FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I was disgusted too. When I was listening to all the complaints about moving to Westfield, I put a comment in the Q and A about how it seems like there’s equity issues with curriculum only available at high schools and it seems like that needs to be addressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Not to be rude, but why didn't you speak in public?

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why people cannot argue for their point without disparaging another school. You can argue you want to stay at a specific school for a variety of reasons on that you want to move for a variety of reasons without disparaging the other option.

You can point to clubs and classes offered at the school that you are at and say that you value those programs and those are not available at the new school. I have no problem with my neighbors that worry about moving to Skyview because there are no traditions or clubs or sports and who worry what the experience will be like, that is a valid concern. I see it as a great opportunity to take on a leadership role from 9th grade on and help build something. I think it will be a great experience. And he can start the clubs he wants that are not at SLHS but are at some other schools. That isn't a slight at SLHS, they have lots of great clubs and programs but no school can have everything.

Make your case to stay without destroying someone else. It shouldn't be hard.

[Anonymous]

I was at the meeting yesterday as well. Some one at my table said Chantilly has better AP programs and Westfield offerings is not up to the mark according to them. Not sure if Seema was entirely sympathetic with her nods, smiles and I hear you comment. The Walney pocket that has been moved out were the majority representation in person yesterday. However no one asked : what will happen to Westfield with a reduced future utilization. I did pose a question about teacher and course availability at Westfield in the future and heard some word salad about how they offer courses based on interest etc etc .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Not to be rude, but why didn't you speak in public?

NP- It take a very confident public speaker to stand up and tell a bunch of people to stop complaining about being moved to your kids school.

[Anonymous]

My neighborhood is moving from Westfield to Skyview. We’ve never had any issue with Westfield other than its distance from our community and having to fight traffic on 28 to get to and from. It’s disappointing to see people trash it because they don’t want to move, it’s a perfectly good school!

[Anonymous]

FCPS just needs to tell people point-blank, you are being moved because you are closest and this school needs students. All this fake empathizing is just a waste of everyone's time.
If it was AP to IB, they might have a point. But its two AP schools about 4 miles apart. GMAFB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Not to be rude, but why didn't you speak in public?

To be honest with you English is my second language and I am not good at public speaking . That's why I hoped to speak privately but there was no chance to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS just needs to tell people point-blank, you are being moved because you are closest and this school needs students. All this fake empathizing is just a waste of everyone's time.
If it was AP to IB, they might have a point. But its two AP schools about 4 miles apart. GMAFB.

+1

[Anonymous]

Given the track record with listening to the loudest, wealthiest whiners for this process, Westfield parents should be very concerned that Walney Village area will get their way.

[Anonymous]

Plus one. While I understand choosing one school over the other for a variety of reasons - athletics, ability to bike to school etc., several comments yesterday was disparaging about Westfield AP programs not "good enough". Someone talked about how they can no longer bike back to home in between activities. I appreciate that this aspect is important to them. However, don't disparage Westfield that has good AP offerings, stellar sports and band team.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people cannot argue for their point without disparaging another school. You can argue you want to stay at a specific school for a variety of reasons on that you want to move for a variety of reasons without disparaging the other option.

You can point to clubs and classes offered at the school that you are at and say that you value those programs and those are not available at the new school. I have no problem with my neighbors that worry about moving to Skyview because there are no traditions or clubs or sports and who worry what the experience will be like, that is a valid concern. I see it as a great opportunity to take on a leadership role from 9th grade on and help build something. I think it will be a great experience. And he can start the clubs he wants that are not at SLHS but are at some other schools. That isn't a slight at SLHS, they have lots of great clubs and programs but no school can have everything.

Make your case to stay without destroying someone else. It shouldn't be hard.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that Meren is warning South Lakes families that they will lose classes and teachers, but FCPS is pretending that none of that will happen at Westfield, which is losing twice as many kids.

[Anonymous]

What they would say if they are being honest is Chantilly is a much higher rated school, they don't want to move from what would be a 10% farms school to a 40% farms school, and they don't want their property values to go down. At the moment, there isn't a lot of difference between the AP offerings of the two schools, but there will be in the future if FCPS doesn't add more students to WF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What they would say if they are being honest is Chantilly is a much higher rated school, they don't want to move from what would be a 10% farms school to a 40% farms school, and they don't want their property values to go down. At the moment, there isn't a lot of difference between the AP offerings of the two schools, but there will be in the future if FCPS doesn't add more students to WF.

In the most recent data, these schools are 18.39% and 31.31% FARMs. It becomes 10 and 40% when they make boundary adjustments like these where only low income students are sent to backfill, because all the UMC families used their influence to get their way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plus one. While I understand choosing one school over the other for a variety of reasons - athletics, ability to bike to school etc., several comments yesterday was disparaging about Westfield AP programs not "good enough". Someone talked about how they can no longer bike back to home in between activities. I appreciate that this aspect is important to them. However, don't disparage Westfield that has good AP offerings, stellar sports and band team.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people cannot argue for their point without disparaging another school. You can argue you want to stay at a specific school for a variety of reasons on that you want to move for a variety of reasons without disparaging the other option.

You can point to clubs and classes offered at the school that you are at and say that you value those programs and those are not available at the new school. I have no problem with my neighbors that worry about moving to Skyview because there are no traditions or clubs or sports and who worry what the experience will be like, that is a valid concern. I see it as a great opportunity to take on a leadership role from 9th grade on and help build something. I think it will be a great experience. And he can start the clubs he wants that are not at SLHS but are at some other schools. That isn't a slight at SLHS, they have lots of great clubs and programs but no school can have everything.

Make your case to stay without destroying someone else. It shouldn't be hard.

Walney Oaks giving biking to school a reason? While the poor kids on 50 who live much closer and can walk to Chantilly are being kicked out?