FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately middle school capacity just doesn’t align to high school capacity, so while it would be great to have actual school pyramids with no split feeders, it’s just not gonna happen especially in the western part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately middle school capacity just doesn’t align to high school capacity, so while it would be great to have actual school pyramids with no split feeders, it’s just not gonna happen especially in the western part of the county.

It is actually happening in the western Farifax.

Four out of six MS/HS under Final Scenario will have completely aligned boundaries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why should kids at Stone be stuck in trailers while Rocky Run, right around the corner, is 80% full?

Why are you advocating for split feeders?

Split feeders should be a very low priority.

As everyone but the SB can see, the capacities don't line up. Stone can't be the sole feeder to Westfield. It makes no sense.

Eliminating split feeders to the greatest extent possihle has been one of the stated goals of this whole boundary review process.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why should kids at Stone be stuck in trailers while Rocky Run, right around the corner, is 80% full?

Why are you advocating for split feeders?

Split feeders should be a very low priority.

As everyone but the SB can see, the capacities don't line up. Stone can't be the sole feeder to Westfield. It makes no sense.

Eliminating split feeders to the greatest extent possihle has been one of the stated goals of this whole boundary review process.

They created new ones!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately middle school capacity just doesn’t align to high school capacity, so while it would be great to have actual school pyramids with no split feeders, it’s just not gonna happen especially in the western part of the county.

It is actually happening in the western Farifax.

Four out of six MS/HS under Final Scenario will have completely aligned boundaries.

Because western Fairfax has hundreds of kids transferring to other schools for AAP, and instead of structuring the adjustments around the initiative to have AAP centers at all middle schools, they shuffled base kids to take advantage of the gaps AAP transfers left behind. It took less than a minute to look up the data. About 100 kids transfer from Stone to Rocky Run. When they return, the capacity balloons to 110%. Franklin will be close to 120% when it gets AAP.

They can move more of Chantilly out of Franklin and into Rocky Run to maintain the feeder pattern, but with Franklin on the far edge of the Lees Corner boundary, the school will either keep a very small number of Chantilly kids or end up outside its attendance region.

I don’t see 1350 seat Carson solely feeding a 2000 seat Skyview either. Especially when 2800 seat Westfield only has an 850 seat middle school. My guess is Carson boundaries will shift south of 50 and will help relieve Stone, but unfortunately, those kids will get stuck with the same disjointed community and long bus ride that they were trying to fix with the Skyview purchase.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately middle school capacity just doesn’t align to high school capacity, so while it would be great to have actual school pyramids with no split feeders, it’s just not gonna happen especially in the western part of the county.

It is actually happening in the western Farifax.

Four out of six MS/HS under Final Scenario will have completely aligned boundaries.

Because western Fairfax has hundreds of kids transferring to other schools for AAP, and instead of structuring the adjustments around the initiative to have AAP centers at all middle schools, they shuffled base kids to take advantage of the gaps AAP transfers left behind. It took less than a minute to look up the data. About 100 kids transfer from Stone to Rocky Run. When they return, the capacity balloons to 110%. Franklin will be close to 120% when it gets AAP.

They can move more of Chantilly out of Franklin and into Rocky Run to maintain the feeder pattern, but with Franklin on the far edge of the Lees Corner boundary, the school will either keep a very small number of Chantilly kids or end up outside its attendance region.

I don’t see 1350 seat Carson solely feeding a 2000 seat Skyview either. Especially when 2800 seat Westfield only has an 850 seat middle school. My guess is Carson boundaries will shift south of 50 and will help relieve Stone, but unfortunately, those kids will get stuck with the same disjointed community and long bus ride that they were trying to fix with the Skyview purchase.

Or they could decide to keep the AAP centers. You never know with Reid and the board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why should kids at Stone be stuck in trailers while Rocky Run, right around the corner, is 80% full?

Why are you advocating for split feeders?

Split feeders should be a very low priority.

As everyone but the SB can see, the capacities don't line up. Stone can't be the sole feeder to Westfield. It makes no sense.

Eliminating split feeders to the greatest extent possihle has been one of the stated goals of this whole boundary review process.

They created new ones!

But the new ones are for poor kids who don't matter, right? That's how FCPS seems to be rolling.

[Anonymous]

Seema is the only SB member who flat out ignored me, and I live in Sully and have three kids in FCPS.

I got canned responses back from everyone else.

How are the Walney Oaks and RIO people getting in person meetings? I'm baffled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seema is the only SB member who flat out ignored me, and I live in Sully and have three kids in FCPS.

I got canned responses back from everyone else.

How are the Walney Oaks and RIO people getting in person meetings? I'm baffled.

+1 (except 2 kids in FCPS)

Seema’s response to me was canned and also super slow - took many days and after the district responded. Huge disappointment. She must just be self-serving.

[Anonymous]

They have public-salaried staff who reply to their emails. They don't read their own emails. Seema has no idea and does not care about your opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pathetic that FCPS would ever suggest it doesn’t have enough resources when it is prepared to empty out a school like Westfield with plenty of capacity or build a school like Dunn Loring that isn’t needed at all. People like Seema Dixit and Karl Frisch are complete scum. Send her back to India and send him back to California.

Look, I don't like either of them either, but I see your true colors here you racist, xenophobic, homophobic pig.

California is another culture now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they had done this properly and stuck to objective standards, this could have been settled months ago. And, with a lot less angst.

In the past, SB members were always non-committal to neighborhoods, while at least pretending to listen. I never recall an earlier superintendent making promises or even getting involved. Staff was involved, but we never saw the superintendents.

It was mostly SB members doing the wheeling and dealing, but they were careful not to make promises.

Reid promised Walney Oaks. Somehow, they were taken totally out of the equation. And, those final scenarios did not include most of Crossfield.

I don't see them changing it now, but the School Board could if they wanted to do so. I don't think they will.

I still wonder if Kyle McDaniel and Melanie Meren will join together at the last minute to strike some sort of deal with everyone else to swap Crossfield and Fox Mill. They both seem pretty adamant about putting Crossfield at Skyview and keeping Fox Mill out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should kids at Stone be stuck in trailers while Rocky Run, right around the corner, is 80% full?

Why are you advocating for split feeders?

Split feeders should be a very low priority.

As everyone but the SB can see, the capacities don't line up. Stone can't be the sole feeder to Westfield. It makes no sense.

Disagree they are low priority.
Not every split feeder situation is equal. Some are kinda OK and some are awful.

Imbalanced split feeders (90% of kids coming from 1 MS, 10% from another) are the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have public-salaried staff who reply to their emails. They don't read their own emails. Seema has no idea and does not care about your opinion.

I met with Seema last summer during the Comprehensive Boundary review and I can tell you aren’t missing anything. She tried to relate to me because her kid moved schools to go to AAP. I had to explain to her that was a choice she made vs the one being forced upon me by FCPS. Everyone should set their party affiliations aside to vote her out of office next time she’s up for reelection.

[Anonymous]

Due to geography it seems it is inevitable that Bull Run needs to remain some kind of split feeder. But it is better to have it as ES level than from MS to HS.