FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:I am really interested in finding out if Seema Dixit dictated to the consultants exactly which area to move out of Centreville HS.

I agree that there is no way they would create 1) a new island, 2) in a location closer to CVHS then Westfield that 3) is all low income/apartments. Someone told them to do this. Who?

That new apartment building island is 2 miles from Centreville and 4.5 miles from Westfield FWIW. Other areas of Bull Run that were not moved are farther from CVHS.

This interference in what should be a logical process is really irritating. Westfield loses it's Floris/Coates/McNair section which bisected the boundary by a major manmade slice of territory, Dulles International Airport and major swatches of commercial...

Never moved Floris Avion Parkway which is closer to Loudoun than some major Floris commercial. And what is in that? Stuff like Eurostone. Many go to the Chantilly area for home improvement projects. 3900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, Virginia 20151, United States

Westfield borders Loudoun and Prince William counties. It's core capacity was about 2500 then it got a classroom only addition - use 50% of it for academies. So load the site to 2500. Pull more out of Chantilly and Centreville. Borders Prince William and over capacity Robinson and Fairfax.

What is this? HOA and don't move us lobbying groups. If you don't move areas from Chantilly [modular] surrounded by other FCPS attendance areas and Centreville, exactly what will utilize Westfield?

Chantilly is still overloaded and compare this situation to the overloaded Mclean. Some drained to Langley but the Timberlane tail refused to get on a bus for Falls Church. Willing to go to Marshall so in the supreme BS domino from Marshall to Madison /Oakton to South Lakes plus Langley 2 powerful HOAs into South Lakes. Meren seems to forget South Lakes borders Madison and Langley.

Meren is never going to suggest people move from Madison or Langley because she knows those families will fight any move and she doesn't have the will to fight that. She abstained from the vote to purchase the school. She didn't have the guts to vote no, she just didn't vote. Her response to the entire Skyview process is to have meetings where she says she doesn't have the answers, even though many of the questions were asked had answers that where provided in the many meetings and zoom meetings surrounding Skyview. Or to post FB messages and videos that were just wrong. Now, at the last minute, she sent out an email to parents who contacted her saying that she thinks the rezoning needs to be slowed down.

Meren is never going to take a solid position on the subject because her doing so will upset someone in her region. Honestly, I would be more impressed if she had voted no and regularly questioned some of the choices that were being made regarding Skyview instead of the way she has handled the situation. At least show us the courage of your convictions and champion what you think is right. Instead she waits to the last minute and sends out a weak email to some people while ignorning the majority of voices on her various posts saying they are happy to move.

Fox Mill parent here.

I will probably not vote for her next time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. Scenario 2 slices Franklin Farm by combining Chantilly Highlands HOA to send part of Franklin Farm neighborhood that is above Franklin Farm Road to Carson and Skyview and the Franklin Farm neighborhood below Franklin Farm Road to Franklin and Chantilly HS. All we are asking is for Scenario 1 that would send our entire Franklin Farm neighborhood to Franklin instead of Carson and Skyview, so our kids can stay together. Let Chantilly Highlands go to Carson.

I’m sorry, but this is really confusing - not sure if it’s just me. I think the focus should be on a school not on HOA’s?

Yes. They ALL go to Oak Hill Elementary School.

Parts of Chantilly Highlands and Franklin Farm are right next door to one another. Like literally nextdoor neighbors.
From what I hear, most of the Franklin Farm group that are in Oak Hill boundary want to stay with their Oak Hill cohort.
Carson and Franklin are 1.5 miles apart. A small group lives across the road from Franklin and are walkers. So, the dilemma is whether to have Oak Hill be a split feeder or whether to let a small group split off and go to Franklin/Chantilly. Some of the kids that are "walkers" to Franklin are currently bused to Carson.

Most people I know in that area want to stay with Oak Hill friends.

I suspect the tweaking that was mentioned my Kyle is moving the Franklin MS Oak Hill kids to Carson and Skyview.

That's my expectation as well. Honestly it's an easy fix. Sceanrio 2 with all Oak Hill going to Carson and Skyview.

I think that, and they'll send the small Dogwood community in Reston back to SLHS to eliminate the split feeder problem they created. Makes some room for the Oak Hill adds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am really interested in finding out if Seema Dixit dictated to the consultants exactly which area to move out of Centreville HS.

I agree that there is no way they would create 1) a new island, 2) in a location closer to CVHS then Westfield that 3) is all low income/apartments. Someone told them to do this. Who?

That new apartment building island is 2 miles from Centreville and 4.5 miles from Westfield FWIW. Other areas of Bull Run that were not moved are farther from CVHS.

This interference in what should be a logical process is really irritating. Westfield loses it's Floris/Coates/McNair section which bisected the boundary by a major manmade slice of territory, Dulles International Airport and major swatches of commercial...

Never moved Floris Avion Parkway which is closer to Loudoun than some major Floris commercial. And what is in that? Stuff like Eurostone. Many go to the Chantilly area for home improvement projects. 3900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, Virginia 20151, United States

Westfield borders Loudoun and Prince William counties. It's core capacity was about 2500 then it got a classroom only addition - use 50% of it for academies. So load the site to 2500. Pull more out of Chantilly and Centreville. Borders Prince William and over capacity Robinson and Fairfax.

What is this? HOA and don't move us lobbying groups. If you don't move areas from Chantilly [modular] surrounded by other FCPS attendance areas and Centreville, exactly what will utilize Westfield?

Chantilly is still overloaded and compare this situation to the overloaded Mclean. Some drained to Langley but the Timberlane tail refused to get on a bus for Falls Church. Willing to go to Marshall so in the supreme BS domino from Marshall to Madison /Oakton to South Lakes plus Langley 2 powerful HOAs into South Lakes. Meren seems to forget South Lakes borders Madison and Langley.

Meren is never going to suggest people move from Madison or Langley because she knows those families will fight any move and she doesn't have the will to fight that. She abstained from the vote to purchase the school. She didn't have the guts to vote no, she just didn't vote. Her response to the entire Skyview process is to have meetings where she says she doesn't have the answers, even though many of the questions were asked had answers that where provided in the many meetings and zoom meetings surrounding Skyview. Or to post FB messages and videos that were just wrong. Now, at the last minute, she sent out an email to parents who contacted her saying that she thinks the rezoning needs to be slowed down.

Meren is never going to take a solid position on the subject because her doing so will upset someone in her region. Honestly, I would be more impressed if she had voted no and regularly questioned some of the choices that were being made regarding Skyview instead of the way she has handled the situation. At least show us the courage of your convictions and champion what you think is right. Instead she waits to the last minute and sends out a weak email to some people while ignorning the majority of voices on her various posts saying they are happy to move.

Fox Mill parent here.

I will probably not vote for her next time.

Core Reston South Lakes fans vote for her? We don't have primaries so who runs is a pay for play for voters. This newest boundary tool has changes from Reid's Thru/BRAC. Scroll across to non Skyview study areas. Meren's Flint Hill Islnd to Madison, Westbriar Island. Oakton elementary strip.

Move east on the scroll to Sandburg Middle School. 2 labeled Sandburg and one is actuaaly Whitman. Address is 2500 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, Virginia 22306, with Whitman walkers surviving on getting a bus to Sandburg. Therefore the con goes west and I assume Franklin walkers will get a Carson bus. This is where split feeders are appropriate. Note Marshall and Westgate walkers are NOT riding a bus elsewhere.

Yes on another post people asked /doubted if the Avion Parkway and area with commercial generated students. Answer is yes and they showed up on the Coates boundary study SPAs.

[Anonymous]

I'm hearing now that once the Skyview boundary is established (2027-28), students who live inside it will no longer get transportation to their base school, even if they are seniors who aren't eligible for Skyview (which won't be open for seniors until 2028-29).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm hearing now that once the Skyview boundary is established (2027-28), students who live inside it will no longer get transportation to their base school, even if they are seniors who aren't eligible for Skyview (which won't be open for seniors until 2028-29).

Rising 11th and 12th graders will get transportation because there are no 11th and 12th graders at Skyview.

Rising 9th and 0th graders will get transportation for the two years that the current rising 11th and 12th graders have transportation. When the rising 9th and 10th graders are in 11th and 12th grade they will not have transportation if they did not move to Skyview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am really interested in finding out if Seema Dixit dictated to the consultants exactly which area to move out of Centreville HS.

I agree that there is no way they would create 1) a new island, 2) in a location closer to CVHS then Westfield that 3) is all low income/apartments. Someone told them to do this. Who?

That new apartment building island is 2 miles from Centreville and 4.5 miles from Westfield FWIW. Other areas of Bull Run that were not moved are farther from CVHS.

This interference in what should be a logical process is really irritating. Westfield loses it's Floris/Coates/McNair section which bisected the boundary by a major manmade slice of territory, Dulles International Airport and major swatches of commercial...

Never moved Floris Avion Parkway which is closer to Loudoun than some major Floris commercial. And what is in that? Stuff like Eurostone. Many go to the Chantilly area for home improvement projects. 3900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, Virginia 20151, United States

Westfield borders Loudoun and Prince William counties. It's core capacity was about 2500 then it got a classroom only addition - use 50% of it for academies. So load the site to 2500. Pull more out of Chantilly and Centreville. Borders Prince William and over capacity Robinson and Fairfax.

What is this? HOA and don't move us lobbying groups. If you don't move areas from Chantilly [modular] surrounded by other FCPS attendance areas and Centreville, exactly what will utilize Westfield?

Chantilly is still overloaded and compare this situation to the overloaded Mclean. Some drained to Langley but the Timberlane tail refused to get on a bus for Falls Church. Willing to go to Marshall so in the supreme BS domino from Marshall to Madison /Oakton to South Lakes plus Langley 2 powerful HOAs into South Lakes. Meren seems to forget South Lakes borders Madison and Langley.

Meren is never going to suggest people move from Madison or Langley because she knows those families will fight any move and she doesn't have the will to fight that. She abstained from the vote to purchase the school. She didn't have the guts to vote no, she just didn't vote. Her response to the entire Skyview process is to have meetings where she says she doesn't have the answers, even though many of the questions were asked had answers that where provided in the many meetings and zoom meetings surrounding Skyview. Or to post FB messages and videos that were just wrong. Now, at the last minute, she sent out an email to parents who contacted her saying that she thinks the rezoning needs to be slowed down.

Meren is never going to take a solid position on the subject because her doing so will upset someone in her region. Honestly, I would be more impressed if she had voted no and regularly questioned some of the choices that were being made regarding Skyview instead of the way she has handled the situation. At least show us the courage of your convictions and champion what you think is right. Instead she waits to the last minute and sends out a weak email to some people while ignorning the majority of voices on her various posts saying they are happy to move.

Fox Mill parent here.

I will probably not vote for her next time.

Core Reston South Lakes fans vote for her? We don't have primaries so who runs is a pay for play for voters. This newest boundary tool has changes from Reid's Thru/BRAC. Scroll across to non Skyview study areas. Meren's Flint Hill Islnd to Madison, Westbriar Island. Oakton elementary strip.

Move east on the scroll to Sandburg Middle School. 2 labeled Sandburg and one is actuaaly Whitman. Address is 2500 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, Virginia 22306, with Whitman walkers surviving on getting a bus to Sandburg. Therefore the con goes west and I assume Franklin walkers will get a Carson bus. This is where split feeders are appropriate. Note Marshall and Westgate walkers are NOT riding a bus elsewhere.

Yes on another post people asked /doubted if the Avion Parkway and area with commercial generated students. Answer is yes and they showed up on the Coates boundary study SPAs.

Have you been reading this thread or even Meren's FB page? Many of the Franklin walkers have asked to be moved to Carson so that they can attend HS at Skyview with their Oak Hill ES classmates. They would prefer the 1.5 mile bus ride to Carson and attending Skyview with their Oah Hill ES classmates to walking to Franklin and attending Chantilly as a small group of kids. This change has been championed by most of the Franklin walkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am really interested in finding out if Seema Dixit dictated to the consultants exactly which area to move out of Centreville HS.

I agree that there is no way they would create 1) a new island, 2) in a location closer to CVHS then Westfield that 3) is all low income/apartments. Someone told them to do this. Who?

That new apartment building island is 2 miles from Centreville and 4.5 miles from Westfield FWIW. Other areas of Bull Run that were not moved are farther from CVHS.

This interference in what should be a logical process is really irritating. Westfield loses it's Floris/Coates/McNair section which bisected the boundary by a major manmade slice of territory, Dulles International Airport and major swatches of commercial...

Never moved Floris Avion Parkway which is closer to Loudoun than some major Floris commercial. And what is in that? Stuff like Eurostone. Many go to the Chantilly area for home improvement projects. 3900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, Virginia 20151, United States

Westfield borders Loudoun and Prince William counties. It's core capacity was about 2500 then it got a classroom only addition - use 50% of it for academies. So load the site to 2500. Pull more out of Chantilly and Centreville. Borders Prince William and over capacity Robinson and Fairfax.

What is this? HOA and don't move us lobbying groups. If you don't move areas from Chantilly [modular] surrounded by other FCPS attendance areas and Centreville, exactly what will utilize Westfield?

Chantilly is still overloaded and compare this situation to the overloaded Mclean. Some drained to Langley but the Timberlane tail refused to get on a bus for Falls Church. Willing to go to Marshall so in the supreme BS domino from Marshall to Madison /Oakton to South Lakes plus Langley 2 powerful HOAs into South Lakes. Meren seems to forget South Lakes borders Madison and Langley.

Meren is never going to suggest people move from Madison or Langley because she knows those families will fight any move and she doesn't have the will to fight that. She abstained from the vote to purchase the school. She didn't have the guts to vote no, she just didn't vote. Her response to the entire Skyview process is to have meetings where she says she doesn't have the answers, even though many of the questions were asked had answers that where provided in the many meetings and zoom meetings surrounding Skyview. Or to post FB messages and videos that were just wrong. Now, at the last minute, she sent out an email to parents who contacted her saying that she thinks the rezoning needs to be slowed down.

Meren is never going to take a solid position on the subject because her doing so will upset someone in her region. Honestly, I would be more impressed if she had voted no and regularly questioned some of the choices that were being made regarding Skyview instead of the way she has handled the situation. At least show us the courage of your convictions and champion what you think is right. Instead she waits to the last minute and sends out a weak email to some people while ignorning the majority of voices on her various posts saying they are happy to move.

Fox Mill parent here.

I will probably not vote for her next time.

Core Reston South Lakes fans vote for her? We don't have primaries so who runs is a pay for play for voters. This newest boundary tool has changes from Reid's Thru/BRAC. Scroll across to non Skyview study areas. Meren's Flint Hill Islnd to Madison, Westbriar Island. Oakton elementary strip.

Move east on the scroll to Sandburg Middle School. 2 labeled Sandburg and one is actuaaly Whitman. Address is 2500 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, Virginia 22306, with Whitman walkers surviving on getting a bus to Sandburg. Therefore the con goes west and I assume Franklin walkers will get a Carson bus. This is where split feeders are appropriate. Note Marshall and Westgate walkers are NOT riding a bus elsewhere.

Yes on another post people asked /doubted if the Avion Parkway and area with commercial generated students. Answer is yes and they showed up on the Coates boundary study SPAs.

Have you been reading this thread or even Meren's FB page? Many of the Franklin walkers have asked to be moved to Carson so that they can attend HS at Skyview with their Oak Hill ES classmates. They would prefer the 1.5 mile bus ride to Carson and attending Skyview with their Oah Hill ES classmates to walking to Franklin and attending Chantilly as a small group of kids. This change has been championed by most of the Franklin walkers.

That makes perfect sense. There's no benefit to fetishizing walking to school if it comes at the expense of knowing substantially more kids when you start MS or HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am really interested in finding out if Seema Dixit dictated to the consultants exactly which area to move out of Centreville HS.

I agree that there is no way they would create 1) a new island, 2) in a location closer to CVHS then Westfield that 3) is all low income/apartments. Someone told them to do this. Who?

That new apartment building island is 2 miles from Centreville and 4.5 miles from Westfield FWIW. Other areas of Bull Run that were not moved are farther from CVHS.

This interference in what should be a logical process is really irritating. Westfield loses it's Floris/Coates/McNair section which bisected the boundary by a major manmade slice of territory, Dulles International Airport and major swatches of commercial...

Never moved Floris Avion Parkway which is closer to Loudoun than some major Floris commercial. And what is in that? Stuff like Eurostone. Many go to the Chantilly area for home improvement projects. 3900 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, Virginia 20151, United States

Westfield borders Loudoun and Prince William counties. It's core capacity was about 2500 then it got a classroom only addition - use 50% of it for academies. So load the site to 2500. Pull more out of Chantilly and Centreville. Borders Prince William and over capacity Robinson and Fairfax.

What is this? HOA and don't move us lobbying groups. If you don't move areas from Chantilly [modular] surrounded by other FCPS attendance areas and Centreville, exactly what will utilize Westfield?

Chantilly is still overloaded and compare this situation to the overloaded Mclean. Some drained to Langley but the Timberlane tail refused to get on a bus for Falls Church. Willing to go to Marshall so in the supreme BS domino from Marshall to Madison /Oakton to South Lakes plus Langley 2 powerful HOAs into South Lakes. Meren seems to forget South Lakes borders Madison and Langley.

Meren is never going to suggest people move from Madison or Langley because she knows those families will fight any move and she doesn't have the will to fight that. She abstained from the vote to purchase the school. She didn't have the guts to vote no, she just didn't vote. Her response to the entire Skyview process is to have meetings where she says she doesn't have the answers, even though many of the questions were asked had answers that where provided in the many meetings and zoom meetings surrounding Skyview. Or to post FB messages and videos that were just wrong. Now, at the last minute, she sent out an email to parents who contacted her saying that she thinks the rezoning needs to be slowed down.

Meren is never going to take a solid position on the subject because her doing so will upset someone in her region. Honestly, I would be more impressed if she had voted no and regularly questioned some of the choices that were being made regarding Skyview instead of the way she has handled the situation. At least show us the courage of your convictions and champion what you think is right. Instead she waits to the last minute and sends out a weak email to some people while ignorning the majority of voices on her various posts saying they are happy to move.

Fox Mill parent here.

I will probably not vote for her next time.

Core Reston South Lakes fans vote for her? We don't have primaries so who runs is a pay for play for voters. This newest boundary tool has changes from Reid's Thru/BRAC. Scroll across to non Skyview study areas. Meren's Flint Hill Islnd to Madison, Westbriar Island. Oakton elementary strip.

Move east on the scroll to Sandburg Middle School. 2 labeled Sandburg and one is actuaaly Whitman. Address is 2500 Parkers Lane, Alexandria, Virginia 22306, with Whitman walkers surviving on getting a bus to Sandburg. Therefore the con goes west and I assume Franklin walkers will get a Carson bus. This is where split feeders are appropriate. Note Marshall and Westgate walkers are NOT riding a bus elsewhere.

Yes on another post people asked /doubted if the Avion Parkway and area with commercial generated students. Answer is yes and they showed up on the Coates boundary study SPAs.

Have you been reading this thread or even Meren's FB page? Many of the Franklin walkers have asked to be moved to Carson so that they can attend HS at Skyview with their Oak Hill ES classmates. They would prefer the 1.5 mile bus ride to Carson and attending Skyview with their Oah Hill ES classmates to walking to Franklin and attending Chantilly as a small group of kids. This change has been championed by most of the Franklin walkers.

That makes perfect sense. There's no benefit to fetishizing walking to school if it comes at the expense of knowing substantially more kids when you start MS or HS.

I would sacrifice walking in a heartbeat if it meant staying with my friends if I were in my child’s position.

[Anonymous]

What is the latest "anticipated" boundary? Is Fox Mill ES moving into Skyview or staying with SLHS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the latest "anticipated" boundary? Is Fox Mill ES moving into Skyview or staying with SLHS?

Since each of the two scenarios last released would move Fox Mill to Skyview, and FCPS personnel suggested further changes would be minor, it's still anticipated that Fox Mill will move.

Nothing is guaranteed until there's an actual School Board vote, but it seems the main opponent of moving Fox Mill into Skyview on the School Board is Melanie Meren (Hunter Mill), and she can be outvoted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the latest "anticipated" boundary? Is Fox Mill ES moving into Skyview or staying with SLHS?

Skyview. I believe FMES was slated to move in 6 of the 9 different scenarios since they started putting out scenarios. It was moved in 4 of the 5 since they announced new scenarios.

[Anonymous]

Fox Mill should be moved despite its downward decline since its best counselor retired in 2025!

[Anonymous]

So, in the next board election, we’re voting Meren out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, in the next board election, we’re voting Meren out!

She has already begun her campaign.
Also, Dixit has an opponent.

[Anonymous]

Who's running against Dixit?