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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree for these reasons, among others:

First, there's been little suggestion that the outcome of the ongoing discussions will actually be a county wide-redistricting at the ES/MS/HS level.  So I think the premise of your post is wrong.

Second, while McLean is currently only the fourth most overcrowded high school out of the county's 25 high/secondary schools, FCPS already has identified a solution to overcrowding at Oakton (addition as part of ongoing renovation), Centreville (addition as part of upcoming renovation), and West Potomac (addition outside the normal renovation cycle, even though there is space at Mount Vernon).  It has not identified a solution to overcrowding at McLean, which is projected to the most overcrowded high school in the county by 2023.  [b]FCPS already gave McLean second-hand treatment when it decided to build additions outside the normal renovation cycle at Justice (even though there is space at Annandale), West Potomac (even though there is space at Mount Vernon), and Madison (for reasons that aren't clear), but not McLean.  Now they are adding insult to injury by delaying a boundary study with Langley.  
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Third, the argument that you can't go ahead and implement an easy solution that need involve only two schools (overcrowded McLean and under-enrolled Langley) because the solutions to problems elsewhere in the county aren't as easy or might require boundary changes involving multiple schools suggests that FCPS has become too big to manage properly.  They already paid to expand Langley during its recent renovation, even though they knew its enrollment was declining, so why not go ahead and take advantage of the money that's been spent and the additional space?

It is so unfair!

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Probably because those kids can go to Langley.[/quote]

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