Skyview/TJ collaboration

[Anonymous]

What is the actual boundary for Skyview?

[Anonymous]

The boundaries have yet to be drawn and now might not be decided to July. There is an entire thread on this over in the FCPS forum. It is why Skyview can reach out to other schools, next years class is all kids who are opting in to Skyview.

[Anonymous]

They wanted to open with 1000 9th and 10th grade kids from just five pyramids: Centreville, Chantilly, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield. Those are the schools whose boundaries might change when they finally come up with Skyview’s boundaries.

They fell short of that goal so they opened it up to kids all over the county and started touting things like this “partnership” with TJ. It’s cheesy but apparently they have about 800 kids now signed up for the fall. One suspects a lot of them are coming from South Lakes and Westfield. South Lakes is an IB school, whereas Skyview will be AP, and a lot of Westfield kids live much closer to Skyview.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

[Anonymous]

SLHS PTA was told that 45 kids from SLHS opted in for 9th grade, which was probably about 10% of the 9th grade class. Most of the kids that would opt in from SLHS probably came from Fox Mill ES and Floris, two schools that had been in the original boundary maps. My kid opted in and said that there were kids from Hughes at the visit day they did to Skyview so there are some kids from other ES but we don’t know which ones. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Dogwood because Dogwood is like a mile from FMES but that is a guess.

Skyview has been discussing internship and research opportunities for students at the school since they put the Admin team together, the TJ thing was new though.

They needed more 10th graders, they had a large enough class for 9th grade. The question is finding kids to fill out the 10th grade class. We have been attending all of the Skyview events for the students and families of the inaugural class. The Admin and staff are very enthusiastic and are working really hard to make it happen. I honestly think that next year will be a bit weird and have its bumps but overall be amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

[Anonymous]

They were discussing internship otpions and specialty classes with industry support from the start. I have attended every in person meeting at Skyview since they brough on Mr. Jagels, he has always discussed these programs. The TJ thing came up months after they had been discussing company outreach and the like. It is a natural fit into what Skyview was already doing.

450 ninth graders opted in from the 5 schools that they were targeting. The 10th grade class was well short of the target but that was an ambitious target. Some of that has been made up. The school has 800 kids enrolled right now, with no sports and limited electives. I think it is going to be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

TJ staff were notified about Skyview visiting a month ago. They visited classrooms and met with students and teachers to learn about the IBET program and teamed courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just another breadcrumb indicating that Skyview will be a magnate school. Reid has been playing a masterful game to make that happen.

Will it be better than top public schools like oakton, Langley and McLean high schools?

Not likely. Those schools don’t have anything that makes them special compared to other FCPS High Schools. The reason for the higher student achievements/school rankings is due to having higher income families and more Asian students.

Most of Skyview areas are single family home, maybe not as rich as Oakton/Langley/Mclean, but similar to Woodson and Chantilly. A lot of immigrants living in higher density homes, joke is even white people here are from Eastern European. So even lower middle class has the drive for excellence. I expect it to be similar to Chantilly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

I thought the original vision for TJ was to be a magnet school like Stuyvesant.

Do you have a cite to the notion that TJ was intended to be a lab school to pilot new ideas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

I thought the original vision for TJ was to be a magnet school like Stuyvesant.

Do you have a cite to the notion that TJ was intended to be a lab school to pilot new ideas?

The two are not mutually exclusive and, no, I don't have a cite. It may have been in older School Board minutes from the 1980s when TJHSST was being established. I don't have the time to dig it up. In case you haven't noticed, DCUM isn't a peer-reviewed journal, so we don't have to footnote everything we choose to share.

I also recall that the original recommendation was to have the magnet at Annandale HS, but that community fought to preserve AHS as a neighborhood school and Jefferson ended up being shut down and repurposed instead. They were going to close one of Annandale, Jefferson, or Stuart (now Justice) due to lower enrollment in that part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

TJ staff were notified about Skyview visiting a month ago. They visited classrooms and met with students and teachers to learn about the IBET program and teamed courses.

It was definitely not explained to TJ staff that it was a collaboration beyond the one meeting to share information about TJ courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP is the only person that got this email. Hm.....

Not OP but I can confirm that Skyview admin and chairs visited TJ and will be working closely together next year.

Please. This only came up after Skyview failed to meet its enrollment target. They decided they could get more kids if they suggested some magic TJ pixie dust would rub off on Skyview.

The original vision for TJ was that it would be a bit of a lab school where new approaches were piloted and, if successful, deployed elsewhere. But TJ quickly became very insular. It is not interested in doing anything long-term that would suggest another local school is anything like TJ.

TJ staff were notified about Skyview visiting a month ago. They visited classrooms and met with students and teachers to learn about the IBET program and teamed courses.

It was definitely not explained to TJ staff that it was a collaboration beyond the one meeting to share information about TJ courses.

Well I work at TJ, and have heard that they will continue to collaborate.