FCPS Skyview Boundary Scenario 1/2/3

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Anonymous wrote:I live in South Reston and was really happy to not be part of this clusterf*ck. But now I am.

Option 2 is really not ideal. Hughes and South Lakes share the same campus and are kind of an unofficial secondary school like Lake Braddock. Sending kids down to Carson, out of their community, only to put them back up to South Lakes for HS just seems weird.

Also, South Lakes is an IB school and the Hughes does the Middle Years program and the classes offered there take into account the sequencing needed to take IB classes in HS, which even if you don't pursue the full diploma, you need to obtain an advanced studies diploma. These people really don't think things through.

Fox Mill families have been fighting to get out of South Lakes for years. They have a lot in common with the Rooted in Oakton mommas, if you know what I'm saying.

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Anonymous wrote:So most of Franklin MS will go to Oakton but then the poor Lees Corner kids will be the only ones there that go on to Chantilly HS? They will have no opportunity to meet kids going to Chantilly while at Franklin? That’s awful.

FCPS does not care about this. Many schools have this same problem now.

Agree. I think worrying about split feeders in middle is pointless. The capacities and locations don't line up in any logical way.

This. I think high school boundaries should come first. Then, if split feeder middles can be avoided, that would be a good thing. But, I don't think they can avoid it always.

Certainly, Crossfield should be at Skyview and stay at Carson. So, it might be necessary to leave Oak Hill kids at Franklin until Fox Mill can be moved to Hughes.

If FCPS stupidly keeps Crossfield at Oakton, then move them to Franklin.

One thing that should not happen is to create multiple split feeders for a neighborhood. (ex. current Emerald Chase which goes to Oak Hill, Carson, Westfield.)
It would not have made sense to send Emerald Chase to Oak Hill before McLearen was built. They were at Floris then and made very good sense. But, after McLearen was built Oak Hill is closer/better for them.
But, now they go to Carson and then to Westfield.

Fox Mill isn’t getting moved to Hughes.

Not yet. If Fox Mill stays at SLHS, then when FCPS gets rid of middle school AAP centers and the students all go back to their zoned middle school Hughes will have room for them. Fox Mill is part of the Reston / South Lakes community. They should be at Hughes.

Fox Mill should be at Carson and then Skyview, with the other Carson kids. There are Fox Mill families that can walk to Carson. And most of us want to move.

We realize that's what you want, but Crossfield has the same argument (other than your outright lie about there being any Fox Mill students that walk to Carson). Moving Crossfield makes more sense for FCPS because it helps with Oakton overcrowding while greatly reducing their commute, and at the same time doesn't undo the 2008 boundary study that improved South Lakes. You could argue putting Crossfield at South Lakes in your place, but that doesn't make any sense when you are already there and so much closer to the Reston community served by South Lakes.

I understand your reasoning, and Scenario 1 does seem to reflect it.

But that’s not the only plausible option.

The consultants identified future residential development areas, many of which are in Reston.

Scenario 3 accounts for this future development and focuses on minimizing split feeder patterns. Under Scenario 3, Crossfield stays at Oakton and Fox Mill moves to Skyview.

+1. There is more than one reasonable option. Also, the person who said their child could be a walker to Carson wasn't lying. The walker zone for middle and high schools is 1.5 miles. While most of Fox Mill is further, the closest homes to Carson, near West Ox Road, are 1.5 miles away from Carson.

It is 100% a lie. No one is walking the 1.5+ miles down West Ox and McLearen and crossing Centreville Rd to get to Carson. The sidewalk from Carson doesn't even connect to Centreville Rd because they know no one walks that way. FCPS does have rules about crossing certain roads - my own neighborhood is directly across the street from our school and the kids that can see the school from their front door aren't allowed to be walkers because the road is too dangerous to cross.

You are right, no one is labelled as a walker for Carson because of the traffic patterns. They are within the area that kids can walk if the streets were different. Meaning, they are close to the school. And kids do walk home from Carson in our Fox Mill neighborhood, especially after the school clubs. The late bus takes such a long route that my son and his friends will decide to walk home because it is faster then the late bus. We live by Fox Mill ES.

There are plenty of kids in Fox Mill who could walk to Carson if Carson had walkers, just like there are kids from Oak Hill who could be designated walkers if Carson had walkers. Both ES are very close to Skyview. That is why kids from FMES are at Carson an should be at Skyview.

If you're putting up the straw man argument that just one house at the edge of the boundary has to be within 1.5 miles of a school to qualify the neighborhood as walkers then lots of people *could* be walkers to lots of schools, but as we've established FCPS has rules for what qualifies as a walker. Moving Fox Mill away from Carson would not be taking walkers out of their school because no kids from Fox Mill qualify as walkers according to FCPS.

I’ll be more blunt for you. Fox Mill is closer than Crossfield. Fox Mill is as close as Oak Hill is. It makes sense for Fox Mill to go there.

Equally blunt, the commute time saved moving Crossfield to Skyview is much, much greater than the commute time saved putting Fox Mill there. Additionally, Oakton HS is already overcrowded. Moving Crossfield out makes the most sense for future capacity planning.

I agree with this - but if one community really wants to go (Fox Mill) and one doesn’t (Crossfield) what would be the harm in honoring those requests?

Nope. It shouldn't be about the parents of current upper grade kids. It should be about the community as a whole, including kids who haven't even been in elementary school yet. You know the advocates are parents of 7th and 8th graders, not of younger children. On both sides.

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Anonymous wrote:Starting to hear rumblings out of gatehouse that the boundary contentiousness and ever increasing costs of renovations and additions needed at Skyview may force a shift to a magnet school. Definitely not officially happening but there have been discussions in the upper floors of gatehouse about rethinking this situation.

OH SHUT UP.

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Anonymous wrote:So most of Franklin MS will go to Oakton but then the poor Lees Corner kids will be the only ones there that go on to Chantilly HS? They will have no opportunity to meet kids going to Chantilly while at Franklin? That’s awful.

FCPS does not care about this. Many schools have this same problem now.

Agree. I think worrying about split feeders in middle is pointless. The capacities and locations don't line up in any logical way.

This. I think high school boundaries should come first. Then, if split feeder middles can be avoided, that would be a good thing. But, I don't think they can avoid it always.

Certainly, Crossfield should be at Skyview and stay at Carson. So, it might be necessary to leave Oak Hill kids at Franklin until Fox Mill can be moved to Hughes.

If FCPS stupidly keeps Crossfield at Oakton, then move them to Franklin.

One thing that should not happen is to create multiple split feeders for a neighborhood. (ex. current Emerald Chase which goes to Oak Hill, Carson, Westfield.)
It would not have made sense to send Emerald Chase to Oak Hill before McLearen was built. They were at Floris then and made very good sense. But, after McLearen was built Oak Hill is closer/better for them.
But, now they go to Carson and then to Westfield.

Fox Mill isn’t getting moved to Hughes.

Not yet. If Fox Mill stays at SLHS, then when FCPS gets rid of middle school AAP centers and the students all go back to their zoned middle school Hughes will have room for them. Fox Mill is part of the Reston / South Lakes community. They should be at Hughes.

Fox Mill should be at Carson and then Skyview, with the other Carson kids. There are Fox Mill families that can walk to Carson. And most of us want to move.

We realize that's what you want, but Crossfield has the same argument (other than your outright lie about there being any Fox Mill students that walk to Carson). Moving Crossfield makes more sense for FCPS because it helps with Oakton overcrowding while greatly reducing their commute, and at the same time doesn't undo the 2008 boundary study that improved South Lakes. You could argue putting Crossfield at South Lakes in your place, but that doesn't make any sense when you are already there and so much closer to the Reston community served by South Lakes.

I understand your reasoning, and Scenario 1 does seem to reflect it.

But that’s not the only plausible option.

The consultants identified future residential development areas, many of which are in Reston.

Scenario 3 accounts for this future development and focuses on minimizing split feeder patterns. Under Scenario 3, Crossfield stays at Oakton and Fox Mill moves to Skyview.

+1. There is more than one reasonable option. Also, the person who said their child could be a walker to Carson wasn't lying. The walker zone for middle and high schools is 1.5 miles. While most of Fox Mill is further, the closest homes to Carson, near West Ox Road, are 1.5 miles away from Carson.

It is 100% a lie. No one is walking the 1.5+ miles down West Ox and McLearen and crossing Centreville Rd to get to Carson. The sidewalk from Carson doesn't even connect to Centreville Rd because they know no one walks that way. FCPS does have rules about crossing certain roads - my own neighborhood is directly across the street from our school and the kids that can see the school from their front door aren't allowed to be walkers because the road is too dangerous to cross.

You are right, no one is labelled as a walker for Carson because of the traffic patterns. They are within the area that kids can walk if the streets were different. Meaning, they are close to the school. And kids do walk home from Carson in our Fox Mill neighborhood, especially after the school clubs. The late bus takes such a long route that my son and his friends will decide to walk home because it is faster then the late bus. We live by Fox Mill ES.

There are plenty of kids in Fox Mill who could walk to Carson if Carson had walkers, just like there are kids from Oak Hill who could be designated walkers if Carson had walkers. Both ES are very close to Skyview. That is why kids from FMES are at Carson an should be at Skyview.

If you're putting up the straw man argument that just one house at the edge of the boundary has to be within 1.5 miles of a school to qualify the neighborhood as walkers then lots of people *could* be walkers to lots of schools, but as we've established FCPS has rules for what qualifies as a walker. Moving Fox Mill away from Carson would not be taking walkers out of their school because no kids from Fox Mill qualify as walkers according to FCPS.

I’ll be more blunt for you. Fox Mill is closer than Crossfield. Fox Mill is as close as Oak Hill is. It makes sense for Fox Mill to go there.

Avoiding a long commute to Oakton is just as relevant as proximity to Skyview.

Except Crossfield has a large contingent that is fine with that commute and Fox Mill has a large contingent that doesn’t like IB and wants AP and is closer. More people at Crossfield want to stay at Oakton.

The loudest voices are not the majority, sweetie. Did you take math?

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Anonymous wrote:So most of Franklin MS will go to Oakton but then the poor Lees Corner kids will be the only ones there that go on to Chantilly HS? They will have no opportunity to meet kids going to Chantilly while at Franklin? That’s awful.

FCPS does not care about this. Many schools have this same problem now.

Agree. I think worrying about split feeders in middle is pointless. The capacities and locations don't line up in any logical way.

This. I think high school boundaries should come first. Then, if split feeder middles can be avoided, that would be a good thing. But, I don't think they can avoid it always.

Certainly, Crossfield should be at Skyview and stay at Carson. So, it might be necessary to leave Oak Hill kids at Franklin until Fox Mill can be moved to Hughes.

If FCPS stupidly keeps Crossfield at Oakton, then move them to Franklin.

One thing that should not happen is to create multiple split feeders for a neighborhood. (ex. current Emerald Chase which goes to Oak Hill, Carson, Westfield.)
It would not have made sense to send Emerald Chase to Oak Hill before McLearen was built. They were at Floris then and made very good sense. But, after McLearen was built Oak Hill is closer/better for them.
But, now they go to Carson and then to Westfield.

Fox Mill isn’t getting moved to Hughes.

Not yet. If Fox Mill stays at SLHS, then when FCPS gets rid of middle school AAP centers and the students all go back to their zoned middle school Hughes will have room for them. Fox Mill is part of the Reston / South Lakes community. They should be at Hughes.

Fox Mill should be at Carson and then Skyview, with the other Carson kids. There are Fox Mill families that can walk to Carson. And most of us want to move.

We realize that's what you want, but Crossfield has the same argument (other than your outright lie about there being any Fox Mill students that walk to Carson). Moving Crossfield makes more sense for FCPS because it helps with Oakton overcrowding while greatly reducing their commute, and at the same time doesn't undo the 2008 boundary study that improved South Lakes. You could argue putting Crossfield at South Lakes in your place, but that doesn't make any sense when you are already there and so much closer to the Reston community served by South Lakes.

I understand your reasoning, and Scenario 1 does seem to reflect it.

But that’s not the only plausible option.

The consultants identified future residential development areas, many of which are in Reston.

Scenario 3 accounts for this future development and focuses on minimizing split feeder patterns. Under Scenario 3, Crossfield stays at Oakton and Fox Mill moves to Skyview.

+1. There is more than one reasonable option. Also, the person who said their child could be a walker to Carson wasn't lying. The walker zone for middle and high schools is 1.5 miles. While most of Fox Mill is further, the closest homes to Carson, near West Ox Road, are 1.5 miles away from Carson.

It is 100% a lie. No one is walking the 1.5+ miles down West Ox and McLearen and crossing Centreville Rd to get to Carson. The sidewalk from Carson doesn't even connect to Centreville Rd because they know no one walks that way. FCPS does have rules about crossing certain roads - my own neighborhood is directly across the street from our school and the kids that can see the school from their front door aren't allowed to be walkers because the road is too dangerous to cross.

You are right, no one is labelled as a walker for Carson because of the traffic patterns. They are within the area that kids can walk if the streets were different. Meaning, they are close to the school. And kids do walk home from Carson in our Fox Mill neighborhood, especially after the school clubs. The late bus takes such a long route that my son and his friends will decide to walk home because it is faster then the late bus. We live by Fox Mill ES.

There are plenty of kids in Fox Mill who could walk to Carson if Carson had walkers, just like there are kids from Oak Hill who could be designated walkers if Carson had walkers. Both ES are very close to Skyview. That is why kids from FMES are at Carson an should be at Skyview.

If you're putting up the straw man argument that just one house at the edge of the boundary has to be within 1.5 miles of a school to qualify the neighborhood as walkers then lots of people *could* be walkers to lots of schools, but as we've established FCPS has rules for what qualifies as a walker. Moving Fox Mill away from Carson would not be taking walkers out of their school because no kids from Fox Mill qualify as walkers according to FCPS.

I’ll be more blunt for you. Fox Mill is closer than Crossfield. Fox Mill is as close as Oak Hill is. It makes sense for Fox Mill to go there.

+1 and Fox Mill wants to go there.

*some families* from Fox Mill. Not everyone.

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I've talked to a number of Fox Mill families of young children who specifically bought in the neighborhood because of the IB program at South Lakes. Most of them are international families, but they are still homeowners and parents and have just as much of a voice as you do.

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Anonymous wrote:Starting to hear rumblings out of gatehouse that the boundary contentiousness and ever increasing costs of renovations and additions needed at Skyview may force a shift to a magnet school. Definitely not officially happening but there have been discussions in the upper floors of gatehouse about rethinking this situation.

That’s interesting. I heard some rumblings about this last week too, but I dismissed the rumors at the time. I wonder if there is any there there.

Sock puppeting!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Starting to hear rumblings out of gatehouse that the boundary contentiousness and ever increasing costs of renovations and additions needed at Skyview may force a shift to a magnet school. Definitely not officially happening but there have been discussions in the upper floors of gatehouse about rethinking this situation.

That’s interesting. I heard some rumblings about this last week too, but I dismissed the rumors at the time. I wonder if there is any there there.

If this is true, Reid needs to go. and, the School Board, too.

It's not true, it's just one person on this board pretending to be several. She has hopes and dreams and they are not going to be realized.

Floris, Coats, and McNair families need a local high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in South Reston and was really happy to not be part of this clusterf*ck. But now I am.

Option 2 is really not ideal. Hughes and South Lakes share the same campus and are kind of an unofficial secondary school like Lake Braddock. Sending kids down to Carson, out of their community, only to put them back up to South Lakes for HS just seems weird.

Also, South Lakes is an IB school and the Hughes does the Middle Years program and the classes offered there take into account the sequencing needed to take IB classes in HS, which even if you don't pursue the full diploma, you need to obtain an advanced studies diploma. These people really don't think things through.

Fox Mill families have been fighting to get out of South Lakes for years. They have a lot in common with the Rooted in Oakton mommas, if you know what I'm saying.

+1 yes. But seriously, who wouldn’t want to get out of South Lakes?!

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Anonymous wrote:I live in South Reston and was really happy to not be part of this clusterf*ck. But now I am.

Option 2 is really not ideal. Hughes and South Lakes share the same campus and are kind of an unofficial secondary school like Lake Braddock. Sending kids down to Carson, out of their community, only to put them back up to South Lakes for HS just seems weird.

Also, South Lakes is an IB school and the Hughes does the Middle Years program and the classes offered there take into account the sequencing needed to take IB classes in HS, which even if you don't pursue the full diploma, you need to obtain an advanced studies diploma. These people really don't think things through.

Fox Mill families have been fighting to get out of South Lakes for years. They have a lot in common with the Rooted in Oakton mommas, if you know what I'm saying.

+1 yes. But seriously, who wouldn’t want to get out of South Lakes?!

I don't actually think it's that bad. Take a look at its stats. Kids that go to South Lakes do well!

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Anonymous wrote:By keeping the opt in model they would decrease the populations of the surrounding schools, which has already occurred. It would also enable them to focus on things the building already has and not require them to build out all the things it doesn’t have. Plus no boundary wars, which don’t seems to have any current solutions that are popular.

But the bigger decreases in enrollment would come from Westfield and South Lakes with a permanent opt-in model. It would do very little for Centreville, Chantilly, or Oakton.

The School Board already directed Reid to open Skyview as a traditional high school. Presumably the costs to get to a 2000-student school would still be well below the cost of building a new school, and it’s a good location.

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

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Anonymous wrote:So most of Franklin MS will go to Oakton but then the poor Lees Corner kids will be the only ones there that go on to Chantilly HS? They will have no opportunity to meet kids going to Chantilly while at Franklin? That’s awful.

FCPS does not care about this. Many schools have this same problem now.

Agree. I think worrying about split feeders in middle is pointless. The capacities and locations don't line up in any logical way.

This. I think high school boundaries should come first. Then, if split feeder middles can be avoided, that would be a good thing. But, I don't think they can avoid it always.

Certainly, Crossfield should be at Skyview and stay at Carson. So, it might be necessary to leave Oak Hill kids at Franklin until Fox Mill can be moved to Hughes.

If FCPS stupidly keeps Crossfield at Oakton, then move them to Franklin.

One thing that should not happen is to create multiple split feeders for a neighborhood. (ex. current Emerald Chase which goes to Oak Hill, Carson, Westfield.)
It would not have made sense to send Emerald Chase to Oak Hill before McLearen was built. They were at Floris then and made very good sense. But, after McLearen was built Oak Hill is closer/better for them.
But, now they go to Carson and then to Westfield.

Fox Mill isn’t getting moved to Hughes.

Not yet. If Fox Mill stays at SLHS, then when FCPS gets rid of middle school AAP centers and the students all go back to their zoned middle school Hughes will have room for them. Fox Mill is part of the Reston / South Lakes community. They should be at Hughes.

Fox Mill should be at Carson and then Skyview, with the other Carson kids. There are Fox Mill families that can walk to Carson. And most of us want to move.

We realize that's what you want, but Crossfield has the same argument (other than your outright lie about there being any Fox Mill students that walk to Carson). Moving Crossfield makes more sense for FCPS because it helps with Oakton overcrowding while greatly reducing their commute, and at the same time doesn't undo the 2008 boundary study that improved South Lakes. You could argue putting Crossfield at South Lakes in your place, but that doesn't make any sense when you are already there and so much closer to the Reston community served by South Lakes.

I understand your reasoning, and Scenario 1 does seem to reflect it.

But that’s not the only plausible option.

The consultants identified future residential development areas, many of which are in Reston.

Scenario 3 accounts for this future development and focuses on minimizing split feeder patterns. Under Scenario 3, Crossfield stays at Oakton and Fox Mill moves to Skyview.

+1. There is more than one reasonable option. Also, the person who said their child could be a walker to Carson wasn't lying. The walker zone for middle and high schools is 1.5 miles. While most of Fox Mill is further, the closest homes to Carson, near West Ox Road, are 1.5 miles away from Carson.

It is 100% a lie. No one is walking the 1.5+ miles down West Ox and McLearen and crossing Centreville Rd to get to Carson. The sidewalk from Carson doesn't even connect to Centreville Rd because they know no one walks that way. FCPS does have rules about crossing certain roads - my own neighborhood is directly across the street from our school and the kids that can see the school from their front door aren't allowed to be walkers because the road is too dangerous to cross.

You are right, no one is labelled as a walker for Carson because of the traffic patterns. They are within the area that kids can walk if the streets were different. Meaning, they are close to the school. And kids do walk home from Carson in our Fox Mill neighborhood, especially after the school clubs. The late bus takes such a long route that my son and his friends will decide to walk home because it is faster then the late bus. We live by Fox Mill ES.

There are plenty of kids in Fox Mill who could walk to Carson if Carson had walkers, just like there are kids from Oak Hill who could be designated walkers if Carson had walkers. Both ES are very close to Skyview. That is why kids from FMES are at Carson an should be at Skyview.

If you're putting up the straw man argument that just one house at the edge of the boundary has to be within 1.5 miles of a school to qualify the neighborhood as walkers then lots of people *could* be walkers to lots of schools, but as we've established FCPS has rules for what qualifies as a walker. Moving Fox Mill away from Carson would not be taking walkers out of their school because no kids from Fox Mill qualify as walkers according to FCPS.

I’ll be more blunt for you. Fox Mill is closer than Crossfield. Fox Mill is as close as Oak Hill is. It makes sense for Fox Mill to go there.

Avoiding a long commute to Oakton is just as relevant as proximity to Skyview.

Except Crossfield has a large contingent that is fine with that commute and Fox Mill has a large contingent that doesn’t like IB and wants AP and is closer. More people at Crossfield want to stay at Oakton.

The loudest voices are not the majority, sweetie. Did you take math?

hey there sweetums
what data do you have? i've taken modeling analysis and uncertainty, engineering stats and build big data models in my day job. only data I can pull offhand is from the RIO site which for all its faults if far more than your...
mere assertion without any evidence.

sounds like you're just one spectacular speculating speculator who tries to bluff their position.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in South Reston and was really happy to not be part of this clusterf*ck. But now I am.

Option 2 is really not ideal. Hughes and South Lakes share the same campus and are kind of an unofficial secondary school like Lake Braddock. Sending kids down to Carson, out of their community, only to put them back up to South Lakes for HS just seems weird.

Also, South Lakes is an IB school and the Hughes does the Middle Years program and the classes offered there take into account the sequencing needed to take IB classes in HS, which even if you don't pursue the full diploma, you need to obtain an advanced studies diploma. These people really don't think things through.

Fox Mill families have been fighting to get out of South Lakes for years. They have a lot in common with the Rooted in Oakton mommas, if you know what I'm saying.

+1 yes. But seriously, who wouldn’t want to get out of South Lakes?!

But Grant Hill went there like 30-40 years ago!

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Anonymous wrote:I live in South Reston and was really happy to not be part of this clusterf*ck. But now I am.

Option 2 is really not ideal. Hughes and South Lakes share the same campus and are kind of an unofficial secondary school like Lake Braddock. Sending kids down to Carson, out of their community, only to put them back up to South Lakes for HS just seems weird.

Also, South Lakes is an IB school and the Hughes does the Middle Years program and the classes offered there take into account the sequencing needed to take IB classes in HS, which even if you don't pursue the full diploma, you need to obtain an advanced studies diploma. These people really don't think things through.

Fox Mill families have been fighting to get out of South Lakes for years. They have a lot in common with the Rooted in Oakton mommas, if you know what I'm saying.

+1 yes. But seriously, who wouldn’t want to get out of South Lakes?!

But Grant Hill went there like 30-40 years ago!

Oh yes lol.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in South Reston and was really happy to not be part of this clusterf*ck. But now I am.

Option 2 is really not ideal. Hughes and South Lakes share the same campus and are kind of an unofficial secondary school like Lake Braddock. Sending kids down to Carson, out of their community, only to put them back up to South Lakes for HS just seems weird.

Also, South Lakes is an IB school and the Hughes does the Middle Years program and the classes offered there take into account the sequencing needed to take IB classes in HS, which even if you don't pursue the full diploma, you need to obtain an advanced studies diploma. These people really don't think things through.

Fox Mill families have been fighting to get out of South Lakes for years. They have a lot in common with the Rooted in Oakton mommas, if you know what I'm saying.

+1 yes. But seriously, who wouldn’t want to get out of South Lakes?!

I don't actually think it's that bad. Take a look at its stats. Kids that go to South Lakes do well!

+1 I want to stay in Hughes/South Lakes and I don’t live in Fox Mill. Had one kid graduate from there already and it really was fine.