FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??

[Anonymous]

I’m glad the school board made meetings specific to the new school but there have been a LOT of emails lately with meeting dates and it is overwhelming. First there was an open house, then a change to the Chantilly meeting, then a naming meeting, then another meeting and now new high school meetings plus an email from the elementary principals about it.

[Anonymous]

They also met with Centreville families BEFORE coming out with. maps moving 300+ kids from CVHS to Westfield. Are they going to go back to discuss?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Then why are they fighting so hard after Reid said only rising 7th graders will have to go and older ones can be grandfathered?

Because some of them also have younger kids and are concerned the new school won’t be good enough even by then for their precious children. Being the star of everything at the new school doesn’t carry the same social media bragging rights as being the star of everything at Oakton.

Or maybe they love the community at Oakton and feel like that's their home. I'm not a Crossfield parent, though I live in the area and want to go to the new school. But I don't think it's wrong to want to stay at Oakton anymore than it's wrong to want to go to the new school.

Spending on specific location, many of the homes in this Oakton zoned area are closer to FIVE other high schools with this new one opening up. At some point logic and what is best for the most children in the long term need to come into the equation. It’s one thing to advocate for your current middle school child to have a choice. It’s another thing to deny all the children coming after from attending a high school closer to home that can actually be their community high school because of your own short term interests.

This area has been a mess of split feeders and kids who live next to each other in the same neighborhood to different schools. There’s a chance to finally fix it and certain selfish people want to block it because they only care about their own kids.

I think giving a choice to all affected middle school children is insane. The only kids who should have an option between the schools are the rising 10th graders and those who will have older HS siblings in rising 10th, 11th or 12th remaining at their currently zoned HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Then why are they fighting so hard after Reid said only rising 7th graders will have to go and older ones can be grandfathered?

Because some of them also have younger kids and are concerned the new school won’t be good enough even by then for their precious children. Being the star of everything at the new school doesn’t carry the same social media bragging rights as being the star of everything at Oakton.

Or maybe they love the community at Oakton and feel like that's their home. I'm not a Crossfield parent, though I live in the area and want to go to the new school. But I don't think it's wrong to want to stay at Oakton anymore than it's wrong to want to go to the new school.

Spending on specific location, many of the homes in this Oakton zoned area are closer to FIVE other high schools with this new one opening up. At some point logic and what is best for the most children in the long term need to come into the equation. It’s one thing to advocate for your current middle school child to have a choice. It’s another thing to deny all the children coming after from attending a high school closer to home that can actually be their community high school because of your own short term interests.

This area has been a mess of split feeders and kids who live next to each other in the same neighborhood to different schools. There’s a chance to finally fix it and certain selfish people want to block it because they only care about their own kids.

I think giving a choice to all affected middle school children is insane. The only kids who should have an option between the schools are the rising 10th graders and those who will have older HS siblings in rising 10th, 11th or 12th remaining at their currently zoned HS.

I think this right here would alleviate the concerns of a lot of the pro-Oakton families.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Yeah, I think we all know who that is. Feels like this has more to do with keeping their kid in the spotlight at a big-name sports school than what’s best for Crossfield.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Yeah, I think we all know who that is. Feels like this has more to do with keeping their kid in the spotlight at a big-name sports school than what’s best for Crossfield.

I could write a book on parents who assumed their kid would be a "star!" I know of two who pupil placed to schools with high achieving teams for this purpose. Did not work out the way they hoped.

I remember being so grateful when DS--on the way to youth football--told me that his dream was to be QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he realized that was quite unlikely to happen.
I was happy that he was realizing this at ten--instead of eighteen.

Here is a secret--as my DH says: There is always someone bigger, faster, and stronger.

Michael Jordan and Tom Brady are outliers who did not begin as stars. They are very few and far between.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Yeah, I think we all know who that is. Feels like this has more to do with keeping their kid in the spotlight at a big-name sports school than what’s best for Crossfield.

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What I find interesting through is that with the new high school, their kid has a chance to be the star of the show whereas at Oakton they'll just be average.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Yeah, I think we all know who that is. Feels like this has more to do with keeping their kid in the spotlight at a big-name sports school than what’s best for Crossfield.

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What I find interesting through is that with the new high school, their kid has a chance to be the star of the show whereas at Oakton they'll just be average.

I've repeated this before on these threads:

I was in the second graduating class of a school. When I was in tenth grade, we only had eleventh grade. The year before, the school only went to tenth grade.
We had a mediocre football team, but the "star" was recruited to play in a prestigious D1 school. He went on to play pro football and win two Championship Super Bowl rings as a starter-and, I think, one Super Bowl loss. So, being a standout can make a difference on any team.
Coaches are aware of that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why.

The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore. Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.

Yeah, I think we all know who that is. Feels like this has more to do with keeping their kid in the spotlight at a big-name sports school than what’s best for Crossfield.

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What I find interesting through is that with the new high school, their kid has a chance to be the star of the show whereas at Oakton they'll just be average.

It’s a perceived status thing and wanting to go to a school with people from certain neighborhoods and not others. For the vast majority of sports, college recruiting happens from club teams, not school teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad the school board made meetings specific to the new school but there have been a LOT of emails lately with meeting dates and it is overwhelming. First there was an open house, then a change to the Chantilly meeting, then a naming meeting, then another meeting and now new high school meetings plus an email from the elementary principals about it.

Yeah, I got many emails.

Just curious=. Did parents in Great Falls, the town of Herndon, or Reston (not Crossfield and Fox Mill) receive the email invitations for the new HS meetings?

[Anonymous]

I think they sent the e-mails out via Principals of only the impacted schools.

[Anonymous]

gotta love those copy and paste BS emails. The school didn't even bother to change [Name of School Here] before sending it out

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad the school board made meetings specific to the new school but there have been a LOT of emails lately with meeting dates and it is overwhelming. First there was an open house, then a change to the Chantilly meeting, then a naming meeting, then another meeting and now new high school meetings plus an email from the elementary principals about it.

Yeah, I got many emails.

Just curious=. Did parents in Great Falls, the town of Herndon, or Reston (not Crossfield and Fox Mill) receive the email invitations for the new HS meetings?

OMG, not everything is about you psycho Langley mama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:gotta love those copy and paste BS emails. The school didn't even bother to change [Name of School Here] before sending it out

Our elementary principal didn't change it, but the middle school principal did.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad the school board made meetings specific to the new school but there have been a LOT of emails lately with meeting dates and it is overwhelming. First there was an open house, then a change to the Chantilly meeting, then a naming meeting, then another meeting and now new high school meetings plus an email from the elementary principals about it.

Yeah, I got many emails.

Just curious=. Did parents in Great Falls, the town of Herndon, or Reston (not Crossfield and Fox Mill) receive the email invitations for the new HS meetings?

OMG, not everything is about you psycho Langley mama.

Well, the one who posts on Nextdoor came to the Open House and went right on Nextdoor to complain. One day, when I have time, I'll post the series of her attacks against it--
one last week claims the schools are not overcrowded--that they didn't count the trailers in the numbers!