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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you McLean parents complaining about trivial, idiotic things, I guess you’d prefer to have your kids sandwiched in like sardines for the foreseeable future, rather than sending some - who are JUST AS CLOSE - to Langley, to alleviate overcrowding.

We already know the SB isn’t going to build an addition anytime soon at McLean.  So what is it, exactly, you would like  right now?  A grossly overcrowded school?  Your complaints are ridiculous.[/quote]

How smug?  Are you a Langley parent?

With the addition of the modular, McLean wasn't going to be above capacity when kids returned to the building, with or without a boundary change.

It's not ridiculous for us to be more than a bit peeved when they delayed a modular for years, and a boundary change even longer, because they told us everything had to be filtered through their special "equity lens," only for them to end up making a change that is less "equity-based" (in the sense that it will increase, not decrease, the demographic gaps between Langley and McLean) than one they could have gone ahead and approved three years ago.

As for the distance, most of the students who are being moved live closer to McLean (and to Marshall for that matter) than to Langley.  Some may live about the same distance, but those will be the students who'll have the longest commute on Lewinsville and/or Georgetown Pike, which as other posters have already pointed out can be a haul.

We'll accept the decision they've made and go from there, as there's really nothing else to do now, but it's been one shitty ride.  There is maybe only one other school with as crappy a physical plant as McLean - Annandale - that isn't in the queue for a major renovation or permanent addition. [/quote]

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