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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m concerned they will make this a magnet school or something that won’t really help with capacity issues in the area. One of the board members floated that idea in an article (from WTOP?). That article also mentioned getting community input. Who knows what that will mean. Everyone is going to have their pet agenda, ugh.[/quote]

Gee.  Thanks for that.  I googled it.  It was Mateo Dunne.
https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2025/06/fairfax-co-plans-to-buy-closing-private-school-with-eye-on-opening-first-new-high-school-in-decades/

That would be a terrible idea.  We need relief from long commutes.[/quote]

The issue is how much capacity the school will have with interior modifications.  They can't slap an addition onto this school because they've said it's a $150M turnkey purchase.

So the final use may turn out to be for special education services or perhaps an IB magnet.

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That does not give relief to the area that needs it.
Thru's plans split neighborhoods, create new islands, and sends MORE students on long commutes--when there are already long commutes for far too many in this area.

This school would also help the overcrowding at Chantilly, Centreville, and Westfield.
The school has the space.  They can adapt it and there are two extra buildings, if needed.[/quote]

Talk to the School Board members. They'll tell you that it was an opportunity they didn't think they could pass up but they also don't really know yet what they're getting.

They are going to have to get a handle on the capacity before any decisions are made.   They'll find uses for the two other buildings but a three-building campus for HS students doesn't square with their security priorities.  [/quote]

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