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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know as much about the history of the Langley/McLean issues than anyone posting on this thread.

We’re all in violent agreement that the School Board and Brabrand should have coordinated a boundary study so that some McLean kids could move to Langley as soon as the Langley renovations were substantially complete.  To suggest that One Fairfax is the only or even the primary reason that didn’t happen, however, is BS.  It just introduced one more element of delay into the process this year.[/quote]

So, what was another reason? I haven't seen any other reason.  It defies reason that it was not done.[/quote]

* FCPS hasn't had enormous confidence in its enrollment forecasts so had held off on any Langley/McLean study

* People like MHS, so Strauss knew that any change would be controversial; she thought she could let her successor deal with it

[b]* When MHS grew more than expected in 2018-19, Strauss and FCPS Facilities Staff thought Board members would quickly go along with Strauss' proposal early this year for a boundary study, but were proven wrong:
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- some Board members were afraid a Langley/McLean study would leapfrog other boundary studies involving schools in their districts

[b]- some Board members were concerned that Strauss wanted to move areas in their districts to Langley, but had not consulted them in advance
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- some Board members wanted any boundary change postponed until the Board had revised the boundary policy and/or conducted a broader county-wide review of boundaries.

Only the last factor is tied to One Fairfax; the other factors are not.

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And why didn't they want to go along with Strauss?  Why didn't Braband want to go along with Strauss?  Wouldn't that be OneFairfax?

Why would any Board member think Strauss would want kids from their district?  The only reason that would even be considered would be OneFairfax.  Other than that, McLean is the obvious answer--because [b]McLean is overcrowded [/b]and has lots of trailers, if you had not heard.

Sorry, they made their position clear at the work sessions earlier--the ones no one was paying attention to until this summer.[/quote]

Exactly.  They said "one Fairfax" fifty thousand times, and Brabrand said he paused studies for one Fairfax.

It's all on tape.

[b]Then when McLean parents and Mcspaces along with Langley parents and VoF raised enough hell, it suddenly became a priority[/b]. [/quote]

Good for them. I've spoken with some of the McSPaCES people and they don't care why the trailers accumulated at McLean (whether due to One Fairfax or anything else).  They just want the trailers removed and for the SB to come up with long-term solutions to the overcrowding.

The VoF web site seems to be more overtly "anti-One Fairfax."[/quote]

Lol. There you go again. [/quote]

What do you mean?  Look at the two web sites.  McSPaCES has a lot of data on overcrowding and Voices of Fairfax has a video called "The Truth About One Fairfax" prominently displayed, along with a letter to the Board of Supervisors that reads, in part, "One Fairfax feels like Forced Fairfax and may lead to Failed Fairfax."  So I think the observation is pretty accurate.

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