FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:The current split where Carson MS go to 4 different HS is the worst. Many students find it hard to start friendships at the HS level where bonds and groups are already formed.

We loved it. My kid got away from all the kids he hated in middle school and got to start fresh in high school!

That is not at all typical, but I’m glad it worked out for your kid.

Everyone we know absolutely loved Carson. We liked the mix of kids. We liked that groups were shaken up and kids had to branch out. It helped my son become more social. We didn’t care for a lot of the kids from our elementary school so it was wonderful to get away from them and start fresh in both middle and high school.

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I have a college aged kid now and I have a rising MS kid with a 50/50 chance of SLHS or Skyview. IME, which could be different for many, (but I suspect it's more common than you think) kids change through puberty and the friend groups change as well. My older kid only remained friends with one kid from his ES and MS. Based on his interests and activities, he settled on a core group around 10th grade. Incidentally, he became great friends with a kid from Fox Mill/Carson. The kids will be all right. They won't like going through it, but they will be alright. Flame away.

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When I was a kid, my elementary school was the only one from our middle school that went to our high school. Everyone else came from a different middle school in our town (there were two middle schools and two high schools), but I made a ton of friends in high school, it was totally fine.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, my elementary school was the only one from our middle school that went to our high school. Everyone else came from a different middle school in our town (there were two middle schools and two high schools), but I made a ton of friends in high school, it was totally fine.

Was in FCPS years when they very suddenly changed the boundaries. Our elementary school had split about 50-50 between two MS/HS. When they changed the boundaries, the 50% of us at one middle school became the only kids from our middle school switched to a new high school. So when we got there, unless we knew kids from some other activity, the only kids we knew were from our elementary school, but we hadn't hung out with 50% of them for two years.

Freshman year sucked. There was always the sense that the kids who'd gone to the other middle school "owned" the high school, since they already knew each other and had expected all along to attend the high school. It did get better over the next three years, and at some point things just clicked. It wasn't ideal, though.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, my elementary school was the only one from our middle school that went to our high school. Everyone else came from a different middle school in our town (there were two middle schools and two high schools), but I made a ton of friends in high school, it was totally fine.

Was in FCPS years when they very suddenly changed the boundaries. Our elementary school had split about 50-50 between two MS/HS. When they changed the boundaries, the 50% of us at one middle school became the only kids from our middle school switched to a new high school. So when we got there, unless we knew kids from some other activity, the only kids we knew were from our elementary school, but we hadn't hung out with 50% of them for two years.

Freshman year sucked. There was always the sense that the kids who'd gone to the other middle school "owned" the high school, since they already knew each other and had expected all along to attend the high school. It did get better over the next three years, and at some point things just clicked. It wasn't ideal, though.

And that’s how I felt at Chantilly!

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, my elementary school was the only one from our middle school that went to our high school. Everyone else came from a different middle school in our town (there were two middle schools and two high schools), but I made a ton of friends in high school, it was totally fine.

Was in FCPS years when they very suddenly changed the boundaries. Our elementary school had split about 50-50 between two MS/HS. When they changed the boundaries, the 50% of us at one middle school became the only kids from our middle school switched to a new high school. So when we got there, unless we knew kids from some other activity, the only kids we knew were from our elementary school, but we hadn't hung out with 50% of them for two years.

Freshman year sucked. There was always the sense that the kids who'd gone to the other middle school "owned" the high school, since they already knew each other and had expected all along to attend the high school. It did get better over the next three years, and at some point things just clicked. It wasn't ideal, though.

And that’s how I felt at Chantilly!

For all four years!

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What is the deal with Walney Oaks? I read earlier on this thread that Walney Oaks was being carved out to stay at Chantilly. But i looked at the maps and looks like both scenarios have them going to Westfield. What is correct?

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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.

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.

I’d want to stay at Chantilly over Skyview. Who cares what a bunch of middle schoolers want to do?!

As a FMES parent, I disagree with you. Being one of a small handful of kids moving to a HS when most of the other kids are coming from a different MS is challenging. It is hard to break into different groups. And that is with the entire ES moving and small number of kids from other ES. The proposed Oak Hill split is even worse, it is only the kids who walk to Franklin that would stay at Franklin and go to Chantilly. They won't be moving with any of their near by neighbors or ES classmates.

But I understand different people have different opinions.

Yeah, that's a good point on Oak Hill. I think if they split it, they will end up sending the south side of that split to Lees Corner within 5 years, further isolating kids. At least the north side is next to Chantilly Highlands; the south is isolated. That whole section is more connected north/south than east/west. Simple enough tweak to keep it together, not because it's an HOA, but because it was built with community cohesion in mind.

Except for going to different swimming pools in the summer, the Franklin Farm and Chantilly Highlands kids (Oak Hill Elementary) are pretty cohesive. Scout troops, school activities, friendships, etc. We never felt the kids south of Franklin Farm Rd were "isolated."

Meaning: Franklin Farm HOA homes south of Franklin Farm Rd. They're cut off from both the rest of their HOA north of Franklin Farm Rd. and into the next HOA, Chantilly Highlands.

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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.

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.

I’d want to stay at Chantilly over Skyview. Who cares what a bunch of middle schoolers want to do?!

As a FMES parent, I disagree with you. Being one of a small handful of kids moving to a HS when most of the other kids are coming from a different MS is challenging. It is hard to break into different groups. And that is with the entire ES moving and small number of kids from other ES. The proposed Oak Hill split is even worse, it is only the kids who walk to Franklin that would stay at Franklin and go to Chantilly. They won't be moving with any of their near by neighbors or ES classmates.

But I understand different people have different opinions.

Yeah, that's a good point on Oak Hill. I think if they split it, they will end up sending the south side of that split to Lees Corner within 5 years, further isolating kids. At least the north side is next to Chantilly Highlands; the south is isolated. That whole section is more connected north/south than east/west. Simple enough tweak to keep it together, not because it's an HOA, but because it was built with community cohesion in mind.

South Franklin Farm alum who was promoted from Oak Hill in 2019.

I could walk across the street behind the townhomes or through north Franklin Farm/ Chantilly Highlands to get to Oak Hill.

We aren’t isolated.

Stop your bulls*it.

Except for going to different swimming pools in the summer, the Franklin Farm and Chantilly Highlands kids (Oak Hill Elementary) are pretty cohesive. Scout troops, school activities, friendships, etc. We never felt the kids south of Franklin Farm Rd were "isolated."

If you follow the thread, the person says in Scenario 2 that South Franklin Farm becomes isolated if you cut them off at Franklin Farm Rd. There is no "Chantilly Highlands" behind them. It's against Lee's Corner Rd, Franklin, MS/athletic field/trees, and another busy Thompson Rd. They'd likely send them to Lees Corner ES next in a few years.

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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.

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.

I’d want to stay at Chantilly over Skyview. Who cares what a bunch of middle schoolers want to do?!

As a FMES parent, I disagree with you. Being one of a small handful of kids moving to a HS when most of the other kids are coming from a different MS is challenging. It is hard to break into different groups. And that is with the entire ES moving and small number of kids from other ES. The proposed Oak Hill split is even worse, it is only the kids who walk to Franklin that would stay at Franklin and go to Chantilly. They won't be moving with any of their near by neighbors or ES classmates.

But I understand different people have different opinions.

Yeah, that's a good point on Oak Hill. I think if they split it, they will end up sending the south side of that split to Lees Corner within 5 years, further isolating kids. At least the north side is next to Chantilly Highlands; the south is isolated. That whole section is more connected north/south than east/west. Simple enough tweak to keep it together, not because it's an HOA, but because it was built with community cohesion in mind.

Except for going to different swimming pools in the summer, the Franklin Farm and Chantilly Highlands kids (Oak Hill Elementary) are pretty cohesive. Scout troops, school activities, friendships, etc. We never felt the kids south of Franklin Farm Rd were "isolated."

Meaning: Franklin Farm HOA homes south of Franklin Farm Rd. They're cut off from both the rest of their HOA north of Franklin Farm Rd. and into the next HOA, Chantilly Highlands.

How exactly are they "cut off"? Those kids can easily cross the road to get to the other side. I see them doing it ALL. THE. TIME.

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Except for going to different swimming pools in the summer, the Franklin Farm and Chantilly Highlands kids (Oak Hill Elementary) are pretty cohesive. Scout troops, school activities, friendships, etc. We never felt the kids south of Franklin Farm Rd were "isolated."


Meaning: Franklin Farm HOA homes south of Franklin Farm Rd. They're cut off from both the rest of their HOA north of Franklin Farm Rd. and into the next HOA, Chantilly Highlands.


How exactly are they "cut off"? Those kids can easily cross the road to get to the other side. I see them doing it ALL. THE. TIME.

Gee. I wonder how the kids north of Franklin Farm Rd get to Dairly Lou pool? Of course, they cross the road.

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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.

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.

I’d want to stay at Chantilly over Skyview. Who cares what a bunch of middle schoolers want to do?!

As a FMES parent, I disagree with you. Being one of a small handful of kids moving to a HS when most of the other kids are coming from a different MS is challenging. It is hard to break into different groups. And that is with the entire ES moving and small number of kids from other ES. The proposed Oak Hill split is even worse, it is only the kids who walk to Franklin that would stay at Franklin and go to Chantilly. They won't be moving with any of their near by neighbors or ES classmates.

But I understand different people have different opinions.

Yeah, that's a good point on Oak Hill. I think if they split it, they will end up sending the south side of that split to Lees Corner within 5 years, further isolating kids. At least the north side is next to Chantilly Highlands; the south is isolated. That whole section is more connected north/south than east/west. Simple enough tweak to keep it together, not because it's an HOA, but because it was built with community cohesion in mind.

Except for going to different swimming pools in the summer, the Franklin Farm and Chantilly Highlands kids (Oak Hill Elementary) are pretty cohesive. Scout troops, school activities, friendships, etc. We never felt the kids south of Franklin Farm Rd were "isolated."

Meaning: Franklin Farm HOA homes south of Franklin Farm Rd. They're cut off from both the rest of their HOA north of Franklin Farm Rd. and into the next HOA, Chantilly Highlands.

How exactly are they "cut off"? Those kids can easily cross the road to get to the other side. I see them doing it ALL. THE. TIME.

I’ve done it a myriad of times when I was in elementary school at Oak Hill.

They’re trying to excuse polo hills or whatever that dogwood neighborhood is to go to Skyview that shouldn’t.

They can stay at South Lakes!

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with Walney Oaks? I read earlier on this thread that Walney Oaks was being carved out to stay at Chantilly. But i looked at the maps and looks like both scenarios have them going to Westfield. What is correct?

The most recent scenarios were published and created a new split feeder at Brookfield-send half of Brookfield to Westfield and half to Walney Oaks. The Brookfield half now going to Westfield was a lower income area and WO. Walney Oaks had also been moved under previous scenarios with the first set of consultants and maybe the second set, not sure.

The maps were up like that for a few hours. Then suddenly they went offline for a minute and popped back up with Walney Oaks back to Chantilly, but now just the lower income part of Brookfield still sent to Westfield. They are much closer to Chantilly then WO. and WO was much closer to Westfield. Someone asked about it at a meeting and was told it was a "glitch" or something.

Whole situation shows such blatant favoritism because we watched it play out in real time. We actually started discussing it on here, that Walney Oaks got moved. I'm dying to know who lives in WO who works at Gatehouse or knows Reid.

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Whoops, I meant sent Half of Brookfield to Westfield and Half to stay at Chantilly.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with Walney Oaks? I read earlier on this thread that Walney Oaks was being carved out to stay at Chantilly. But i looked at the maps and looks like both scenarios have them going to Westfield. What is correct?

The most recent scenarios were published and created a new split feeder at Brookfield-send half of Brookfield to Westfield and half to Walney Oaks. The Brookfield half now going to Westfield was a lower income area and WO. Walney Oaks had also been moved under previous scenarios with the first set of consultants and maybe the second set, not sure.

The maps were up like that for a few hours. Then suddenly they went offline for a minute and popped back up with Walney Oaks back to Chantilly, but now just the lower income part of Brookfield still sent to Westfield. They are much closer to Chantilly then WO. and WO was much closer to Westfield. Someone asked about it at a meeting and was told it was a "glitch" or something.

Whole situation shows such blatant favoritism because we watched it play out in real time. We actually started discussing it on here, that Walney Oaks got moved. I'm dying to know who lives in WO who works at Gatehouse or knows Reid.

I agree that Walney Oaks should go to Westfield long before the Brookfield area along 50.
Walney Oaks is much, much closer to Westfield than that area along 50.

This is NOT a good look, FCPS.