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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Population here continues to grow. They will need that space eventually.[/quote]

And as people continue to avoid Lewis we just expand West Springfield to 3000 like West Potomac?

Existing capacity should be used first. Growth may never materialize so we should not be expanding until it is clear the students will be there. We have available space in many areas.

Why has Bucknell been operating at 37-40 percent capacity for multiple years?

This is malfeasance.[/quote]

It's cheaper to assume growth when you are doing a renovation.  Comb through the budgets, projections etc. and this is fairly consistent.  FCPS has external auditors assess its plans.  Calling it malfeasance is ridiculous.[/quote]

I simply disagree. Karen Corbett Sanders wanted nothing to do with moving students to Mount Vernon. Despite all the room available for years into the future. Bucknell is also in the West Potomac pyramid. What is going on over there? Why don't the other School Board members call her out? Because they also don't want to move students.

Board wide failure.[/quote]

Most of the major shenanigans are in the Lee [Mackay now Chairman so it has 2 reps on Board of Supervisors and 1 on school board] and Mount Vernon District [ 1 BOS, 1 SB].  Whitman [Mount Vernon pyramid] is in the Sandburg [West Potomac pyramid]  attendance area and would be walkers for Whitman are bussed.

[b]The 3 at large representatives on the school board have not done their duties for years and neither has who ever is the chairman of the Board of Supervisors and other district reps on both boards.[/b]  BOS has to vote on bonds. Mackay called the open capacity at Mount Vernon the elephant in the room. Saudis used to rent the old Mount Vernon HS - now morphing into a community center and none of it's functions will generate a special tax district.  Penny Gross [D-Mason District] brought up that fact.  Some how the site that should have been the future western HS by Carson MS is now the Saudis.

The point is 2 districts are not operating like the others.  Fort Belvoir is in the Mount Vernon District.  No way should military connected students have IB at their base schools.

That scope of that Langley addition was foolish.  [b]Tholen inherited messes- problems from immersion [overfunded, class sizes, capacity etc]. [/b] [/quote]

Her response has been anemic.  She's done little for McLean and even with regards to her own pyramid hasn't made sure the scale of the Cooper renovation will be aligned with the scope of Langley's addition.  She is spineless and just let Jeff Platenburg do anything he wanted. [/quote]

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