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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]

I already said it could make sense for capacity. Go bit at someone else about the definition of “busing” because I didn’t bring that up. If Marshall is overcrowded and a nearby school has space, of course the board should look at it.

Though I wonder if they wouldn’t just move more of McLean to Langley and then some of Marshall to McLean.

But, current boundaries being what they are a move from Marshall to McLean might be the least complicated [/quote]

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