Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)

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You are all a bunch of fools and jerks because you keep criticizing crossfield about the bus ride, now the whole county has no busing service if you stay at the old school. Is that what you wished for?

Now unrelated schools have to suffer for your foolishness!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are all a bunch of fools and jerks because you keep criticizing crossfield about the bus ride, now the whole county has no busing service if you stay at the old school. Is that what you wished for?

Now unrelated schools have to suffer for your foolishness!

The bussing surrounding the redistricting is a separate issue than the new school boundary. They had always discussed the possibility of not providing bussing for kids being redistricted. There would be too many and not enough busses. Again, it has nothing to do with the new school.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all a bunch of fools and jerks because you keep criticizing crossfield about the bus ride, now the whole county has no busing service if you stay at the old school. Is that what you wished for?

Now unrelated schools have to suffer for your foolishness!

The bussing surrounding the redistricting is a separate issue than the new school boundary. They had always discussed the possibility of not providing bussing for kids being redistricted. There would be too many and not enough busses. Again, it has nothing to do with the new school.

One thing that is interesting--this is the first time I have seen actual dollar amounts put on busing. That should tell you something about how expensive it is to send kids long distances..

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Anonymous wrote:You are all a bunch of fools and jerks because you keep criticizing crossfield about the bus ride, now the whole county has no busing service if you stay at the old school. Is that what you wished for?

Now unrelated schools have to suffer for your foolishness!

The bussing surrounding the redistricting is a separate issue than the new school boundary. They had always discussed the possibility of not providing bussing for kids being redistricted. There would be too many and not enough busses. Again, it has nothing to do with the new school.

So wait if there was no new school, they wouldn't have a busing issue?

DoEs NoT cOmPuTe!

The busing issue is precisely because they're playing whack a mole with moving kids around to balance out the county zoning boards love of filling every empty space with housing.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all a bunch of fools and jerks because you keep criticizing crossfield about the bus ride, now the whole county has no busing service if you stay at the old school. Is that what you wished for?

Now unrelated schools have to suffer for your foolishness!

And,no one would have known you have a long bus ride?

This has nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill has Japanse immersion program. It’s good to hear that the Western will offer Japanese.

I think this settles it then - Fox Mill will be in Boundary, Crossfield will remain at Oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill has Japanse immersion program. It’s good to hear that the Western will offer Japanese.

I think this settles it then - Fox Mill will be in Boundary, Crossfield will remain at Oakton.

Honestly I am fine with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Navy is screwed. Our best bet is to advocate with Crossfield.

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If crazy Navy mom is worried about being moved, wouldn't their best bet be to push for Crossfield to be moved now to make more room at Oakton for that future development that's coming instead? I don't think they really thought this through.

You would think that Navy and Waples parents would be pushing to move Crossfield now - Navy could still be moved to Western in the future and Waples is under threat of being moved to Fairfax.

One thing folks lose sight of in all the redistricting is FCPS’s desire to keep high performers spread across all schools to help with ratings. It’s why the last redistricting in 2008 pulled fox mill to SLHS. It worked. Proposed Western neighborhoods have a high performing student population. It’s why I don’t think Waples or Navy would get pulled out of Oakton to Western. Without crossfield, navy and waples, the academic ratings would fall fast at Oakton.

The SLHS redistricting in 2008 was the swan song for any overt redistricting to balance demographics. Everything since then typically increased the disparities within FCPS, the boundary changes involving Annandale HS and then moving part of Lewis HS to West Springfield HS being the prime examples.

Oakton is aming the top 10 schools in Virginia. FCPS won’t play around too much with its demographics. They know exactly what they are doing.

That didn't stop them from moving kids in 2008.

They were strategic in that move. Keeping enough at Oakton to maintain its status while moving enough to SLHS to uplift its status.

Actually, no. They did it that way because Kathy Smith was Sully district. Almost all of the students at Crossfield are in Sully district. Not sure about the Folkestone area, but Fox Mill Woods is in Reston. Stu Gibson was Hunter Mill. I'm pretty sure that everyone redistricted to South Lakes lived in Hunter Mill. There may have been a slight adjustment in the magisterial districts since then, but i think that is correct.

Noise was made at the time about Dranesville, but Janie didn't have it. There may have been a small area that is now Hunter Mill that was moved.
I think the Sully portion of Floris remained at Westfield.

Not sure they will still give the same respect to the district SB member as they did in the past, but they certainly did then.

No it's split 50/50 between Hunters Mill and Sully.

Wrong. Very few in Crossfield are in Hunter Mill. No where near 50/50.
Hunter Mill https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/huntermill_0.pdfdistrict:

Crossfield boundary:
https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/boundary-maps/Crossfield_ES_1.pdf

You're wrong - it is all of the neighborhoods north of west ox/Folkstone Rds. That's maybe not half, but 1/3. There is a large portion of Crossfield that is NOT Franklin Farm. I don't know why you people think Franklin Farm is the only neighborhood that matters.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it very amusing that the speakers last night from Crossfield about staying at Oakton complained about the traffic to the new high school--meanwhile the kids go to Carson. And, the mom who was upset because her younger child could not ride to school with her older one.

The sports is an issue--but it is not limited to Crossfield kids.

I also found it amusing that the dad who spoke wants the school to be named after his choice of names-but, meanwhile he wants his kids to stay at Oakton.

I wasn't at the meeting nor did I watch it, but that traffic argument is the most laughable thing in the entire world. Our kids all go to Carson. Nobody has ever complained about traffic to Carson. It's literally 7 minutes away. From Franklin Farm it's like a right turn and a left turn, and boom you are there.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill has Japanse immersion program. It’s good to hear that the Western will offer Japanese.

I think this settles it then - Fox Mill will be in Boundary, Crossfield will remain at Oakton.

They mentioned making sure that they had Japanese and Korean as immersion program continuation at the new school at both the morning and evening session. Take that as Fox Mill is moving. But who knows, they can change things until Spring now.

[Anonymous]

I just watched the community comments. Can someone explain why that Candle lady said her kid has to cross 50 to get to Western? Literally NOWHERE in the Crossfield boundaries has to cross 50 to get there. That lady sounded insane!!

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She also said something about 3 years of Covid disruption, WTF?

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Anonymous wrote:She also said something about 3 years of Covid disruption, WTF?

Yes. Apparently, her Crossfield kids were more affected by it than the rest of us? Talk about unaware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just watched the community comments. Can someone explain why that Candle lady said her kid has to cross 50 to get to Western? Literally NOWHERE in the Crossfield boundaries has to cross 50 to get there. That lady sounded insane!!

That confused me, as well. But, I think I was more focused on the fact that her younger child could not ride in the car to Oakton with her older child.
Wonder how her child gets to Carson?

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill has Japanse immersion program. It’s good to hear that the Western will offer Japanese.

I think this settles it then - Fox Mill will be in Boundary, Crossfield will remain at Oakton.

Honestly I am fine with it.

I'm not, one of the Crossfield families who wants my kids to go to Western. It is a pain in the butt to go to Oakton.