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Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

The pyramid is unaffordable because many people with means want in. It's economics. If you try to make it more equitable by rezoning or some other scheme, what do you think will happen?

These people who suggest that Langley keeps out the poors just aren’t familiar with the area. Churchill is the closest elementary to Langley. If you drive by Langley or Churchill, you will find single family homes that are expensive. Churchill has nowhere to get these poors. Kings Manor is probably the most affordable housing in Churchill/Langley but they are still around $1m.

Churchill Road boundaries could extend across 123 to apartments in McLean; Langley boundaries could scope in parts of Tysons and Reston now at other ES.

But given how some Churchill Road families complain about some of the Gen Ed kids from the wealthy families there, one can only speculate as to how they'd react to Gen Ed kids from apartments.

You're advocating for gerrymandering the boundaries in order to increase equity, but you don't or can't think of the logical implications. The only result is going to be that if the school quality starts to drop, it will keep dropping as more educated/wealthy will jump ship to private.

Likewise, you need to reflect only for a moment to recognize that these schools didn't become top pyramids overnight. It's not like the wealthy conspired to descend on an already-amazing school and then further conspired to keep everyone else out. They MADE the school what it is by choosing it (over time). The teachers choose to work their because the students are smart and well-behaved (mostly). New wealthy folks want to live and send their kids there because others do...

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Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

The pyramid is unaffordable because many people with means want in. It's economics. If you try to make it more equitable by rezoning or some other scheme, what do you think will happen?

These people who suggest that Langley keeps out the poors just aren’t familiar with the area. Churchill is the closest elementary to Langley. If you drive by Langley or Churchill, you will find single family homes that are expensive. Churchill has nowhere to get these poors. Kings Manor is probably the most affordable housing in Churchill/Langley but they are still around $1m.

Churchill Road boundaries could extend across 123 to apartments in McLean; Langley boundaries could scope in parts of Tysons and Reston now at other ES.

But given how some Churchill Road families complain about some of the Gen Ed kids from the wealthy families there, one can only speculate as to how they'd react to Gen Ed kids from apartments.

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Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

The pyramid is unaffordable because many people with means want in. It's economics. If you try to make it more equitable by rezoning or some other scheme, what do you think will happen?

These people who suggest that Langley keeps out the poors just aren’t familiar with the area. Churchill is the closest elementary to Langley. If you drive by Langley or Churchill, you will find single family homes that are expensive. Churchill has nowhere to get these poors. Kings Manor is probably the most affordable housing in Churchill/Langley but they are still around $1m.

Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

The pyramid is unaffordable because many people with means want in. It's economics. If you try to make it more equitable by rezoning or some other scheme, what do you think will happen?

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Anonymous wrote:I posted before that there are disruptions in my child’s class. My child is still learning and is a total sponge. My child has many friends and is a happy well adjusted child. School has many after school programs that my child participated in. A few things offered are cooking, tumbling, chess club, pottery, tumbling, theater, science Olympiad and I’m sure I am missing some.

What about gender-weirdness and wokeism at Churchill Road?

There are almost no black kids at the school. I also don’t know one single sex couple. I wouldn’t care if there was but we don’t know any. We have not experienced any gender weirdness and wokeism.

There was a girl in my son’s class who dressed like a boy. That was the extent of gender weirdness and it wasn’t weird at all.

It could be a tomgirl, not necessarily gender weirdness.

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Anonymous wrote:I posted before that there are disruptions in my child’s class. My child is still learning and is a total sponge. My child has many friends and is a happy well adjusted child. School has many after school programs that my child participated in. A few things offered are cooking, tumbling, chess club, pottery, tumbling, theater, science Olympiad and I’m sure I am missing some.

What about gender-weirdness and wokeism at Churchill Road?

There are almost no black kids at the school. I also don’t know one single sex couple. I wouldn’t care if there was but we don’t know any. We have not experienced any gender weirdness and wokeism.

There was a girl in my son’s class who dressed like a boy. That was the extent of gender weirdness and it wasn’t weird at all.

Anonymous wrote:Pp again. I am not sure if higher SES kids are necessarily better behaved but they certainly test better and have higher performance at school.

Self-regulation is correlated with school achievement, and SES is correlated with both. Again, tons and tons of research on this.

Anonymous wrote:I posted before that there are disruptions in my child’s class. My child is still learning and is a total sponge. My child has many friends and is a happy well adjusted child. School has many after school programs that my child participated in. A few things offered are cooking, tumbling, chess club, pottery, tumbling, theater, science Olympiad and I’m sure I am missing some.

What about gender-weirdness and wokeism at Churchill Road?

I posted before that there are disruptions in my child’s class. My child is still learning and is a total sponge. My child has many friends and is a happy well adjusted child. School has many after school programs that my child participated in. A few things offered are cooking, tumbling, chess club, pottery, tumbling, theater, science Olympiad and I’m sure I am missing some.

I mean the surrounding schools are Franklin Sherman and Spring Hill elementary, not exactly poverty areas. There is nowhere the poors could come from unless you want to bus from far away.

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Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

Churchill is surrounded by $2-3m houses. Tear downs go for $1m. No one is keeping the poor kids out. There just isn’t any affordable housing in the Churchill area. This is a highly sought out neighborhood.

Sounds like circular reasoning: "There just isn't any affordable housing in the Churchill area because the Churchill boundaries exclude any affordable housing."

But, please, go ahead and complain some more about the riff-raff Gen Ed kids there.

It actually isn’t circular reasoning at all. Churchill is surrounded by expensive land and housing is expensive. The end.

Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

Well off kids can still misbehave, in fact it can make it worse.

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Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

Churchill is surrounded by $2-3m houses. Tear downs go for $1m. No one is keeping the poor kids out. There just isn’t any affordable housing in the Churchill area. This is a highly sought out neighborhood.

Sounds like circular reasoning: "There just isn't any affordable housing in the Churchill area because the Churchill boundaries exclude any affordable housing."

But, please, go ahead and complain some more about the riff-raff Gen Ed kids there.

Anonymous wrote:The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.

Churchill is surrounded by $2-3m houses. Tear downs go for $1m. No one is keeping the poor kids out. There just isn’t any affordable housing in the Churchill area. This is a highly sought out neighborhood.

The Langley folks keeping all the poor kids out of their pyramid and then still worrying about whether the Gen Ed kids are misbehaving makes one want to put in a very large order for very small violins.