FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:Very foolish of Reid to rashly promise verbally not to move a neighborhood when she obviously had absolutely no knowledge of the issues and geography in that area. Her staff should have told her not to make promises in public.

She is a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was terrible what they did to Thoreau with Wolftrap. All while using incorrect information about Kilmer’s enrollment. They are a disgrace. Should have sent all of Wolftrap to Kilmer!

All of Wolftrap already was at Kilmer. It just split, fairly evenly, to Madison and Marshall.

They moved all of Wolftrap Thoreau and Madison. It creates a new Marshall attendance island and drives up the enrollment at Thoreau.

The island will be unstable. These people will resent getting bused so far to Marshall when their neighbors to the south go to Madison and their neighbors to the east go to Langley. And the eventual addition of AAP to Thoreau will blow up its boundaries given all the kids who’ll now live within its base boundaries.

Worst of all, they justified this as necessary to address overcrowding at Kilmer, but the Kilmer capacity numbers were wrong, and had been corrected by the time of the vote.

Of course they are going to screw up the Skyview adjustments as well. They’ve already shown they are incapable of making sensible decisions. Westfield will get screwed just like they screwed Marshall, except worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very foolish of Reid to rashly promise verbally not to move a neighborhood when she obviously had absolutely no knowledge of the issues and geography in that area. Her staff should have told her not to make promises in public.

She is a moron.

And, the renewal of her contract is on the agenda for a near SB meeting. Recommendatin on the agenda is to renew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was terrible what they did to Thoreau with Wolftrap. All while using incorrect information about Kilmer’s enrollment. They are a disgrace. Should have sent all of Wolftrap to Kilmer!

All of Wolftrap already was at Kilmer. It just split, fairly evenly, to Madison and Marshall.

They moved all of Wolftrap Thoreau and Madison. It creates a new Marshall attendance island and drives up the enrollment at Thoreau.

The island will be unstable. These people will resent getting bused so far to Marshall when their neighbors to the south go to Madison and their neighbors to the east go to Langley. And the eventual addition of AAP to Thoreau will blow up its boundaries given all the kids who’ll now live within its base boundaries.

Worst of all, they justified this as necessary to address overcrowding at Kilmer, but the Kilmer capacity numbers were wrong, and had been corrected by the time of the vote.

Of course they are going to screw up the Skyview adjustments as well. They’ve already shown they are incapable of making sensible decisions. Westfield will get screwed just like they screwed Marshall, except worse.

They did this ALL wrong. When they opened Carson and Westfield, they had community meetings at area schools that could be impacted. They explained the process, etc.

1. They should have tabled comprehensive boundary review. Continuing that made no sense.
2. They could have presented it and planned it in a positive manner for Westfield. For one thing, everyone seemed to think that Westfield was only losing affluent kids--really, not true at all.
3. They could have presented it to Bull Run community as an opportunity to have a true community school with a more cohesive student population. It certainly could be.

As for Skyview, if Meren had stepped in earlier in a positive manner--instead of screaming about the "process," maybe she could have recommended a process that would work better. Instead, she just tried to stop it.

Honestly, looking at the maps and being quite familiar with the area, they should have taken Option A for Skyview. (Crossfield instead of Fox Mill). Both neighborhoods would not fit and either make geographic sense, but South Lakes is not far from Fox Mill. Leaving Crossfield out made no sense at all. But, splitting it also makes no sense.

But, in reality, Reid wants her 22nd century school when we are not anywhere near the 22nd century and no one really knows what that is. And that delayed the boundary choices.

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard Reid grew up a military kid attending a lot of different schools. She thinks the concerns of FCPS parents about boundaries are frivolous. It wasn’t her idea to conduct a county-wide boundary review or to buy KAA. Those were the School Board’s initiatives. She just wants to be done with it and focus on what interests her, which is positioning Skyview as a cutting-edge school. But the sloppiness and lack of attention to sensible boundary changes demonstrates that she’s not a good manager, at least not for a school system this size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard Reid grew up a military kid attending a lot of different schools. She thinks the concerns of FCPS parents about boundaries are frivolous. It wasn’t her idea to conduct a county-wide boundary review or to buy KAA. Those were the School Board’s initiatives. She just wants to be done with it and focus on what interests her, which is positioning Skyview as a cutting-edge school. But the sloppiness and lack of attention to sensible boundary changes demonstrates that she’s not a good manager, at least not for a school system this size.

I'd be curious to know more about her bio. It's kind of hard to find information. I have heard there was a military connection, and I'd like to know where she went to school. Except for college, etc, there is little available.

I don't think Skyview is her focus. I do think bells and whistles are her focus. Just look at all the pics on the FCPS website. Every week. Skyview may be an opportunity to make a splash, but the community just wanted a high school that had been denied them for years.

[Anonymous]

The rumor around gatehouse is that McDaniel is heavily involved with the boundaries because Meren is asleep at the switch and doesn’t get along with Dixit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rumor around gatehouse is that McDaniel is heavily involved with the boundaries because Meren is asleep at the switch and doesn’t get along with Dixit.

It's obvious Dixit and McDaniel are the ones running the show, and honestly I prefer them over Meren.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rumor around gatehouse is that McDaniel is heavily involved with the boundaries because Meren is asleep at the switch and doesn’t get along with Dixit.

Yes, it seems like Dixit and McDaniel are just dictating the outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rumor around gatehouse is that McDaniel is heavily involved with the boundaries because Meren is asleep at the switch and doesn’t get along with Dixit.

It's obvious Dixit and McDaniel are the ones running the show, and honestly I prefer them over Meren.

I think Dixit's judgment is very self-serving.

[Anonymous]

The explorer tool now has a Final Scenario. The map is blank when you click on it but I guess that answer the question if they would be coming back with the previous scenarios revise or just one scenario.

[Anonymous]

South Lakes and Westfield are going to get screwed, but Meren has no standing to complain about it because she was more than willing to screw Marshall to benefit Madison.

They are a filthy, nasty bunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Lakes and Westfield are going to get screwed, but Meren has no standing to complain about it because she was more than willing to screw Marshall to benefit Madison.

They are a filthy, nasty bunch.

Meren has nothing to do with Westfield. That's Seema Dixit territory and she only cares about Skyview, CVHS and Chantilly HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The explorer tool now has a Final Scenario. The map is blank when you click on it but I guess that answer the question if they would be coming back with the previous scenarios revise or just one scenario.

This is par for the course. They constantly post half-baked garbage that isn't ready for prime time yet. Reid seems to be very comfortable with incompetence on the part of her staff, as it happens over and over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:South Lakes and Westfield are going to get screwed, but Meren has no standing to complain about it because she was more than willing to screw Marshall to benefit Madison.

They are a filthy, nasty bunch.

Meren has nothing to do with Westfield. That's Seema Dixit territory and she only cares about Skyview, CVHS and Chantilly HS.

There are some Hunter Mill kids currently assigned to Westfield, and in any event Meren has a lot to do with South Lakes.

But who is going to listen to her cry crocodile tears about how the Skyview changes will adversely affect South Lakes and/or Westfield when she was more than happy to throw Marshall under a bus to give some Vienna people what they wanted?

The board is full of hypocrites and she's one of them.