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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Facilities had more to do than Karen Corbett Sanders with reneging on the plans to expand McLean and expand Langley more than originally planned.  I sat in a room where Janie Strauss said McLean would get an addition before any students were moved to Langley and the principal said that Kevin Sneed (who used to report to Platenberg) had already gone over the building plans with her.

For three years the CIPs, which Facilities is primarily responsible for assembling, said Langley's expansion would increase the capacity to 2100.  Only in 2018 as the renovation was wrapping up did they disclose that they had actually increased the capacity to 2350.  As far as I can tell, it was Platenberg who decided it would just be easier and cheaper to do that.

Corbett Sanders was Chair in 2018 when Janie Strauss tried to get a boundary change approved that would have moved part of McLean to Langley, including some Tysons apartments.  Corbett Sanders was among those on the Board who killed that because she said they needed to slow down, do a much bigger review, and make sure any boundary changes were consistent with their "One Fairfax" focus.

So things dragged out for 2-3 more years.  At the end of the day, they made a change that could have been made three years ago and would have been the obvious change if all you wanted was a "cleaner" boundary map.  Elaine Tholen and Rachna Sizemore-Heizer were among those who said at one point it was critical to add diversity to Langley by moving some multi-family housing there, only to flip in the face of pressure from the Colvin Run parents in single-family homes who wanted to move to a school that, in most cases, is further from their homes but wealthier.  And now they are the ones spouting the position of the Colvin Run parents that the staff's recommendation wouldn't have moved the needle much in terms of diversity because some rentals in Tysons (i.e., the most expensive ones) cost as much as a mortgage on a single-family house in Vienna (that may be true, but it's also largely irrelevant, since the area that the staff proposed to move also would have included condos that cost less than 50% of the least expensive housing anywhere in the Langley district and absolutely would have contributed to greater diversity there).

I get that this is a done deal, and that we need to move on.  But it's also a case study in how inept and two-faced FCPS and the School Board has been and how the decisions they routinely make are 180 degrees the opposite of the values they pretend to hold.  [b]We should get new School Board members, and they should just toss "One Fairfax" in the trash can, because all it really does is slow things down.[/b]  [/quote]

Totally agree with your last sentence.  “One Fairfax” is simply a virtue signaling exercise.

As for the rest of your post, you have repeated this saga ad nauseum.  We are all aware of the timeline.  It has already been established that the Colvin Run neighborhoods being moved to Langley are NO FURTHER away than they are from McLean.  In fact, that entire area (Shouse, etc.) was originally zoned to Langley in the 80s, and [b]the surrounding neighborhoods all currently go to Langley [/b]- busing is no issue.  They’re simply moving them back because now McLean is overcrowded.  It’s really very simple and this nonsense you keep spouting about those families choosing the “wealthier” school is just absurd.  What they want is to end the split-feeder at Colvin Run so that all students move on to the same middle and high school together.  And since this move alleviates crowding at McLean, it’s a win-win.  Of course they should have done this years ago, as you pointed out.  But now that they finally are, it’s a good move.  So stop complaining about what amounts to nothing, and use that energy to make FCPS give McLean an addition.[/quote]

Nope.  The areas to the south go to Marshall, the areas to the east go to McLean, and only the area to the north (other side of Leesburg Pike) goes to Langley.  
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Nope.  The entire stretch of Rt. 7 - [b]both sides[/b] - west of Shouse, all the way down to Herndon, go to Langley.  Why don’t you know this?[/quote]

You are simply incorrect.   Check the Marshall and South Lakes boundaries.  You can then either go away or apologize - it doesn't really matter. [/quote]

Why would I apologize?  It is you who is incorrect.

https://virginia.hometownlocator.com/schools/profiles,n,marshall%20high,z,22043,t,pb,i,1118969.cfm - no neighborhoods directly off of Rt. 7.

https://virginia.hometownlocator.com/schools/profiles,n,south%20lakes%20high,z,20191,t,pb,i,1118979.cfm - one tiny neighborhood that isn’t directly off Rt. 7 and should be included in the Langley boundary.  [/quote]

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