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[quote=Anonymous]The truth on the high school issue is somewhere in the middle of all of these posts. Even if some posters think the sites are less than ideal, the plan is to create 1,300 new high school seats, whether spread over a couple of expansion sites or through the construction of a new neighborhood high school building. The school board is still seeking land for an additional 2,200-seat high school. Lack of land space is a significant issue, but the county has options on some other properties that may become available in the next few years, and is constantly looking for new opportunities to acquire land. They can't make land appear out of nowhere, though, as pp pointed out, and the county has many competing needs that shouldn't be dismissed (first responders? mass transit? let's not pretend they're looking to build another artisphere on these parcels). Part of the rational for using expansions for those 1,300 seats is that it preserves options for creating another, larger high school down the road.

As for the high-rise development, that's simply not a huge driver of the school-aged population increase. If it were, Discovery wouldn't have built where it was to relieve the massive overcrowding in Nottingham and Tuckhoe and McKinley wouldn't have gotten the big expansion; all of those resources would have gone to where the high-rise development is. The vast majority of the people moving into that new high rise development do not have school-aged children, and they tend to move out before their children are school-aged. In the meantime, the additional tax revenue from those buildings provides revenue that can be used for, among other things, additional school infrastructure. For that to happen, though, the county board needs to do a better job of acknowledging and funding the needs of the school-aged population, and the parents of the school-aged population need to accept that part of the reality of living in a semi-urban area is that their schools won't all be placed on sprawling grounds will acres of green space. [/quote]

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