King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “2E” academy should not be the top priority of FCPS were somehow able to acquire this property.

Please don’t be ridiculous. Frisch wanted a separate school for LBGTQ kids. Didn’t happen. He and Cohen wanted a separate school for recovering addicts. Didn’t happen. We don’t have enough high schools as it is now for all kids so we certainly can’t have these other programs in stand-alone buildings.

He wanted to segregate LBGTQ kids?

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should just get rid of IB totally.

They need a new Western HS. This is the perfect location and *its already built*. Have a 1000 kid HS. Have a 1200 kid HS. Put an addition on later if you need to.

+1. Totally agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should just get rid of IB totally.

They need a new Western HS. This is the perfect location and *its already built*. Have a 1000 kid HS. Have a 1200 kid HS. Put an addition on later if you need to.

+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.

[Anonymous]

The land was supposed to be for the mythical western high school to alleviate Chantilly et al. but powerful people at other schools have helped FCPS drag its feet so that the domino effect would not burst their bubble and their personal plans.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “2E” academy should not be the top priority of FCPS were somehow able to acquire this property.

Please don’t be ridiculous. Frisch wanted a separate school for LBGTQ kids. Didn’t happen. He and Cohen wanted a separate school for recovering addicts. Didn’t happen. We don’t have enough high schools as it is now for all kids so we certainly can’t have these other programs in stand-alone buildings.

He wanted to segregate LBGTQ kids?

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.

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.

[Anonymous]

If it was used for an IB school you would bring in kids interested in that program and relieve schools that are over crowded or close to being over crowded. It would free up space in some existing HS. It would also allow all HS to have AP programs, which would reduce the number of student transfers.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A “2E” academy should not be the top priority of FCPS were somehow able to acquire this property.

Please don’t be ridiculous. Frisch wanted a separate school for LBGTQ kids. Didn’t happen. He and Cohen wanted a separate school for recovering addicts. Didn’t happen. We don’t have enough high schools as it is now for all kids so we certainly can’t have these other programs in stand-alone buildings.

He wanted to segregate LBGTQ kids?

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.

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.

We already have a couple of alternative high schools.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The land was supposed to be for the mythical western high school to alleviate Chantilly et al. but powerful people at other schools have helped FCPS drag its feet so that the domino effect would not burst their bubble and their personal plans.

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 wasnt talking about the Burke people.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t the property abutt Rachel Carson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The land was supposed to be for the mythical western high school to alleviate Chantilly et al. but powerful people at other schools have helped FCPS drag its feet so that the domino effect would not burst their bubble and their personal plans.

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 wasnt talking about the Burke people.

So, you think it was people who did not want a Western High School? That's not the way it came down.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should just get rid of IB totally.

They need a new Western HS. This is the perfect location and *its already built*. Have a 1000 kid HS. Have a 1200 kid HS. Put an addition on later if you need to.

+1. Totally agree.

They would have to immediately redesign the place. It’s looks like a Islamic religious building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If it was used for an IB school you would bring in kids interested in that program and relieve schools that are over crowded or close to being over crowded. It would free up space in some existing HS. It would also allow all HS to have AP programs, which would reduce the number of student transfers.

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.

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.