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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why the redistricting isn't a top priority in that case, like Kent Gardens was.  You could easily move kids into Marshall or Langley from the outer boundaries of Mclean and that could bring down the number of students to closer to the capacity threshold at Mclean and bring up the numbers at Marshall and Langley, which both had expansive extensions.  Langley looks like a private school campus now.  So, what is taking the Board so damn long to do the redistricting for Mclean.  I'm sure tons of kids would opt into Langley, if given the choice.[/quote]

Marshall is full. The answer is to move some McLean kids to Langley. [b]But great falls won’t allow it [/b]because they are worried about the other side of Langley getting rezoned to Herndon (and no board member has had the spine to stand up to great falls).

And, odd though it sounds, the very small number of McLean kids that Elaine tholen moved to Langley raised such a stink about it! They were not in favor. I wish the board would have gone bigger and done the right change then instead of a tiny one that didn’t even offset the increase in kids to McLean from their TJ admissions changes.[/quote]

NP.  What absolute BS.  As for your assertion that McLean kids "raised a stink" about being moved to Langley, it's beyond clear who is preventing more McLean kids from moving to Langley:  McLean parents!!  Of course more McLean students should be moved to Langley, while they still have a little room left.  That room, however, isn't going to last long with the new developments being built on Georgetown Pike and Towlston/Rt. 7.  But if McLean parents continue to balk about sending their kids to Langley, then they get what they deserve - a grossly overcrowded school.[/quote]

DP.  You really are nuts.

It’s a matter of record that the Great Falls Citizens Association lobbied to limit the number of McLean kids moved to Langley in 2021.  And Elaine Tholen told McLean parents the following year no more kids could be reassigned to the Langley pyramid because it would overcrowd Cooper.

At this point there’s nothing that McLean families can “balk” at accepting.  The limited number of neighborhoods that Tholen was prepared to move to Langley have already been reassigned, that boundary change has been 75% phased in, and there’s nothing else on the table currently to discuss.  It does leave McLean overcrowded, especially with the additional kids coming to McLean from Longfellow after the TJ admissions changes, but we’ll manage.

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