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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sympathies were definitely with the McLean community as we all know the SB has screwed them over.  They should have been given an addition years ago.  However, reading these absurd, whiny comments from McLean parents makes me a lot less sympathetic.

The short term solution - until the SB gets busy and approves and addition - us to send neighborhoods that are just as close to Langley.  Easy solution which, along with the new modular, will ease over crowding.

Maybe focus your energies on voting out this abysmal SB and their focus on “equity,” instead of disparaging the school that now (luckily) has room to take some of your students.[/quote]

Who was disparaging Langley?  Posters sharing experiences or anecdotes about how long it takes to get to the school or out of the parking lot hardly counts as disparagement.  You'd have to have an awfully thin skin to come away thinking otherwise.

People in the Langley pyramid could have been far more vocal in objecting to moving kids from Longfellow to Cooper as Cooper's renovation is getting underway.  The vast majority were very gracious about recognizing that, if the boundaries were going to change, people would want to change the middle school boundaries at the same time as the high school boundaries. [/quote]

Complaining about something as ridiculous as a parking lot is pathetic.  And I think you know that.  [/quote]

Honestly the only thing that is pathetic is for you to take observations about traffic congestion at and near the school as some deep personal insult that calls the utter fabulousness of Langley into question.

This all came up in the context of discussing the pros and cons of FCPS’s decision to build LHS out to 2350 seats.  It’s something that reasonable people ought to be able to discuss without flying off the handle because analogous situations will come up again the future.  The main pros are that Langley has a reasonably large campus and it was already due for a renovation. The cons are that it’s in a corner of the county, it sits off a two-lane road with limited entrances and exits, and it’s in a part of the county where a higher than average proportion of families with school-age kids send their privates. As a practice matter, that might have suggested FCPS should have capped the school’s size.  Instead, it expanded it by 250 more seats than originally disclosed, and now its catchment area, which was already the largest in the county, will get even larger, with more students traveling longer-than-average distances to get there.  Conversely, FCPS has done very little to expand the permanent capacity at two nearby schools - McLean and Marshall - that are more centrally located and have been experiencing more growth.  From a planning perspective, that doesn’t seem ideal, and I’d hope that some day FCPS would actually have people in Facilities who thought more strategically.  At the end of the day, families just end up pawns to justify decisions made years earlier that may have been l as than optimal.

But, again, none of that implies Langley isn’t a great school or that you aren’t nice people. It may suggest that, if discussions of FCPS-related planning issues bother you, you should probably ignore them or scroll down. [/quote]

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