FCPS Skyview Boundary Scenario 1/2/3

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Anonymous wrote:I am shocked they would take a full third of Westfield's student population.

That area should not have been there in the first place. Those along Walney and Bull Run make sense. Done. They are already adjacent to other Westfield areas.

Almost all of the areas that it makes sense to move to Westfield seem to have mysteriously been taken out of consideration.

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Wonder if the fact that Dixit lives in Centreville district has anything to do with this....

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Anonymous wrote:Why don't Centreville's numbers change throughout any of the scenarios when they are losing a large low income housing development and not gaining any new areas?

Is that a large area?

Its mostly commercial but there is one large, very crowded apartment building.

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Anonymous wrote:They are deliberately choosing to leave South Lakes and Westfield without enough students for advanced classes.

Are they dropping IB from South Lakes? They will have fewer than 2000 kids. No one will be getting those IB diplomas.

Most of South Lakes would prefer to have AP.

Also, I don’t understand why it is so bad for a school to have fewer than 2000 kids. Skyview will have fewer than 2000 kids, and it will be fine. True there might not be as many options for AP as a large school like Oakton, but it will still be fine.
Everyone is focusing on the perceived negatives of smaller schools while ignoring the numerous positives.

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Anonymous wrote:I am shocked they would take a full third of Westfield's student population.

That area should not have been there in the first place. Those along Walney and Bull Run make sense. Done. They are already adjacent to other Westfield areas.

Almost all of the areas that it makes sense to move to Westfield seem to have mysteriously been taken out of consideration.

People are pulling in favors and getting special treatment. Its infuriating, but not at all mysterious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are deliberately choosing to leave South Lakes and Westfield without enough students for advanced classes.

Are they dropping IB from South Lakes? They will have fewer than 2000 kids. No one will be getting those IB diplomas.

Most of South Lakes would prefer to have AP.

Also, I don’t understand why it is so bad for a school to have fewer than 2000 kids. Skyview will have fewer than 2000 kids, and it will be fine. True there might not be as many options for AP as a large school like Oakton, but it will still be fine.
Everyone is focusing on the perceived negatives of smaller schools while ignoring the numerous positives.

Its about the number of students AS WELL AS the percentage of FARMS. For instance, Langley is tiny but has more advanced course options than Westfield despite having 700 fewer students.

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Anonymous wrote:Scenario 1 leads to 3 way split feeder for the crossfield community in a way that all buses ( crossfield, carson, Franklin, Oakton and skyview) will be coming to neighborhood streets. Not sure what other schools are dealing with 3 way split feeders. The split also cuts through small neighborhood streets of crossfield

That’s what happens when you have a big group (RIO) protesting. They were saved but others weren’t. Talk to the Crossfield PTA President.

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The proposed mess at Crossfield was caused by special favors and RIO absurdity.

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Anonymous wrote:Cannot speak to how they will fill Westfield, but, for Skyview,the first Option A was the most logical--except they should have included all of Floris.

It kept Fox Mill at South Lakes and sent Crossfield to Skyview. Made sense logistically and objectively. But, then, RIO stepped in.
If there were a good reason to keep Crossfield at Oakton I could understand it. But, I have not see ONE good reason.

It's more logical to load Skyview from the Loudoun County line in towards 286 than leave Fox Mill complete at South Lakes. Old Option B now has a west of 286 piece of Dogwood. Mystery disappearances from this stuff were the likely political lack of movement out of Chantilly to Westfield. Old options had Westfield at 85% plus.

Oakton? Far more complex than the above loading of Skyview, again made more simple by Loudoun being another jurisdiction. Langley/Madison/Herndon/South Lakes/Oakton/Marshall Westbriar Island could end up in a similar process as Herndon pyramid elementary schools are 50% complete on capacity expansion.

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Option 2 revised angers me because it splits Franklin Farm up again!

Dogwood doesn’t want to go there!

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Anonymous wrote:But, the way they have done this really makes the School Board and Reid look like hypocrites.

They are in fact hypocrites. How often do they pay lip service to "equity"? There's nothing equitable about taking hush money to move a neighborhood the consultants (and everyone else) thinks it makes sense to move.

I doubt it is hush money. Just politics. Still wrong.

Politicians do favors in the hopes of getting donations. Who is doing a favor for who in that neighborhood? Can we get that Fairfax Times reporter on this?

They are moving schools were fewer people vote so they can keep their positions.

If they don’t have the guts to move some higher-income Chantilly families into Westfield, they can forget ever trying to move any part of even wealthier Langley into Herndon. They are basically triaging the schools and saying it’s fine to have 1400 empty seats at two high schools we’ve written off as long as we aren’t dealing with noisy parents.

Especially when its so obvious on the map that it makes sense to move some areas. There is literally a carve out for some areas on the map. That's completely ridiculous.
And the fact that we all know the consultants suggested it because it makes so much sense and watched the special favor literally play out on our screens.

Yeah but just weeks ago we were all saying how the consultants are from out of town and don’t know this area. And how Reid shouldn’t have hired them. But now suddenly we believe they made the best decision but Reid somehow effed it up?

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Crossfield has been heavily impacted in scenario 1. While some folks may have got what they want, the school split in scenario 1 is impacting at neighborhood Street levels. We are just asking to keep the neighborhood cohesive from elementary all the way through high and not create a 3 way split.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked they would take a full third of Westfield's student population.

That area should not have been there in the first place. Those along Walney and Bull Run make sense. Done. They are already adjacent to other Westfield areas.

Almost all of the areas that it makes sense to move to Westfield seem to have mysteriously been taken out of consideration.

Y’all are getting a real time education that families don’t want to be moved from their high school pyramids.

If only you’d been listening for the last two years.

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Anonymous wrote:Crossfield has been heavily impacted in scenario 1. While some folks may have got what they want, the school split in scenario 1 is impacting at neighborhood Street levels. We are just asking to keep the neighborhood cohesive from elementary all the way through high and not create a 3 way split.

Why should Crossfield get to be cohesive from elementary all the way through high school, plus get to remain at Oakton? Please. So many other have had split feeders at the middle or high school level for years and deal with it. Why is crossfield so special that they get to be exempt from it all? BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Taking Westfield down to 74% capacity but leaving Chantilly at 99 or 101 percent in either scenario is batsh!t crazy. Those areas in the middle between the schools need to be moved over to Westfield.

They aren't even trying to hide the corruption and favoritism.

But not surprising. WSHS is massively overcrowded and it managed to gain students with the redistricting because everyone put up a huge fight when they knew they might be moved to Lewis.

Parents prefer their kid be at a higher performing school that is overcrowded then at a lower performing school with space. They really prefer someone else be moved so that their school is not overcrowded but they don't want their kid moved.

Centreville and Chantilly can have their overcrowded schools and stop complaining about being overcrowded. Centreville should not get the expansion, only the remodel. But when families actively fight moving to a less crowded school and win, they shouldn't get rewarded with an expansion that is not needed.