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.

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.

My kid won’t be. 😘. You’ll have to try to find someone else to cover for your shortcomings as a parent.

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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.

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.

My kid won’t be. 😘. You’ll have to try to find someone else to cover for your shortcomings as a parent.

Nice assumptions. We are zoned for a great school. The only downside is the a-holes like you.

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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.

I am guessing that the vast majority of people didn't even click on his links.

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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.

Or hop on the right post lane of i66....

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I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

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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.

Or hop on the right post lane of i66....

Eek, the last thing I'd want is my kid on 66 even if they don't have to move out of the exit lane!

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

Psst, go look at the voting record of young millennials.

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

Sure, you don't want to be competitive, and your children would be outcompete by Chinese in China. But at least you get to pick up your child in 10 minute so that's the most important thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

Sure, you don't want to be competitive, and your children would be outcompete by Chinese in China. But at least you get to pick up your child in 10 minute so that's the most important thing.

I see someone is hitting the Chardonnay tonight.

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

I have a funny feeling those Crossfield parents would get along really well with the Navy parents who ousted the former principal!

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

I have a funny feeling those Crossfield parents would get along really well with the Navy parents who ousted the former principal!

The academics crazy Crossfield parents do send their kids to Navy for AAP. The sports crazy parents tend to have kids at Crossfield by choice or because they are not AAP. I think some of the craziest “Navy” parents on here are actually from Crossfield.

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

I have a funny feeling those Crossfield parents would get along really well with the Navy parents who ousted the former principal!

The academics crazy Crossfield parents do send their kids to Navy for AAP. The sports crazy parents tend to have kids at Crossfield by choice or because they are not AAP. I think some of the craziest “Navy” parents on here are actually from Crossfield.

And neither one of them wants to move to Western HS: they are rooted in Oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

Sure, you don't want to be competitive, and your children would be outcompete by Chinese in China. But at least you get to pick up your child in 10 minute so that's the most important thing.

I see someone is hitting the Chardonnay tonight.

+1 LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

Sure, you don't want to be competitive, and your children would be outcompete by Chinese in China. But at least you get to pick up your child in 10 minute so that's the most important thing.

I see someone is hitting the Chardonnay tonight.

DP

China does prioritize education way more than we do. Unforutunately in a global economy, that is a boon for them, and a challenge for us.

We can't rest on our laurels forever. If we ever let them import their EVs into the US, our auto industry is done and so the is our industrial base.

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it sad that families looking to move into this area are going to search "Crossfield" and come across all the nastiness on this thread. I hope they will know and understand it's only a select few people, almost all of whom will gone by 2027 that are acting like this. My kids are in younger grades and all of the parents that I've met have been really kind. It's just the older/Gen X parents that seem to be really snobby and competitive and they're aging out soon!

Sure, you don't want to be competitive, and your children would be outcompete by Chinese in China. But at least you get to pick up your child in 10 minute so that's the most important thing.

I see someone is hitting the Chardonnay tonight.

DP

China does prioritize education way more than we do. Unforutunately in a global economy, that is a boon for them, and a challenge for us.

We can't rest on our laurels forever. If we ever let them import their EVs into the US, our auto industry is done and so the is our industrial base.

And sending kids to Western HS will somehow lower their education?? Do you hear yourself?

We don’t want to be anything like communist China. The Chinese make their kids go to Saturday school. Their kids are so stressed out.

Feel free to move to China if you prefer their education system.