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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like there are three options for moving part of McLean to Langley:

[b]1.  Move the Franklin Sherman neighborhoods zoned for McLean to Langley.  The advantage is those are the closest McLean neighborhoods to Langley.  The disadvantage is that it further concentrates the county's wealthiest at Langley.[/b]

2.  Move the McLean attendance islands along Route 7 in Vienna from McLean to Langley.  The advantage is that it eliminates the islands (and could eliminate a split feeder, at least at Colvin Run).  The disadvantage is that Langley is further from those neighborhoods than McLean.

3.  Move the Spring Hill and Westgate apartments in Tysons from McLean to Langley.  The advantage is that it adds some diversity to Langley.  The disadvantage is that those neighborhoods are closer to McLean than Langley.

I'd thought Marshall might be part of the discussion, but the latest CIP indicates that Marshall's program capacity has been increased from 2043 to 2300 kids.  With the principal closing the school to new pupil placements, GCM may not be part of any redistricting. [/quote]

Option #1 is acceptable to Langley residents.  However, as parents of Franklin Sherman students, I am against it.  I want my kids to be exposed to diversity at Mclean HS, have and have not.  No diversity in Langley, unless you include Asians

Option #2 and #3 will not sit well with Langley residents.  They don't want "poor" students at their beautiful Langley HS[/quote]

I am a Langley parent and I think all three options are fine.  Please stop making assumptions about what Langley parents prefer, because it's simply not true.

Our elementary is Colvin Run and my kids were disappointed when half their friends split in middle school to attend Longfellow or Kilmer.  I have absolutely no objection to pulling into Langley Tysons and parts of Vienna.[/quote]

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They love to use Langley parents as scapegoats, but no one I know has any issue with moving Tysons/Vienna kids to Langley.  It's become this (sub)urban myth that Langley is against that, when the reality is, these decisions are up to the SB, not parents.[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but let's acknowledge some history:

* One of Janie Strauss's predecessors on the School Board did favors for his neighbors by getting some single-family neighborhoods south of Route 7 in Reston and Herndon moved into the Langley district.

* In the late 1970s, when FCPS proposed to move part of Langley to McLean, parents complained, and a student was quoted in the Washington Post as follows: "Here at Langley we have Jaguars and Corvettes in the parking lot. Over at McLean they have pickups and Chevys."

* In the mid-1980s, when FCPS staff proposed to move some Vienna neighborhoods zoned for Langley to Marshall, the parents persuaded the School Board to move them to McLean instead.

* When the Spring Gate apartments were built in the late 1990s, Janie Strauss got FCPS to make an administrative boundary change that sent the students from those apartments to Marshall rather than McLean.

* In 2011, when running for re-election, Strauss went to Great Falls and touted the fact that she'd kept Langley out of the 2008 boundary study that moved kids from other schools (Westfield, Oakton, and Madison) to South Lakes.

* In 2018, Langley has the least multi-family housing of any neighborhood high school in FCPS and is the only neighborhood high school with less than 3% FARMS.

Given that history, it's not surprising that some think Langley parents might try to cherry-pick which neighborhoods are reassigned.  But it's great to hear current Langley parents are open to whatever FCPS decides makes the most sense. 
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