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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you think an addition at McLean will be costly, how much do you a new HS in Tysons will cost?

I think you just eliminated an ychance of McLean HS district to vote for you since you have damned their children to the over-crowded school for 10-15 years-(how long do you think it would take to find and build a new HS in Tysons?)

And you will lose more Langley aren’t who do not want the diversity of classes decreased at Langley.

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This is the candidate Ardavan Mobasheri. Of course, a new high school in Tysons is going to be more costly. But we can't simply take the easy road and band-aid solutions year after year and not have them catch up with us. There is no free money here. Failure to be sufficiently forward-looking will eventually cost us dearly. Consider this simple look at what we will be facing in the next 10 years taken from data from the board of supervisors projections:

1) By 2030, the three zip codes 22101, 22102, and 22182 which serve McLean, Langley, and a small portion of Marshall will see their population growth contribute to 30% of the entire growth in the county.
2) Just between 2025 and 2030, the number of High School students in the county will rise by 6,300
3) Are we being too presumptuous if we assume 30% of that 6,300 increase will not come from 22101, 22102, and 22182? No. But can you assume that all of the projects being approved in those zip codes will add no high school students to any of the three high schools mentioned above? If we assume 30% then that's an additional 1800 students. Let's say its 20%. That's still an additional 1,200 students between the three high schools (assuming Marshall is given exactly 33% of that increase). 
4) With the rezoning of some McLean students into Langley both high schools will be at capacity by 2024.
5) So where will you put the additional 400 students per high school? 400 more students will bring both schools at roughly 20% overcapacity. 
6) Building an addition to McLean seems like a good band-aid type solution. Let's not consider beyond 2030. Let's kick the can down the road. Let's just do a quick addition and all of the families that will see their kids going to high school in 2030 will have to deal with it when the time comes? Is this how we want to plan things? Just do quick and politically convenient and expedient answers to long term challenges? Isnt that what we have been doing for 27 years now? [/quote]

Your letter last night was clear. No boundary changes. No open enrollment. No addition at McLean. You make some good points above, but that does not take away from the fact that you are protecting Langley at the cost of McLean. Your letter was helpful to me because it clarified your views absolutely; I was able to make my final decision and vote today and beat the crowds. Thanks for that.[/quote]

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