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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, with this school, they won't need for Centreville to have 3000.  There is that.

Use some of the funds for that to make this school workable--and it will not be the $200 million someone suggested.

FACT: this school is needed for the population around it.

[b]NO one has offered a reasonable alternative for Chantilly or Westfield. [/b] This is it.  And, it is adaptable to meet the needs of a traditional school.  It will still be far more economical than building a new school.  It is a bargain.[/quote]

Move Chantilly kids to Westfield and Westfield kids to Herndon.  Would have saved money.

Alternatives are not only "reasonable" when they put your kids within a couple of miles of a HS.  That's your new religion.

You can keep repeating this is a bargain, but it's telling they won't say how many kids this building can handle, or how much additional money they'd have to spend for it to handle even 1600 kids.  [/quote]

Or.. open a new high school to ease overcrowding.

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Yes, another alternative  But not the only reasonable one, nor the least expensive one.  [/quote]

Wait, are you considering your “make the kids spend 1-1.5 hours on a bus and be disconnected from their communities and with unsuitable access to sports and afrerachool clubs” plan reasonable? Or is there actually a reasonable plan you haven’t shared?[/quote]

I'm assuming the point of your completely inane post was just to bump the thread to a new page, because it's all been explained before.

Soon you'll be claiming kids in western Fairfax are on a bus for 3 hours every day.  [/quote]

Hmm. What’s I’ve seen explained is that bus times should be minimized.

Do you honestly think that a bus is making multiple pick ups from within Westfield boundary and making it to Herndon in under a half an hour? Absolutely no way. 30-45 mins each way is a reasonable estimate. [/quote]

And that's fine and was no doubt considered by FCPS before they decided to expand Herndon to 2750 or so seats.  [/quote]

Or.. they considered the projected population growth within Herndon which has been adding higher density housing and has a projected 4 year population growth of 9,000 (within the town alone which is only 25,000 people)

They approved the expansion AND a new high school because that’s what the growth indicates. These schools are on a 40 year renovation cycle. They were preparing for the population growth.

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Utter nonsense.  They approved the KAA purchase because they felt stupid about the county transferring the land to the Saudis a decade earlier.  There's zero indication of any real analysis of how it ties to future population growth, and they are now setting themselves up to create excess capacity at multiple high schools in this part of the county.  [/quote]

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