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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that people don't trust Cooper to provide appropriate AAP options for their children.  If this is the case though, you may simply have to move to be within the smaller Longellow AAP boundaries.

I don't always trust the schools to provide the best education for my children, but I work with the school/teachers to improve things.  I would hope the Cooper parents would be willing to do the same.

We can't keep having overcrowded schools because Longfellow/Kilmer are where many want their children to go.

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What complicates this is that the enrollment at Langley is also declining, yet FCPS plans to build an addition there as part of Langley's renovation.  So there will be pressure to assign current Kilmer/Marshall and Longfellow/McLean neighborhoods to Cooper/Langley independent of the AAP decisions.

That may be needed if the enrollments at Marshall and McLean keep growing at their current rate, but the Cooper/Langley boundaries are already enormous.  If people can't afford or don't want to live in Great Falls because it's too expensive or too far away from their jobs, I wish FCPS would just let the enrollments stay small and build new schools (or expand the capacity) closer to where people now live.  [/quote]

Any boundary additions to Langley would be closer to Langley than any Great Falls home.  The current boundary between Langley and McLean is less than a mile from Langley High School.  ( if not a half mile).   If you move the rest of Franklin Sherman to Langley, most will be closer to Langley than McLean.  The Spring Hill kids that go to Longfellow and McLean would be another place I would move the boundary to Langley.  I would think any boundary change may include putting two or three of the western ES in  the Langley pyramid into the Herndon district and then move more of Marshall and  McLean to Langley - Long range to accommodate the additional expected increases due to Tyson's expansion.[/quote]

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