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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, FCPS should stupidly continue to expand Langley and Cooper so even more kids whose parents are rich can be bussed to schools nowhere near they live.  [/quote]

Once more:

The reason kids are bused so far:
1. Closest school cannot absorb the extra numbers.
2. I'm not familiar with Forestville--but do all the kids go to Langley?  It is a good thing to keep the kids with the same cohort.

3. If the parents are happy and the school is happy, then why do you care?  Win/win.

Are you as upset about kids who live near Centreville/Clifton being bused to Fairfax?  Some live one mile from Centreville and way less distance than Fairfax.
How about the kids that live less than 2 miles from Chantilly and go to Oakton?  Are you concerned about them?

I'm guessing that this goes on all over Fairfax County.   Again, why is this so important to you?  [/quote]

The situation with kids who live Centreville and Clifton going to Fairfax is a result of weird boundaries due to all Fairfax City kids attending Fairfax, even though some are closer to Oakton and Woodson, and Madison/Oakton/Fairfax/Woodson being so close to one another.  It's also not ideal, as there are families at Fairfax who'd like to send their kids to Centreville, which is closer.

Herndon is being expanded to 2500 seats, so between those additional seats and another 2500 or seats that might be added with a new high school, it is certainly possible that Herndon HS could have space to take on students from Langley, and Langley in turn might be able to accommodate more students who live closer to the school than the western parts of Great Falls.

Of course, that all remains to be determined.  What is unfortunate, however, is the prospect that people will actively work behind the scenes to kill the construction of a new school simply because they don't want Langley's boundaries even potentially to be revisited, or the idea that nothing can move forward unless Langley, alone among the high schools attended by students living in the western part of the county, receives some sort of iron-clad guarantee ahead of time that it will be scoped out of any future adjustments.  No single school community should be allowed to exert such an outsized influence on FCPS decisions. [/quote]

If you think that people will work behind the scenes and actually succeed in killing a new high school when several high schools are overcapacity, I suggest you get some people together and work behind the scenes to support it's being built.

I really can't see the high school project being killed.

It's much more likely that the school will get built, boundaries will be rearranged to relieve the closest overcrowded schools (Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and maybe a bit of Centreville), and of course the Herndon boundary would change since the new site is in the existing one, and Langley boundary will stay the same or largely the same.[/quote]

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