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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good grief. Let FCPS actually start a boundary study and identify different options.  After hearing about the Langley parents who protested at a School Board meeting because they are terrified of their kids having to interact with Herndon kids, we have little interest in sending our kids there, but [b] let the chips fall where they may.  [/b]The lobbying about who should move is premature and distasteful. [/quote]

Not everyone is so complacent.

Some people like to have a say in matters that affect them and their children.  If you are content to simply let life happen to you, that is your choice. [/quote]

So you think repeatedly expressing your own personal preference as to which neighborhoods get moved into (or perhaps out of) your school on an anonymous message board is really going to move the needle, when there isn’t even a timeline for a boundary study yet?

I guess my neighbors and I just have a different approach to advocacy.

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According to your own words you don't advocate. You "let the chips fall where they may."

First you criticized Langley parents advocating for what they perceive as their best interests because you like to chill.

When it is pointed out to you that such an attitude is  not good life strategy,  you attempt to deflect by making the baseless statement that my advocacy is limited to message board conversations.

I do hope for your sake that your neighbors do, in fact, have some ideas about the best ways to advocate.  Maybe they take a longer view than you do and can think more than half a step ahead.[/quote]

Dp here. I moved from a deemed bad school district to a good school district. I would be damn pissed if we got switched to another bad school. Thankfully we are close enough to schools that we will probably never get switched but feel sympathy for those who may.

Life is not always fair. No amount of busing and attempts at social engineering is going to work.

I do think renaming Lee and creating either an IB magnet (TJ2) or some sort of ESL/vocation school would be a great idea.
I also think moving apartments from tysons as well as the split feeders to Langley would be right move.

Transporting poor kids to create some sort of demographic equality amongst schools seems like a terrible idea and a waste of resources. [/quote]

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