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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't see any downsides to this property. Someone explain to me the motivations behind the naysayers? [/quote]

I think people are concerned with FCPS constantly saying they have no money. Cutting tons of jobs because of a budget shortfall (classroom monitors, AART teachers, special ed heads in schools etc) but can fund and operate a new high school? With what money[/quote]

All this and more. The vast majority of the costs associated with this acquisition are unfunded, so the money will come from other projects that will have to be postponed or canceled.

There’s also no credible information about what the total costs will be to modify this school so it can function as an FCPS high school or what the annual operating costs will be thereafter.

FCPS has been telling people for years that boundary changes were necessary because there was no money to expand overcrowded schools and capacity available elsewhere within FCPS, yet now with no advance notice they are going to spend several hundred million for a new high school they previously had said wouldn’t be built any sooner than 2034?

Also, they are claiming this will save several hundred million, and some School Board members are saying this will free up money for other capital projects in FCPS, but there’s no real plan so these may turn out to be empty promises.

There’s also the fact that the School Board members, for the most part, demonstrate no interest in getting or sharing answers to these fundamental questions.  They are giddy at the prospect of what seems like a bargain purchase, but they clearly haven’t grappled with the implications of their decision.  The few SB members who abstained from the vote to authorize the purchase didn’t articulate the basis for their concerns, which only underscores the problems with one-party rule in the county.  Even when they think something isn’t ready for prime time yet, they pull their punches because they don’t want to offend another SB member from the same party. [/quote]

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