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:What you call a quid pro quo others would consider equity.

If this property hadn’t become available the reality is that a new western high school likely never would have been built. No land, too expensive, and too many other schools like Oakton and Herndon had already been expanded (and eventually they would have found a way to expand Centreville as well).

However, it’s FCPS and School Board members who repeatedly have said the KAA purchase will save FCPS between $250-300 million that will benefit other communities. That is based on an assumption that they would have devoted their entire capital budget for several years to building a new western HS - which we all know probably would never have happened.

However, since that’s the party line, they should go ahead and start telling us what projects will benefit from thepurported savings. It could be McLean HS, which is certainly in poor condition, but it could be other schools like aging Annandale HS or Lewis HS, or overcrowded Kilmer MS.

Holding them accountable makes perfect sense. If they don’t do this, the purported benefits of the KAA acquisition for others in the county will clearly be a farce. It will just turn out to have been a windfall for those closest to KAA who otherwise would have attended other schools.

It's laughable that you only consider it equity if you are "getting yours." The need on the western end of the county has been there longer and is greater than whatever slight you feel has been thrown your way. Then you try to justify that it's okay do deny other people's kids because fixing it would be too expensive anyway, but it's still okay to spend that money on your kids instead.
You thought the opportunity that had been stolen from others when the Saudis got the land would benefit you. Now you are bitter that it didn't work out 100% that way. You should be grateful that at least we are getting a discount on the school so there will be more money in the future, and maybe you can make your case and actually get into the CIP before you whine about others getting what was planned.

DP. What a weird weird post.

You’re going to absolutely flip your shit when this thing becomes an academy and your kid doesn’t benefit, given how much you feel entitled to the school. You’re flexing and dunking halfway through the game and you don’t even know what it’ll become.

No one knows what will happen at this point. Could be a magnet, could be a regular school. I don’t see how it gets sorted out before the fall of next year, especially if it involves boundary changes that aren’t being addressed now.

I also expect they’ll end up spending far more than $150 million and then of course they will incur ongoing operating expenses they hadn’t anticipated for at least another decade.

The way they roll, they might. But, it should not be necessary at all. They have two additional buildings that are shells and could easily be adapted for a whole lot less than that. And, the building itself could, too.

If they can expand and renovate Centreville for $300, OOO, 000 they could certainly do this for well under $100 million.