FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

Stone and Franklin have the exact same floor plan.

[Anonymous]

The school board is spineless. What they are doing to Westfield is criminal. Westfield will be a completely different place in 3 years and won’t recover for 15+ years.

[Anonymous]

The Stone - Westfield capacity thing is completely illogical.

Is no one thinking critically at all over there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the loud rich people got what they wanted in every case.

Absolutely this.

Are there any loud rich neighborhoods who didn't get what they wanted? I can't think of any.

I can't think of any either.

[Anonymous]

I guess they are going to have to take the money they were going to spend at Centreville HS and use it to double the size of Stone.

[Anonymous]

Moving only low income families 'down to worse schools' is so disgustingly cynical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess they are going to have to take the money they were going to spend at Centreville HS and use it to double the size of Stone.

It may have been necessary anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So instead of finding more kids for Westfield, they decided to just stuff Stone to the gills and make Stone (a small building) the only feeder middle school to the largest high school building in the county?

That's idiotic and frankly insulting to the County taxpayers. If you aren't willing to make some people unhappy with a HS move to use FCPS resources properly, stop asking me for bonds.

+1. Vote these clowns out. I'm so glad we're about to be done with FCPS.

[Anonymous]

I don't know why I am, but I am still shocked they are leaving Westfield with 800 empty seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving only low income families 'down to worse schools' is so disgustingly cynical.

I am stunned at the way this has turned out.

I'm all for Skyview which will be a good diverse school. It will have some MC, UMC, and lower income students who live in the same community.

In what world should they move the lower income Brookfield kids to Westfield? The group who lives less than 1.5 miles from Chantilly instead of the more affluent group who lives exactly halfway between the two schools?

They are sending poor kids who live less than 1.5 miles from Chantilly (some only 1 mile) and sending them to Westfield which is 4 or so miles away. Chantilly is walkable for those kids for after school activities, Westfield is not.

And, sending Walney Oaks to Chantilly. Walney Oaks is exactly halfway between the two schools. 2.7 miles both schools.

I would love for someone to go to a School Board meeting and ask for an explanation.

[Anonymous]

This is just disgusting. School boundaries carved around social-economic class is abhorrent. Kids gain so much from being exposed to diversity when young, they are going to greatly missing out on a key way to build empathy and social awareness.

[Anonymous]

All you people who are complaining and calling out the hypocrisy, please speak up at meetings. As a Westfield parent, it seems like a lot of people don't really care because they're getting theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you people who are complaining and calling out the hypocrisy, please speak up at meetings. As a Westfield parent, it seems like a lot of people don't really care because they're getting theirs.

You really need to speak up now. Here is some advice:

write to all School Board members.
Be careful in how you present it. Do not attack any SB member. Ask for an explanation.

Give the example of the one low income area that is farther away being selected over an affluent area that is much closer to Westfield than the area selected.

I would also look at the portions of Bull Run that are halfway. Bull Run is already a split feeder. Why weren't more Bull Run neighborhoods selected.

I am not familiar with the neighborhoods of Bull Run and other schools in that area. If you are, I would use examples of those who could move. However, honestly, your community should have spoken up much, much sooner.


But, Walney Oaks vs Chantilly Mews is the example I would choose to protest. I am familiar with those neighborhoods. I've picked up kids at Chantilly Mews for sports practice in the past. There are other areas besides Chantilly Mews also being moved from that area. Also, lower income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you people who are complaining and calling out the hypocrisy, please speak up at meetings. As a Westfield parent, it seems like a lot of people don't really care because they're getting theirs.

You really need to speak up now. Here is some advice:

write to all School Board members.
Be careful in how you present it. Do not attack any SB member. Ask for an explanation.

Give the example of the one low income area that is farther away being selected over an affluent area that is much closer to Westfield than the area selected.

I would also look at the portions of Bull Run that are halfway. Bull Run is already a split feeder. Why weren't more Bull Run neighborhoods selected.

I am not familiar with the neighborhoods of Bull Run and other schools in that area. If you are, I would use examples of those who could move. However, honestly, your community should have spoken up much, much sooner.


But, Walney Oaks vs Chantilly Mews is the example I would choose to protest. I am familiar with those neighborhoods. I've picked up kids at Chantilly Mews for sports practice in the past. There are other areas besides Chantilly Mews also being moved from that area. Also, lower income.

Thank you. Many of us did speak up, albeit not in the same numbers as other areas. Seema Dixit stonewalled us. The other SB members sent boilerplate responses. I agree it would have been helpful to have a larger number of people advocating but it's hard to mobilize people with fewer resources. There are some very well to do areas being affected and most of those families go private already. They're starting to take notice now because this will impact property values but it's probably too little too late.

This School Board and Michelle Reid have shown everyone what they are. Believe them.

[Anonymous]

Your property values might go down, but isn't the sacrifice worth it so Seema's can go up?

Stone at 75% FARMS right next to a bunch of UMC middle schools is a choice FCPS is making, on purpose.