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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthy Saudis used to special treatment and hand-holding, LOL. I am honestly shocked that you expect FCPS to reach out to EVERY private school in its boundary that closes to personally counsel students on their options. All the info is on their website. [/quote]

FCPS isn’t paying $150M to acquire every such school, and then likely needing to engage in several months of due diligence thereafter before closing a deal.  Perfect opportunity to be decent human beings, something that apparently doesn’t align with your value system. [/quote]

There is no 'due diligence'. This isn't a corporate merger. Its a real estate transaction. You buy the property, current owner vacates when you close.

Its a very nice property in a perfect location-adjacent to Carson. I'm honestly shocked FCPS is doing something smart, for once. [/quote]

So you're analogizing this to a residential property being sold "as is"?  LOL.  FCPS still needs to do a fair amount of due diligence, which is why the agreement in principle to acquire KAA allows for closing through mid-August.

It may be smart in the long run, but at this point no one has a clue how this fits into FCPS's longer-term plans or if FCPS even has longer-term plans.  They just saw something at a price that seemed too good to be true, and snapped it up.  And we know the short-term effects will include (1) rendering much of the boundary work that's been done over the past year irrelevant; (2) deferring or canceling other capital projects that FCPS has been claiming are priorities; and (3) creating substantial excess capacity in multiple high schools in western Fairfax, which calls into question much of FCPS's facilities planning over the past 15 years.

As county residents and taxpayers we deserve a lot more robust explanation than we've been provided to date.  [/quote]

This affects only the western part of the county - there is a ton of boundary stuff in other parts of the county (southeastern part) that have zero impact from this. I don't know why you keep going on and on about this when it's not true. [/quote]

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