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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Western notices went out today. My kid will be there. All of friends are in as well. It says that they almost hit their target but doesn’t say if that is for 9th and 10th grade or just one grade.

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I'm happy your child is satisfied with the option they received.  Sadly, kids elsewhere in the county are being involuntarily redistricted, with families told there's "no money" for their schools and boundary changes are the only option, even though the School Board was able to find $200 million it hadn't expected to spend for years to pay for the new western HS.

Maybe at some point they'll take their commitment to equity seriously.  [/quote]

Please. The five HS who had kids who had the choice were all over crowded or they are close to being over crowded. The HS was needed and everyone knows that. The School Board choose the opt in option because they were too cowardly to set the boundaries for the new school and move kids there next year. This process has been an example of how poorly FCPS handles boundary changes. If the school boar had set boundaries and told families they had to send kids there you would be complaining about the mental health damage done to the kids.[/quote]

No, it’s not needed.

If the overcrowding was so bad they would move kids out of Chantilly to the new school ASAP, not give kids the option to stay at Chantilly and then, on top of that, move dozens of Fairfax kids into Chantilly.

And according to the CIP draft they still plan to expand Centreville to 3000.

Meanwhile, birth rates are declining and other school systems (MCPS, PWCPS) are scrapping plans to open new high schools.

This was an impulse buy that will screw up the capital program for years to come.  [/quote]

Purchasing this school is one of the few things FCPS has done right.  And, then Reid messed it up with her various comments and wishes.
They should have set boundaries before the "Comprehensive Boundary Study" was complete.  People like certainty.

And, anyone who thinks a school of over 3000 is fine, has another think coming.  [/quote]

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