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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county is planning to build 500 units of new affordable housing in Tysons in the Marshall HS district:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/housing/news/2022/media-advisory-affordable-housing-in-tysons

This is new housing so there are no existing residents with ties to particular schools.

As I understand it, Marshall is at capacity and it’s quite hard to place into Marshall now for IB. Langley on the other hand is still below capacity. Would this not be a good opportunity for FCPS to honor its commitment to equity and One Fairfax by assigning this new development to Langley?[/quote]

From a capacity perspective it might make sense.

Moving kids around by race and income for “equity” is silly.[/quote]
It’s not because of equity it’s bc of space.  It’s the only school in the vicinity that can take additional students.  Further Overcrowding schools in the area bc Langley is 2 more miles further out is BS.  And the way it works now, kids way further out than 5 miles “get bused” to attend Langley.   And why is it called getting bused only when poor kids do it?   [/quote]

+1. That ship sailed when they spent our money expanding Langley to almost 2400 seats. If they wanted to send more kids to Marshall or McLean they should have expanded those schools, not Langley.

It will be interesting to see if the School Board is paying attention.  I can imagine they’ll only be more vulnerable next year if it looks they were asleep again. [/quote]

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