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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big expansion? Almost surely not in any reasonable amount of time during your time in Fairfax County, unless your kids are still a decade away from birth. The focuses now are on building a western high school and addressing severe overcrowding in the western pyramids with expansions and likely boundary changes. McLean in particular is surrounded by pyramids that still have plenty of space (Falls Church, Langley) and so boundary adjustments will likely be the go-to approach.[/quote]

Changing demographics have shelves the western high school for the foreseeable future.  Cross that off your list.

As for McLean, it needs renovating which will happen eventually. Overcrowding is a different issue and not a problem although trolls like to act like it is.  [/quote]

Not a problem? Listen to the students that spoke at the public hearing on the topic of overcrowding at Chantilly. They're the main affected stakeholders here, not parents with ulterior motives.[/quote]

PP was talking about the overcrowding at McLean, which they addressed to some extent with the modular building.  It’s not ideal, but at least it’s four trailers now, not 18 trailers like it was years ago.

[b]The MCA did argue that the School Board should scrap the $80M Dunn Loring ES project, for which there is no clear need.  If the School Board had agreed it would have freed up money to build permanent additions to both McLean and Chantilly.[/b]  But they didn’t get any traction with anyone on the board other than Megan McLaughlin, and she’s gone now. [/quote]

I'm not sure if you've seen the latest CIP, but the $80M for Dunn Loring would have been just a fraction of what the upgrade cost of Chantilly and McLean would be.[/quote]

The latest estimate in the CIP for the ongoing Justice HS expansion is about $26M.  Double that for two schools and build in some additional cost for inflation and it’s still well under the $80M now allocated for a brand-new (and unnecessary) school at Dunn Loring. [/quote]

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