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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That’s not an FFM post but also doesn’t support your claim. I agree with that poster btw that there should be more transparency in the KAA process.[/quote]

It may not be a FFM post, but it is from a member of Fairfacts Matter who [b]represents the organization on the BRAC committee.[/b][/quote]

Everyone is allowed to have varying opinions in things, even within the same organization.  Requiring a purity test and giving group condemnation for individual thought is not a normal way for adults to interact.[/quote]

Of course they do.  However, someone had said that  FFM had not said anything about extra buildings that could be used in a response about the KAA purchase.  Perhaps it is not on FFM Facebook, but it is posted by their representative to the BRAC committee.
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So what?  Why shouldn’t people ask FCPS whether it explored alternatives before committing to drop $150 million (and the final price tag will be higher) on a building designed as a private K-12 school for about 1000 kids?

Again, that’s not opposition to the deal, just an effort to understand whether any rigor went into FCPS’s decision.  The SB had been claiming FCPS was cash-strapped for years and couldn’t possibly do anything for other overcrowded schools, so it’s a surprise when they suddenly announce they are prepared to cough up $150M that wasn’t fully funded to buy KAA.  We still don’t know where the money will come from or what other renovation projects will be delayed. [/quote]

I live in the area.  They have promised a high school for years.  It has been in the CIP for years in some form. The last excuse was that they could not find a site.  KAA is a great site for the area that needs relief.  The price was right.  
The only objections seem to come from FFM and their reps.  The post by the representative of FFM attacks the purchase on many levels.  Since the area clearly needs relief according to FCPS and they were proposing all sorts of "creative" boundary moves in the area, this makes great sense.[/quote]

Look, unless you and your neighbors are planning to fund the entire purchase yourselves, it’s entirely appropriate for others to ask what type of due diligence went into the purchase and how it’s going to affect other projects, etc.

You can say it’s been in the CiP for years, and that’s true, but the references were basically just a placeholder getting pushed out year after year, with no real efforts being made to advance the project.  In the interim, lots of other schools in western Fairfax were getting expanded and there was and perhaps still is a plan to build Centreville out to 3000 seats on top on the recent expansions of Oakton and Herndon.  There were multiple threads on the fate of the new western HS prior to this spring, and the general consensus was always that it was not going to happen because they couldn’t find a site, they wouldn’t have the money, and the expansions of other schools was starting to negate the need in any event.

We all get that you’re excited now that KAA fell in their lap, and want everyone to concur, no questions asked, that it’s a great deal that couldn’t possibly be turned down. But as long as we’re all going to be funding this purchase/conversion, we’re entitled to answers to basic questions, and posing those questions doesn’t make people from Great Falls or anywhere else villains. [/quote]
Oh please lady, we know you want TJ2 (that your child won't get into), but it's not going to happen.[/quote]

You’re completely off the mark, but the fact that you respond this way just underscores that you expect everyone to roll over, no questions asked, and cut a big check for a school in your own back yard (although you’d never return the favor).  [/quote]

DP.  But, you'd be happy to spend the $$ on a magnet?  Got it.[/quote]

Wrong.  Is your area just teeming with complete morons?  [/quote]

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