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This all came up in the context of discussing the pros and cons of FCPS’s decision to build LHS out to 2350 seats.  It’s something that reasonable people ought to be able to discuss without flying off the handle because analogous situations will come up again the future.  The main pros are that Langley has a reasonably large campus and it was already due for a renovation. The cons are that it’s in a corner of the county, it sits off a two-lane road with limited entrances and exits, and it’s in a part of the county where a higher than average proportion of families with school-age kids send their privates. As a practice matter, that might have suggested FCPS should have capped the school’s size.  Instead, it expanded it by 250 more seats than originally disclosed, and now its catchment area, which was already the largest in the county, will get even larger, with more students traveling longer-than-average distances to get there.  Conversely, FCPS has done very little to expand the permanent capacity at two nearby schools - McLean and Marshall - that are more centrally located and have been experiencing more growth.  From a planning perspective, that doesn’t seem ideal, and I’d hope that some day FCPS would actually have people in Facilities who thought more strategically.  At the end of the day, families just end up pawns to justify decisions made years earlier that may have been l as than optimal.

But, again, none of that implies Langley isn’t a great school or that you aren’t nice people. It may suggest that, if discussions of FCPS-related planning issues bother you, you should probably ignore them or scroll down. [/quote]

This was a thoughtful response but I take exception to one point:Facilities doesn’t make these decisions. The School Board does. It is all politics, and Karen Corbett Sanders has made it her life’s mission to screw McLean High School any chance she can get. Jeff Platenburg’s hands are tied because the school board signs his contract. This is the unfortunate reality of our school system. It is run by ambitious but amateur politicians. [/quote]

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