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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP, but as long as the Langley posters keep arrogantly insisting that in no way, shape, or form can they possibly be affected by a new western high school, when kids living next door to Loudoun are getting bussed 12 miles or so to a school near Arlington, the more others will keep reminding them they live in the same county as the rest of us.

And the whole “look at the map” shtick is getting old when the map highlights how far we’ve been bussing rich kids to their rich-kid school. [/quote]
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This thread is starting to go in circles, but posts like this one keep ignoring that bussing Great Falls kids to Langley is the right thing to do from a capacity management standpoint -- Langley is well under capacity (i.e. needs students) and Great Falls parents want their kids to go there.[/b]  There is literally no incentive for the School Board -- irrespective of who is on the School Board -- to change that.  The comments on this thread largely reinforce the point.  There don't appear to be any Langley parents from outside Great Falls saying "get those snotty kids out of our school."  There also don't appear to be any parents looking to get redistricted into Langley.

Yes, there are parts of Great Falls that are closer to Herndon.  But there are also plenty of high schools in the western part of the county that need capacity relief.  If the new school gets built, that will be the target for redistricting.  It would be huge stretch to lump Langley -- on the other side of the county -- into that discussion.  And, like it or not, there is no logical reason to move kids out of a school that is below capacity even if another school is more convenient.

([b]Although worth noting is that the parts of Great Falls that are closest to Herndon are also the most lightly populated.  So you aren't talking about a lot of students[/b].)

Even Tysons growth likely doesn't change that analysis.  The only way that [b]Great Falls kids[/b] are getting moved is through an across-the-board redistricting . . . and that would likely be political suicide for the School Board.[/quote]

The above post is just bogus.  The low density areas that feed to Langley are western Mclean - outside the special tax district which go to Spring Hill ES, most of the Great Falls ES attendance area, a portion of the Colvin Run attendance area that used to go to Great Falls ES, small portion of what remained at Forestville.

Exactly what parts of Great Falls have Herndon, Reston, or Vienna addresses? " Parts of Great Falls closest to Herndon HS" is so wrong because those residences are not in Great Falls except for Holly Knoll which is not low density and neither are those Herndon addresses.

Pull up boundary maps- easy to find.  Here's who got sent to Colvin Run from Forestville [on green spot on the left called Nike Park], Great Falls [near green spot called Great Falls Grange], and Spring Hill.  Across Route 7 from Colvin Run is the Toll Bros development.  No administrative boundary change from Spring Hill.   Find the logic.  I cannot unless FCPS is waiting for something big.

Safa Court, Herndon-Forestville, Cooper, Langley. 2.6 miles to Herndon HS. 14.2 to 17 miles to Langley depending on the route.

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