FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??

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Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another fun thing that came out of today's meeting was that Reid had no idea whether Route 1 is in eastern or northern Fairfax. She's supposed to be overseeing a boundary study but apparently still has no idea where some of the major arteries in the county are located.

I mean, I don't know this either and I've lived in Fairfax County for 15 years!

Does your job require you to be familiar with the county as a whole? If so, do you make more or less than half a million a year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

In Fairfax County a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another fun thing that came out of today's meeting was that Reid had no idea whether Route 1 is in eastern or northern Fairfax. She's supposed to be overseeing a boundary study but apparently still has no idea where some of the major arteries in the county are located.

I mean, I don't know this either and I've lived in Fairfax County for 15 years!

Does your job require you to be familiar with the county as a whole? If so, do you make more or less than half a million a year?

Agree. If she has been to all the schools as she claims--and from her photos and emails, I assume she has--she should know more about the area.

But, like my dad used to say about weddings: "it's all about the photos."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

Well, I asked google:

No, Westfield High School in Chantilly, VA, did not have a stadium when it opened; the school's football field with bleachers and a stadium were built and added after the school opened, with the main stadium construction happening years later.

Details
Westfield High School opened its doors in 1995.
The athletic fields, including the football field, were in place when the school opened.
However, the permanent stadium with extensive seating and facilities came later, with the main stadium construction and improvements taking place in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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And, one more:

Did not have a stadium
South County High School did not have a stadium when it opened in September 2005. However, it later acquired a stadium in 2007, which was a significant development for the school's athletic programs.
Wikipedia
+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

In Fairfax County a few years ago.

Yeah, no, that didn’t happen, unless you’re just talking about a temporary renovation of an existing stadium/turf field. That’s different than telling people at a traditional HS their school is opening without a fully functioning stadium.

I’m not saying, by the way, that KAA shouldn’t be a traditional HS, only that people are right to identify what KAA may be lacking and figure out what the implications are in terms of costs, timing, etc.

[Anonymous]

So what’s the next step?

The boundary study is ongoing, but so far Reid has not made any attempt to incorporate the new school’s boundaries into the boundary realignment analysis.

Shouldn’t the FCPS start developing new boundary models in case the new school becomes a traditional community school?

I know no decision was made but they should start working on mutiple scenarios.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

Well, I asked google:

No, Westfield High School in Chantilly, VA, did not have a stadium when it opened; the school's football field with bleachers and a stadium were built and added after the school opened, with the main stadium construction happening years later.

Details
Westfield High School opened its doors in 1995.
The athletic fields, including the football field, were in place when the school opened.
However, the permanent stadium with extensive seating and facilities came later, with the main stadium construction and improvements taking place in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Again, different situation. KAA does not have all the athletic fields today that Westfield or South County had when they opened, much less the permanent stadiums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The building was built to have males and females on separate ends of the school. That alone will take some renovations to undue.

This is the dumbest of your new talking points, might as well drop it. There are bathrooms for both on both sides of the school. Have you ever even been in there? I'm almost certain the answer is "no." What about the rest of the classroom space makes a room "for girls" or "for boys?"

Anonymous wrote:Also do the athletic facilities have lights? Are there multiple fields available for practice after school?

The property is right next to Carson, literally touching. They will share athletic field space. There are no real middle school sports so the space is available.

Anonymous wrote:Is there parking and if not would there be enough outdoor space left after building a large enough parking lot to accommodate the needs of a HS? If all these things need to happen it is unlikely that could get designed, permitted, and built in 10 months considering they don’t even know what they want the school to be yet.

Yes, there is parking. Look at it on Google maps. And if the school only opens for 9th and 10th grade then they don't even need student parking yet. Plenty of time to sort that out, including picking where the stadium would (eventually) go and moving any parking somewhere else first.

[Anonymous]

Wow, so it sounds there’s going to be a lot of incremental costs over the next few years. Saying this is a $150 million purchase is misleading if we’re actually committing to spending a lot more on the building interior and exterior athletics facilities over the coming years. The cost savings that they were pointing to may turn out to be entirely illusory, to the detriment of those zoned to many other existing FCPS schools.

[Anonymous]

What is all this fuss about a stadium? They have a regulation field inside a regulation track. Build a larger set of bleachers on the opposite side and use the existing ones for the visitor fans and boom, stadium. Should be able to accomplish that and add some lights in the couple years it takes to field varsity teams after starting without juniors or seniors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

In Fairfax County a few years ago.

Yeah, no, that didn’t happen, unless you’re just talking about a temporary renovation of an existing stadium/turf field. That’s different than telling people at a traditional HS their school is opening without a fully functioning stadium.

I’m not saying, by the way, that KAA shouldn’t be a traditional HS, only that people are right to identify what KAA may be lacking and figure out what the implications are in terms of costs, timing, etc.

Oh you know EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN THIS GIANT COUNTY? No you don't. Shut up you sound so incredibly stupid. JUST GO AWAY TROLL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School will need 200+ million dollars of renovations if it is made into a traditional HS. No way that gets done in less than a year. Part of the reason you are starting to hear about magnet options is that it would allow them to open the school on a small scale and fulfill their promise to open in 2026.
I’ve heard from 4 people who have toured the school and all say if it’s made a traditional school they will need 2 full years to renovate and make additions to athletics facilities.

Lady, you can have a high school without a football field. Especially if it's only two grades the first year.

DP. That’s a non sequitur. If it’s two grades at first, they might just have a JV team initially but they’ll be some parents who’ll absolutely throw a fit if the school doesn’t have a stadium with lights, bleachers, goal posts, etc.

Once more: I remember going to games at neutral fields because a school was either building or renovating their stadium. It may have been for a Spring sport. They use a field that is not being used that night.
People will not throw a fit. Believe me. And, they will fundraise for it. One thing people support is sports.

Where was this? I’d be very surprised if it was an FCPS high school.

In Fairfax County a few years ago.

Yeah, no, that didn’t happen, unless you’re just talking about a temporary renovation of an existing stadium/turf field. That’s different than telling people at a traditional HS their school is opening without a fully functioning stadium.

I’m not saying, by the way, that KAA shouldn’t be a traditional HS, only that people are right to identify what KAA may be lacking and figure out what the implications are in terms of costs, timing, etc.

Oh you know EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN THIS GIANT COUNTY? No you don't. Shut up you sound so incredibly stupid. JUST GO AWAY TROLL

The screaming in capital letters is a nice touch, but you might want to stop being such a giant putz.

[Anonymous]

There's a soccer pitch, friends. That means there's a football field. They just need to build bleachers, concessions, etc.

There's a baseball diamond at Carson.

There's a ton of space where the trees are that they can tear down in between the two schools. Parking there!