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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finally acquiring a site in western Fairfax, with a building no less, and converting it into something other than a neighborhood high school would be one of the largest self-owns in FCPS history.

My kids won’t attend this school either way, and I realize the thread is just sport at this point for some person who wants to bait the folks in the Floris/Oak Hill area, but anyway…[/quote]
I hate the term gaslighting, but the topic of this thread has taken a pretty overwhelmingly turn in the past few days. I am unlikely to benefit from this school personally, but the obvious use for it is as a traditional high school to serve an area without a neighborhood school. The idea that a magnet school is going to help relieve capacity issues is some trickle down economic thinking. [/quote]

I’m not sure what you mean by trickle down economic thinking. How is a merit-based magnet related to trickle-down economics?

You seem to just attack magnet based on a vague notion of fairness without actually addressing why that area needs a separate high school. Is there over crowding? Where? Seems like it’s at an elementary school. In fact the numbers posted by a DP up above seem to indicate that there really isn’t overcrowding in the area at the high school level.

Is it split feeder concerns? Sure that’s an argument in favor of a neighborhood school, but it’s not a case-closed type argument. Explain it to us in terms other than we-deserve-it-because-it’s-discussed-in-the-CIP. Why does your community need this and why now? Is your need for the school greater than the benefits of other possible uses for the acquisition?

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