Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

I teach at a Title 1 school that is 60+ years old and finally on the schedule for a renovation in the next 2-5 years. The building is disgusting with a significant mouse problem.

Please name the school.

Renovation schedule is public- it’s pretty easy to narrow down…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

I teach at a Title 1 school that is 60+ years old and finally on the schedule for a renovation in the next 2-5 years. The building is disgusting with a significant mouse problem.

Please name the school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

I think that’s the point. If only “poor” schools get renovated due to imaginary wokeness, Lewis pyramid should be full of shiny showpieces. Instead at least 5 buildings feel as if they’re held together only by caulk and hope.

It was already pointed out Langley got and Cooper is getting expensive renovations/additions, so obviously the inequities in terms of facilities have more to do with the age of the schools and the timing of their past “renovations” than “wokeness.”

Although there does seem to be a particular reluctance on the part of recent School Boards to treat McLean equitably for fear they will be accused of favoritism (in particular, the School Board authorized permanent additions to each of South Lakes, Madison, Justice, and West Potomac, all but one of which was less overcrowded than McLean, outside the renovation queue when none of those schools was otherwise due for a renovation, but has left McLean kids in trailers and now a cheap modular for a decade).

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

I teach at a Title 1 school that is 60+ years old and finally on the schedule for a renovation in the next 2-5 years. The building is disgusting with a significant mouse problem.

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

There isn’t a single school in the Lewis pyramid with an enrollment above the design capacity of the school. The schools with trailers and modulars have them because their class sizes are much smaller than average, which creates a need for additional classrooms.

West Springfield was built almost a decade after McLean, 2-3 times as much money was spent on its renovation as had been spent renovating either Lewis or McLean, and it was expanded to 2500 seats while McLean and Lewis were left with far fewer permanent seats.

The impact of these decisions is to leave McLean overcrowded and deteriorating, and to stigmatize Lewis since there was such a big expansion of West Springfield even though Lewis is just a few miles away with surplus capacity.

Much of this was courtesy, by the way, of Jeff Platenberg, a West Springfield graduate who until this summer headed Facilities.

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

I think that’s the point. If only “poor” schools get renovated due to imaginary wokeness, Lewis pyramid should be full of shiny showpieces. Instead at least 5 buildings feel as if they’re held together only by caulk and hope.

There are plenty of Lewis feeder schools with Modular buildings and trailers.

Also WSHS lived with a disgusting, mold infested building for years before it was renovated (at 50 years old).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only the poor schools get expanded and new facilities the rich areas live in squalor, it's the woke thing to do

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

“LOL” - Lewis Pyramid

And?

Anonymous wrote:Only the poor schools get expanded and new facilities the rich areas live in squalor, it's the woke thing to do

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

“LOL” - Lewis Pyramid

The elementary we’re zoned for has trailers and I hate the look, the waste of outdoor space, and the message it sends about how much we *really* care about students. We (meaning fairfax county) don’t want people to live in trailers in the pyramid but we expect children to spend most of their day in them?

+ there were 38 mininum other non Kent Gardens. Add to the minimum 98 and the 40% out of boundary is 340. IDK and FCPS doesn't inform.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“We” is our community! Our school district. Everyone who lives in FCPS bounds is responsible to providing our kids a public school education. As per a recent PTA meeting, we have 168 kids in the grade plus specials teachers. I sat and listened to how the kids essentially only go into their school building for the cafeteria, bathrooms or gym. AND while I’m certain the principal and school staff are doing everything they can to make the best of the situation, it is these kids community that owe them, yes OWE them a properly functioning school. My youngest hasn’t even started elementary yet (oldest is already there). None of this will be solved on the current time line prior to either finishing high school!

So what made you think FCPS will do anything about Kent Gardens? FCPS has prioritized FLI for over 20 years and only did constructive adjustment on 2 FLI sites. Adjacent schools, Fox Mill and Floris, each had JIP. So those programs went in with no regard for equitable location distribution across FCPS.

If the data shows the volume of trailers or class size is caused by FLI or any out of boundary program then one has to decide how quickly or if at all FCPS will rectify the problem. Long term is when those kids are now old enough to have kids and buy houses.

You're stuck if at Kent Gardens and Mclean. Longfellow is a break of 2 years in the middle.

So assume based on FCPS dashboard numbers:
20 pyramids feed to Kent Gardens FLI
remove Mclean pyramid schools
18 pyramids including Langley [note locations of residences for Franklin Sherman, Churchill Rd etc- drive by Kent to get to another French FLI]
minimum students non Mclean pyramid=245= 98/40% out of boundary minimum
minimum because if a school sends less than 10 FCPS shows 1.

FCPS does not furnish the data in a readily usable form nor does it have walk zone maps like APS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only the poor schools get expanded and new facilities the rich areas live in squalor, it's the woke thing to do

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

It doesn't quite work this way. Langley is richer than McLean and just got an $80M renovation. They are also now renovating Cooper MS, the feeder to Langley, at a price tag of around $55M.

If you were to consider the three high pyramids in FCPS that have gotten the biggest shaft in terms of capital investments in recent decades, they are Annandale, Falls Church, and McLean. They have started to rectify the situation in the Falls Church pyramid - they built a brand-new Graham Road ES to replace the old building, and they have budgeted $130M on a Falls Church HS renovation that's just starting. They haven't been as generous to Annandale or McLean, and the challenges at Annandale are magnified by a series of boundary decisions that sent many of Annandale's single-family neighborhoods to other schools (Falls Church, Edison, Lake Braddock, and Woodson).

^ FCPS also built brand-new Mason Crest ES relatively recently, which is a split feeder to Falls Church HS and Justice HS.

Anonymous wrote:Only the poor schools get expanded and new facilities the rich areas live in squalor, it's the woke thing to do

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

It doesn't quite work this way. Langley is richer than McLean and just got an $80M renovation. They are also now renovating Cooper MS, the feeder to Langley, at a price tag of around $55M.

If you were to consider the three high pyramids in FCPS that have gotten the biggest shaft in terms of capital investments in recent decades, they are Annandale, Falls Church, and McLean. They have started to rectify the situation in the Falls Church pyramid - they built a brand-new Graham Road ES to replace the old building, and they have budgeted $130M on a Falls Church HS renovation that's just starting. They haven't been as generous to Annandale or McLean, and the challenges at Annandale are magnified by a series of boundary decisions that sent many of Annandale's single-family neighborhoods to other schools (Falls Church, Edison, Lake Braddock, and Woodson).

Anonymous wrote:Only the poor schools get expanded and new facilities the rich areas live in squalor, it's the woke thing to do

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

They are scheduled to allocate some funds next month to continue work on the roof at McLean HS and are allocating about $1.5M to renovate the bathrooms at McLean HS next summer. But the capital investment in McLean HS over the past three decades has been very low compared to other high schools, which is why they end up having to make these spot investments.