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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will be voting against the school bond, too. There are schools like Lee and Mount Vernon that have space, but FCPS is expanding other schools that are overcrowded. It's a waste of money. What needs to happen is redistricting![/quote]

That's the biggest issue. Re-districting is so unpopular. Look at this thread for example. People are clamoring for a new school, but still pushing away from the idea of a large scale redistricting.

Honestly, I support the bond. I also support redistricting. I think you need both and what we're doing is cutting off our nose to spite our face.[/quote]

Apples and oranges.  You seem to be making up arguments that a new school would have to be accompanied by a county-wide redistricting, when FCPS has repeatedly opened new schools in the past without doing so.

I don't want to pay for or send my kids to monster-sized high schools, so a protest vote to send a message that FCPS needs to revisit its capital spending program is not cutting off my nose to spite my face.  It's a message for them to go back to the drawing board and come up with something better.      [/quote]

But you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube, PP.

FCPS spent millions expanding capacity. They aren't going to build a new school so the neighboring schools can be hundreds of seats under capacity while having other parts of the county with schools that are massively oversubscribed. FCPS is one unit, one district. Facilities is going to use the space it has and will shuffle a whole bunch of schools around to make the most of the resources it has. That's actually responsible resource management. Building a school and leaving its neighbors unsubscribed and not addressing crowding is a prime example of poor resource management. If the seats are there and the boundaries can be changed, the county will likely use what they have and make the most of it.

The reason why the new high school isn't being pushed is that there isn't support for redistricting to alleviate crowding. People want 2000 student schools. But FCPS has made the conscious choice to abandon that model because it's inefficient in their eyes and they can get more for their money by using bigger campuses.[/quote]

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