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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people feel that because they buy a house in one school boundary that they are entitled to that same boundary for eternity?  Are they so stupid that they don’t realize that populations and needs shift from time to time?[/quote]

Take a lesson from the McLean fight re: the 'residential' houses in neighborhoods.  It's WHY the shifting of boundaries is occurring. It's one thing to take an overcrowded school and try to solve that problem. It's another thing when your goal is to socioeconomically re-engineer the schools, as the county and board has stated they are doing. That's a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen. They've already uncovered all sorts of violations by Fairfax County/Newport and I would not be surprised if their due diligence helps this boundary fight as well. It's all for the same reasons.

Langley is NOT over-enrolled and one can make a case for shifting some of the students in McLean into Langley to alleviate overcrowding in McLean.  Marshall is also under-enrolled so they can absorb new Tysons Corner students, which makes sense because Tysons is very close to Marshall. Pulling Langley students out of Langley (under-enrolled) and moving them to Herndon (over-enrolled) only makes sense if you are trying to re-engineer the student population at Herndon and at Langley to make things less "socioeconomically pure". And in doing so, you know you are destroying property values but don't care because that's the goal to begin with.

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Marshall is actually over enrolled. They added a modular this year, despite their renovation, and they are closed to transfers.

The issue at McLean is that there is an island near Timber Lane elementary, that still attends Longfellow and McLean The other half of Timber Lane attends Luther Jackson and Falls Church. Shifting that neighborhood would alleviate some crowding, although I assume they don’t because of demographics. [/quote]

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