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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And those of us with kids actually at HHS find these kind of statements to be racist, alarmist and insulting. For anyone who has actually bothered to step inside HHS or Herndon as a community will find a close community filled with excellent teachers, administrators and programs that seek to serve a wide variety of students and families. While we need to figure out how better to serve our most underserved and struggling students, stop trying to act like going to HHS is an academic death sentence for Langley kids.
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Does it occur to you that just maybe they want their kids to stay where they are?  That is not a rare thing for a parent to want.  Remember the South Lakes redistricting?  They ended up moving Chantilly kids to Oakton [b]against their wishes.[/b]  Oakton was a "higher rated" school.  One parent was so upset she had a reportedly physical altercation with Kathy Smith (the SB member at the time) when she was running for BOS.  The families were livid and actively worked to stay at Chantilly.

Do you have any idea how disruptive it is to change schools? Some families end up with kids in two different schools.  There are several families in Floris school boundary that had kids end up going to three different high schools over a ten year period.  It is disruptive.  And, the proposed policy does not allow for grandfathering anyone other than rising Seniors.

And, Herndon parent, have you read the threads on here where one of your other parents was demanding that the poor immigrant kids from Hutchison be sent to Langley.

Why in the world would you want Langley kids?  Your school is full.  Where are  you going to put them?  I suspect you wish to kick others out.[/quote]

DP here. PP just sounds like a Herndon parent sick of Langley parents putting down Herndon.  Doesn’t mean she wants the boundaries changed, only for Langley parents to show a modicum of respect.

I was at the meeting of mostly Langley parents at Forestville ES in June and the amount of blatant racism and classism on display there was revolting. I know not everyone from Langley acts like that, but it was an ugly scene.[/quote]

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