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Anonymous wrote:McLean needs to be renovated and expanded first. All of the 50s ramblers in the walkable, surrounding neighborhoods are being torn down and replaced with homes occupied by families with 2-3 kids.

Now the thread can be about two things that won’t happen any time soon.

Anonymous wrote:McLean needs to be renovated and expanded first. All of the 50s ramblers in the walkable, surrounding neighborhoods are being torn down and replaced with homes occupied by families with 2-3 kids.

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Anonymous wrote:They won't build a new school.

If they did build a new school, they wouldn't build it on park land.

If they did build it on park land, they wouldn't build it in Great Falls.

Put a fork in it.

So many people get bent out of shape by the long bus rides Great Falls students have to take either to Langley or Herndon (not Great Falls families, but the people who want to increase test scores at Herndon), why doesn’t Great Falls deserve a high school? Great Falls residents on average pay the highest taxes to VA and Fairfax County, yet Great Falls doesn’t have a middle or high school.

Anonymous wrote:They won't build a new school.

If they did build a new school, they wouldn't build it on park land.

If they did build it on park land, they wouldn't build it in Great Falls.

Put a fork in it.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS had simply built the mythical Western HS years ago, instead of stringing everyone along, we wouldn’t be in the middle of this ridiculous boundary issue.

Disagree. This is not about the crowded western schools--and that would not have helped the underperforming schools.

DP. I think if the western school had been built then there wouldn't have been enough widespread issues left for the board to try this whole "let's do a comprehensive review of the whole county" thing they've pushed on us. Now we're stuck with an every 5 year fight instead of "as needed" changes focused on actual problem areas and leaving everyone else alone.

DP. The comprehensive review isn't borne of a boatload of major problems. It's borne of Karl Frisch's political judgment that offloading boundary recommendations on a third party consultant could help politically ambitious School Board members avoid accountability. Wouldn't have mattered if there was a western HS; they'd still want to point to an outside consultant's recommendations for dealing with overcrowding in Tysons, at West Springfield HS, etc.

A bunch of random stuff like eliminating attendance islands that no one cared about got pulled into the study to make it look like a consultant was necessary, but it's ultimately all politics.

You sound crazy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS had simply built the mythical Western HS years ago, instead of stringing everyone along, we wouldn’t be in the middle of this ridiculous boundary issue.

Disagree. This is not about the crowded western schools--and that would not have helped the underperforming schools.

DP. I think if the western school had been built then there wouldn't have been enough widespread issues left for the board to try this whole "let's do a comprehensive review of the whole county" thing they've pushed on us. Now we're stuck with an every 5 year fight instead of "as needed" changes focused on actual problem areas and leaving everyone else alone.

DP. The comprehensive review isn't borne of a boatload of major problems. It's borne of Karl Frisch's political judgment that offloading boundary recommendations on a third party consultant could help politically ambitious School Board members avoid accountability. Wouldn't have mattered if there was a western HS; they'd still want to point to an outside consultant's recommendations for dealing with overcrowding in Tysons, at West Springfield HS, etc.

A bunch of random stuff like eliminating attendance islands that no one cared about got pulled into the study to make it look like a consultant was necessary, but it's ultimately all politics.