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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS as a whole has capacity available to enroll over 2000 new students as it stands currently. We do not need to spend hundreds of millions on additions to placate whiny parents.

A full boundary study is long overdue to address gross discrepancies in size for neighboring schools like the situation between McLean and Langley.[/quote]

An elected School Board in FCPS has never undertaken a county-wide boundary study and is unlikely to do so any time soon.

It would not cost hundreds of millions to build additions to the county’s most overcrowded high schools, of which there are just a handful.

They have already adjusted the Langley/McLean boundaries two years ago. We do not need to go through that again.

What is fiscally irresponsible is not building an overdue addition to McLean, but instead watching a county that signals that developing Tysons is its #1 economic priority but then can’t get its act together to ensure that the schools that serve Tysons have adequate permanent capacity. That is a self-inflicted wound by a Board of Supervisors and School Board that don’t coordinate their plans effectively.

Some of you folks never said a word when FCPS was spending $40M to expand West Potomac to 3000 seats or budgeting $160M to renovate and expand Falls Church to 2500 seats, but you’re sure hell-bent to draw the line when it comes to spending $20 million to expand McLean and get kids out of trailers and a cheap modular. That tells me your agenda has nothing very little to do with fiscal prudence of any kind.

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