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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone tell me why they are focusing on boundaries so much when they could be paying more attention to the schools that most need renovations or additions?

My understanding is they are wasting a lot of money on expanding under enrolled schools (for example in Herndon) and even a new school that isn’t needed in Dunn Loring?!?

If they were scrutinizing these expenditures more carefully wouldn’t some of these boundary changes be unnecessary?  I’m not against boundary changes if they are truly necessary but it feels like they are using our kids to cover up their mistakes.

We regret moving to Fairfax and will not be voting for any of these School Board members again.[/quote]

This current School Board is not the kne that gave Langley, Oakton, Madison, West Springfield, and West Potomac costly and large expansions and renovations. That was the work of many School Boards before this one, when conservative and moderate representatives were on the Board and let the taxpayer waste happen anyway.

Boundaries are the cheapest option, not another renovation and expansion that will cost half a billion as the work on Centreville HS will soon show.[/quote]

Really?  Where are you going to send the kids in Centreville?  You are going to end up busing kids cross county.   The schools are packed west of Centreville (Westfield), North of Centreville (Chantilly), east of Centreville (Fairfax) and south of Centreville (Robinson).  You will get a domino effect that will end up with ridiculous boundaries.[/quote]

+1. The expansion at Centreville is necessary. There is no mythical Western High School (it does not exist, and apparently never will). [/quote]

You really think taxpayers should foot the bill to expand Centreville to 3000 seats?  2500 ought to be enough.  They are projecting Centreville to lose students and have under 2100 students by 2029, and that projection was made before Trump/DOGE started laying off so many feds. [/quote]

How much did the expansion at Langley cost?[/quote]

About $80M and it was expanded to about 2370 seats, not 3000. [/quote]

And the surrounding population had same density? Same capacity needs?[/quote]

I’m new to the area so can’t answer that but seems like they could have gone even bigger with all the growth in the Tyson’s area. I also don’t think people are saying don’t do a renovation/expansion at Centreville but 3,000 seats and $300 million seems excessive when the projections are going way down at centreville in the next 5 years (i think someone said 2100 kids). Maybe split that $300 million and expand McLean which is way overdue [/quote]

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