He wanted them to have a separate school if they were feeling bullied. He and Cohen also talked about a school for recovering addicts where they’d get more counseling and support. They aren’t terrible ideas if there were all the money in the world. There isn’t. |
+1. Totally agree. |
Yes, I disagree that it needs to be some 2000+ kid high school like everywhere else. Just 1000 kids will relieve a lot of crowding elsewhere. |
Where do you get that? It was NOT powerful people at other schools. It was the Board of Supervisors who needed a solution to the uproar in Burke over the Saudi plans. So, they ponied up the property by Carson that was intended for the Western High School. The people in Burke stopped it there, and the BOS had a political problem--likely with pressure from the Obama administration to fix it. So, they gave them the current property. I live nearby. NO ONE in the surrounding neighborhoods knew anything about it until it was a done deal. No opportunity for community input. I don't know how this came to be, but I can assure you, it had nothing to do with powerful people at other schools. |
I'm thinking it also might be illegal--especially for the LGBTQ school. And, a school for addicts could be quite problematic for other reasons. |
TERRIBLE location for one centralized IB school. Do you want kids in Fort Hunt driving to Dulles airport every day? That's pretty much the location. |
We already have a couple of alternative high schools. |
They could even draw the boundaries of this new 1200 or whatever school to include a lot of the brand new housing in that area to disrupt fewer existing students. |
I wasnt talking about the Burke people. |
Doesn’t the property abutt Rachel Carson? |
So, you think it was people who did not want a Western High School? That's not the way it came down. |
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/30/122987391/virginia-islamic-schools-expansion-met-protests
Background on what happened in Burke. Believe me, there was no public hearing about locating by Rachel Carson. No one in the immediate area neighborhoods knew about this. I think the BOS gave them the site to make it quiet. |
I’ve always wondered what really went on behind the scenes. So opaque. |
They would have to immediately redesign the place. It’s looks like a Islamic religious building. |
And TJ is well placed for everyone? Kids are bussed or drive long distances to get there. If the program has the demand then kids will come. |