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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every four years there are DCUM posters who say they’ll vote against bonds, including some who claim to be at MHS (and maybe they are, but it also can be a pretext for others not at the school to take a jab at MHS by reiterating the facilities issues there).

But school bonds always pass, or at least they have for decades.  More recently, they’ve passed by at least 2-1 margins:

2021: 300K (Y), 130K (N)

2019:  226K (Y), 67K (N)

2017:  262K (Y), 95K (N)

2015:  136K (Y), 50K (N)

2013:  216K (Y), 77K (N)

2011:  134K (Y), 58K (N)

Realistically it’s tilting at windmills to suggest Fairfax residents will vote down a school bond.  Those of us at McLean who want to see the school get funded fairly have to find other levers to pull.  [/quote]

Yes. And as long as this continues the Board will have no reason to stop spending money in bad ways. They know these bond will always pass. And the taxpayers are on the hook. I will escape in the next few years.[/quote]

In that case it appears the bonds will pass by even higher margins.  :lol:

There are people in the county who absolutely would vote against any school bonds until FCPS did a massive redistricting to use all the existing capacity, wherever located.

One way to interpret the routine passage of the bond referenda is that people generally want to stay at their current schools and will accept some inefficiency and somewhat higher taxes in exchange for not getting redistricted constantly just because some other school miles further away may have some surplus capacity.

And people like nice school facilities for their kids. FCPS hasn’t been consistent in its renovation policy - older schools built in the 1950s like Annandale, Lewis, and McLean got much cheaper renovations than the schools built in the 1960s subsequently received.  But the more recent renovations have been quite nice, while still not the super-luxe renovations or new buildings you see in some other parts of the country. [/quote]

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