Is FCPS freaking out about Amazon coming to town?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Actually, concentrating all the apartments along 236 in one high school - Annandale - is part of the reason that area became "less desirable." Also, turning TJ into a neighborhood high school again would mean shorter bus rides for many students and save the expense of busing kids from the Carson/Longfellow/Rocky Run areas to TJ.

It's also not an either/or proposition - FCPS ought to turn TJ back into a neighborhood high school, redistrict, AND build another high school in western Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't apply to UVA and WM by choice, they apply because they couldn't get into other more competitive schools.

Blame those colleges for accepting too many TJ grads if you want to vent about it, but don't blame the kids or TJ.

Also, do you really think public $$ are going to waste on TJ? What about all the gobs of money spent on sports teams at local high schools? Do you really see that as a better education investment?

True/ not true.

I have a male senior. Middle of the class GPA (4.1). Above a 1500 on the SAT. WM is his safety school. We know he can get in. And more importantly, we know we can pay. He would rather go to a smaller LAC with strong sciences. But that just isn’t going to happen unless he gets merit aid.

TJ doesn’t buffer families from the fact that private colleges are pricing themselves out of the UMC.

That's the thing about W&M (and UVA). It might not be exactly what your child is looking for in all regards but provides a very good LAC-type of experience and is very strong in science education at a price that doesn't break you. If TJ were in another state, more students would probably head OOS because of their options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't apply to UVA and WM by choice, they apply because they couldn't get into other more competitive schools.

Blame those colleges for accepting too many TJ grads if you want to vent about it, but don't blame the kids or TJ.

Also, do you really think public $$ are going to waste on TJ? What about all the gobs of money spent on sports teams at local high schools? Do you really see that as a better education investment?

True/ not true.

I have a male senior. Middle of the class GPA (4.1). Above a 1500 on the SAT. WM is his safety school. We know he can get in. And more importantly, we know we can pay. He would rather go to a smaller LAC with strong sciences. But that just isn’t going to happen unless he gets merit aid.

TJ doesn’t buffer families from the fact that private colleges are pricing themselves out of the UMC.

That's the thing about W&M (and UVA). It might not be exactly what your child is looking for in all regards but provides a very good LAC-type of experience and is very strong in science education at a price that doesn't break you. If TJ were in another state, more students would probably head OOS because of their options.

DP. But then Virginia wouldn't get any tax revenue from those families, if TJ were in a different state.

As far as the overcrowding issue, TJ's numbers are capped, and the large majority of students are FCPS students. So giving the APS and LCPS students the boot would be much less effective than simply building another high school, which is already baked in to the CIP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't apply to UVA and WM by choice, they apply because they couldn't get into other more competitive schools.

Blame those colleges for accepting too many TJ grads if you want to vent about it, but don't blame the kids or TJ.

Also, do you really think public $$ are going to waste on TJ? What about all the gobs of money spent on sports teams at local high schools? Do you really see that as a better education investment?

True/ not true.

I have a male senior. Middle of the class GPA (4.1). Above a 1500 on the SAT. WM is his safety school. We know he can get in. And more importantly, we know we can pay. He would rather go to a smaller LAC with strong sciences. But that just isn’t going to happen unless he gets merit aid.

TJ doesn’t buffer families from the fact that private colleges are pricing themselves out of the UMC.

That's the thing about W&M (and UVA). It might not be exactly what your child is looking for in all regards but provides a very good LAC-type of experience and is very strong in science education at a price that doesn't break you. If TJ were in another state, more students would probably head OOS because of their options.

DP. But then Virginia wouldn't get any tax revenue from those families, if TJ were in a different state.

As far as the overcrowding issue, TJ's numbers are capped, and the large majority of students are FCPS students. So giving the APS and LCPS students the boot would be much less effective than simply building another high school, which is already baked in to the CIP.

Given the progress to date, it's more accurate to say the western HS, which does need to be built, is half-baked into the CIP.

[Anonymous]

Let's turn the soon to be abandoned Paul VI building into a new elementary/middle school.

[Anonymous]

Let's turn the soon to be abandoned Paul VI building into a new elementary/middle school.

Not going to happen. It's already well along in the development process to make it a mixed use development. Fairfax City Council recently approved the plan. Besides a new/elementary middle school isn't needed in Fairfax City.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

Some space could be reconfigured and just making TJ a neighborhood school for FCPS students-only automatically adds seats. Arguments to the contrary are disingenuous and ignore the fact that TJ was, in fact, a neighborhood high school for over 20 years and is situated on a prime site with more acreage than other high schools with considerably more students (Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Justice, Madison, and McLean).

Not saying that it will happen, but it could - and should. FCPS continues to advantage one group of students, many of whom don't even live in the county, over its own students. That's inappropriate under any circumstances, and clearly unacceptable when we known the children of Amazon employees will only add further to the overcrowding at other schools in the county.

As for Lee, it was renovated in 2005, around the same time as the other high schools built in the late 1950s (Madison and Justice), and will not get renovated again for many years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

Some space could be reconfigured and just making TJ a neighborhood school for FCPS students-only automatically adds seats. Arguments to the contrary are disingenuous and ignore the fact that TJ was, in fact, a neighborhood high school for over 20 years and is situated on a prime site with more acreage than other high schools with considerably more students (Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Justice, Madison, and McLean).

Not saying that it will happen, but it could - and should. FCPS continues to advantage one group of students, many of whom don't even live in the county, over its own students. That's inappropriate under any circumstances, and clearly unacceptable when we known the children of Amazon employees will only add further to the overcrowding at other schools in the county.

As for Lee, it was renovated in 2005, around the same time as the other high schools built in the late 1950s (Madison and Justice), and will not get renovated again for many years.

It feels like you have not been in TJ post-renovation. It really cant be “reconfigured”.

Look FCPS went all in on TJ with the new renovations. It’s not going anywhere. Besides, where would the energy systems lab wind tunnel go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

Some space could be reconfigured and just making TJ a neighborhood school for FCPS students-only automatically adds seats. Arguments to the contrary are disingenuous and ignore the fact that TJ was, in fact, a neighborhood high school for over 20 years and is situated on a prime site with more acreage than other high schools with considerably more students (Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Justice, Madison, and McLean).

Not saying that it will happen, but it could - and should. FCPS continues to advantage one group of students, many of whom don't even live in the county, over its own students. That's inappropriate under any circumstances, and clearly unacceptable when we known the children of Amazon employees will only add further to the overcrowding at other schools in the county.

As for Lee, it was renovated in 2005, around the same time as the other high schools built in the late 1950s (Madison and Justice), and will not get renovated again for many years.

It feels like you have not been in TJ post-renovation. It really cant be “reconfigured”.

Look FCPS went all in on TJ with the new renovations. It’s not going anywhere. Besides, where would the energy systems lab wind tunnel go?

Sure it can. If FCPS can put kids in Bailey's Crossroads in a converted mid-rise office building, I'm sure they can find a way to make TJ serve the needs of high school students who aren't NMSFs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

Some space could be reconfigured and just making TJ a neighborhood school for FCPS students-only automatically adds seats. Arguments to the contrary are disingenuous and ignore the fact that TJ was, in fact, a neighborhood high school for over 20 years and is situated on a prime site with more acreage than other high schools with considerably more students (Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Justice, Madison, and McLean).

Not saying that it will happen, but it could - and should. FCPS continues to advantage one group of students, many of whom don't even live in the county, over its own students. That's inappropriate under any circumstances, and clearly unacceptable when we known the children of Amazon employees will only add further to the overcrowding at other schools in the county.

As for Lee, it was renovated in 2005, around the same time as the other high schools built in the late 1950s (Madison and Justice), and will not get renovated again for many years.

It feels like you have not been in TJ post-renovation. It really cant be “reconfigured”.

Look FCPS went all in on TJ with the new renovations. It’s not going anywhere. Besides, where would the energy systems lab wind tunnel go?

Sure it can. If FCPS can put kids in Bailey's Crossroads in a converted mid-rise office building, I'm sure they can find a way to make TJ serve the needs of high school students who aren't NMSFs.

True. By gutting Baileys down to the studs and doing a massive renovation. TJ was literally just gutted and remodeled. You think there is another 100 million dollars out there to gut a brand spanking new renovation highly specialized and turn it into something else entirely. Seriously. Visit the new school. It has a lunchroom that seats about 50 kids. The kids eat anywhere in the school they want. No lockers. No need to lock stuff up. Huge, specially designed lab spaces full of equipment not owned by FCPS—private industry and TJPF bought it. It goes if the school goes. All the commons used for IBETs and CHUM! Etc. it’s huge dead space if there is no IBET or CHUM. The doozen or more specialized CS labs. All the wiring and such to make the Cray supercomputer work. The senior labs that seat 15 kids but have enormous lab spaces. You want to spend an enormous amount of money to gut this at a cost of tens of millions of dollars to provide an inferior education to maybe 300 more kids?

Good luck with that.

Now that the renovations are complete, and TJPF has an enormous financial stake in those renovations and has poured millions in, plus tens of millions of private donations, TJPF will raise money to buy the building and take the school private before they turn it back over to be used as a neighborhood school. And the should. Why in the would would you take a world class research facility that routinely turns out Siemens winners and strip it down to the studs? It would be stupid and enormously waster full.

Or do you plan to tell ES parents that their kids will be in classes of 32 because you want to blow millions of re-renovating TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Let's turn the soon to be abandoned Paul VI building into a new elementary/middle school.

Not going to happen. It's already well along in the development process to make it a mixed use development. Fairfax City Council recently approved the plan. Besides a new/elementary middle school isn't needed in Fairfax City.

There’s a need for a school focused on TEACHING and LEARNING, not rushing kids to study for the test after watching movies in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

Some space could be reconfigured and just making TJ a neighborhood school for FCPS students-only automatically adds seats. Arguments to the contrary are disingenuous and ignore the fact that TJ was, in fact, a neighborhood high school for over 20 years and is situated on a prime site with more acreage than other high schools with considerably more students (Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Justice, Madison, and McLean).

Not saying that it will happen, but it could - and should. FCPS continues to advantage one group of students, many of whom don't even live in the county, over its own students. That's inappropriate under any circumstances, and clearly unacceptable when we known the children of Amazon employees will only add further to the overcrowding at other schools in the county.

As for Lee, it was renovated in 2005, around the same time as the other high schools built in the late 1950s (Madison and Justice), and will not get renovated again for many years.

It feels like you have not been in TJ post-renovation. It really cant be “reconfigured”.

Look FCPS went all in on TJ with the new renovations. It’s not going anywhere. Besides, where would the energy systems lab wind tunnel go?

Sure it can. If FCPS can put kids in Bailey's Crossroads in a converted mid-rise office building, I'm sure they can find a way to make TJ serve the needs of high school students who aren't NMSFs.

True. By gutting Baileys down to the studs and doing a massive renovation. TJ was literally just gutted and remodeled. You think there is another 100 million dollars out there to gut a brand spanking new renovation highly specialized and turn it into something else entirely. Seriously. Visit the new school. It has a lunchroom that seats about 50 kids. The kids eat anywhere in the school they want. No lockers. No need to lock stuff up. Huge, specially designed lab spaces full of equipment not owned by FCPS—private industry and TJPF bought it. It goes if the school goes. All the commons used for IBETs and CHUM! Etc. it’s huge dead space if there is no IBET or CHUM. The doozen or more specialized CS labs. All the wiring and such to make the Cray supercomputer work. The senior labs that seat 15 kids but have enormous lab spaces. You want to spend an enormous amount of money to gut this at a cost of tens of millions of dollars to provide an inferior education to maybe 300 more kids?

Good luck with that.

Now that the renovations are complete, and TJPF has an enormous financial stake in those renovations and has poured millions in, plus tens of millions of private donations, TJPF will raise money to buy the building and take the school private before they turn it back over to be used as a neighborhood school. And the should. Why in the would would you take a world class research facility that routinely turns out Siemens winners and strip it down to the studs? It would be stupid and enormously waster full.

Or do you plan to tell ES parents that their kids will be in classes of 32 because you want to blow millions of re-renovating TJ?

Huh???

[Anonymous]

Please take your TJ fight somewhere else please.

This is a thread about Amazon not TJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't know why posters are now getting into the financial challenges that they might face sending their TJ kids to expensive SLACs.

The thread is about the impact of Amazon (and other businesses moving to NoVa) on FCPS, and in particular whether FCPS will face capacity challenges. It's very clear that operating TJ as a region-wide magnet school deprives FCPS of seats that could used to educate other county students. Simply put, TJ students benefit at the expense of other students, who end up in overcrowded schools or schools further from their homes because FCPS is unwilling to use a school that often receives national recognition to benefit poorer kids who won't test as well as TJ students. It does not matter that TJ was not created to meet educational needs, but as a business marketing tool by a then-Republican Board of Supervisors in the 1980s. It's here now, and FCPS very rarely takes a hard look at how its policies actually affect kids.

Making it into a regular high school won't help as much as you're saying. The neighborhood it's in is not "desirable". You're basically proposing that kids ride on the bus longer. Instead, FCPS builds more high schools, which is a different way to approach the problem.

Plus. It was just renovated, and it has the seats it has, which are full,at about 1800 kids. You might have different kids attend. But making TJ a neighborhood school would not create more seats unless they completely gutted and redid the new renovation— which would take years and cost millions. Which is pointless when schools like Lee are underenrolled and actually need renovation money.

Some space could be reconfigured and just making TJ a neighborhood school for FCPS students-only automatically adds seats. Arguments to the contrary are disingenuous and ignore the fact that TJ was, in fact, a neighborhood high school for over 20 years and is situated on a prime site with more acreage than other high schools with considerably more students (Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Justice, Madison, and McLean).

Not saying that it will happen, but it could - and should. FCPS continues to advantage one group of students, many of whom don't even live in the county, over its own students. That's inappropriate under any circumstances, and clearly unacceptable when we known the children of Amazon employees will only add further to the overcrowding at other schools in the county.

As for Lee, it was renovated in 2005, around the same time as the other high schools built in the late 1950s (Madison and Justice), and will not get renovated again for many years.

It feels like you have not been in TJ post-renovation. It really cant be “reconfigured”.

Look FCPS went all in on TJ with the new renovations. It’s not going anywhere. Besides, where would the energy systems lab wind tunnel go?

Sure it can. If FCPS can put kids in Bailey's Crossroads in a converted mid-rise office building, I'm sure they can find a way to make TJ serve the needs of high school students who aren't NMSFs.

True. By gutting Baileys down to the studs and doing a massive renovation. TJ was literally just gutted and remodeled. You think there is another 100 million dollars out there to gut a brand spanking new renovation highly specialized and turn it into something else entirely. Seriously. Visit the new school. It has a lunchroom that seats about 50 kids. The kids eat anywhere in the school they want. No lockers. No need to lock stuff up. Huge, specially designed lab spaces full of equipment not owned by FCPS—private industry and TJPF bought it. It goes if the school goes. All the commons used for IBETs and CHUM! Etc. it’s huge dead space if there is no IBET or CHUM. The doozen or more specialized CS labs. All the wiring and such to make the Cray supercomputer work. The senior labs that seat 15 kids but have enormous lab spaces. You want to spend an enormous amount of money to gut this at a cost of tens of millions of dollars to provide an inferior education to maybe 300 more kids?

Good luck with that.

Now that the renovations are complete, and TJPF has an enormous financial stake in those renovations and has poured millions in, plus tens of millions of private donations, TJPF will raise money to buy the building and take the school private before they turn it back over to be used as a neighborhood school. And the should. Why in the would would you take a world class research facility that routinely turns out Siemens winners and strip it down to the studs? It would be stupid and enormously waster full.

Or do you plan to tell ES parents that their kids will be in classes of 32 because you want to blow millions of re-renovating TJ?

Huh???

Hysterical, but a not entirely inaccurate reflection of the egotism of some in that community. I don’t think TJPF has eminent domain or an option to buy a county building.