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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason Langley was ever part of the new western school discussion was due to overcrowding at McLean. The thought process was that the McLean overflow would move to Langley. This in turn would overwhelm Langley and necessitate moving some Langley kids to Herndon.

Population increases due to developments in Tysons and around metro is expected to further burden schools in that area including McLean. The thought of a new Western HS scares the panties off some GF families zoned for Langley because it could create extra capacity at Herndon...

Even without the mythical Western HS, the western edge of the Langley pyramid COULD be impacted.

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FCPS knows it’s not ideal to be busing kids 10-14 miles to Langley from western Great Falls.

They haven’t had an alternative because Herndon has been full and Langley has been losing kids for the better part of a decade (lots of families sending their kids to privates and neighborhoods full of older people). ...

For example, a developer building a new subdivision in Herndon south of Route 7 tried to get FCPS to make an administrative boundary change a few years ago to reassign the area from Herndon to Langley, FCPS declined and said in correspondence with the developer that it would be premature to revisit the boundaries in that area until a new school was built, at which time all the boundaries in western Fairfax would be reconsidered.  Janie Strauss conveyed a similar message to Langley families, as she publicly acknowledged at a School Board work session in early 2019.

When word of this got out to more people in Great Falls, they went bat-shit crazy. They organized a meeting at Forestville ES in June 2019!and screamed at Strauss for over two hours. The next month they disrupted a School Board work session complaining about boundary changes that were not even yet on the table.

They obviously feel they have the upper hand now that Strauss is gone and has been replaced by Elaine Tholen, who lacks integrity and shamelessly caters to Great Falls...

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What catering to Great Falls?   Look at elementary school boundaries.

Those Herndon PO addresses, not town of Herndon, + Holly Knoll + some developments with Vienna [not town] addresses + maybe even Reston addresses have nothing to do with Tholen.  There have been developments that for decades have been in the Langley pyramid.  [b]Some are Hunter Mill Magisterial District.  Some Dranesville.[/b]  All dedicated to avoiding South Lakes and Herndon.  Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations activity level?

For example look up a street called Delta Glen-it's in Colvin Glen [Colvin Run-Cooper-Langley], Hunter Mill District.  A new development [Forest Edge-Hughes-South Lakes]went in years ago and I think Dunn Meadow Rd was blocked with concrete barriers.   They got moved for the snow plow and did they go back?  Interesting where the Gulick Group stuff in north Reston or Vienna po box ended up.  One, Hunters End, was marketed as Langley and FCPS under Domenech flipped it.

FCPS is making the same mistake with Oakton as it did with Langley- expanding capacity for students who should be assigned to other schools.  Oakton is near Madison and Langley near Mclean.

During the recent Mclean to Langley boundary change there was at least 1 person who wanted a flip to Langley from Herndon.  Surrounded by the developments that have Herndon addresses that were sent to Langley.  FCPS should administratively change the lot of them to Herndon and frankly no one in Great Falls would blink. Summer House Landing http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2021/feb/03/mclean-high-boundary-change-down-wire/

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If I remember it correctly she said she represented the summerhouse community.
She did have a point about surrounding neighborhoods going to Langley and thus, the buses were already going past those houses.[/quote]

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