FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meren is sending out the same letter to people, a bunch of us got the same thing.

She opposes micro-split feeders, mentions this connected to Crossfield and it's new feeder pattern.
She opposes the Fox Mill move because it will "further decrease under-enrolled membership"

SLHS is at 98% capacity, even at 85% capacity it is not under enrolled. The issue is that they don't have enough students taking IB, is my guess. That is not FMES fault, nor is it FMES problem.

Isn't she a little big late to express her opinion publicly? I feel she went easy and avoided conflict before the last version came out, which had fmes in both versions. And now, she is say cheap words hopefully to reduce blames from slhs parents. She should really push to fix IB in slhs if that's one of the main complaints of slhs.

If they fix IB at SLHS then they would lose the Herndon kids who transfer into SLHS for IB. Not that many of them finish the diploma but it is close to 200 students a year.

Aren't there hundreds of empty seats at Herndon after they renovated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have they ever rezoned and left so many empty seats at a high school before? I'm just honestly curious. 800 missing kids is a lot. [
The school will still have more students than many other FCPS high schools. They will be okay, but they should send
Walney Oaks to Westfield and keep Chantilly Mews and others along 50 at Chantilly.

Walney Oaks is midway between the schools. Chantilly Mews is very close to Chantilly. Idiotic move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meren is sending out the same letter to people, a bunch of us got the same thing.

She opposes micro-split feeders, mentions this connected to Crossfield and it's new feeder pattern.
She opposes the Fox Mill move because it will "further decrease under-enrolled membership"

SLHS is at 98% capacity, even at 85% capacity it is not under enrolled. The issue is that they don't have enough students taking IB, is my guess. That is not FMES fault, nor is it FMES problem.

Isn't she a little big late to express her opinion publicly? I feel she went easy and avoided conflict before the last version came out, which had fmes in both versions. And now, she is say cheap words hopefully to reduce blames from slhs parents. She should really push to fix IB in slhs if that's one of the main complaints of slhs.

If they fix IB at SLHS then they would lose the Herndon kids who transfer into SLHS for IB. Not that many of them finish the diploma but it is close to 200 students a year.

Aren't there hundreds of empty seats at Herndon after they renovated?

Yes. They renovated to a much higher capacity than HHS ever had, student wise. So Herndon didn't "lose" 800 students the way Westfield will; FCPS just build out the school with hundreds more seats than needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meren is sending out the same letter to people, a bunch of us got the same thing.

She opposes micro-split feeders, mentions this connected to Crossfield and it's new feeder pattern.
She opposes the Fox Mill move because it will "further decrease under-enrolled membership"

SLHS is at 98% capacity, even at 85% capacity it is not under enrolled. The issue is that they don't have enough students taking IB, is my guess. That is not FMES fault, nor is it FMES problem.

She’s utterly full of shit. All she cares about is South Lakes losing a high-performing feeder. She didn’t care about creating under-enrollment at Marshall when she went along with moving Wolftrap neighborhoods to Madison.

She can sputter all she wants, but she’s just playing to the people in Reston at South Lakes who’d happily send all of Dogwood elsewhere if they could. She has zero credibility.

[Anonymous]

I think there is a huge difference psychologically between a school always having around 2000 students, and a school losing 800 students within a year or two, and with all the staff turnover that comes with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there is a huge difference psychologically between a school always having around 2000 students, and a school losing 800 students within a year or two, and with all the staff turnover that comes with that.

And losing all the electives and APs....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Keep in mind that with the rezoning, Chantilly will no longer be closed to transfers. It will fill right back up with Westfield zoned students who suddenly have a hankering to learn Latin.

Yes, this person FCPS'es. For sure there will be a sudden uptick in interest in taking Latin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there is a huge difference psychologically between a school always having around 2000 students, and a school losing 800 students within a year or two, and with all the staff turnover that comes with that.

And losing all the electives and APs....

They are not going to be "losing all the electives and AP."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there is a huge difference psychologically between a school always having around 2000 students, and a school losing 800 students within a year or two, and with all the staff turnover that comes with that.

And losing all the electives and APs....

They are not going to be "losing all the electives and AP."

For sure they will be a losing a lot of them. Going from 2800 to 2000 students and *increasing* FARMs percentage (which seems likely given they are losing some UMC/MC areas but mostly gaining low income areas) is not a recipe for increasing academic options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meren is sending out the same letter to people, a bunch of us got the same thing.

She opposes micro-split feeders, mentions this connected to Crossfield and it's new feeder pattern.
She opposes the Fox Mill move because it will "further decrease under-enrolled membership"

SLHS is at 98% capacity, even at 85% capacity it is not under enrolled. The issue is that they don't have enough students taking IB, is my guess. That is not FMES fault, nor is it FMES problem.

Isn't she a little big late to express her opinion publicly? I feel she went easy and avoided conflict before the last version came out, which had fmes in both versions. And now, she is say cheap words hopefully to reduce blames from slhs parents. She should really push to fix IB in slhs if that's one of the main complaints of slhs.

The School Board loves IB and in any event if they got rid of IB at South Lakes they’d lose even more kids in the short term because they get 200 kids from Herndon ostensibly pupil placing for IB (more than are pupil placing out of South Lakes for AP). Maybe over the long term it would attract more people to South Lakes but they won’t take the risk now.

[Anonymous]

I don't live in the area but just curious, where is this Walney Oaks area people are referencing? I can see the apartments zoned to Bull Run that are being turned into a Westfield island, that is obviously someone's political maneuvering because it makes no sense otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there is a huge difference psychologically between a school always having around 2000 students, and a school losing 800 students within a year or two, and with all the staff turnover that comes with that.

And losing all the electives and APs....

They are not going to be "losing all the electives and AP."

For sure they will be a losing a lot of them. Going from 2800 to 2000 students and *increasing* FARMs percentage (which seems likely given they are losing some UMC/MC areas but mostly gaining low income areas) is not a recipe for increasing academic options.

I used to work in HS scheduling for another district. There is no way, with FCPS staffing formulas, that a school in this situation won't be losing a LOT of elective and AP classes/sections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't live in the area but just curious, where is this Walney Oaks area people are referencing? I can see the apartments zoned to Bull Run that are being turned into a Westfield island, that is obviously someone's political maneuvering because it makes no sense otherwise.

Look at the revised scenario map. There is an area basically cut out of the Westfield zone that clearly should be sent there. Its like a blue Chantilly peninsula. Mariah Court, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Keep in mind that with the rezoning, Chantilly will no longer be closed to transfers. It will fill right back up with Westfield zoned students who suddenly have a hankering to learn Latin.

Yes, this person FCPS'es. For sure there will be a sudden uptick in interest in taking Latin.

You can no longer pupil place for languages, they changed that this year. You can pupil place for AP or IB or specialized programs. So Westfield kids are likely to really want aviation or STEM pathways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Keep in mind that with the rezoning, Chantilly will no longer be closed to transfers. It will fill right back up with Westfield zoned students who suddenly have a hankering to learn Latin.

Yes, this person FCPS'es. For sure there will be a sudden uptick in interest in taking Latin.

You can no longer pupil place for languages, they changed that this year. You can pupil place for AP or IB or specialized programs. So Westfield kids are likely to really want aviation or STEM pathways.

I thought that was proposed but tabled?

Regardless, there are multiple other ways to get your kid into neighboring schools (legit and illegit).