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I mean this in the nicest way. What should we do? Because this thread is a perfect example of the nonsense when it comes to making decisions. We are doing things to avoid blow back from parents who don't want certain populations in their schools, we are getting blow back from parents and board members who want to pursue changes but only if we make sure we are taking into account poverty. I spent hours in meetings where we basically go back and forth. We have the data to do a massive boundary change now to essentially have no school over 110 percent capacity (so, minimum modulars and trailers folks). It is basically dead in the water. Because building more is an easy yes and I am just doing my job and I really have no power to make these choices where blow back is inevitable. [/quote]

Unfortunately, there's no pleasing all of the people all of the time. 
 I don't envy anyone in this situation who is actually trying to do their job.

Present your best recommendations with the evidence to justify them. Have a back up or two that may be less unpopular if you anticipate massive resistance, and let the school board make their decision.

I too notice that, assuming you are who you say you are, that some school board members are willing to waste money on an outside consultant.[/quote]

Honestly, thank you for understanding how difficult things are for us.

The consultant is cover. It may result in absolutely nothing, fwiw.

The issue is what has occurred in this thread. No one wants change. So, we went bigger. But truthfully, I don't know what will happen unless we can all accept that change is inevitable and nobody will be completely thrilled with the outcome unless they care about efficient use of school facilities (which let's be honest isn't something that most people would rank as something that drives them to vote or call and yell at a politician or Board member).

I actually like my job and I am a parent in the system and think there's a way to do this in an efficient, effective manner. But we all have to agree that it will happen.

Oh, that Western High school would be useful as well. I wish they would pursue the funding and construction for that facility.[/quote]

NP here.  I'm struggling to understand your office's past decisions.

If you "went bigger" because "no one wants change," why expand Langley HS when its enrollment has been declining for years?  Either you assumed that you'd move kids from McLean or some other high school to Langley, or you just went along with a decision to waste taxpayer money and expand a school that didn't need the additional seats.  Under what scenario is the latter defensible?

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Np here. This is a total guess but probably to accommodate tysons real estate growth? Those kids will need to go to high school.[/quote]

In that case they will need boundary changes before the new western high school is built. Tysons currently feeds into Marshall and McLean, not Langley.  I don’t think PP really appreciates the dynamics in that area or the implications of what she said. [/quote]

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