FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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That would leave westfield with only around 1950 kids. In a building foe 2800+.

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1950 kids before all the families with resources finagel their kids over to Chantilly or Skyview.

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants to go to Westfield, and mostly it is the location. It's in the middle of business centers and industrial spaces. Chantilly is in the middle of a bunch of neighborhoods. Of course it's easier and closer to get to Chantilly than it is to get to Westfield.

They need to move Walney Village and Walney Oaks both to Westfield. I'm worried they won't but that's the right move.
They should also move Chantilly Academy to Westfield. Westfield doesn't have an academy program and it makes sense to put it in a school with capacity.

It kind of makes sense, but then on the other hand you’re saying Westfield is hard to get to and a successful Academy depends on kids from other schools getting bused to and from the Academy program from their base schools.

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Its not really hard to get to, its right off route 28. Its just not in a residential area

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As a Chantilly parent, I have often wondered why they didn't move at least some of the Academy to free up space.

However, and i haven't been there lately, but the Academy is extremely well regarded. Some of the space has the culinary portion which, I assume, requires special space. Some of it has the auto shops, which would also have specialized space.

However, other parts could easily be moved. Maybe, it has something to do with the administration which is separate from the main high school.

Chantilly also has the Special Ed program which has functioned there for many, many years. They do a great job with this. But, again, that could be moved. But, it would be a shame.

Chantilly has had good administrators without a big turnover for many years. That leads to good staff. I assume the staff is still good.

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Anonymous wrote:Its not really hard to get to, its right off route 28. Its just not in a residential area

It is a very long way since it is at the edge of Fairfax County. And, to me, being off 28 was part of the problem with sending kids from south of 50. The traffic is awful.

[Anonymous]

In the meeting today: A lot of Walney Village folks advocating for keeping them at Chantilly. Seema, Meren, Moon and Reid were in person. Kyle Mcdaniel was online. Outside of the walney village community advocacy, majority of the questions were related SkyView phasing options, sibling preference , AP courses availability etc.

[Anonymous]

I wish those industrial parks would be redeveloped into housing.

There doesn’t need to be that much commerce.

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Anonymous wrote:1950 kids before all the families with resources finagel their kids over to Chantilly or Skyview.

I expect some will. However, I think FCPS is going to be surprised by the number of kids going private before they even hit middle school because of these decisions.

[Anonymous]

It’s not that it’s hard to get to, but it’s not walkable/bikeable which is Walney Oaks and Walney Village’s argument. (It was also Lees Corner’s argument, but they truly were very far from Westfield.)

Westfield would be fine to go via school bus in the middle of the day.

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Anonymous wrote:Meren’s newsletter e-mail today AGAIN claimed that the FMES to Skyview move was new to her. How dumb does she think people are?!

And she is basically asking people to go into the tool and leave comments after she talked about how it will decrease programming, etc. I thought it was interesting how she just singled out Fox Mill Estates moving…is she advocating for FMES to be split? It was an odd way to phrase it.

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Anonymous wrote:Just used Folkstone/West Ox as a starting point. Almost 10 miles to Oakton and less than 3 to Carson.
Using Crossfield as the starting point is bogus. No one going to Carson lives that far.

And, the time--using express lanes is 15 minutes.
Eight minutes to Carson.

And, most of the population lives closer to Carson than that intersection.

He must be getting pushback from some Crossfield people now.

This tells me that Meren is putting pressure on him now. She's had a year to do that.

Really - what MS do you think those students across from Crossfield attend? And why do you think that you know better than their actual experience?
From my home near Crossfield my child's Carson bus ride was always significantly longer than their current ride to Oakton.

I have a feeling that many of the complainers about crossfield are entirely unfamiliar with the area or only know about the Franklin farm side.

Very familiar with the area. Drive West Ox and Reston Parkway regularly. Drive Folkstone from time to time.

So, the vast majority of the Crossfield Oakton kids live between Fairfax County Parkway and West Ox Rd.

So, because a handful of the Crossfield families claim they are closer to Oakton (they are not, you can verify that by driving it or even looking at a map) they claim they should go to Oakton.

All are closer to Carson than to Oakton. But, you know that. Time wise and mileage.

If you live close to Crossfield, your kids should be going to South Lakes along with Fox Mill Woods.

I have continuously posted that in my neighborhood bus rides to oakton are shorter than crossfield for months on these threads.McDaniel confirmed that.

There's far more than a handful of people zoned to crossfield. Less than franklin farm to be sure.

Are you one of the two ladies who pipes up in every single meeting with Kyle that your child's bus ride to Carson is 45 minutes? Every. Single. Time.

No, I'm a man.

And yes the ride to carson is obscenely long if you're east of west ox. I guess that's the price to pay for low density housing.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish those industrial parks would be redeveloped into housing.

There doesn’t need to be that much commerce.

If you look up from the industrial parks, you'd see why they're industrial parks. They're straight off the end of the Dulles runways.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm working, someone please take notes and report back!

People voted "Proximity" as the most important criteria.

I expected many Westfield people would show up to support their school.

Instead, a lot of Crossfield parents showed up in support of the final scenario. And many Walney Village and nearby communities who want to be in Chantilly and AVOID Westfield.

Not a single person said anything about Westfield getting gutted out.

This is sad.

Remember what I said about disengaged Westfield parents?

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Anonymous wrote:Just used Folkstone/West Ox as a starting point. Almost 10 miles to Oakton and less than 3 to Carson.
Using Crossfield as the starting point is bogus. No one going to Carson lives that far.

And, the time--using express lanes is 15 minutes.
Eight minutes to Carson.

And, most of the population lives closer to Carson than that intersection.

He must be getting pushback from some Crossfield people now.

This tells me that Meren is putting pressure on him now. She's had a year to do that.

Really - what MS do you think those students across from Crossfield attend? And why do you think that you know better than their actual experience?
From my home near Crossfield my child's Carson bus ride was always significantly longer than their current ride to Oakton.

I truly love how the RIO mommy shows up AFTER the decision has been made. Where have you been this whole time, sweetie?

DP

Lobbying people with power unlike your snarky spark of sunshine!