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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly the ramp should not be closed and the solution is to move students in Great Falls to closer schools in Herndon or Reston. Langley is under-enrolled and FCPS can redistrict multi-family housing in Tysons there to fill empty seats.  [/quote]

Langley is most definitely NOT under enrolled.

Since the majority of commuters are from MD, it makes sense that MD should have a wider bridge. MD offers zero incentives for business on their side of the river, obviously. Why aren't Marylanders working on that?  VA doesn't care what MD wants, obviously. [/quote]

It most definitely IS under-enrolled: 1923 kids this fall at a school with a 2100-student capacity.  The Langley enrollment is down over 170 kids from a decade ago. In comparison, Marshall’s enrollment over the same period has increased by over 800 students and McLean’s by almost 500.

Since Langley has space, and almost no low-income students, the obvious solution is to move multi-family housing in Tysons - closer to Langley than the Great Falls neighborhoods where parents are complaining about the traffic on Georgetown Pike - to Langley and move the GF neighborhoods to Herndon or South Lakes as soon as those schools can accommodate them. FCPS projects Herndon at 95% of capacity and South Lakes at 90% in 2022, so it seems quite doable.[/quote]

+1000. That might also help Langley parents understand others face challenges more significant than sitting in traffic in their Range Rovers.[/quote]

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