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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The downfall is the focus on equity instead of academic excellence. FcpS will fund the undesirable schools lucratively but choke off the better schools. it's a form of reverse bussing.[/quote]

Please point out specifically how schools like Annandale, Mount Vernon, and Lewis are being funded lucratively. Each of these schools has a high-SES neighbor pyramid that has received far more lucrative facilities. West Springfield, Woodson, and West Potomac. Just stop with the nonsense that poor schools are being treated better because of equity. Sure, Falls Church HS and Justice HS are coincidentally getting renovations. That doesn't mean all poorer schools get the luxury treatment.
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DP.  You do know there are separate operating and capital budgets, right?

When you look at the operating budgets, it’s clear the poorer schools get considerably more funding per student.

When you look at the capital budgets, which is what you’re referring to, it’s more of a mixed picture, although a poorer school (Falls Church) is getting one of the most expensive renovations on record and they chose to favor Justice HS with an addition outside the renovation cycle when other wealthier schools were more overcrowded and deserving.  However, most of the capital expenditures are tied to when schools were originally built and changing approaches to renovations.  So you also have wealthy schools like Langley and Oakton that got much nicer renovations than older schools like Annandale and Lewis.

Either way, the current leadership of FCPS is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to higher-performing students and wealthier communities.  And then they act surprised when people with other options leave and FCPS get poorer and lower-achieving every year.  [/quote]

Both the prior FCPS board and the current board have been extremely hostile towards McLean HS, which is both overcrowded and dilapidated, but not even on the renovation cue.

McLean has been so overcrowded, they had 21 trailers as make-shift classrooms. They were so overused, they leaked, had holes in the floors, and walls full of black mold.

The county did instal a pre-fab pod, which replaced 17 out of 21 of thr old trailers.  But it is still a glorified trailer and not a replacement for the renovation McLean has desperately needed for years.

Because McLean is seen as largely “privileged Asians and whites,” the more leftist members of the Board (and especially Frisch) harbor tremendous hatred toward McLean HS.[/quote]

I agree with much of this (although modulars are a lot nicer than trailers) but the reality is that McLean families accept the fact that the school is overcrowded and run down.  Most still like the school even if they have issues with the building.  And while FCPS won't commit to a major renovation or addition, they do continue to make less expensive one-off repairs.

So there's really no point venting about it here.  Langley parents get a whiff of a potential redistricting and within a few weeks there was a group with almost 1000 members that's raised tens of thousands of dollars.  McLean gets overlooked by FCPS for over a decade and there's currently no similar group of McLean parents.   [/quote]

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