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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, keep in mind that there are no bad school pyramids in Fairfax County, where the schools are all at least good.  Some high schools send more kids to more competitive colleges and universities, but a motivated and talented individual with engaged and supportive parents can do well from any County high school.  [/quote]

This is BS. Some of the worst school pyramids in the DC area (aside from PGCPS) are in Fairfax County. OP, pyramids you will want to avoid are Falls Church, Edison, Westfield, Herndon, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Lee, West Potomac, Justice, Hayfield. Those schools are almost entirely reliant on school lunch rations, and are heavy minority, mostly from Latin America. I honestly wouldn’t recommend any high school in FCPS, Langley is the bottom line but it is rapidly declining and will get zoned with some kids from Tyson’s, which will ruin its composition. [/quote]

It’s hard to write something this long that is this factually inaccurate, but you may have pulled it off.

The lowest performing pyramids in FCPS have counterparts in both Arlington and Montgomery.

Of the 10 pyramids mentioned, none is almost entirely “reliant on school lunch rations.”  Five are probably majority Hispanic (Falls Church, Herndon, Mount Vernon, Lewis, and Justice), but each also has significant numbers of middle and upper middle class kids and offers a full menu of AP or IB courses.

There is no plan to move any of Tysons to Langley, although doing so would hardly “ruin its composition.”  Do you have any idea how expensive Tyson’s is?

In short, you are either ignorant or intentionally misrepresenting facts, and this forum will just become increasingly worthless unless Jeff starts banning posters like you for posting nonsense.

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If you look at school board meetings, they are in fact proposing expanding Langleys boundaries to include parts of southern Mclean/Tyson’s. If you look up the zip codes for said areas of Tyson’s, yes they are still expensive, but not nearly as high as Great Falls/Mclean. Said zip codes are majority hispanic, which is a FACT, and is far higher than the percentage of hispanics at Langley, which is close to 0. I am not saying that in a subjective manner, but rather using objective statistics. Take a look at what happened at Mclean HS, they were rezoned to include parts of Falls Church/ Tyson’s which significantly altered the ethnic makeup. Again, which is not a good or bad thing, but rather just objective facts for OP [/quote]

You continue to mangle the facts and post incorrect information.

There is no pending proposal to change Langley’s boundaries.

Tysons does not have a separate zip code.  Part is 22182 (Vienna); the rest is 22102 (McLean).  Both of these zip codes are quite expensive and not even close to being majority low-income or majority Hispanic.

The area in Falls Church that you’re talking about at McLean HS got moved there in the mid-80s. It hasn’t stopped McLean from being the second or third highest-ranked school in Virginia for many years since then.

The Hispanic population in NoVa is not uniformly poor, as you seem to think.   Langley was 7% Hispanic last year, not “close to 0%.”

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