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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If the only concern was relief for Chantilly and Centreville, I don’t know why they wouldn’t just turn Carson, which is closer to those schools and has more acreage than quite a few high schools, into a secondary school. But they aren’t, and it seems like maybe they are thinking about the anticipated growth along the Silver Line if they build there. And, if they do, there will be some significant boundary changes, which is what Strauss was telling Langley and got them so riled up.[/quote]

The BOS was placed in a political dilemma and sold the Carson site--which was the logical site to give relief to Centreville and Chantilly--to the Saudi's.  There was not any neighborhood input.  It was a done deal.  The BOS was put into a bind because the initial location for the Saudi school met great protest from the initial place--I think it was Burke.  So, undercover, they gave it to the Saudis and said there wasn't enough space for a new high school--which is not true.  There was way more than enough space.

The Hutchison site is only accessible from one artery.  It is also close to adjacent to the new Innovation Station metro.  It is a terrible site for a new high school.  It would not be centrally located at all.  All the traffic would be coming from one direction --the current high school boundaries surrounding it are Westfield, Herndon, and South Lakes.  It is an illogical location for relief of the overcrowded schools.[/quote]

That's a real shame.  And I bet the political figures who pressured the county to give the land to the Saudi school send their own kids to private schools.

Even so, Carson still has a bigger site than many high schools, including Madison.  Maybe it's too late to expand there.  I do see a lot of reservations about the Hutchison site, but I also think that FCPS has to start building new high schools unless it wants to send a signal to all those businesses and new residents it wants in the county that it's dysfunctional and can't keep up with other area jurisdictions.  It's also shitty that they are going in the direction of building some schools out to 2500-3000 kids while leaving others in buildings designed to accommodate fewer than 2000 kids.

I'm glad we'll be leaving the county in a few years.  Its school system is so poorly managed.  Both the School Board and Gatehouse are horrible. [/quote]

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