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[quote=Anonymous]The county is planning to destroy Blake Lane Park in order to build a new elementary school. The park is one of only two green spaces that serves a high density, diverse MC/LMC community, of which approximately half feeds into Oakton ES and the other half Mobsy Woods ES. Capacity numbers don't show a need for the school in this area. We now hear it is needed because of proramming and split feeder issues. The initial line of reasoning was that they needed to pull FCPS students in from Providence ES. When the transcript of the school board meeting was released in which it was clearly stated that no request had been made by the city of Fairfax to move these students, they are now going with capacity is needed because of the development going on around the Dulles Silver Line Metro. Why are we building a school in Blake Lane Park, 5 minutes from the Vienna Metro, for development that is going on 45 minutes away in the Dulles Corridor? See the link to the FCPS press release. If this school is built it will eliminate the larger of the only two green spaces remaining in the community, and quite possibly create a school in which when the demographic mix shakes out, ends up concentrating MC/LMC/LC in one school. The created school will have 800 students in a building with a much smaller footprint than the other schools, It won't have the same outdoor space as the other two, gym will be smaller, class rooms smaller, everything will be smaller because it is a much smaller site, yet it will need to accommodate the same number of students as the other school. Why is a county that is supposedly committed to One Fairfax setting out to create a situation in which OES and Mosby Woods will both be less economically, and ethnically diverse, and concentrating middle class and lower income and more ethnically diverse students into one much smaller ES, which will, given the capacity issues at Thoreau, more than likely feed into LJ because of development going on on the other end of the county? https://www.fcps.edu/event/oakton-fairfax-es-community-meeting [/quote]
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