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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that the one of the most highly taxed school pyramids has such a dumpy middle and high school building. not to mention overcrowded elementary schools?

Should this be the priority over all else? I mean cooper and langley are / have gotten major renovations and expansions ?

Mclean high looks like a 3rd work slum school[/quote]

Because McLean voters heavily lean to the left. :lol: [/quote]

People should not be afraid to split their tickets.  Even if you want to keep Trump out of the White House and to protect abortion rights and enact strong gun control laws at the state level, recognize that the local Democrats in Fairfax take our area for granted. They want our tax revenues but also to provide us with as few services as possible. [/quote]

If you live in McLean and vote for any D candidate for the school board, you are literally voting against your children’s best interests.[/quote]

Why would an R candidate be better for McLean any more than D? Aren't Republicans supposed to be all about being fiscally conservative, keeping a close watch on wasteful FCPS spending, and focusing on academics?

It sounds like they should be in favor of using available space at other facilities to handle any issues at McLean, not waste a hundred million to expand the HS when other options exist.[/quote]

A Republican like Paul Bartkowski would shine a light on the fact that FCPS should be expanding overcrowded schools like McLean to meet the needs of kids who already live in the area near the school, as opposed to some of the capital projects the current, all-Democratic School Board has approved, such as expanding one elementary school to 1000 seats when its current enrollment is only 600, or planning to spend over $60M on a new ES in Dunn Loring for which there currently is no need.

The issue isn’t whether you spend money on facilities - FCPS built and opened new schools, and renovated others. when the Board of Supervisors and School Board were controlled by Republicans - but whether capital resources are being spent wisely.

I wonder why you are so committed to the idea that FCPS should just continue to redistrict the hell out of McLean (the boundary was just changed in 2021) and leave it with the fewest permanent seats of any HS in the county, when the Board of Supervisors has prioritized growth in areas (Tysons, West Falls Church, and downtown McLean) that feed into the school. Virtually all of that growth is multi-family housing, and the current Democrat on the School Board (Elaine Tholen) has made sure none of it will get assigned to Langley, so it’s really McLean and Marshall that will face the continued enrollment pressure. 
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