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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe they find a way to connect Parcher to Herndon Parkway, or come up with something else like Lions Run near Fairfax or Jaguar Trail near Falls Church.

But as PP pointed out, sometimes you work with what’s available. I’ve heard the traffic near Langley on Georgetown Pike can be a PITA but they cope.

In any event, the objections to the site and even the need for a new school aren’t new.  I guess you don’t have much pull with Pekarsky or Tholen if you haven’t gotten them to convince FCPS staff to revise the 2021 bond and now the CIP to remove the references to the new western high school.  I’m sure people could find other uses for the $23.5M previously allocated for acquisition costs if the money were available. [/quote]

Does the CIP mention the Hutchison site?  Pekarsky is my SB rep.  Since both schools needing relief are attended by Sully kids, I doubt seriously that she would think the Hutchison site would work.  As for Tholen,  why would she want the school at all?
If they did put the school at Hutchison, there would be a lot of Hunter Mill kids pulled for it--and I seriously doubt that Mehren would people be happy with that.  You do realize that Dranesville and Hunter Mill are the closest districts to Hutchison?

And, since Pekarsky lives in Centreville area, I'm pretty sure that would not be her solution.

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That’s the point.  If you think these School Board members and their constituents would oppose a new school, why aren’t you inveighing upon them to get FCPS to exclude reference to the “Western HS” from the CIP and descriptions of the intended use of bond proceeds.

The draft 2023-27 CIP refers to the future western high school at pp. 40, 41,  54 and 206, indicating as noted earlier in the thread that the final site is TBD. [/quote]

OP here.

Actually if compare 2023-2027 draft CIP with 2022-2026 final CIP, the new CIP mentions less about the new Western high school (such as it would provide a relief to nearby high schools) and brings up this South West HS. You won’t be able to find South West HS in the older CIP. [/quote]

It indicates that the school was identified as the South West HS in the 2013 bond and the Western HS in the 2021 bond. There are surely references to the South West HS in older CIPs closer to the 2013 bond. [/quote]

I am not disputing that. But why did they bring up the South West HS from the dead?  Why does the new CIP stop saying that the new Western HS progide the relief to nearby schools?

I am speculating here but knowing the FCPS board, I expect that they are going to say they will evaluate BOTH areas while they already know exactly where it is going to be built. [/quote]

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