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Skyview is Open for Opt-In from Any Rising 9th and 10th grader in Fairfax County
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Anonymous
| They currently have less than 650 signed up. They won’t tell you that but I’ve seen it. |
Anonymous
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Im trying to remember where I saw that. My kid is at one of the middle schools that feed into it so we got a lot of presentations. I feel like this was an email from the Skyview admin team soon after the signup deadline that said they had 900 (or close to 900) signed up and they were really excited for the next school year.
Anyone else know what I’m talking about or did I make it up in my head? |
Anonymous
| Oh nevermind. I found that email and it was sent 2/26 and said 650 enrolled. Sorry for getting the numbers wrong! |
Anonymous
| This is embarrassing. Perhaps it would have helped if they had the boundaries done BEFORE the opt in process. |
Anonymous
100% agree!! |
Anonymous
| The 9th grade class is over 400. Unsurprisingly, the 10th grade class is short of the numbers they want. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Reid is a master at manipulating data, setting up the consultant as a scapegoat and turning constituencies against one another. She is playing community against community and confusing the hapless school board into getting the aviation magnet she wanted from day 1. |
Anonymous
| What a mess. They should have announced the boundaries at the same time as all the other boundary changes and opened the school in 27-28 after finishing construction. This whole thing is a giant disaster. |
Anonymous
A lot of people want to attend Skyview, but they have been waiting for boundaries to be announced. This opt in process was totally unnecessary. |
Anonymous
They will run classes with however many kids they have. Whatever it takes to make Skyview a success. |
Anonymous
A lot of people want to attend Skyview??? |
Anonymous
Yes, the Westfield kids want to get out the ghetto! |
Anonymous
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There was mostly praise for the School Board when they decided that the opportunity to buy KAA was too good to pass up.
They've since squandered a lot of that good will by their lack of candor and transparency. If they'd approached this sensibly, they would have been very honest about what they were and were not purchasing. They were getting a school on a desirable site with a lot of amenities not found in a typical school, but also a school built for no more than 1200 students (including K-8 students) lacking a number of the athletic facilities of a typical high school. They could have said it would take time and some patience to get Skyview to a point where it could open and offer the same things as the most recent high schools opened by FCPS (Westfield and South County). They didn't do that. If anything, they led people to believe the school was a turnkey acquisition and, even worse, they lied about the "savings" that buying Skyview would represent compared to FCPS building a new school itself. And, of course, the process for establishing the new boundaries for Skyview has pissed a ton of people off, because people who don't even have any interest in Skyview are now facing the possibility of boundary changes at the ES, MS and/or HS level that they had no reason to anticipate until very recently. Because they had egg on their face, and Reid and some others couldn't get over the notion that KAA probably would work best as a magnet, they've dug themselves into a hole, first by committing to open Skyview this fall and then by orchestrating a flawed "opt in" approach that puts families at risk that they could enroll their kid(s) at Skyview only to find that they weren't zoned for the school and had to arrange for transportation for four years. They tried to make Skyview sound like hot sh*t by saying enrollment would be limited to families in five pyramids, but then they couldn't even get 1000 kids from five pyramids that collectively have around 6300 9th and 10th graders interested. So now they've pivoted to opening up enrollment to families across the county, but of course the transportation issues loom even larger if you're talking about kids in Burke or Vienna rather than in Herndon. In another decade, no one may remember any of this, but the initial rollout has been quite pathetic. |
Anonymous
Are you saying wherever Westfield kids go, the school will be ghetto? So now Skyview will be ghetto, that is why opt-in number is so low? |