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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]

It's actually now contiguous to both Langley's boundaries (to the northwest) and McLean's boundaries (to the east), thanks to Tholen's boundary change.

And McLean has no capacity but like Marshall (and unlike Langley) has plenty of apartments in Tysons and Merrifield. [/quote]

No, it's not contiguous to Langley's boundaries due to Tholen's boundary change. As another poster said, it's about 1/4 mile from any part of Langley zone. And that alone will be used as an argument that it couldn't possibly be assigned to Langley because then it would be a small attendance island which is not fair to the future residents/students to be isolated. This is an oh-so-convenient artifact of Tholen's change last year, is that it essentially isolates Langley from even [i]abutting[/i] potential lower-income housing options, further entrenching its demographic status quo.[/quote]

The additional 1/4 mile to which you refer is largely commercial and can easily be reassigned to Langley as well, so there would be no island.

The thread demonstrates just how hostile Langley and some others are to adding any housing diversity to their school, even when Langley remains under-capacity and otherwise stands to be unaffected by the growth affecting nearby schools with less capacity. [/quote]

I do not see any of the commenters in this thread being hostile to adding diversity to Langley generally.  The discussion is focused on whether it makes sense to move this specific development to Langley, or whether another approach makes more sense.  Your view appears to be that equity/diversity considerations should be paramount and, for that reason, the development should go to Langley.  Others have focused on practical considerations that support keeping the development in Marshall (keepong the status quo) or moving it (and adjoining areas) to Madison because it will have the most space.  None of the arguments -- on either side -- is at root unreasonable or irrational.  It's just different perspectives.

As I have written above, I think it's unlikely this development gets moved to Langley.  It seems far more likely that any further Langley boundary changes in the near future remain targeted at relieving overcrowding at McLean.  As with the last boundary change, Langley is the best positioned school (geographically) to relieve McLean.  That's a more pressing issue from a capacity standpoint than any potential future concern with Marshall's capacity.  Madison and Falls Church are both projected to have plenty of future capacity to relieve Marshall, if needed (indeed, they are projected to be two of the three high schools with the lowest future utilization rates -- Mount Vernon being the other).[/quote]

I honestly think you'd have to be myopic to an extreme not to acknowledge the hostility that many Langley parents and community residents have to either adding diversity to their school or, even worse from their perspective, ever being redistricted to another school.  In some instances, it overlaps with the concern that the areas that might add diversity also might end up adding more students than other areas, but it's there.

It's how we've gotten to where we are today, where one school has surplus capacity and almost no diversity, and other schools with more diversity are near or above capacity and poised to confront further overcrowding.  The proposed solution will always be to kick the can down the road and reassign students living in less wealthy areas to other pyramids, if and when that opportunity presents itself.  [/quote]

Are you even a parent at any of these schools?[/quote]

Whose views are you trying to elevate and/or discount? [/quote]

Why won’t you answer the question? 
DP[/quote]

Because you're just looking to gather information to try and discredit individual posters rather than engage on the issues. [/quote]

No - we’re trying to see exactly how any of this affects you, in any way.  It’s clear it doesn’t.  You simply get a rush out of thinking you’re somehow “sticking it” to those Langley families you so irrationally despise.  News flash:  you’re not.  No one cares.  Your obsession is beyond unhealthy.  Maybe get a hobby?[/quote]

If you're sure the topic doesn't affect individual posters, you obviously have no need for personal information about them.  And clearly the suggestion that "no one cares" doesn't apply insofar as you're concerned.

Further, support for the idea that FCPS might want to explore assigning a new development to an under-enrolled school to avoid overcrowding another one that has already had to cut back substantially on pupil placements for IB [b]doesn't suggest anyone "despises" Langley.  The fact that you'd characterize it that way, however, may reveal a fair amount about how you perceive the potential assignment of some less-than-wealthy students to Langley.  [/b]

I'm sure you'll ignore the suggestion, but you might want to step back before the pile of self-owns gets even higher.  [/quote]

Oh, my.  Speaking of self-own, let me list yours.  Once again, you move the goalposts to try and weasel out of taking any responsibility for your bullying behavior.  First, you claim FCPS parents were complaining in that survey that they didn't want any low-income kids assigned to their school - when [b]nothing of the sort was said[/b].  Lie.  Then you claim that "no one despises Langley," when all you continue to do is insult the Langley community by insisting they "don't want low-income kids in their school" - another lie.  Gee, I wonder how *anyone* could read your posts and not see the level of hatred you have for Langley.  Several of your posts were deleted because you insisted on disparaging that community to suit your vendetta.  So it's pretty entertaining for you to sit there and smugly state that your hostility towards Langley simply doesn't exist.

It's been stated multiple times, by multiple people:  there is no issue with Langley receiving students from ANY neighborhood, at ANY income level - and to pretend otherwise just makes you look crazy.  The fact is, however, that the neighborhood you keep harping about isn't even in front of the SB yet for [b]any reason[/b], much less assigning it to a school.  When/if it ever is, then feel free to show up at their meetings and make your case.  It's unclear why you continue to pick fights here about something that isn't even currently at issue.  Here's my suggestion for you:  quit making things up about people you don't even know and starting threads for the sole purpose of picking fights.[/quote]

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