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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was there any discussion about long bus rides, or is the school board just going to screw Xfield families yet again?[/quote]

None!  No where near discussing which schools/neighborhoods --just whether a traditional school with defined boundaries or something "special."  
Dumbest idea was Reid's:  a magnet restricted to Western High schools so they would have relief.  Really unrealistic and stupid idea.  No one asked if that would mean we would not need to kick kids out of Chantilly or Westfield or Centreville.[/quote]

May be discussed earlier in this thread or another thread but one thing that came out of the work session is that FCPS staff and county staff have been at an impasse for the last year over whether the county will give FCPS a permit to increase the density at Centreville HS.  So that project has stalled completely and it's possible some of the money earmarked for the CVHS expansion could be reallocated. [/quote]

Yeah.  I thought that whole part was weird.  Permitting is the hold up--which usually has a reason.  What is the reason?[/quote]

They have been planning to expand Centreville to 3000 seats and the site is not huge.  Even if there was no reason to think CVHS would actually have 3000 kids any time soon (even assuming some kids from Willow Springs moved there once the school was renovated) maybe the county planning folks had to assume all those additional students would be coming into CVHS off Union Mill Road and Braddock Road and balked.  [/quote]

Not a single School Board member asked if the permitting issues would go away if they scaled the Centreville expansion back to 2500 seats or less, nor did anyone on staff volunteer that information.  Maybe someone thinks they can still persuade the county to permit a larger expansion but then they did say it had been on hold for a year. [/quote]
It may be something totally different from the 3000 issue.  It could be sewer, water, environment, or something else.  
DH says it could be plumbing, sewage, design, environment, or lots of things.  But, they should share what the problem is.  It shouldn't be just that we are going back and forth and trying to work it out.  And, obviously, they know what it is.
I seriously doubt it is traffic.  Chantilly is on Stringfellow.  Lots more traffic there than where Centreville is.  But, lots more space at Centreville.

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