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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Langley students driving West - from LHS - the issue is the  commuter traffic using Dead Run Drive and Balls Hill Road as cut-throughs the I-495 NB ramp and clogging that intersection and GTPike inside of the Beltway.  But the greater issue for students is actually GTPike outside of the Beltway and trying to get to school for their practices that begin after 5:00pm.   As a previous poster stated, no school has enough gyms and fields to accommodate all the teams directly after school - and many coaches come from other areas and cannot get to Langley until 5:00pm or later. [/quote]

Because they need to go home first? I don't understand. I'm a local to this area. When I had a game that day or even a practice or afterschool club meeting I just stayed afterschool. When we had an away game we rode a bus to the other school.[/quote]

Since you are new to the area, you may not be aware that Langley also has the longest border in the county - stretching nearly 17 miles up to the Loudoun County Border.  Don't even get started on the re-districting argument.  Previous posters above have already run through that nonsense.  And anyway, it's not the kids fault that School Board member Jane Strauss crafted these nutty district lines. [/quote]

You sound like you are new to the area.  Janie Strauss did not craft the Langley boundaries - although she has tried to take credit for preserving them.  They were crafted under her predecessors, including Stu Mendelsohn, a Republican appointed to the School Board when the SB was appointed rather than elected.

If the situation is truly bad enough that the ramp should be closed, Langley parents ought to state publicly that FCPS should move the western-most Langley neighborhoods to other middle and high schools, such as Herndon, and also support moving students who live in condos and apartments near Tysons from Marshall and McLean to Langley to address the overcrowding at those schools. [/quote]

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