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This is simple.  FCPS can decide whether [b]the Langley pyramid, which has more capacity than others near Tysons[/b], should take on these additional students, or not.  If not, they should budgeting now to add capacity to schools in other pyramids. The fact that you're so overwrought about it doesn't make it any more complicated.   [/quote]

If you are talking about future capacity (which is the only thing relevant to a discussion of future development), Madison is projected to have much more capacity than Langley post-renovation.[/quote]

The area in question is contiguous to Langley's boundaries, not Madison's.  [/quote]

The area in question is actually contiguous to McLean's boundaries, not Langley's, thanks to Tholen's boundary shift switcheroo last year.[/quote]

This is correct. The development abuts McLean’s boundary, which is on the other side of Route 7. It is close to both Madison’s boundary (about 1/2 mile away, on the other side of Old Courthouse Road) and to Langley’s boundary (on the other side of the Toll Road, about 1/4 mile away). However, it only supports PP’s straw man to focus on the Langley boundary. [/quote]

There’s no impediment to extending Langley’s boundaries across the Toll Road down to Spring Hill Road. In fact, the new buildings will be much closer to Langley than many current Langley-zoned neighborhoods on the other side of the Toll Road.

Your efforts to manufacture reasons why assigning these buildings to Langley would somehow be illogical border on the absurd. For all your cheap talk about how Langley would have no problems with kids living in apartments, your posts make clear you’d go to extreme lengths to try and derail it.  [/quote]

I do not think anyone is manufacturing reasons.  I also think that the argument that Langley parents would have any issue with these students (or FARMS students generally) attending Langley is contrived.  The problem with your line of argument is that you appear to be intentionally ignoring the geographical and practical reasons suggesting strongly that Langley is a less logical option than (a) Marshall (where the geography is presently assigned and which is the closest school to the development) or (b) Madison, which will have lower utilization than Langley (or Marshall or McLean) when the development opens and which is also closer to the development than Langley.

If your point is that the school board should ignore all of those factors and make boundary decisions based primarily on equity, that's fine.  It's a fair position, even if it's unlikely to be one that is ultimately the primary driver for boundary decisions -- setting boundaries based primarily on equity would open a big can of worms and likely require lots of difficult decisions and significant redistricting county-wide.  Whatever the school board might say about equity, it is not likely to have the stomach for that approach because it would lead to lots of angry parents.  That's not a recipe for political success.

I also get the impression that much of your argument is driven by some desire to "stick it" to Langley.  That's odd.  Again, I don't think most people in the Langley boundary care.  It also isn't necessarily consistent with what is in the best interests of the kids who will live in that development.  Maybe it's in their best interest to go to Langley.  Maybe it's in their best interest to go to a closer school with a better georgraphic connection to the area.  I have no idea and I'm clearly not qualified to make that determination (and likely no one who posts on this board is qualified).  But the decision must necessarily consider a far broader range of factors than Langley's diversity and whether these kids would add to diversity at Langley . . . that argument suggests that the kids are being used as pawns in a bigger debate.  Regardless of the best school choice, that is not a decisional process focused on anyone's best interests.[/quote]

THIS x infinity.  Excellent post.[/quote]

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