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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mr Mobasheri, can you please explain how building a new HS in Tyson’s would relieve overcrowding at McLean HS?

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In the coming year, the school board will vote to adjust the boundary of Langley and McLean and shift 400 to 500 students to langley either for the 2020/21 academic year or the one after. There is no stopping this effort. They will vote on it early in 2020 and it will pass with a large majority no matter what the representative from Dranesville votes. What this will do is bring the capacity of both McLean and Langley to capacity by the end of 2023/2024. But what happens after that? Between 2025 and 2030 somewhere between 1250 and 1800 more high school students will find themselves going to McLean, Langley, and Marshall. The numbers will only rise from there into the decade of the 2030's. Marshall is currently mapped into a very small part of this additional 1250 to 1800, but for the moment lets assume they take an equal share. That means each school will have an additional 400 to 500 students attending them and making all three over 20% over capacity. These trends are from the demographic forecasts from the census bureau which the board of supervisors uses. If we dont act now, then it will be too late to do the right thing for the population growth. We cannot over crowd Westmoreland, Old Chain Bridge and Georgetown Pike any longer with short term band aid solutions and costly additions. VDOT wont approve of it. The residents wont. The business community wont. There is simply not any more capacity to accept even more congestion in those areas of 22101 and 22102. We need to be reasonable. We need to be pragmatic. We need to be long term in our thinking. Short term moves like boundary adjustments, and costly and small additions will inevitably lead to even greater troubles only five to ten years down the road. Dont we all want to live hear beyond 2030? We cant kick the can down the roads anymore and we shouldnt. Dont we want to eventually sell our homes to newer families who want schools to be resonably crowded and good facilities? [/quote]

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