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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Web archive of KAA facilities description

https://web.archive.org/web/20250502091109/https://www.kaa-herndon.com/about-us/facilities

Hightlights (List of 11 items.)

Buildings and grounds on 40-acres

Fourteen learning communities designed to maximize individual and group work

Three gymnasiums suitable for basketball, volleyball, badminton etc.

Large multi-purpose halls

Indoor 8 lane heated swimming pool & weight lifting/fitness facilities

State-of-the-art theater and performing arts facilities

Library and study rooms

Dual dining room and cafeteria

Ceramics and robotics laboratories

Fine arts facilities

Soccer fields and Athletics oval

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That sounds like plenty of space for a high school.

They can use trailers for overflow while construction is going on.[/quote]

No, it sounds like tons of amenities for a high school.

It doesn’t address the actual capacity or how much classroom space there is.

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What amenities? The only thing it has that other schools don't have is a pool. It's not like they're going to keep the dining room and three gyms. They will repurpose those into classrooms.[/quote]

Wrong.  There are a lot of special-purpose spaces and equipment (which conveyed) that typical high schools don’t have.  And “repurpose” is an interesting word for the modifications that will be required for more classroom space. You can’t just snap your fingers and turn a gym into classrooms.

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You clearly don't know anything about this stuff - converting a gym into classrooms would be one of the easiest projects for them to do - put down flooring, put up thin walls.[/quote]

It’s starting to sound less like a high school and more like a refugee camp, but do go on.  [/quote]

I will, thanks! Do you know anything about construction and renovation? Because it's obvious you don't. A gym is one large room. You can easily build partitions to turn it into several smaller rooms. Have you ever been in an office building? They build it out as one large open space, and add walls to create offices. Then when one company leaves and another ones leases the space, they rebuild the interior to meet their own needs. Sometimes that means tearing down offices and building cubicles or removing walls to create a large conference room. Other times it means, building offices where there were once cubicles or turning one large conference room into several offices. I've seen this happen many times, and nobody has ever compared these office spaces to refugee camps![/quote]

But, Robyn Lady also added that it would be a shame to get rid of those beautiful "small spaces" or something like that.

But, I agree.  This building is as large as Centreville.  It can work.  Lady has spoken about how every available space at Chantilly has been redirected.  That can happen here, as well.  [b]Some people just do not want it to work.[/b]
And, there are those two extra buildings.[/quote]

You are wrong and silly.  Again.

People are fine if it "works," but they ought to know what the real cost is going to be, what type of school it will be (the School Board already had to shoot down Reid's dumb proposal to make it a magnet admission to which would be restricted to kids otherwise zoned to just a few FCPS high schools), how it will affect the ongoing boundary study, and how it will affect the CIP and existing renovation queue.

At present, they can't or won't answer any of these questions, and they can't or won't even say what the school's current or anticipated capacity will be.  It demonstrates incompetence and poor oversight, but that doesn't mean that people don't want FCPS to get its money out of the building, which it now owns.  [/quote]

Well, they are 65 bus drivers short.  So there is a savings for you.  They will need lots fewer bus drivers and buses.  Maybe a drop in the bucket, but it is a savings.

They have to educate the kids no matter where they are. [b] How many more kids do you think they can put in Chantilly/Westfield, Centreville?[/b]  Oakton and South Lakes are also pretty full. 
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Ah, yes.  Leave out the high school in western Fairfax that FCPS is projecting will have 850 extra seats by SY 2029-30.

You don't even try to be honest with the facts. [/quote]

None. It is so bad. The numbers don't show the real issue at the schools. Walk the hallways and sit in a classroom/trailer. All these schools need relief.[/quote]

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