FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

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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.

From Merens newsletter:

Both proposals move Fox Mill Estates, which is the main neighborhood assigned to Fox Mill Elementary School from the South Lakes pyramid into the Skyview pyramid. This is an entirely new proposal, and I’m unclear why the Superintendent is proposing it. If the goal is to balance enrollment, removing the Fox Mill ES population from South Lakes HS will further decrease the already under-enrolled membership. When membership decreases further and further from planned capacity, staffing for the school decreases. This means that programming decreases - including to a selection of academics and extra-curricular activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The comments are turned off on the tool!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

I am a crossfield parent and I have been to every Skyview boundary meeting. I also attended Seema's zoom meetings ( 3 of them) with community members and her community meeting at Liberty MS. I also attended Kyle's zoom meeting recently.

I have never heard or seen any Westfield parent at any of these meetings. This is the only place they complain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Not sure "disengaged" is really fair. Half the school is leaving. The vast majority of people aren't following along this very convoluted process unless their area is being moved. Most probably don't realize how many kids are leaving Westfield. Seema certainly isn't trying to infor the Westfield community about her machinations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Meren is very late in the game. She could have proposed splitting Fox Mill into two: west of 286 going to Skyview and east of 286 staying in SLHS. Most of Fox Mill Estate houses are located in the Eastern side.

It is way too late now. The final scenario is out. Comments are closed. People voted for "proximity." No major change is expected to be made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Its crazy to me the townhouses they are building there and next to Wegman's. The plane noise is deafening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

From Merens newsletter:

Both proposals move Fox Mill Estates, which is the main neighborhood assigned to Fox Mill Elementary School from the South Lakes pyramid into the Skyview pyramid. This is an entirely new proposal, and I’m unclear why the Superintendent is proposing it. If the goal is to balance enrollment, removing the Fox Mill ES population from South Lakes HS will further decrease the already under-enrolled membership. When membership decreases further and further from planned capacity, staffing for the school decreases. This means that programming decreases - including to a selection of academics and extra-curricular activities.

Meren had no problem doing the same thing to Marshall that she’s now complaining could happen to South Lakes. And it wasn’t even the arguably necessary by-product of opening a new school. It was just a power play to benefit Madison at Marshall’s expense, based on phony and later corrected numbers about overcrowding at Kilmer.

Does she really think people don’t see her for the massive hypocrite that she is?

[Anonymous]

Most people have some vague understanding that a new school was bought and that some kids from all the surrounding areas will be moved. Westfield is big. Parents are likely assuming a few hundred kids will be moved out. No big deal, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

From Merens newsletter:

Both proposals move Fox Mill Estates, which is the main neighborhood assigned to Fox Mill Elementary School from the South Lakes pyramid into the Skyview pyramid. This is an entirely new proposal, and I’m unclear why the Superintendent is proposing it. If the goal is to balance enrollment, removing the Fox Mill ES population from South Lakes HS will further decrease the already under-enrolled membership. When membership decreases further and further from planned capacity, staffing for the school decreases. This means that programming decreases - including to a selection of academics and extra-curricular activities.

Meren had no problem doing the same thing to Marshall that she’s now complaining could happen to South Lakes. And it wasn’t even the arguably necessary by-product of opening a new school. It was just a power play to benefit Madison at Marshall’s expense, based on phony and later corrected numbers about overcrowding at Kilmer.

Does she really think people don’t see her for the massive hypocrite that she is?

.

This is purely performance art from her. If she’s legitimately being caught off guard now by proposals that have been out for a month, then she’s more clueless than we thought she was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

From Merens newsletter:

Both proposals move Fox Mill Estates, which is the main neighborhood assigned to Fox Mill Elementary School from the South Lakes pyramid into the Skyview pyramid. This is an entirely new proposal, and I’m unclear why the Superintendent is proposing it. If the goal is to balance enrollment, removing the Fox Mill ES population from South Lakes HS will further decrease the already under-enrolled membership. When membership decreases further and further from planned capacity, staffing for the school decreases. This means that programming decreases - including to a selection of academics and extra-curricular activities.

LOL Either she is lying or she has not been paying attention. Either one is reason to not vote for her.

Fox Mill has been in the mix since the first scenarios were put out in December, Fox Mill was suggested to be moved in 2 of the 4 original scenarios. Then Fox Mill was suggested to be moved in 2 of the 3 new scenarios. Then Fox Mill was moved in both of the last two scenarios. Two scenarios that she asked for feedback on her Facebook page and the Reston Herndon Community page.

She knew that Fox Mill was in the mix and never engaged in the conversation.So she is lying. She also posted two videos on the process in January and February that she had to retract because she gave out incorrect information.

And she clearly hasn’t looked at the scenario right now because comments are not turned on. And if she looked at the last two scenarios she would see that there was a lot of positive reaction to Fox Mill moving.

[Anonymous]

It’s been said before, and remains true: if people are not fighting for or against being moved, it is far less likely that they’ll consider the impact on their school if they remain assigned to that school.

It doesn’t mean that their school isn’t going to lose teachers or valuable electives. It just means they’ll be scratching their heads in a few years when their school starts to decline, objectively measured.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Why do you assume that everyone who disagrees with you is the same person? Or that they are female?

It's fine, are the you the man who was in the "Crossfield PTO goes to Gatehouse" picture? You're not on the PTO Board, why were you there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

From Merens newsletter:

Both proposals move Fox Mill Estates, which is the main neighborhood assigned to Fox Mill Elementary School from the South Lakes pyramid into the Skyview pyramid. This is an entirely new proposal, and I’m unclear why the Superintendent is proposing it. If the goal is to balance enrollment, removing the Fox Mill ES population from South Lakes HS will further decrease the already under-enrolled membership. When membership decreases further and further from planned capacity, staffing for the school decreases. This means that programming decreases - including to a selection of academics and extra-curricular activities.

LOL Either she is lying or she has not been paying attention. Either one is reason to not vote for her.

Fox Mill has been in the mix since the first scenarios were put out in December, Fox Mill was suggested to be moved in 2 of the 4 original scenarios. Then Fox Mill was suggested to be moved in 2 of the 3 new scenarios. Then Fox Mill was moved in both of the last two scenarios. Two scenarios that she asked for feedback on her Facebook page and the Reston Herndon Community page.

She knew that Fox Mill was in the mix and never engaged in the conversation.So she is lying. She also posted two videos on the process in January and February that she had to retract because she gave out incorrect information.

And she clearly hasn’t looked at the scenario right now because comments are not turned on. And if she looked at the last two scenarios she would see that there was a lot of positive reaction to Fox Mill moving.

She just realized that her inactivity in the whole process will get back fire from the remaining slhs parents. I think it’s too late to make any big changes now, especially when fmes parents overwhelmingly chose Skyview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

DP. I’m in a group chat with Westfield parents. A few were there online or in person. They didn’t speak up after everyone started piling on about their kids’ school but they listened. A lot of people including myself had to work last night and couldn’t attend. We aren’t disengaged. Some are but that’s true at every single school. We’re all getting the message about how you view us loud and clear. I hope someone speaks up for you when the School Board decides to screw you over next.

[Anonymous]

I'm a Westfield parent who was at the meeting. I was hoping to speak with someone from FCPS or the School Board after the meeting.

So many people were complaining about being moved to our school. I was not sure how to stand up and say people should be moved whether they like it or not.

Frankly I was disgusted with Seema continualy "empathizing" with those people like being moved to Westfield is like a death in the family. Her attitude was all wrong. No one up there said one positive thing about Westfield.