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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just because many FCPS families are entitled jerks doesn’t mean this wasn’t a good acquisition for FCPS. This fills a long term need and the details will be worked out and people will whine and complain and accuse and I hope we just ignore them.[/quote]

I’d be thrilled, too, if FCPS just tossed the CIP aside and said they were going to spend $150-250M in my neighborhood that we’d previously been told couldn’t happen for many years because there isn’t enough money.  [/quote]

There has been money set aside for building a Western HS for ages. They can pay to renovate Centerville without the expansion, which wouldn't be needed. [/quote]

The only money that had been set aside was about $25 million for land acquisition.

Everything else was just an estimate of how much a new school would cost, with no plans to begin construction for many years.

This will completely upend both the ongoing boundary study and other projects in the CIP, of which Centreville is just one example.  [/quote]

Fine, upend away. It is right in the area that needs to have kids shifted around. Parklawn and Coates are massively overcrowed. Centerville is overcrowded enough that they are talking about expanding the school to 3,000 seats. SLHS is near capacity with a recent expansion. Westfield, Oakton and Chantilly are near or over 100% capacity.

Buying a building that is ready to be used saves construction costs and time. It allows kids to be shifted to a new school as a unit so everyone is a new location at the same time, which decreases the pain of moving because all of the students are in the same position. And it so happens to be at the very location that was supposed to be used for the new HS that was stupidly squandered years ago. Carson will have a school that it can feed into.

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Centreville wasn’t going to be expanded to 3000 because of overcrowding at Centreville.

But, yes, if this is the right school in the right location, then scrap the current boundary study and all the useless shit in the last CIP and start from scratch, recognizing that this school will change a lot of boundaries and chew up funding that FCPS was previously planning to spend over the next five years on other projects.  [/quote]

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