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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pushing through a boundary change at a time when FCPS was losing 10,000 kids and with no appreciation yet as to what the full impact of the change in the TJ admissions policy (also supported by Tholen) would be served only one purpose:  to reassure Great Falls/Langley that the number of kids moved was finite and would not add so many kids to Langley as to create pressure to move part of Langley to Herndon, which was also just expanded.

If Tholen really gave a crap about McLean, she would:

- demand an answer from staff as to why FCPS reneged on its statements to McLean 5-6 years ago that it would build an addition there (and instead expanded Langley more than originally planned);

- demand an explanation from staff as to why West Potomac is getting expanded to 3000 seats when nearby Mount Vernon is 15-20% under capacity, whereas McLean is left with under 2000 permanent seats and kids are getting reassigned to a school that’s further from their homes;

- insist that FCPS explain why it’s now spending or budgeting $80-130 million on HS renovations when it spent less than $40M on McLean’s last renovation;

- work diligently to make sure that FCPS budgets at least $20M for a permanent addition to McLean, similar to what it’s currently spending at Justice and Madison HS, neither of which was otherwise scheduled for a renovation.

But she won’t do any of this, because she made sure Langley, her school, got what it wanted and otherwise doesn’t want to rock the boat.  As a result, McLean will continue to have less permanent space than every other high school, despite all the ongoing and planned growth in the Tysons/McLean/WFC area, and they’ll only get around to discussing a permanent addition after all the trailers that were removed last year end up back on the tennis courts again (and even then it will still get pushed off for years).

We need a fighter and instead we got a behind-the-scenes wheeler-dealer who simply took care of her own friends.

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McLean is not the only school in FCPS. Though by this post, and all of your demands, you'd think it is.

Lots of schools are crowded, have trailers, require kids who would otherwise be zoned there to go to schools farther away, and have other issues with infrastructure. It sucks you didn't get what you thought was coming to your school. That's life. Posts like yours are a real turn-off. McLean is not, in fact, the center of the universe. [/quote]

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