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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Confused - honest question...
Why would people be sent out of Langley if it is under capacity? Or does Langley not want people from mcclean coming to their school? I am not understanding what the issue is. [/quote]

Langley parents don't care if anyone gets redistricted to Langley.  Langley parents do care if their kids get redistricted to a lower-performing school, in part because of the academics and in part because of property values.[/quote]

I was at the work session earlier this week and heard Langley parents sitting behind me complaining about the possibility that some McLean kids might get moved to Langley. They’ve convinced themselves FCPS might then move them from Langley to Herndon.

If you think this concern is silly or makes Langley families come across as selfish, you should talk to the other parents. [/quote]

Well I have talked to other parents and there are a few concerned about that possibility.

I haven't spoken to or heard of anyone opposed to a tweak in the boundary that scoops up some McLean students. Most of us think that is the ideal solution for McLean's overcrowding.  Despite school rivalries many of us have friends and coworkers whose children go there or will in the future. It would get  kids out of the trailers.  I for one was glad when my child no longer had to go back and forth between the trailers and the school building. Whether those neighborhoods close to Langley want that or would rather wait for renovations to be completed at McLean is up to them.  They have a right to their own opinion on the options.

If the school board does want to reconstitute schools based largely on socioeconomic integration, then the idea of them doing some domino redistricting (even if it is in the future) is entirely feasible.

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