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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this a done deal? All of Colvin run now will go to copper/Langley and also parts of west brier and Spring Hill?

Looking at a map, this looks like it makes sense.

I have a current 6th grader who will be attending cooper next year. I welcome diversity and so do most other people I know.

Why didn’t the apartments get moved to Langley?

Very doubtful parents try to keep multi family housing out.[/quote]

The apartments didn't get moved to Langley, as the staff had proposed, because Elaine Tholen was browbeaten by parents who said eliminating the split feeder at Colvin Run and having a "cleaner" boundary map was more important.  You don't have to keep people out when you let the ones begging the hardest to be let in have their way.

This is what FCPS has done over and over again for more than a decade, and then they act shocked when the disparities in nearby schools (Annandale/Woodson, Lewis/West Springfield, McLean/Langley) keep increasing.  It's their doing, and they know how to look sad about it but not fix it or avoid it. [/quote]

You have been repeating yourself over and over.  It makes zero sense to draw weird boundaries all in the name of “equity” - as if an apartment here or there would make any difference at all.  It’s an asinine argument.  Boundaries *should* be drawn cleanly and simply, with no ulterior motives.  It’s people like you, ranting about apartments, who have gummed up this whole process.  Most parents just want a boundary that makes sense.  Split-feeders are ridiculous.  I’m glad they fixed that.[/quote]

If you want to traffic in what's good planning, building out a school with a declining enrollment in a remote corner of the county to over 2350 students, as FCPS did with Langley, probably isn't going to win any awards.

Every student they decided to move to make the boundaries "cleaner" will travel further to Langley than it would take them to travel to McLean.  [/quote]

Listen, bitter McLean mom.  It’s been correctly pointed out, time and again, that it makes sense to enlarge a school if a renovation is going on anyhow, and there is room to do so - which there was.  With the added space at Langley, there was/is room to bring over some McLean kids to alleviate the overcrowding at your school - which we all know the SB has no intention of doing anything about (beyond adding a modular).  If you don’t want some McLean kids to go to Langley, that’s your problem.  It’s a common sense solution.  Sadly, neither you nor the SB seem to have any common sense at all, or this would’ve been implemented by now.  [/quote]

We all knew the know-it-all Langley mom would show up eventually to do her own special victory dance.  What took you so long?

I’m sorry, but just because you can do something doesn’t mean it’s common sense to go ahead and do it, and now FCPS will end up spending more money over a longer period of time to transport more kids longer distances to a school that has a single entrance and exit off a busy two-lane road. And FCPS didn’t tell the public how many seats it had actually added to Langley until the year the renovation was completed - before that it had said for years in multiple CIPs it was adding 250 seats fewer.  [/quote]

They are moving kids who live practically equidistant to the two schools, not busing them miles away!  Their neighbors across the road have been zoned to Langley for years, you twit.  To repeat:  these kids aren’t being bused any farther.  For crying out loud, Langley and McLean are only three miles apart!  And what on earth do the (two) Langley entrances have to do with anything?  They’ve worked fine for decades.

You are just so resentful you can’t even see straight - nor can you admit that this is a good solution for McLean to help alleviate overcrowding in the short term.  The way you’ve been carrying on, one would think half of McLean was being moved!  Calm down.   :roll: [/quote]

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