Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 10:26     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:Some of these comments are so mean from all sides! Everyone stop! It’s a school that belonged to one community and now will likely belong to another, that’s it. Not rocket science. Kids are kids. There will always be good and bad in every community. It’s true, usually public schools have better maintenance for a variety of reasons. Hopefully the school will be maintained well. As a KAA parent, seeing this injection of hate is really sad. Let’s just all focus on why we are here which is education for children, that’s it!


A public school belongs to the entire community.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 10:25     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:The fact is KAA parents offered to up the tuition to $20K but the Saudi government didn’t want to even consider that. So they just wanted to pack up their things and leave. Now it’s up to the next owner to either be able to maintain this school or again, in a few years put it up for rent or sale. That’s just how most real estate works, they travel hands.


That tuition is still unreasonably low.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 10:23     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
I am going to be so pissed if some political operative from a community totally unaffected by this new school finds a way to derail this purchase. I have the feeling this is already in the works - it's like we're back in 2021 with Rory Cooper pulling all the strings.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 10:21     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
The fact is KAA parents offered to up the tuition to $20K but the Saudi government didn’t want to even consider that. So they just wanted to pack up their things and leave. Now it’s up to the next owner to either be able to maintain this school or again, in a few years put it up for rent or sale. That’s just how most real estate works, they travel hands.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 10:14     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:School vandalism has been happening though in NoVa - it IS an issue in HS

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/some-northern-virginia-students-vandalizing-schools-for-tiktok-trend/2803518/?amp=1


If Arlington can maintain its expensive public high schools with swimming pools and top of the line finishes and furnishings, so can FCPS.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 10:11     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
School vandalism has been happening though in NoVa - it IS an issue in HS

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/some-northern-virginia-students-vandalizing-schools-for-tiktok-trend/2803518/?amp=1
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:59     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Some of these comments are so mean from all sides! Everyone stop! It’s a school that belonged to one community and now will likely belong to another, that’s it. Not rocket science. Kids are kids. There will always be good and bad in every community. It’s true, usually public schools have better maintenance for a variety of reasons. Hopefully the school will be maintained well. As a KAA parent, seeing this injection of hate is really sad. Let’s just all focus on why we are here which is education for children, that’s it!
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:58     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:It’s not the kids, it’s the government. Any school run by the government falls apart really quickly. That’s why Mr Trump had to take care of the DOJ 🇺🇸🇺🇸


Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The school will not be so beautiful anymore after a few years of being used by public school haha.


Yes, it will be ruined by those grubby gross public school students.
Fcps should totally buy it and just let the KAA
families use it for free.


Yes, that is literally what the KAA families think.


Oh yeah, you can read the undertones of their posts. Their children are too good to mix with those nasty public school students.


It is about maintenance.
I worked in a school with a principal who walked the halls and checked on things. He walked into the classrooms and checked out the bathrooms. If something was wrong, he pointed it out to the maintenance people.

This did not take all day. (This was an elementary school.)

But, it starts with the bathrooms. If doors are off the stalls and there is no toilet paper the students are more likely to be less respectful of the building.



Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:53     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
It’s not the kids, it’s the government. Any school run by the government falls apart really quickly. That’s why Mr Trump had to take care of the DOJ 🇺🇸🇺🇸


Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The school will not be so beautiful anymore after a few years of being used by public school haha.


Yes, it will be ruined by those grubby gross public school students.
Fcps should totally buy it and just let the KAA
families use it for free.


Yes, that is literally what the KAA families think.


Oh yeah, you can read the undertones of their posts. Their children are too good to mix with those nasty public school students.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:26     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Whoever is saying stuff like this could you please stop. i doubt you are a kaa family but you are creating a false narrative. its not helpful. there is beauty in both public and private students. I think the sentiment is upkeep isn't always the same at public institutions, and most of it is because budgets don't offer the high maintenance that exists in private ones. that's it.


Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The school will not be so beautiful anymore after a few years of being used by public school haha.


Yes, it will be ruined by those grubby gross public school students.
Fcps should totally buy it and just let the KAA
families use it for free.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:14     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I dont think that was a right comment about public school kids but I do understand the concern of having the same sentimental value over the building. the reaosn the building is in such top shape is becuase of the amount of love and care the students and community have for the building that was made for their needs. i would be surprised if this were the case anywhere else were people know its a hs for free for just 4 years. and maintenance requires alot of upkeep that kaa did and continued to do. fcps may not value the building in the same way to continue to budget or pour for that. just think about that


Its in great shape because it was only built a few years ago, and heavily subsidized by the saudi govt.....not because your precious private school snowflakes float through the air causing no wear and tear.


After some online sleuthing, the architecture firm that designed KAA also did Wakefield, a public high school in Arlington, which similarly has a swimming pool, courtyard gardens with water features, and a large social common area with fancy furnishings. I think KAA will function just fine as a public school, even with all the expensive amenities.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:04     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:I dont think that was a right comment about public school kids but I do understand the concern of having the same sentimental value over the building. the reaosn the building is in such top shape is becuase of the amount of love and care the students and community have for the building that was made for their needs. i would be surprised if this were the case anywhere else were people know its a hs for free for just 4 years. and maintenance requires alot of upkeep that kaa did and continued to do. fcps may not value the building in the same way to continue to budget or pour for that. just think about that


Its in great shape because it was only built a few years ago, and heavily subsidized by the saudi govt.....not because your precious private school snowflakes float through the air causing no wear and tear.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 09:01     Subject: King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
I dont think that was a right comment about public school kids but I do understand the concern of having the same sentimental value over the building. the reaosn the building is in such top shape is becuase of the amount of love and care the students and community have for the building that was made for their needs. i would be surprised if this were the case anywhere else were people know its a hs for free for just 4 years. and maintenance requires alot of upkeep that kaa did and continued to do. fcps may not value the building in the same way to continue to budget or pour for that. just think about that
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 08:22     Subject: Re:King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Anonymous wrote:Parents choose private school for a variety of reasons, one is to further religious education. There are Jewish and Catholic private schools that no one blinks an eye at kids attending. It makes sense that some Muslim families would choose an Islamic private school. I don't begrudge parents making that choice for their child.

I don't understand why there are some posters that seem to think that we should be worried about the KAA families in this thread, what happened to the school is not a FCPS issue. But I don't begrudge anyone the choice to go to private over public school. And I don't think that most parents are disparaging public school kids when they make the choice to go private.


Go back and read some of the posts here and you will see that’s exactly what they are doing. Not sure why they would expect any sympathy on a public school forum if that’s how they think of public schools and their students.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2025 08:09     Subject: Re:King Abdullah Academy Closing: FCPS Buy for HS?
Parents choose private school for a variety of reasons, one is to further religious education. There are Jewish and Catholic private schools that no one blinks an eye at kids attending. It makes sense that some Muslim families would choose an Islamic private school. I don't begrudge parents making that choice for their child.

I don't understand why there are some posters that seem to think that we should be worried about the KAA families in this thread, what happened to the school is not a FCPS issue. But I don't begrudge anyone the choice to go to private over public school. And I don't think that most parents are disparaging public school kids when they make the choice to go private.