GCM fails to renovate responsibly

If you had $69.06 million, what would you do with it? Would you spend it frivolously, or would you save it up and use it all to benefit something worthwhile?

If you choose the latter, then you?re already making better choices than Marshall. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has allotted us $69.06 million for our renovations. Instead of spending it on ways we could help the environment or new equipment for our students, we?re using it to cover the school in what appears to be yellow bathroom tiles.

Yes, we are also repairing the security system and yes, we are building a sprinkler system, but the fact remains that we are in a recession and shouldn?t be wasting our money on covering the outside of the school; instead we should be focusing on bettering the equipment and the interior of our school.

FCPS cut elementary school orchestra and several school sports. If they?re going to spend that money on aesthetics rather than productive purposes, they could at least make it pleasing to the eye. Enhancing the exterior, however, of the school does nothing to improve the learning on the inside.

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