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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't think it is sound fiscal policy to build additional capacity on the basis that it may be needed some day in the distant future. Especially when there is existing capacity to handle the growth.

Or to build additional capacity in a school to handle overcrowding and then immediately move students out (to the point there is a large surplus of space). This was the case with Lewis and Springfield Estates.

Nor is it okay to mislead on the size of expansions.

But hey, it is just taxpayer's money.[/quote]

This is all common sense, but clearly there are some beneficiaries of FCPS’s incompetent, discriminatory approach to planning who are prepared to support the blatant waste and harm to others as long as they personally made out OK. [/quote]

It's the people who are willing to spend large amounts of taxpayer money so that boundaries are NEVER changed. People on here complain sometimes that FCPS is too large, but that size and the size of the tax base allows the School Board to get away with hiding it's waste. How many non-parents in Fairfax pay any attention to this?

Imagine a small district with just a few high schools saying they were going to expand one of those schools when the other schools could handle additional students. That would not work.[/quote]

Boundaries are changed, but only when FCPS decides there won’t be as much pushback.  How do you think they ended up gutting Annandale, while West Potomac got a huge addition it didn’t need? [/quote]

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