Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)

[Anonymous]

Apparently Western High School Update will be discussed on November 12.

WHS: Proposed Opt-in and Transportation
• Full enrollment will be achieved with student opt-in categories
• Transportation will only be provided for those students in the final boundary
• Students opting out of WHS will ride buses with 11th and 12th graders to their former base school

Year 1 Grades 9 and 10 SY 2026-27
● Students opt-in to WHS according to phasing plan
● Transportation is provided for those in-boundary
Year 2 Grade 9 SY 2027-28
● 9th grade class is formed with in-boundary students
● Students may opt-out
● Students may opt-in according to phasing plan
Year 3 Grade 9 SY 2028-29
● 9th grade class is formed with in-boundary students
● Students may opt-in according to phasing plan

[Anonymous]

Also Action Item on November 13 Meeting

7.05 New Western High School Programming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also Action Item on November 13 Meeting

7.05 New Western High School Programming

Yep, it's right there in the Board Docs. All you conspiracy theorists can drop your magnet banter now. The vast majority of the school board has signaled their support for a traditional school because they can do math and see that it is necessary relief for the area. Everyone in the immediate are of the school is ecstatic it is opening as a traditional school. The Forestville and "forever Oakton" Crossfield people are the ones that won't let the magnet idea go. It will be nice to see the final nail go in the coffin on the 12th so they can shut up about it.

[Anonymous]

Opt-in Category 1
Students who are guaranteed to live in boundary
Transportation provided

Opt-in Category 2
Students who may live in the boundary
Transportation may be provided

Opt-in Category 3
Students who live in the 5 Western Pyramids, but are not in any possible boundary for Western HS
Transportation unlikely

Opt-in Category 4
All other rising 9th and 10th graders across FCPS Transportation not provided

[Anonymous]

What a steaming pile of hot mess nonsense.

Draw the boundaries, require 9/10 to attend the first year and move one. Jesus H.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a steaming pile of hot mess nonsense.

Draw the boundaries, require 9/10 to attend the first year and move one. Jesus H.

+1! This opt out/opt in stuff is ridiculous and unnecessarily complicated. Why do they have such poor execution?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a steaming pile of hot mess nonsense.

Draw the boundaries, require 9/10 to attend the first year and move one. Jesus H.

+1! This opt out/opt in stuff is ridiculous and unnecessarily complicated. Why do they have such poor execution?

FEAR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a steaming pile of hot mess nonsense.

Draw the boundaries, require 9/10 to attend the first year and move one. Jesus H.

+1! This opt out/opt in stuff is ridiculous and unnecessarily complicated. Why do they have such poor execution?

They're planning to have some sort of combo traditional and magnet. And, of course, initial AP (or IB) path and world languages so opt-in for standard transfers.

[Anonymous]

They don't need a magnet! Just set up a regular old high school. Its not hard! It really isn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't need a magnet! Just set up a regular old high school. Its not hard! It really isn't.

Agreed. That said, what's the "may" in Cat2. The only rational answer I can cook up is they're not certain what the building capacity will actually end up being for two reasons 1) magnet size and 2) varying cost/affordability for different capacities as they are getting pushback over the impact on the renovation queue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Opt-in Category 1
Students who are guaranteed to live in boundary
Transportation provided

Opt-in Category 2
Students who may live in the boundary
Transportation may be provided

Opt-in Category 3
Students who live in the 5 Western Pyramids, but are not in any possible boundary for Western HS
Transportation unlikely

Opt-in Category 4
All other rising 9th and 10th graders across FCPS Transportation not provided

Cool, so my kid can opt in from SLHS even if Fox Mill isn’t moved. I bet a bunch of folks will and we can carpool if we are Cat 3

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They don't need a magnet! Just set up a regular old high school. Its not hard! It really isn't.

Agreed. That said, what's the "may" in Cat2. The only rational answer I can cook up is they're not certain what the building capacity will actually end up being for two reasons 1) magnet size and 2) varying cost/affordability for different capacities as they are getting pushback over the impact on the renovation queue.

No. More likely they have not decided on the boundary.

They should do that now. They have the options. Be a "big boy/girl" School Board and choose one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a steaming pile of hot mess nonsense.

Draw the boundaries, require 9/10 to attend the first year and move one. Jesus H.

+1! This opt out/opt in stuff is ridiculous and unnecessarily complicated. Why do they have such poor execution?

I get the opt in option for the first few years. Families that value the “full HS” experience want football games and varsity sports. Families that were excited by theatre programs, which are excellent at the HSs around here, or marching band and the like don’t want to move to a school starting from scratch.

My non-sport, non-music, non-theatre kid will be fine there because he is not interested in those things. Should he happen to get interested in those things, a school that is starting fresh will be great for the newbie.

By year 3, programs will have been started and varsity sports are likely to be up and running. There is more there and it is easier for families to see what is happening at the school. There should be less trepidation about the change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a steaming pile of hot mess nonsense.

Draw the boundaries, require 9/10 to attend the first year and move one. Jesus H.

+1! This opt out/opt in stuff is ridiculous and unnecessarily complicated. Why do they have such poor execution?

Delaying and optional attendance mess up Centreville to Westfield and Westfield to Western. And the bursting Chantilly to Westfield and Western. Option B is the cleanest: Fox Mill gets 135 transfer in for JIP, non JIPPERS go to the Oak Hill AAP, was on the Coates boundary study. Hunters Woods got 29 from Coates [magnet?], but all the others were <10.

No Crossfield - that has the ludicrous Navy island in boundary and various other stuff that no one has looked at for decades[?]. The school site is in Hughes/South Lakes. Navy had 49 Crossfield AAP and Waples Mill bused 69 on the scenic route for AAP to Hunters Woods.

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Anonymous wrote:Crossfield now want a magnet school so they don’t get sent to KAA. Pathetic.

Where have they publicly advocated for this? Last I heard they were advocating for Option B of the four maps. I didn't hear anyone at a meeting say KAA should be a magnet. Are they lobbying school board members behind closed doors or something?

On their own website:

https://rootedinoakton.com/ourposition

This is not Crossfield's website. This is the website of maybe 20 people, most of whom have older kids already at Oakton and want their younger kids to go to the same high school. They've maybe joined up with 10 other people who have kids in Navy AAP and like all other Navy parents, are insane.

If it’s not crossfield’s website then why did the crossfield elementary school officially send out a newsletter with a link to this website last week?

Obviously the select few powers at be in the Crossfield PTO have their claws in the school and are driving the ship with this website and the school messaging itself. This should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows how the PTO operates.

The same people run the Crossfield PTO and the rooted website. Of courses they’re going to use Crossfield communications to promote the site. I’ve heard the Crossfield principal is heavily influenced by the PTO parents.