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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So don’t let them.

An expanded McLean means the school community gets to stay together comfortably.[/quote]

You are so wrong:  the McLean "Community" was already ripped apart through the boundary change.  Elaine, mcspaces, and McLean parents kicked kids out of the "Community."  Please acknowledge that.[/quote]

DP, but do you realize that Langley had been losing kids for the better part of a decade, to the extent that VHSL proposed to drop Langley from Class 6 to Class 5 (TJ and Lewis are the only FCPS high schools in Class 5 based on their lower enrollments) and Langley had to petition VHSL to remain in Class 6?

And that, despite this, Jeff Platenberg went ahead and expanded Langley during its renovation more than originally planned to 2370 seats?

So I’m wondering why you think the same School Board that had been ignoring McLean parents for years was suddenly going to defer to their preferences if they held out in unison for an addition and no boundary change in 2019. The fix had been in for years to move kids and Tholen was more than happy to do her part to make Platenberg look better.  Since McLean’s enrollment is already higher than ever this year, it’s obvious which school benefitted from her actions and which one keeps getting screwed. [/quote] Spot on. And the overcrowding at McLean is down right dangerous. Thank Tholen for that. [/quote]

She is not alone.  Do not forget:

Jeff Platenberg, who reneged on FCPS's plans to build an addition at MHS (as conveyed by Janie Strauss to MHS parents in early 2015) because he decided it would make his life easier to just add seats that weren't originally planned or needed at Langley during its renovation.

Janie Strauss, who then didn't object or call Platenberg out when Facilities did something different than what she'd previously heard (and told McLean parents).

Karen Keys Gamarra, Karen Corbett Sanders, and other School Board members, who sat on Strauss's requests in 2018 and 2019 for a boundary study because they claimed there needed to be a county-wide boundary review (which never happened) through an "equity-based lens" (thus postponing any relief at MHS for years).

And, of course, there's Tholen, who pushed through a boundary change that is not equitable or effective, and who has failed to live up to her campaign promises to fight hard to secure funding for a permanent addition to McLean, even as the school's enrollment this year is at an all-time high.

The Democrats often claim that anyone who criticizes FCPS or the School Board must be from some "astro-turfed" organization backed by the Koch Brothers, but the sad truth is that locals have had to watch this debacle unfold year after year, due to the negligence of public employees and elected officials who are, by turn, incompetent, obstructive, and utterly hypocritical. 
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