Could someone please explain to me why the school superintendent of Prince William County is proposing spending $28 million to build a new school (Nokesville Elementary) in a community whose projected growth doesn’t warrant the undertaking?
Fixing the existing problems in the school for 20 percent of the cost of a new school seems like a bargain. It’s not as if, in a time of shrinking budgets, (this is the part where everyone looks at their home assessments and groans) that we should be thinking of spending money unless the need is unambiguous and urgent. Constructing this new school is neither.
It is curious to me that those who are pushing this proposal forward are not providing compelling reasons for such spending.
On the other hand, the citizens of Nokesville are rightly trying to keep a highly functional school intact and delegate the money to where projected growth might justify the expense.
Am I missing something?
TIM MacGOWAN
Haymarket
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