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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I don't understand is why FCPS is proposing to expand Langley as part of its renovation when its enrollment is declining.  Then they'll have to find yet more students from distant neighborhoods to fill up the building.  It would make more sense to expand the capacities at the schools with increasing numbers of students and let Langley be a smaller school if people with kids don't want to live way out in Great Falls any more.  [/quote]

Tyson's Corner is expected to have 100,000 more residents.  All area HSs will have to expand to meet the increased population.  The expanded district will not be far from Langley.  Mostly likely the rest of Franklin Sherman and then carving out parts of Chesterbrook and/or Kent Gardens.  All of which are closer to Lngley than much of the western part of Langley's current boundary.[/quote]

You will not find a single recent FCPS document that suggests this is contemplated, but you will find several hints that FCPS is thinking about moving areas further out in Vienna that are closer to Marshall and McLean to Langley.  It seems short-sighted and detrimental to the other schools.  Why not look for some way to create some SES diversity at Langley, rather than continue to expand its boundaries with even more neighborhoods of single-family homes that aren't particularly close to the school? [/quote]

The point was that the likely expanded boundaries will be particluarly close to the school.  Just across 123 - 1-3 miles away.  McLean and Langley are only 2 1/2 miles apart.  There is an apartment complex in downtown Mclean that would add a little diversity to Langley.  You could also go down 123 to the apartments near the McLean Metro.  Or switch the Rotunda in Tysons from McLean to Langley.  [/quote]

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