Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Converting to gender neutral?

There’s no info on that re Mclean, but that is the current trend and standard for public schools around the country. The stalls all have floor to ceiling doors for privacy, and the bathroom space itself is visible from the hallway in terms of design, so no doors or obscuring walls. Some designs even line the sinks along the hallway.

These bathrooms are open to all students (however they identify) and faculty as well, so no separate staff bathrooms. For new school buildings, school districts save money since they are not building separate bathrooms with all those extra fixtures. Less sinks and toilets means more money for other priorities. So it’s a win win for the most part.

The downside is the loss of some privacy since the sinks either line the hallway or are visible from the hallway.

Great. Sounds like a good design for all the vaping going on in the bathrooms. SMH

Outdoor classrooms aren’t trailers. The outdoor learning spaces that are part of the environmental effort.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Yup, it’s an election year and time to pacify McLean.

Why would critical maintenance work “pacify” McLean when the decade-long need for a permanent addition remains unaddressed?

You might want to ask yourself why you get triggered when an aging but high-performing school gets some basic maintenance performed over summer break.

Not my problem, our aging high school building with a high-performing student body is still sparkly from its recent renovation.

I’m just glad that an email letting everyone know that McLean will be getting basic maintenance is enough to placate that community.

I know I would be very pleased with the school board if they took the trouble to email and emphasize that they will be making sure that our high school gets vacuumed and mopped over the summer.

What on earth are you going on about?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Yup, it’s an election year and time to pacify McLean.

Why would critical maintenance work “pacify” McLean when the decade-long need for a permanent addition remains unaddressed?

You might want to ask yourself why you get triggered when an aging but high-performing school gets some basic maintenance performed over summer break.

Not my problem, our aging high school building with a high-performing student body is still sparkly from its recent renovation.

I’m just glad that an email letting everyone know that McLean will be getting basic maintenance is enough to placate that community.

I know I would be very pleased with the school board if they took the trouble to email and emphasize that they will be making sure that our high school gets vacuumed and mopped over the summer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. - OP what does this mean??? That we will stop asking for renovations of a school that's falling apart and expansion to have permanent space for this overcrowded school? Nope.

Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers -uhhhh what language in this email?

here's the link for everyone else: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/3619a64

There's a statement in Tholen's email that an accomplishment of the past school year was "Addition of outdoor classrooms in the Dranesville high school and middle schools."

Whatever it meant, it didn't mean that every school in Dranesville has trailers, as OP inferred. According to the most recent CIP, 3 of the 8 schools in the Herndon pyramid, 1 of the 7 schools in the Langley pyramid, and 6 of the 7 schools in the McLean pyramid have trailers. And the two most overcrowded schools in Dranesville are McLean HS and Kent Gardens ES - both in the McLean pyramid.

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. - OP what does this mean??? That we will stop asking for renovations of a school that's falling apart and expansion to have permanent space for this overcrowded school? Nope.

Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers -uhhhh what language in this email?

here's the link for everyone else: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/3619a64

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Some basic maintenance work over the summer to keep the roof from caving in again and patching up the non-functioning bathrooms is welcome, but hardly a substitute for the overdue addition the school also needs. There’s no reason for anyone there to “zip it,” even if Tholen and Frisch try to make it sound like more than it is.

This. One of my kids goes there. Pipes literally burst in the bathroom. You never know when you will flush a toilet and have an explosion of water. My daughter was fortunate she didn't poop when it happened to her. Sinks are a disaster. This is a desperate measure because the damage is going to cost may more than renovating the bathrooms soon if it doesn't already. It is truly falling apart.

Anonymous wrote:I was just in McLean this week dropping off paperwork. Buckets lining the halls, ceiling tiles remived as water dripped into the buckets. A small crane was outside the main entrance. It appeared that roof work was being done on one gym ceiling. But the buckets were in the hallways( not the gym).

It was raining all week so makes sense. Don’t the summer renovations include a new roof for the whole school? A new roof should last a couple decades. But will the community be able to accept trailers for the next few decades? I don’t know. 10 to 15 years sounds reasonable, but beyond that seems excessive.

Eventually, although we may have to wait 20-30 years, the school should just be demolished and rebuilt. That’s how they do it in Montgomery County, Arlington, and practically every other district in the country. It’s the least complicated and least expensive option.

(No FCPS high schools are historic, and would warrant preservation, except the original Mount Vernon and Fairfax High Schools, but those have/will take on other uses. The original, historic Falls Church HS was demolished 20 years ago.)

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Passing section 8 housing minimal standards as renovations lol

There is no way they are implementing gender neutral bathrooms. Maybe one bathroom will be designated that way, but they will not be getting rid of girls/boys bathrooms.

I was just in McLean this week dropping off paperwork. Buckets lining the halls, ceiling tiles remived as water dripped into the buckets. A small crane was outside the main entrance. It appeared that roof work was being done on one gym ceiling. But the buckets were in the hallways( not the gym).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Yup, it’s an election year and time to pacify McLean.

Why would critical maintenance work “pacify” McLean when the decade-long need for a permanent addition remains unaddressed?

You might want to ask yourself why you get triggered when an aging but high-performing school gets some basic maintenance performed over summer break.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Converting to gender neutral?

There’s no info on that re Mclean, but that is the current trend and standard for public schools around the country. The stalls all have floor to ceiling doors for privacy, and the bathroom space itself is visible from the hallway in terms of design, so no doors or obscuring walls. Some designs even line the sinks along the hallway.

These bathrooms are open to all students (however they identify) and faculty as well, so no separate staff bathrooms. For new school buildings, school districts save money since they are not building separate bathrooms with all those extra fixtures. Less sinks and toilets means more money for other priorities. So it’s a win win for the most part.

The downside is the loss of some privacy since the sinks either line the hallway or are visible from the hallway.

One other well known downside in schools that have implemented these new gender neutral bathrooms is that students who identify as male have longer waits to use the bathrooms.

Since McLean is doing a simple renovation I highly doubt the bathrooms will be gender neutral.

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Yup, it’s an election year and time to pacify McLean.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest Dranesville District email, the SB will be addressing McLean HS capacity and facilities upgrades:
- Summer renovation of all McLean HS bathrooms
- Roof work
- Installation of stadium bathrooms

Maybe McLean HS will finally zip it. Email also indicates all schools in that district will be trailers.

Converting to gender neutral?

There’s no info on that re Mclean, but that is the current trend and standard for public schools around the country. The stalls all have floor to ceiling doors for privacy, and the bathroom space itself is visible from the hallway in terms of design, so no doors or obscuring walls. Some designs even line the sinks along the hallway.

These bathrooms are open to all students (however they identify) and faculty as well, so no separate staff bathrooms. For new school buildings, school districts save money since they are not building separate bathrooms with all those extra fixtures. Less sinks and toilets means more money for other priorities. So it’s a win win for the most part.

The downside is the loss of some privacy since the sinks either line the hallway or are visible from the hallway.