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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect is any parts of WSHS are rezoned, it will be out to South Country or over to Lake Braddock. [/quote]

I hope not.  I'm shocked LB is listed so low.  My kids can't get into a bathroom ever so have to get e=pass during class and [b]neither got a locker they requested[/b].  I assumed we were way over and hoped they'd stop transfers in.  [/quote]

They had to rip the lockers out of McLean to create more space for students in the hallways.  And no idea how they fit over 2900 kids into Chantilly, which has a much smaller footprint than Lake Braddock. [/quote]

There is no room to expand Chantilly unless they build across the road. A new western HS is needed but that won’t happen ‘cause reasons.[/quote]

I never realized quite how much I disliked Elaine Tholen until I listened to her pooh-pooh the idea that a new western high school would ever get built during the last brief School Board discussion of a CIP.

The Herndon area (more the part that feeds into Westfield than Herndon) could see an enormous increase in students if the growth associated with the new Silver Line stations materializes.  Add to that the existing crowding at Centreville, Chantilly, and Oakton and it's a ticking time bomb.

But she felt duty-bound to toss cold water on the idea of a new high school because the one thing some people in Great Falls care about more than anything else is making sure that they never get moved back from Langley to Herndon, which theoretically could happen if a new school were built in western Fairfax and space opened up at Herndon. So then you end up with rich people at an under-enrolled, renovated school trying to dictate the decisions that affect kids miles away in overcrowded schools.  It's obscene, and the likes of Tholen just roll over and play along.

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