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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounded like quite a few parents called out FCPS last night at the CIP and Budget hearings on the inequality of shrinking McLean to under 2000 kids while building West Potomac out to 3000 kids when there is available space at Mount Vernon.

Will be interesting to see whether they find some money to build an addition at McLean or proceed with Corbett-Sanders’ Taj Mahal plans for West Potomac and end up in protracted litigation.  Would be very interesting to learn in discovery why they won’t use the capacity at Mount Vernon.[/quote]

Thanks for the update. Even if they agree to expand McLean, it will be many years before it happens. I will definitely join the push to get it into the queue even though my kids won't benefit. [/quote]

That situation illustrates the laziness and soft racism that informs so many FCPS decisions.

Platenberg had an opportunity to add seats at Langley during its renovation, even though its enrollment was flat/declining, so he went ahead and did so under the radar, thinking he could move McLean kids to Langley and no one would object to getting reassigned to the wealthier school.

But he and Corbett Sanders assumed West Potomac families would put up a fuss about moving to under-enrolled Mount Vernon, so they are trying to build it out to 3000 kids to avoid complaints, even though there’s only been one high school in FCPS that was ever designed to be that large (Westfield) and FCPS later moved kids out of that school  to reduce its enrollment and adjusted its specs to provide high schools should max out at 2500 kids.

What they failed to realize is that most McLean families would prefer to stay there, as good as Langley is, and others don’t want to see their school turned into the runt of FCPS just to cover the staff’s bad decisions. Most of the fault lies with FCPS staff and the 2015-19 School Board, so the new School Board has a chance to fix this - which also includes paying more attention to Mount Vernon. [/quote]

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