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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You prefer the Arlington model where they reduce capacity during renovation.  However, when enrollment increases, the new school building is immediately overcrowded.  But at least there was a short period of non-wastefulness.[/quote]

They are expanding and growth is not following - particularly in the southeast part of the county. I would prefer they restrain the expansions when there is available space nearby. Some of this is egregious. Simply done to avoid changing boundaries - I don't think that can be denied. [/quote]

The school buildings are old and will be renovated.  It makes sense to add extra space during renovation that isn't needed than to "restrain" expansion when space may be needed in the next 10-20 years (or later).  School buildings are on a 50 year cycle - enrollment could increase or decrease a lot in the coming decades.  [/quote]

+1, I work at a school that is 60+ years old and is scheduled to be renovated in the next few years. It is a DUMP. Everything is old and broken. These schools, including teachers and students, deserve to come to a place that isn’t an eye sore.[/quote]

Renovation is one thing, expansion is another. Perhaps if they weren't adding costs to renovations by expanding schools, they would have more money to renovate schools on a more reasonable timetable.[/quote]

If fcps is doing a full gut of any school, it would be completely irresponsible and an abuse of their stewardship of taxpayer dollars to not expand the school capacity where practical.

The expansion adds very little to the overall renovation price or timeline when you are dealing with a full gut of a school, which the WSHS renovation clearly was.

The difference is clear, that the West Po expansion is not centered around a necessary renovation or full gut of the school.  Rather, West Po is an expansion simply for the sake of expansion.   It is a waste of taxpayer money and an abuse of the renovation schedule and process.[/quote]

West Springfield was overdue for a renovation, but the end product was pretty lavish. Several of the recent renovations have been fairly over the top. And they started with a smaller expansion (140 students) and it magically grew (345) over several years. It was deceptive.[/quote]

345 is a pretty tiny expansion.  That is the equivalent of 10 classrooms.  Nominal.[/quote]

A 16% expansion (345/2160) is not a nominal expansion.[/quote]

In terms of actual assrooms it was a very small addition.

You can argue that the indoor athletic facility additions were excessive.  I doubt anyone will argue with that.

But adding roughly 10 classrooms (approximately 6 more than originally planned) is nothing.  It didn't make a difference to costs and definitely not to timeline.

It is a straw man argument to use that minimal capacity increase as your argument.  The numbers do not agree with you.

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