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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I just do not understand what makes your “wants” into the collective’s “needs”. Sure one way to alleviate overcrowding is with a traditional high school. Another way to alleviate overcrowding is with a magnet or a split magnet/traditional. You can’t just pretend that the traditional alleviates overcrowding in the area and that the other options would do nothing to alleviate crowding, though of course that depends on the actual details.[/quote]

How is a magnet going to guarantee alleviation of overcrowding?  Please explain.  Chantilly is 500 students (maybe more) over capacity.  You think a magnet is going to solve that?
Westfield is at 2700 and growing.  A magnet is not going to solve that.
Centreville is overcrowded--it's hard to determine how much as they have a modular and trailers.

[quote]The bus cost thing is a red herring. I’m just not seeing how adding a bus or two results in significant additional costs. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to some other costs for the school system. You seem to be fine with a rushed $150 million purchase then complain about how we can’t add a couple hundred thousand dollars in bus routes (if that even) to the budget. It’s like rushing to buy a Lamborghini and then complain about the cost of a gas change for it.[/quote]

We are talking way over 500 students--really much closer to 1000.  You think a "bus or two" is going to solve that?
And, yes, a "bus or two" might be a couple of hundred thousand dollars per year.  But, we are talking about a lot more than a bus or two.  I would guess that for more than 500 students that would mean 20 buses --at more than $100K/ bus.  Add to that, the fuel costs and the need for more bus drivers and their pay (when we already are short bus driver).

But, most important, you have no problem with having hundreds and hundreds of more students on buses for more than an hour and a half per day.  
Does that not fall into your considerations at all?

How about you address all the money our School Board is spending on staff that could not even present a proposal for how to make this into a traditional school or a magnet?

If FCPS can give up the amount of $$ spent on this school to fight a losing legal battle, they can make this into a traditional school

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A magnet would pull more from that area of the county in the same way that TJ is more appealing to families in the East. Having watched the work session, it feels like the most likely outcome is an academy and traditional school. If the traditional school is 1,000 kids, then your overcrowding issues can be solved, without having to move a bunch of those centreville kids to Westfield. Again, this depends on The details, but there is a split magnet/traditional solution that could work pretty easily. Desiring it to be exclusively traditional is a “want” not a “need”.

Your concern for other’s kids being on the bus for too long has always been just a really absurd argument. Families would get to decide whether they want that bus ride or not. The kids on buses argument when families have decided on house and school has never been compelling.[/quote]

It's really gross that you are trying to steal this school away from the community that needs it. Just stop, we know exactly where you live - you live in the northern party of the county and you don't want your precious snowflake on the bus for 45 minutes ALL THE WAY to TJ (a CHOICE on your part), so you're hoping and wishing for an equivalent closer to home. At the expense of all the Oak Hill kids who are on the bus for 45 minutes TO THEIR BASE SCHOOL.[/quote]
I appreciate your belief that my kids deserve to be in TJ, but I’m confused about why you think I’m the northern part of the county when I told you that I’m centreville. Try to keep up here, we should have a voice here too without you trying to silence us for speaking up for our community. And why in the world do you think your commute should be put above the rest of our kids? because that makes you an entitled twerp.
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DP.  It always is amusing when people on DCUM think there is only one other poster.  Maybe, maybe not.[/quote]

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