King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?

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Anonymous wrote:Another shitshow.

+1. Total incompetence and possible malfeasance.

No, we need a western hs and have for years. This is a rare opportunity and I’m glad they seized it. Let’s hope they don’t go to their usual ways and screw it up.

Why is it needed? Is that to deal with the overcapacity at Herndon high?

Seems like it's a HS that would pull from Coates, McNair, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill. Westfield can then pick up more of Centreville and the Centreville expansion can be scaled back significantly (while still allowing it to pick up Willow Springs).

People will go along with moving to a school with those feeders in a way they never would have gone along with a new school near Hutchison.

They can still move part of Coates into the Herndon pyramid. It just means Herndon isn't part of a solution to overcrowding at Chantilly and increases the likelihood that at some point they will move part of Langley into Herndon.

Left out Crossfield. All of Franklin Farm should be included,

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Motion passes.

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Motion to acquire the school/property passed with 9 in favor and 3 abstentions (Meren, Moon, and Sizemore-Heizer).

Lots of impact on the boundary study and the CIP.

They emphasize the huge cost savings but it's saving money that people weren't expecting them ever to spend at this point and committing to spending at least $150M over the next few years.

In the short term it's ought to mean that any boundary studies affecting high schools in western Fairfax are put on hold indefinitely. It also means that they'll need to revamp the capital budget - maybe they put Dunn Loring on hold indefinitely and also scale back the Centreville renovation/expansion substantially.

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Oh and some of Robyn Lady's elementary school renvoations in the Herndon HS pyramid may need to be deferred/slowed down/scaled back.

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Anonymous wrote:Frisch just announced a recess while Dunne was mid-sentence seconding the motion. WTF.

He had to poop.

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Anonymous wrote:Another shitshow.

+1. Total incompetence and possible malfeasance.

No, we need a western hs and have for years. This is a rare opportunity and I’m glad they seized it. Let’s hope they don’t go to their usual ways and screw it up.

Why is it needed? Is that to deal with the overcapacity at Herndon high?

Seems like it's a HS that would pull from Coates, McNair, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill. Westfield can then pick up more of Centreville and the Centreville expansion can be scaled back significantly (while still allowing it to pick up Willow Springs).

People will go along with moving to a school with those feeders in a way they never would have gone along with a new school near Hutchison.

They can still move part of Coates into the Herndon pyramid. It just means Herndon isn't part of a solution to overcrowding at Chantilly and increases the likelihood that at some point they will move part of Langley into Herndon.

Left out Crossfield. All of Franklin Farm should be included,

Absolutely Crossfield and maybe Navy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another shitshow.

+1. Total incompetence and possible malfeasance.

No, we need a western hs and have for years. This is a rare opportunity and I’m glad they seized it. Let’s hope they don’t go to their usual ways and screw it up.

Why is it needed? Is that to deal with the overcapacity at Herndon high?

You clearly don't live in this area. There are children who get on busses for 30+ minutes during rush hour to go to Oakton for High School and Chantilly has at least a dozen trailers. We need this high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another shitshow.

+1. Total incompetence and possible malfeasance.

No, we need a western hs and have for years. This is a rare opportunity and I’m glad they seized it. Let’s hope they don’t go to their usual ways and screw it up.

+ This is a good buy!

Like when you buy something at a discount store because the price seems good, even though you have little use for it.

This is pure jealousy. This is an amazing facility that we need. You clearly don't live here.

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Anonymous wrote:Son also plays futsal there. It’s a really great building.

Saudi oil money.

Corrupt as hell, as are those who enabled the dirty dealing without telling neighboring residents.

Are you kidding. We live within biking distance of this facility and have been texting neighbors - people are thrilled.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another shitshow.

+1. Total incompetence and possible malfeasance.

No, we need a western hs and have for years. This is a rare opportunity and I’m glad they seized it. Let’s hope they don’t go to their usual ways and screw it up.

Why is it needed? Is that to deal with the overcapacity at Herndon high?

Yikes, you clearly have’s been following the decades of capacity concern on the western part of the county. Let me guess, you’re a great falls resident hyper focused on being moved to Herndon.

I noticed you completely dodged the question.

Go back and watch the video where (1) Karl Frisch talks about people from the Sully district being bussed to Oakton and (2) Robyn Lady talks about what it was like to be a teacher at Chantilly High School, it's a nightmare. They need relief.

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Hope many students can the school accommodate?

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*how

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another shitshow.

+1. Total incompetence and possible malfeasance.

No, we need a western hs and have for years. This is a rare opportunity and I’m glad they seized it. Let’s hope they don’t go to their usual ways and screw it up.

Why is it needed? Is that to deal with the overcapacity at Herndon high?

Seems like it's a HS that would pull from Coates, McNair, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill. Westfield can then pick up more of Centreville and the Centreville expansion can be scaled back significantly (while still allowing it to pick up Willow Springs).

People will go along with moving to a school with those feeders in a way they never would have gone along with a new school near Hutchison.

They can still move part of Coates into the Herndon pyramid. It just means Herndon isn't part of a solution to overcrowding at Chantilly and increases the likelihood that at some point they will move part of Langley into Herndon.

Left out Crossfield. All of Franklin Farm should be included,

Absolutely Crossfield and maybe Navy.

Well, let's see.

The property sits in the Floris district. Floris is a Westfield feeder.

There are two Westfield feeders north of Floris - Coates and McNair. So if Floris goes to "McLearen HS," they need to pull Coates and McNair out of Westfield as well. Maybe Coates goes to Herndon or maybe it goes to McLearen. McNair definitely goes with Floris to McLearen.

Then you have Oak Hill and Fox Mill as clearly going to McLearen along with Floris, McNair, and maybe/maybe not Coates.

It's a fancy building but not a huge one so it may only have five feeders. If they bite the bullet and send Coates to Herndon (people have debated whether FCPS would send a high-FARMS school like Coates to Herndon) then it can pick up Crossfield. Navy seems more likely to stay at Chantilly and Oakton. We spent a lot of money expanding Oakton and moving Crossfield would already pull a lot of kids out.

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Anonymous wrote:Hope many students can the school accommodate?

Google says recent enrollment was 739 with an 8:1 student/teacher ratio.

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Anonymous wrote:Hope many students can the school accommodate?

One recent article said they had 1030 K-12 students at the school this past year, but that doesn't mean it can't accommodate more. I assume they'll have to spend quite a bit of money on interior modifications to increase the number of classrooms and make it more functional and less luxurious.

I don't mind if they finally deliver on their decades-long promise to build a new western HS but I sure as hell hope this means they downsize the Centreville expansion and perhaps cancel Dunn Loring because otherwise this is actually going to delay the renovations of other schools, and not accelerate them as they are claiming.