be reassigned to Langley.  Crickets.[/quote]

I already addressed this:
"Boundaries are already incredibly awkward in the majority of pyramids, except that they've existed in this way for decades so they seem normal to everyone. It's also not awkward for students to bypass closer schools, that currently happens across the entire county near the borders of each boundary. People who live along the edges are almost certainly closer to another school than the one they are assigned to."

So there, a simple re-drawing of boundaries could put any number of FARMs students at Langley, just look at the Herndon area. Again, their proximity to HHS is irrelevant because we already established an understanding that it is completely normal for kids to live much closer to other schools yet are assigned to another. Look at Hayfield and Woodson boundaries for goodness' sake.[/quote]

Not the Herndon poster again. If you want your Herndon kid to attend Langley so badly, move to the Langley area.

OP, I think I understand what you want but the wording was poor in your dilemma.

We live in an affluent area in Langley. Most of our neighbors send their kids to private school so the rich kids who live in the Langley pyramid often go to private and do not attend the public high school. Plenty of kids from high achieving families do attend the public schools though. My kids have friends whose parents are executives, law partners, surgeons and business owners. I feel the bar is high for them on what they think is normal. You can’t afford to live here if you aren’t somewhat successful. [/quote]

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