Skyview is Open for Opt-In from Any Rising 9th and 10th grader in Fairfax County

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

+1
The closer in areas aren’t likely to get new development that has a lot of kids, but that is still a possibility further out in the Westfield and Centreville areas. Agree it’s better to have multiple schools with 2000 than fewer schools but with 2800+ each.
Those of us who live near Skyview (currently in RCMS boundary) are mostly pretty excited about this being our community high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

+1
The closer in areas aren’t likely to get new development that has a lot of kids, but that is still a possibility further out in the Westfield and Centreville areas. Agree it’s better to have multiple schools with 2000 than fewer schools but with 2800+ each.
Those of us who live near Skyview (currently in RCMS boundary) are mostly pretty excited about this being our community high school.

The closer-in Tysons area is still projected by the county as the area with the most growth potential in terms of student enrollment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

+1
The closer in areas aren’t likely to get new development that has a lot of kids, but that is still a possibility further out in the Westfield and Centreville areas. Agree it’s better to have multiple schools with 2000 than fewer schools but with 2800+ each.
Those of us who live near Skyview (currently in RCMS boundary) are mostly pretty excited about this being our community high school.

The closer-in Tysons area is still projected by the county as the area with the most growth potential in terms of student enrollment.

Do that many families with children want to live there?
So strange.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

+1
The closer in areas aren’t likely to get new development that has a lot of kids, but that is still a possibility further out in the Westfield and Centreville areas. Agree it’s better to have multiple schools with 2000 than fewer schools but with 2800+ each.
Those of us who live near Skyview (currently in RCMS boundary) are mostly pretty excited about this being our community high school.

The closer-in Tysons area is still projected by the county as the area with the most growth potential in terms of student enrollment.

Do that many families with children want to live there?
So strange.

There has been growth in the Tysons area (which includes Tysons and nearby areas in Vienna, McLean, and Falls Church) for years with more potentially on the horizon. A lot of newer families to the area don't have the same attitudes about living in multi-family housing as older generations of Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

+1 I also live in a school likely to be sent to Skyview. My neighborhood is beginning to "turn over" with more young families moving in.

And, the area near Westfield has LOTS of new construction. On both sides of 28--behind Costco and over by Wegman's. There is also some that is walking distance to Westfield.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

Community doesn't want it. Not hard to make a magnet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

Community doesn't want it. Not hard to make a magnet

There have been enough flip flops under Michelle Reid as Superintendent. We don't need more, and particularly not one that would turn Skyview into a magnet rather than a long-awaited neighborhood high school.

Plus your premise is wrong. Plenty in the community do want it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Crossfield is the only school that has been proposed to move to Skyview that seems to have a significant amount of angst at moving. I have not heard many complaints from Coates, McNair, Floris, or Oak Hill. Fox Mill has a decent sized group of parents that want to move.

Centreville families don’t want to leave to backfield Westfield. Centreville families want the relief but want it to be schools other than theirs. Everyone saw this coming, with the exception of Centreville families who were not paying attention until recently. It is the same with every boundary change. Someone needs to move.

No one needs to move. Let Skyview be a magnate school. Attrition will reduce overcrowding across the county. Natural decline in K-12 population will take care of the rest. New developments will be filled with DINKS. There is no real problem to solve here.

Skyview was purchased to be a neighborhood school. Not another magnet or a county-wide lottery school.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often. They need to be thinking long-term and not just making decisions based on short-term enrollment declines. Even if they end up with multiple high schools in western Fairfax with 2000 or so kids, that’s better than having schools with 2800 kids.

Community doesn't want it. Not hard to make a magnet

There have been enough flip flops under Michelle Reid as Superintendent. We don't need more, and particularly not one that would turn Skyview into a magnet rather than a long-awaited neighborhood high school.

Plus your premise is wrong. Plenty in the community do want it.

+1

[Anonymous]

The community wants it!

The negativity is coming from all the secondary moves FCPS is trying to make

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The community wants it!

The negativity is coming from all the secondary moves FCPS is trying to make

FCPS can take credit for instigating the Third Battle of Bull Run.

[Anonymous]

Everyone knows the wealthier army always wins when politicians are making decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So we have gone to a county wide opt in policy and still can’t fill a 1,000 seats. Guess that just shows there really was not a boundary problem to solve after all. A lot of time and money spent to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Not to mention the angst caused as neighborhoods pit themselves against one another to keep from being rezoned into a different boundary. A catastrophic failure all around!

The reason it’s been such a catastrophic failure is that the school board failed to anticipate that families largely want to stay in their chosen schools, even if they aren’t ranked well. There are a lot of people who clamor to move other people’s kids for self-interested reasons, but very few who are interested in moving their own.

Lots of people go to overcrowded schools and want the school board to do their jobs and move people out to fix the problem. Of course there are complainers that don't want to move, but it has to be someone and it's the board's job to decide who, and in a way that makes the most sense for the county in terms of future growth and planning.