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

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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.

Who cares? Look at how the entire Town of Vienna government is throwing a fit to keep all TOV kids assigned to a high school that isn’t even in the TOV.

As long as Reid and the School Board pander to the loudest voices people are going to get louder, whether it relates to Western or any other desired or undesired school.

A handful of PTO Karens commandeering the official school email system to lobby for their special point of view is grossly inappropriate.

If I were a Crossfield parent who wanted to go to KAA I’d be furious.

Dude, you do not live within our boundrary. We are not, as I know my kids will be safer at base school.

But you might be furious because you can not sent yours to KAA.

I’m probably your neighbor. I hope I get the choice to send my kids to a different school from yours. You can keep your snobby overdramatic selves at Oakton. I don’t want your kids around mine, nor do I want to have to interact with you.

I'm the cream of the crop, rise to the top!

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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.

Who cares? Look at how the entire Town of Vienna government is throwing a fit to keep all TOV kids assigned to a high school that isn’t even in the TOV.

As long as Reid and the School Board pander to the loudest voices people are going to get louder, whether it relates to Western or any other desired or undesired school.

A handful of PTO Karens commandeering the official school email system to lobby for their special point of view is grossly inappropriate.

If I were a Crossfield parent who wanted to go to KAA I’d be furious.

Dude, you do not live within our boundrary. We are not, as I know my kids will be safer at base school.

But you might be furious because you can not sent yours to KAA.

I’m probably your neighbor. I hope I get the choice to send my kids to a different school from yours. You can keep your snobby overdramatic selves at Oakton. I don’t want your kids around mine, nor do I want to have to interact with you.

I'm the cream of the crop, rise to the top!

Just remember: the tallest blade of grass is the first one cut down by the lawnmower.

[Anonymous]

Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

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The evil you wish for others will come back to you

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

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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

This is insane.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

Does your kid’s bus pick up kids who wouldn’t go to Carson if it weren’t for AAP? That might change the bus ride to a high school in roughly the same location. Either way I wouldn’t assume all the routes will be the same.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes he clearly doesn't read anything they send him and he should. The way the Crossfield PTO is set up, the Board runs everything without accountability. They have no interest the community, they are in it for themselves and their friends and only do things that benefit their own kids. Witness: no after school programs, no clubs, they don't pay for field trips, they don't have monthly community meetings, no fall picnic or spring carnival, and their big event is a basketball game where their sporty kids can shine.

I hope these people don’t ever get their way of being moved to Franklin. We don’t want them!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

If you don't like driving then put them on the bus or walk. This sounds like a problem you created out of a need for convenience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

Does your kid’s bus pick up kids who wouldn’t go to Carson if it weren’t for AAP? That might change the bus ride to a high school in roughly the same location. Either way I wouldn’t assume all the routes will be the same.

Thankfully FCPS is expanding AAP centers to all Middle Schools so this won't be a big factor in the near future.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

Carson has a very small drop off for kiss n ride in the front - and the PE teacher manning it doesn’t pay attention and make cars move up as far possible to the front so more cars can fit - he’s too busy talking to the School Resource Officer every am, with his back to the cars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

One thing that nobody has really mentioned is that the drive to WHS from Franklin Farm and the surrounding areas is easier for high schoolers. From my house, it's only main roads and it's three stop lights. To get to Oakton, they have to drive on narrow, windy roads and especially when it's rainy or icy, it's not very safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Who cares? Look at how the entire Town of Vienna government is throwing a fit to keep all TOV kids assigned to a high school that isn’t even in the TOV.

As long as Reid and the School Board pander to the loudest voices people are going to get louder, whether it relates to Western or any other desired or undesired school.

A handful of PTO Karens commandeering the official school email system to lobby for their special point of view is grossly inappropriate.

If I were a Crossfield parent who wanted to go to KAA I’d be furious.

Dude, you do not live within our boundrary. We are not, as I know my kids will be safer at base school.

But you might be furious because you can not sent yours to KAA.

I’m probably your neighbor. I hope I get the choice to send my kids to a different school from yours. You can keep your snobby overdramatic selves at Oakton. I don’t want your kids around mine, nor do I want to have to interact with you.

DP, typically, you get to sort yourselves, the people who want to virtue signal can send their kids to certain schools, and the ones who care about their kids can send their kids to a different school.

A boundary change that ignores families’ choices is doomed to get the pushback that this whole process has received, because we all want stability in our school system.

I hope you do get moved. You sound like you could use a humbling experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't dig a pit for someone else, you will fall into it yourself.

A brand new, shiny, state of the art school thats not overcrowded and has advanced academics within a 15 minute drive so your kids aren't split away from their friends in middle school. If thats a pit I'd love to fall into it!

Do you pick up your kids or drop off your kids to school?

Carson backs up across the intersection.

Can only imagine how bad the backup would be at kaa.

What's the bus ride to kaa? Carson is about 25 to 30 for my kid so I have no clue where this 15 minutes is coming from even if it might be 15 minutes straight from my house.

Carson has a very small drop off for kiss n ride in the front - and the PE teacher manning it doesn’t pay attention and make cars move up as far possible to the front so more cars can fit - he’s too busy talking to the School Resource Officer every am, with his back to the cars.

I've never felt the need to drop off, my kid is the first bus stop and it's still only a 20 minute ride (the Oakton ride, on the other hand, is 40 minutes). I have picked up from Carson a few times and it's really fast. I'm obviously biased because I appreciate the convenience factor of Carson only being 7 minutes away as opposed to 20. I'm a lot more likely to say "sure I'll pick you up after Club X" instead of making my kid ride the late bus home or catch a ride from another friend's parent, but also my Oakton kid's friends don't live as close to us, which is also a bummer. WHS kids will all live within a 10 minute drive and there's also something to be said for that.