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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Expanding high schools during renovations makes perfect sense, logistically and economically.

Better to be prepared with surplus space in as many high schools as possible, than to be caugh in a situation with too many students and not place to logically put them other than a bunch of trailers.

Rezoning should be the last resort.

I hope fcps continues to expand any high school they renovate.[/quote]

If FCPS were more nimble, they'd expand schools where there is a current or projected for additional space.

There's an inconsistency between saying every high school should be expanded when renovated and that rezoning should be a last resort. Money has been spent adding space at schools with flat or declining enrollments, and then boundaries have to be changed to get the kids at other. overcrowded schools out of trailers.  They may save money by adding space at a school that is already being renovated, but then they end up with additional transportation costs and inconvenienced families for many years to come. [/quote]

I disagree.

You can't look at enrollment today to justify whether or not to expand a school..

It is way more responsible to expand high school capacity during full renovations, whenever practical.

Better to be prepared than to be caught unprepared.[/quote]

Then be prepared to admit that what you really favor is boundary changes, just ones that don't involve your own kids.  Because that's what will happen to other kids due to such an inflexible approach. [/quote]

Expanding capacity whenever fcps renovates a high school give schools ultimate flexibility to deal with shifts in enrollment as communities grow or shrink, with the least amount of disruption to students and the greatest consistency for homeowners, parents and students, and sense of community and community connection to the schools.

Running in crisis mode and rezoning students constantly over claims of equity or normal ebb and flow of student population is short sighted, disruptive and wasteful of taxpayer money.[/quote]

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