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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is that they will start it as a regular high school, but add an Aviation or Aerospace-focused Academy as part of the school. They will spend 2-3 years renovating one of the extra buildings to bring in specialized equipment/labs for the academy. That will also give them time to hire the right people.[/quote]

Here's the academic sequence for students at Raisbeck Aviation HS near Seattle.  The school has slightly over 400 students, so it is feasible to have such a program in a building that's built for fewer students than a typical FCPS high school.

https://rahs.highlineschools.org/academics/course-offerings

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No.

Not possible.

They didn't follow the proper processes to do this.

The money they spent was money allocated for a new general high school to ease overcrowding through the normal bond process.

It was NOT allocated for a magnet school available to only a few students.

FCPS is cutting money right and left from other students.  Most teachers are teaching classes of 30-35 students per year.  Many high school teachers have a student load well in excess of 150-180 students per teacher.

If they want a magnet school, then go through the normal bond process.

Do not steal money from the rest of the county meant to relieve overcrowding to fund a vanity project with possible kickbacks or benefits to school board members working in that industry.[/quote]

I don’t feel strongly about this school, but you mislead when you say they bought it with money allocated to overcrowding. They haven’t disclosed anything about where the money came from.

You can argue why you think the school should be a traditional one, but you hurt your credibility with the argument above.[/quote]

The money came from a bond that was passed by the voters to build a new high school to relieve overcrowding.

Never in the bond process did FCPS present to voters of Fairfax County that the bond money would be repurposed from a necessary high school to relieve overcrowding to a frivolous vanity project magnet that is only available to a handful of students and does not do anything to relieve overcrowding. [/quote]

Only $25 million for land acquisition had been funded through the 2023 bond referendum, so you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.  You're claiming it was fine for them to lay claim to other money that had been earmarked for other projects to pay for a $150 million acquisition that's now closed, but then you're saying the school has to be a neighborhood school.  A speclalized program isn't a "frivolous vanity project" if it's what the KAA property best supports.

As for overcrowding, FCPS projected that by 2029, Herndon will be at 69%, Chantilly at 98%, Westfield at 94%,  Oakton at 94%, and Centreville at 69% (although the Centreville percentage is based on an expansion that's been held up).  South Lakes would be at 100%, but that's full capacity, not overcrowded. The only school that FCPS projected would be acutely overcrowded by 2029 was West Springfield, which is nowhere near KAA, at 120%.

Further, these projections were developed before the current Administration cracked down on undocumented immigrants, which is leading by both forced and unforced departures from NoVa.  [/quote]

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