Boundary Review Meetings

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Anonymous wrote:Only people pissed off on this thread in the south-central part of the county are people already zoned for Lewis who wanted WSHS neighborhoods rezoned so they could feel better about themselves.

They were never taking kids out of WS to Lewis. That was a delulu proposal. Even taking them out to South County would be a little difficult since SC MS/HS are smaller and there is still development happening in Lorton. You potentially trade one over capacity school for another. Might as well just move the trailers a few exits down 95 from WS to SC at that point.

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Lewis lost students.. I mean I am happy for those who didn’t want to go there (Hunt Valley mom/dad), but this is just ridiculous with all the resources spent on this “comprehensive” initiative. With transfers WSHS might be more crowded than before.

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Anonymous wrote:I know Emerald Chase is likely to make the cut for KAA, but it’s interesting that given how they completely dominated the community feedback sessions, they were the only community not to get what they wanted and are still assigned to South Lakes for both scenarios.

They are staying at OakHill under Scenario 4.

Yes, but they are at Carson and South Lakes.
I think, though, this may work to their advantage and might make the KAA cut with Oak Hill. One of the complaints was Oak Hill and then to Carson --when most of Oak Hill goes to Franklin. (But, there is a very large AAP contingent at Carson.)

It looks like they gave part of Coates to Floris. Hope it is enough.

There are parts of the current Coates boundary split between Floris, McNair, and Herndon ES. That should be enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Only people pissed off on this thread in the south-central part of the county are people already zoned for Lewis who wanted WSHS neighborhoods rezoned so they could feel better about themselves.

They were never taking kids out of WS to Lewis. That was a delulu proposal. Even taking them out to South County would be a little difficult since SC MS/HS are smaller and there is still development happening in Lorton. You potentially trade one over capacity school for another. Might as well just move the trailers a few exits down 95 from WS to SC at that point.

The idea that they're moving kids out of Lewis and over to WSHS is insane. They move the neighborhoods over near Sangster to LBSS to close the split feeder which makes sense, although some families over there are clearly upset about it. But it doesn't make sense to add more neighborhoods into WSHS when it's as overcrowded as they claim it is.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess the TL- McLean families got their way. Now they can go back to not caring about the Title 1 families now that they have used them to get wheat they want.

Although they didn’t care about the Hollywood Rd apartments, they managed to stay at Longfellow/McLean though they’re still being sent to Shrevewood.

Kingsley Commons is now the only loser of the Rt-29 to Rt-50 shuffle. First they lost their walkable elementary school. Now they have to cross Rt-29 to access their school.

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Anonymous wrote:It is really stupid to make any boundary changes to Chantilly/SLHS/Westfield right now when those kids will have to change high schools the following year.

All the boundary changes will go in together, including the new high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Hahaha, the Navy/Franklin Farm and Oak Hill/Emerald Chase parents got their way!!!

I see Emerald Chase going to SLHS not Chantilly as they had wanted.

Oh, I'm confused, I should have said Chantilly Highlands. There was a small part of Chantilly Highlands that they originally proposed sending to Oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly manages to pick up students!

The Oak Hill area that picked up students will be going to the new high school though, so not really.

They moved some Greenbriar East kids to RR and Chantilly, from Johnson/Fairfax. There's a lot of kids over there, so they're basically just going to swap kids, not really reduce overcrowding at Chantilly with moving Oak Hill to KAA.

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Anonymous wrote:Only people pissed off on this thread in the south-central part of the county are people already zoned for Lewis who wanted WSHS neighborhoods rezoned so they could feel better about themselves.

They were never taking kids out of WS to Lewis. That was a delulu proposal. Even taking them out to South County would be a little difficult since SC MS/HS are smaller and there is still development happening in Lorton. You potentially trade one over capacity school for another. Might as well just move the trailers a few exits down 95 from WS to SC at that point.

The idea that they're moving kids out of Lewis and over to WSHS is insane. They move the neighborhoods over near Sangster to LBSS to close the split feeder which makes sense, although some families over there are clearly upset about it. But it doesn't make sense to add more neighborhoods into WSHS when it's as overcrowded as they claim it is.

Sandy Anderson herself advocated for that move, interestingly enough …

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Anonymous wrote:Hahaha, the Navy/Franklin Farm and Oak Hill/Emerald Chase parents got their way!!!

I see Emerald Chase going to SLHS not Chantilly as they had wanted.

Oh, I'm confused, I should have said Chantilly Highlands. There was a small part of Chantilly Highlands that they originally proposed sending to Oakton.

Emerald Chase resident here - we are really excited to stay at Oak Hill. Hoping we’ll be included in KAA but just happy to be at Oak Hill which is what we were fighting for.

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson managed to get Rolling Valley added to WSHS. Unbelievable.

Rolling Valley already is zoned for WSHS.

No, the Rolling Valley neighborhoods north of the Fairfax County Parkway which were going to Key and Lewis. Now they go to Irving and WSHS. The Rolling Valley neighborhoods sound of the parkway move to Saratoga and stay at Key and Lewis. They're taking the expensive homes and moving them into WSHS zone.

THat's all right except the last sentence. The homes staying at RVES and then switching from Key/Lewis to Irving/WSHS are all townhomes. Nice townhomes, but townhomes. It's just one small community. The single family homes north of those townhomes have always been RVES/Irving/WSHS. The RVES homes that are switching to Saratoga and staying at Key/Lewis are overall really nice single family homes.

But yes to a PP that they closed that Sangster ES split feeder but then added kids from RVES to WSHS. There aren't a ton of high school aged kids in those townhomes right now because they all move when they get to middle school, but I predict it will end up adding quite a lot of kids to WSHS down the road (see Daventry . . . )

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson managed to get Rolling Valley added to WSHS. Unbelievable.

Rolling Valley already is zoned for WSHS.

No, the Rolling Valley neighborhoods north of the Fairfax County Parkway which were going to Key and Lewis. Now they go to Irving and WSHS. The Rolling Valley neighborhoods sound of the parkway move to Saratoga and stay at Key and Lewis. They're taking the expensive homes and moving them into WSHS zone.

Actually, in this case the more expensive homes are the ones getting shifted to Saratoga.

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly manages to pick up students!

The Oak Hill area that picked up students will be going to the new high school though, so not really.

They moved some Greenbriar East kids to RR and Chantilly, from Johnson/Fairfax. There's a lot of kids over there, so they're basically just going to swap kids, not really reduce overcrowding at Chantilly with moving Oak Hill to KAA.

I have a feeling Chantilly is losing Oak Hill to KAA and a second elementary school to Westfield…

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson managed to get Rolling Valley added to WSHS. Unbelievable.

Rolling Valley already is zoned for WSHS.

No, the Rolling Valley neighborhoods north of the Fairfax County Parkway which were going to Key and Lewis. Now they go to Irving and WSHS. The Rolling Valley neighborhoods sound of the parkway move to Saratoga and stay at Key and Lewis. They're taking the expensive homes and moving them into WSHS zone.

THat's all right except the last sentence. The homes staying at RVES and then switching from Key/Lewis to Irving/WSHS are all townhomes. Nice townhomes, but townhomes. It's just one small community. The single family homes north of those townhomes have always been RVES/Irving/WSHS. The RVES homes that are switching to Saratoga and staying at Key/Lewis are overall really nice single family homes.

But yes to a PP that they closed that Sangster ES split feeder but then added kids from RVES to WSHS. There aren't a ton of high school aged kids in those townhomes right now because they all move when they get to middle school, but I predict it will end up adding quite a lot of kids to WSHS down the road (see Daventry . . . )

Exactly, this. When Daventry was moved in from Lewis to WSHS it was just a few kids and now its a LOT of kids. And these are townhomes, which means the number of extra kids that would bring to WSHS is a lot more than what Daventry represented, as much of that neighborhood is SFH.

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Anonymous wrote:Sandy Anderson managed to get Rolling Valley added to WSHS. Unbelievable.

Rolling Valley already is zoned for WSHS.

No, the Rolling Valley neighborhoods north of the Fairfax County Parkway which were going to Key and Lewis. Now they go to Irving and WSHS. The Rolling Valley neighborhoods sound of the parkway move to Saratoga and stay at Key and Lewis. They're taking the expensive homes and moving them into WSHS zone.

THat's all right except the last sentence. The homes staying at RVES and then switching from Key/Lewis to Irving/WSHS are all townhomes. Nice townhomes, but townhomes. It's just one small community. The single family homes north of those townhomes have always been RVES/Irving/WSHS. The RVES homes that are switching to Saratoga and staying at Key/Lewis are overall really nice single family homes.

But yes to a PP that they closed that Sangster ES split feeder but then added kids from RVES to WSHS. There aren't a ton of high school aged kids in those townhomes right now because they all move when they get to middle school, but I predict it will end up adding quite a lot of kids to WSHS down the road (see Daventry . . . )

No o e should have moved into wshs