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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Madison, Marshall, and Langley are at capacity with McLean at 120% overcapacity still desperately needing a renovation.

Given as such there is no school in the area that can accept those affordable units until the new Western HS is built, which will likely lead to a massive political clash between Great Falls parents desperately not wanting to be moved to Herndon and the reasons of logistics, to accommodate the Tysons growth.

until then the point is moot. This was discussed is past redistricting threads. [/quote]

Langley is not at capacity.  It has a capacity of 2370 students and a current enrollment of 2026 students.

If you're arguing these units can't be built because there isn't school capacity, you might have a point.  But since the Board of Supervisors are eager to add affordable housing in Tysons, and apparently willing to double the number of expected affordable housing units from 250 to 500, they should be assigned to Langley.  They would be closer to Langley than many other neighborhoods currently assigned to Langley, and the area that would be reassigned would be adjacent to the area reassigned from McLean to Langley a few years ago.  It would not create an attendance island.  Any argument to the contrary is a rip-off for taxpayers who had to foot the bill when Langley was expanded to 2370 seats.[/

My bad with Langley, didn’t realize they had done a recent renovation and had the expanded capacity they do now.However, offsetting those vacant seats at Langley would be the overcrowded McLean hallways. My best guess would be that Madison/McLean/Langley acting collectively will push all the low income kids in the area to Marshall, and taking whatever million dollar housing in Marshall and divide those units among themselves. Otherwise those schools are going to fight tooth and nail to keep the undesirables out. Only someone like Stu Gibson would have the backbone to “diversity” Langley. [/quote]

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