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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On some of the issues, like the need to build an addition at McLean HS, they agree:

https://www.insidenova.com/news/election/candidates-serve-up-differing-visions-in-quest-to-lead-fcps/article_775ec152-f4f9-11e9-8241-43962a007ab5.html

My issue with Mobasheri is that he purports to have some grand ideas ("Hey, let's build a secondary school in Tysons"), but those ideas will not come to fruition any time soon, and it is so, so obvious that he only got into the contest because he wanted to protect the boundaries in Great Falls.

As Republicans go, I think Karloutsos is better than, say, Schultz, but the frequency with which she mentions the need to protect property values and the timing of her decision to run tells me that she's also in it to protect her own Langley neighborhood.  And her initial proposals to address the overcrowding at McLean and the under-enrollment at Langley - adding new programs at Langley and then instituting an "open enrollment" policy there - was also incredibly Langley-centric, as it would invite the McLean families who had the means to arrange transportation to bail on McLean and leave the others behind at a neglected school.

Tholen, on the other hand, has been involved in programs that benefit the entire district and school system for years.  I gather she was encouraged to run after Alicia Plerhoples - who would have been fantastic - dropped out to run for BOS Chair.  But I actually kind of like that she's doing it out of a sense of civic duty, rather than being motivated by a single issue that affects her personally.   She's also spent more time in the Herndon areas than the other two candidates through her involvement with the Get2Green program. Those are the types of people that I want carefully considering policies that affect FCPS as a whole - not folks who tune out when the discussion isn't about the issue that drew them to the race or who stop paying attention once their issue gets resolved.  [/quote]

"My issue with Mobasheri is that he purports to have some grand ideas ("Hey, let's build a secondary school in Tysons"), but those ideas will not come to fruition any time soon, and it is so, so obvious that he only got into the contest because he wanted to protect the boundaries in Great Falls." Tough and challenging issues are never easy to solve and never have quick and fast and cheap answers. None of our long term challenges do. Imagine if our predecessors would long term enough in their visions and could have looked at scenarios back in the 1970s that would have said the DC metro area has the potential of becoming a mini NY metro area. Imagine if they looked at such a scenario that was not out of the ordinary by many experts. We would have planned for the transportation, residential, commercial and educational infrastructure far quicker and more efficiently than what we are doing today. Does anyone really think that with how the metro area is expanding, that how Tysons is becoming what it is, that as the migration to northern Fairfax county continues that we will not need another High School to serve 22101, 22102, and 22182? Do we really believe that in the coming 10 to 15 years that Langley, McLean, and Marshall can meet this growing demand with simple additions and adjustments to existing infrastructure? No, we cannot! Waiting until the last minute to think and vote about it will be nothing short of a dereliction of duty for our public officials. We need to plan for and finance it in the coming two to three years so that it can be of the ground in the next five years and completed by the end of 2029. [/quote]

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