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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do the poor people in McLean live? [/quote]

Those are the kids from Timber Lane that the McLean folks want so desperately to get rid of.[/quote]

Sorry, but that area has been at McLean HS for over 30 years and is not going away.

If people in McLean wanted the area moved out of the school, do you really think they could not have convinced Janie Strauss, who lives in the McLean HS district, to make it happen at some point over the gazillion years Janie has been on the School Board?  The part of Timber Lane that feeds into McLean is closer to both Marshall HS and Falls Church HS, two schools that at various times have had the lowest enrollments in the county, than it is to McLean.  It would have been easy to justify moving the area to either school to shore up its enrollment.  That never happened because there was never any concerted effort by "McLean folks" or anyone else to make it happen.

It's part of the school community, and kids at Longfellow and McLean spend more time volunteering at Timber Lane every year than at any other school in the pyramid.  Without Timber Lane, McLean just becomes Langley Lite.  With it, it has its own identity that most people there really like. [/quote]

It doesn't matter how long neighborhoods have been zoned for a particular HS.  It looks like they are planning to move McLean neighborhoods that have gone to McLean for 50+ years to other HS.   Your logic is flawed.   Tyson's growth will change everything.  It is a potential disrupter. [/quote]

To be clear,  FCPS has only suggested to date they might move some neighborhoods that have been at McLean since the mid-80s (not 50+ plus years) to Langley, and the Timber Lane area isn't one of them.  If future growth in Tysons leads FCPS to move Timber Lane to another school (and it would most likely be Falls Church), it won't be because McLean folks want to get rid of people in multi-family units, but because there are even more students living in multi-family units closer to the school.  The suggestion that McLean residents want to "get rid" of the Timber Lane students remains ridiculous. 
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