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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a general contractor but it sounds like they need to take down some non-load bearing walls and reconfigure classroom spaces. I am not certain how that gets to be millions of dollars but, again, not a contractor. Maybe someone who is can chime in on how much that takes.

Most of the expensive construction have been at schools that needed massive renovations that repaired structural issues and then expanded buildings. I can see how that can cost a lot of money. There is nothing structurally wrong with KAA, it is mainly reconfiguring existing space so it should be less expensive.

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If it were so simple and cost so little, why wouldn’t we have heard about that already?  [/quote]
If it were so difficult and would cost so much, wouldn't we have heard about that already?[/quote]

Of course not. FCPS would delay that news as long as possible.  At this looking they haven’t even managed to put out a release that the sale closed, much less clarified how the facility will be used or the total costs. [/quote]

The purchase has already been widely publicized. Why are you so mad that an official press release didn’t go out? Who cares?

https://northernvirginiamag.com/news/2025/06/17/fcps-approves-150m-purchase-of-king-abdullah-academy-private-school-in-herndon/[/quote]

Melanie Meren took Reid to task at the work session for not getting a press release out. She said the communications had been poor and that as a result she wasn’t able to answer basic questions from her constituents. [/quote]

That report is from June.  You would think they would put out a presser.

Some people would love for it to be a magnet:  The Fairfax Federation, for one.  They have lobbied for one for years--never mind that [b]the role of a school system is to educate all students.  And, honestly, shouldn't they at least attempt to educate them in their locality as much as possible?[/b]

Notice that they give huge lip service to equity, yet claim that high school kids are not watching younger siblings after school.  Maybe, that is true, but it seems likely to me that it does fall on older siblings to help out in these poorer families.

They also do not pay attention to the fact that some kids want--and need--after school jobs.  Good luck with that in Fairfax County.  [/quote]

Are you saying TJHSST should be returned to community use?

Because Chantilly and Oakton are two of the four pyramids that sent the most kids to TJ last year (McLean - 133; Chantilly - 119; Langley - 116; Oakton - 101).

Jefferson was a community high school once.  It inconvenienced some when their neighborhood school got closed but it was deemed to be in the greater good.  It seems a bit hypocritical to criticize magnet schools but then be among the top pyramids for TJ.  [/quote]

TJ is right by Annandale HS — 3.5 miles away. So the transportation isn’t that far for kids in what would be the neighborhood lines of TJ.

If they make KAA a magnet, then they’re shipping the kids who live right there off to South Lakes, Westfield or Oakton which are all significantly farther. Chantilly is closer but is already overcrowded and is already (and proposed to) turn close neighborhoods away because of capacity. [/quote]

There are kids in neighborhoods that used to attend Jefferson who now have to cross both 395 and 495 to get to Edison.  That’s arguably more problematic than the commute for any kids in western Fairfax.

But you never cared about that.  Your pyramids send lots of your kids to TJ and now you want a new neighborhood school that will cost a lot and increase the excess capacity at some western high schools as well. [/quote]

Do you have any idea how many schools have been built since TJ was formed?  It opened, according to Wikipedia in 1985.  Do you really think I had anything to do with it?  You really think anyone in this area had anything to do with that?

If some of my neighbors want their kids to go there, that has nothing to do with my desire for my kids to have a normal high school education in a school where they are able to participate in extracurricular activities.

Why don't you lobby to go to Annandale?[/quote]

You or your neighbors are the ones complaining magnets are bad, yet the data shows your pyramids send lots of kids to TJ.

So basically they’re good so long as they are in a building that had been and could be someone else’s neighborhood school, and bad if they get in the way of a neighborhood school you desire.

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Well, have you lived there for over forty years?  That's how long TJ has been a governor's school.

And, honestly, I see no need for ANY magnets, but I guess it is good if my neighbors go there.  Our schools are already quite overcrowded.
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Over 500 empty seats at Herndon.  Adjustments could have been made already to move kids there. [/quote]

Then Herndon can get the airline mechanic academy.[/quote]

You must be the same idiot saying it’ll be a school for baggage handlers.

Annoyingly condescending? Must be great falls. [/quote]

“Grumble grumble, great falls, great falls, Langley! Great falls, grumble grumble.” - homeless mumbler

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“homeless mumbler”?

Definitely a great falls hack. [/quote]

“Grumble grumble” 😘[/quote]

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