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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] believe PP just tossed that into the equation on his/her own. No candidate is on the record as having suggested including Forest Edge in any solution to the overcrowding at McLean or under-enrollment at Langley.[/quote]

PP is a Tholen supporter.  That's pretty clear.  I don't think either of the candidates who mentioned IB think it is the solution.  They were just looking for possibilities of alternatives.  Remember, the SB was sending the message earlier that there would be no boundary change until OneFairfax was implemented.  They have quickly changed their tune.  McLean has been overcrowded for some time.  And, please remember, Tholen was initially a strong OneFairfax supporter. She didn't change her tune until after it became clear the community was concerned.  It was on her original website that she supported it.
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I have no issue with candidates trying to show they can think outside the box. I’m less enamored of their suggestions when they are primarily intended to keep Langley happy by suggesting “solutions” that would only allow kids currently zoned for McLean to attend Langley as long as there’s capacity available at Langley.  The message they seem to be sending is that, if Langley got crowded, they’d cut off access and send the McLean kids back to their trailers.  Tholen seems to be looking for longer-term solutions that are fair to families in both school communities.

As for the prior SB discussions, it was not clear whether they wanted to put a McLean boundary study on hold until they’d done a county-wide boundary study or instead simply updated the boundary policy.  I don’t think they really knew themselves, which is why some of the discussions earlier this year accomplished little.  If the majority of the Board has now realized the downsides (both to students and to their political careers) of protracted delay, and are now ready to start doing something to address the overcrowding, that is a positive development.  And it needn’t stop Buford, Karloutsos, or any other candidate from arguing that, had only they served on the School Board at the time, there would have been greater attention to the overcrowding situations and the delays would not have occurred.  [/quote]

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