FCPS Skyview Boundary Scenario 1/2/3

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone in Franklin Farm has some pull or paid someone off. Anyone notice how that little piece of Crossfield that got carved out very much does NOT include the neighborhood of Franklin Farm?

I think this is further proof that someone in RIO that lives in Franklin Farm either works at Gatehouse or at the new consulting firm.

or on the Fairfax DNC

[Anonymous]

I hope the people at Westfield put up a fight. This is completely uncalled for and blindsiding them. I went back and looked at the previous maps that have been sent out. Here's what they showed.
Current Capacity % = 98%
October maps % = 93%
April Maps % = 83%
May Maps % = 74%

I'm sure the Westfield community wasn't complaining as much as others and that's why they've been left to rot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to make a comment and it will be such a horrific takedown that they won't want to even publish it. Totally disgusting to carve out a rich neighborhood and only send poor kids to Westfield.

What are you even talking about?

The consultants had a wealthy neighborhood, Walney Oaks, sent to Stone/Westfield in scenario 2. Which everyone agree made logical sense. As everyone was looking at the maps, they magically refreshed and suddenly that neighborhood was now Rocky Run/Chantilly. All the other areas rnewly ezoned to Westfield are low-income or mostly so and none of them magically moved. Now Westfield has a stupid low number of students.

Walney Oaks is not some special land of super-rich people, but to listen to people who live there, you would think they live in McLean or Great Falls and their homs are worth $5Mmor more. The Walney Oaks homes are worth no more than many other neighborhoods in western Fairfax County.

Still , I agree that it is insane what was just done to Westfield's boundaries. They basically just eliminated 75% of the middle-and-upper-middle-class neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain to me who all are not happy with Scenario 1 and 2? Westfield original boundary now seems to be split into 2. South of 50 in Westfield and North of 50 in Skyview. So what is the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone in Franklin Farm has some pull or paid someone off. Anyone notice how that little piece of Crossfield that got carved out very much does NOT include the neighborhood of Franklin Farm?

I think this is further proof that someone in RIO that lives in Franklin Farm either works at Gatehouse or at the new consulting firm.

or on the Fairfax DNC

That's actually very likely because their whole effort had "I am a professional lobbyist" written all over it, didn't it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's equal parts laughable and infuriating that Oakton still has one of the most contorted, nonsensical boundary maps out there, still reaching all the way into Herndon to pull kids who are sitting practically next door to the new high school. I cannot believe the school board buckled to the RIO crowd, whose entire case for staying at Oakton boiled down to nothing but "feelings" and nostalgia. So you let Westfield get gutted down to 74% capacity and left to spiral while Oakton, a school that's already bursting at the seams after an expensive renovation, gets to skate by basically untouched. Corruption doesn't get much more obvious than this.

Oakton watched Langley fight off boundary changes and concluded there was no reason they couldn’t take a page from the same playbook. Many Langley kids have longer commutes than the kids with the longest commutes to Oakton.

This School Board is a bunch of idiots who haven’t studied past boundary changes or learned a damn thing. It’s like they got briefed on what happened to Annandale and Lewis over the years and said “let’s try it again at Westfield and see if we get the same result.”

[Anonymous]

Can we get back to the slides people were talking about? Please link!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's equal parts laughable and infuriating that Oakton still has one of the most contorted, nonsensical boundary maps out there, still reaching all the way into Herndon to pull kids who are sitting practically next door to the new high school. I cannot believe the school board buckled to the RIO crowd, whose entire case for staying at Oakton boiled down to nothing but "feelings" and nostalgia. So you let Westfield get gutted down to 74% capacity and left to spiral while Oakton, a school that's already bursting at the seams after an expensive renovation, gets to skate by basically untouched. Corruption doesn't get much more obvious than this.

The same schools from Westfield would have been moved to Skyview if Crossfield had been moved to Skyview. Crossfield and Fox Mill are the two that were on the table, nothing would have changed at Westfield.

Westfield not being backfilled the way people expected comes down to Chantilly and Centreville not wanting to move to Westfield.

[Anonymous]

This all falls on the School Board. They thought they could blame it all on Reid and the consultants. But, who hired Reid who hired the consultants?

It's like the House that Jack Built------"The House that Reid Built."

Yes, you listen to people, but you ultimately have to do this with some semblance of objectivity.

But, these are all our "progressive Democrats." What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's equal parts laughable and infuriating that Oakton still has one of the most contorted, nonsensical boundary maps out there, still reaching all the way into Herndon to pull kids who are sitting practically next door to the new high school. I cannot believe the school board buckled to the RIO crowd, whose entire case for staying at Oakton boiled down to nothing but "feelings" and nostalgia. So you let Westfield get gutted down to 74% capacity and left to spiral while Oakton, a school that's already bursting at the seams after an expensive renovation, gets to skate by basically untouched. Corruption doesn't get much more obvious than this.

Oakton watched Langley fight off boundary changes and concluded there was no reason they couldn’t take a page from the same playbook. Many Langley kids have longer commutes than the kids with the longest commutes to Oakton.

This School Board is a bunch of idiots who haven’t studied past boundary changes or learned a damn thing. It’s like they got briefed on what happened to Annandale and Lewis over the years and said “let’s try it again at Westfield and see if we get the same result.”

Not "Oakton" and not "Langley" - "Crossfield" and "Forestville" (Herndon addresses at both). There are plenty of Oakton parents that were expecting some capacity relief from this boundary review and didn't get it. That 103% is going to shoot up once shovels hit the ground in the many redevelopments happening near the school that aren't currently counted in the future projections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the slides people were talking about? Please link!!

They were in the very first link in the email sent out today, don't be so lazy. I'll spoon feed you so you stop spamming the board. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/260526_WXY_Fairfax_Skyview_Meeting%202%20%281%29.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Westfield is getting royally screwed. School was just under capacity with no trailers before and now will be less than 3/4 full. Westfield will be in a death spiral in 2-3 years. Will need to cut tons of young staff and lose a ton of programming. Poor kids and families.

They are already destaffing teachers for 9th grade courses next year and its the young, enthusiastic ones because they have the least seniority.

[Anonymous]

Yes, the minute or so the website was down was when they changed the map to move Walney Oaks.

But many of the slides showed the previous version.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the slides people were talking about? Please link!!

They were in the very first link in the email sent out today, don't be so lazy. I'll spoon feed you so you stop spamming the board. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/260526_WXY_Fairfax_Skyview_Meeting%202%20%281%29.pdf

I scoured that email and the boundary site and I didn't see them.

Because I'm not as much of an a-hole as you, I will say thank you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who at Westfield peed in Reid's Wheaties?

No one wants to get moved into Westfield so they are very courageously moving only the minimum number of families into the school, targeting the areas that would be least likely to complain.

Only moving lower income housing developments where the parents don't have connections. Pulling a Kathy Smith.