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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so stupid. None of these schools are overcrowded. There was supposed to be a boundary study in the Fall of 2020 to figure out how to alleviate overcrowding at Shrevewood (and it probably would have just sent one neighborhood of kids to Stenwood instead), but it was cancelled due to the Covid shutdown and Karl F'ing Frisch took advantage of that to propose the Dunn Loring School (which nobody asked for or wanted). Post-Covid, Shrevewood was no longer under capacity. Then, post AAP changes at the school, it became even LESS crowded. This new school is totally unnecessary. What a huge waste of money. I'm sure that Western Fairfax County would prefer that you build them a new high school.[/quote]

Honest question: what are the capacity issues that necessitate a western high?  Once centreville gets built out none of those schools are overcapacity in the slightest.[/quote]

DP. I think that historically the main drivers were (1) the belief that high schools shouldn't be bigger than about 2100-2200 kids; and (2) recognition that the Oak Hill/Floris area "deserved" its own high school because that area has been bounced around from so many different schools (Oakton to Westfield and then in some cases Oakton to Westfield to South Lakes).

The first argument kind of went out the window once FCPS routinely started expanding schools to well over 2300 kids.  However, it's worth noting that Loudoun still zealously tries to avoid schools that have anywhere near the number of kids as a typical high school in FCPS.

The second argument went out the window once the county transferred the most obvious site for a school focused on the Oak Hill/Floris area to the Saudis, and the biggest overcrowding ended up further south in Chantilly.

So few really expect FCPS to move forward with a new western high school.  They are too dishonest to kill it off properly, so they just keep kicking the can down the road and including references to a future new school in each year's CIP.

However, none of that justifies building a new elementary school in Vienna at the Dunn Loring site.  Frisch just wanted to make sure that money would not be available to spend at the prior Blake Lane site.  Given the disruption that school will create, and how it's going to gut other nearby schools like Stenwood, he'd have been just as well off holding a bonfire and just burning all the money (although the projected cost of Dunn Loring now is more than double the amount originally budgeted for Blake Lane).  [/quote]

Thanks. They have $23.5 million budgeted for site acquisition. They use tight budget to justify the boundary review but then do nothing to free that money up.[/quote]

They are incompetent and hypocritical.

But they also Democrats so they can count on low information voters continuing to re-elect them.  [/quote]

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