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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have been to a lot of different middle and high schools for travel basketball this season, and the condition of most of the schools is kind of depressing. [/quote]

Exact situation with here and I have been shocked at how grimy/dirty/depressing the school buildings are...Annandale HS did not have working heat in its upstairs gym, Edison HS, LIberty MS, Jackson MS...all just grimy and depressing. The schools in Gainesville are lovely.[/quote]

Gainesville was the boonies until the last 10-15 years.  I would take a look at the population increase and age of it's schools.  Of course they are newer and nicer, the area has all this new money from more and more suburban development.  Same with Loudoun. Once it is fully built out, like Fairfax has been for decades, and the schools start to age and there is no more space for new development, the same problems will arise.  This entire thread is built on an apples to oranges comparison.  You really have to do the comparison with other school systems who have the same conditions.  Then we can really peel back the layers and see if other places are truly doing it better.  And then learn from them.[/quote]

The problem is that people come up with argument like this and insist on “apples-to-apples” comparisons when the main focus ought to be on why the apple is now so bruised and about ready to be thrown into the garbage bin.

It’s one variation after another on the notion that the county is just now too old or too poor to have nice things any longer.  Since schools were once one of the main reasons to live in this county, it’s a self-defeating line of argument. [/quote]

PP from above.  I think the county should do both of those things.  But the reality is that Fairfax County is not, will never, and shouldn't ever, be a rich homogenous enclave a single mega school to fund.  So why should we keep going green with envy over it.  Better to study those districts similar to ours who have the nice things and see what they are doing and emulate it.  While simultaneously trying to study and remediate what went wrong.  Many call it the "Continuous Improvement Plan" and governments and corporations who are successful do it.[/quote]

Well, that’s fair.  Start with Montgomery County.  It’s another large, aging county with poorer demographics now than Fairfax, yet they just built a brand-new Seneca Valley HS, have a new Crown HS in the works, and will be reopened a new Woodward HS.

I’m not suggesting it’s all rosy there because they also have some older, neglected schools but even so they are doing a better job than moribund and incompetent FCPS.  Why?  Is it because they are more generous and willing to invest more in their children?  Do they have better planners or better lawyers?  Are their BOE members more civic-minded and not narrow-minded hypocrites like so many of the FCPS School Board members?  [/quote]

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