how many trailers are acceptable?
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Anonymous
They are scheduled to allocate some funds next month to continue work on the roof at McLean HS and are allocating about $1.5M to renovate the bathrooms at McLean HS next summer. But the capital investment in McLean HS over the past three decades has been very low compared to other high schools, which is why they end up having to make these spot investments. |
Anonymous
It doesn't quite work this way. Langley is richer than McLean and just got an $80M renovation. They are also now renovating Cooper MS, the feeder to Langley, at a price tag of around $55M. If you were to consider the three high pyramids in FCPS that have gotten the biggest shaft in terms of capital investments in recent decades, they are Annandale, Falls Church, and McLean. They have started to rectify the situation in the Falls Church pyramid - they built a brand-new Graham Road ES to replace the old building, and they have budgeted $130M on a Falls Church HS renovation that's just starting. They haven't been as generous to Annandale or McLean, and the challenges at Annandale are magnified by a series of boundary decisions that sent many of Annandale's single-family neighborhoods to other schools (Falls Church, Edison, Lake Braddock, and Woodson). |
Anonymous
^ FCPS also built brand-new Mason Crest ES relatively recently, which is a split feeder to Falls Church HS and Justice HS. |
Anonymous
So assume based on FCPS dashboard numbers: 20 pyramids feed to Kent Gardens FLI remove Mclean pyramid schools 18 pyramids including Langley [note locations of residences for Franklin Sherman, Churchill Rd etc- drive by Kent to get to another French FLI] minimum students non Mclean pyramid=245= 98/40% out of boundary minimum minimum because if a school sends less than 10 FCPS shows 1. FCPS does not furnish the data in a readily usable form nor does it have walk zone maps like APS. |
Anonymous
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+ there were 38 mininum other non Kent Gardens. Add to the minimum 98 and the 40% out of boundary is 340. IDK and FCPS doesn't inform.
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Anonymous
| The elementary we’re zoned for has trailers and I hate the look, the waste of outdoor space, and the message it sends about how much we *really* care about students. We (meaning fairfax county) don’t want people to live in trailers in the pyramid but we expect children to spend most of their day in them? |
Anonymous
“LOL” - Lewis Pyramid |
Anonymous
And? |
Anonymous
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There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.
Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old). |
Anonymous
I think that’s the point. If only “poor” schools get renovated due to imaginary wokeness, Lewis pyramid should be full of shiny showpieces. Instead at least 5 buildings feel as if they’re held together only by caulk and hope. |
Anonymous
There isn’t a single school in the Lewis pyramid with an enrollment above the design capacity of the school. The schools with trailers and modulars have them because their class sizes are much smaller than average, which creates a need for additional classrooms. West Springfield was built almost a decade after McLean, 2-3 times as much money was spent on its renovation as had been spent renovating either Lewis or McLean, and it was expanded to 2500 seats while McLean and Lewis were left with far fewer permanent seats. The impact of these decisions is to leave McLean overcrowded and deteriorating, and to stigmatize Lewis since there was such a big expansion of West Springfield even though Lewis is just a few miles away with surplus capacity. Much of this was courtesy, by the way, of Jeff Platenberg, a West Springfield graduate who until this summer headed Facilities. |
Anonymous
I teach at a Title 1 school that is 60+ years old and finally on the schedule for a renovation in the next 2-5 years. The building is disgusting with a significant mouse problem. |
Anonymous
It was already pointed out Langley got and Cooper is getting expensive renovations/additions, so obviously the inequities in terms of facilities have more to do with the age of the schools and the timing of their past “renovations” than “wokeness.” Although there does seem to be a particular reluctance on the part of recent School Boards to treat McLean equitably for fear they will be accused of favoritism (in particular, the School Board authorized permanent additions to each of South Lakes, Madison, Justice, and West Potomac, all but one of which was less overcrowded than McLean, outside the renovation queue when none of those schools was otherwise due for a renovation, but has left McLean kids in trailers and now a cheap modular for a decade). |
Anonymous
Please name the school. |
Anonymous
Renovation schedule is public- it’s pretty easy to narrow down… |