FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

If Westfield is only bordered by three schools-Skyview, Chantilly, and Centreville--then only two schools can logically have kids rezoned there without creating islands--Chantilly & Centreville.

Pulling over 1000 kids from Westfield (not currently overcrowded!) and then only sending 70 from Centreville and leaving Centreville still over capacity makes no sense. Chantilly will also be at 99 percent capacity.

The SB and FCPS need to do their job of sensibly managing a large school system and stop doing special favors for whoever lives in Walney Oaks, and Seema Dixit's neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:About how many grade 8-11 kids live in Walney Oaks and Trinity Parkway Island (rising 7th-10th graders that is)?

FCPS does not put out those numbers.
They are estimating that 77 high school age kids live in the Trinity apartments and will be moved from Centreville and 309 total are moving from Chantilly HS from these two areas: The new Brookfield split feeder (Chantilly Mews area but not including the Walney Oaks area that was planned to be moved but strangely edited) and the rest of the Cub Run split feeder (including Walney Village).

I don't think we ever got numbers on how many kids live in Walney Oaks.

138 single family homes
20 townhouses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:About how many grade 8-11 kids live in Walney Oaks and Trinity Parkway Island (rising 7th-10th graders that is)?

FCPS does not put out those numbers.
They are estimating that 77 high school age kids live in the Trinity apartments and will be moved from Centreville and 309 total are moving from Chantilly HS from these two areas: The new Brookfield split feeder (Chantilly Mews area but not including the Walney Oaks area that was planned to be moved but strangely edited) and the rest of the Cub Run split feeder (including Walney Village).

I don't think we ever got numbers on how many kids live in Walney Oaks.

138 single family homes
20 townhouses

In Walney Oaks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Westfield is only bordered by three schools-Skyview, Chantilly, and Centreville--then only two schools can logically have kids rezoned there without creating islands--Chantilly & Centreville.

Pulling over 1000 kids from Westfield (not currently overcrowded!) and then only sending 70 from Centreville and leaving Centreville still over capacity makes no sense. Chantilly will also be at 99 percent capacity.

The SB and FCPS need to do their job of sensibly managing a large school system and stop doing special favors for whoever lives in Walney Oaks, and Seema Dixit's neighborhood.[/quote]

Agree, and I'm not an FCPS hater but this entire process from start to finish with RIO and all that nonsense has been completely nuts. How many different drafts have we seen for this area between the comprehensive review and the western only review-like at least 12? And we still aren't at a map that makes logical or fiscal sense.

A normal functioning school system puts out ONE map, has a hearing and lets all the people say their piece at one go, and then votes.

[Anonymous]

Reid will screw Westfield and the School Board will give her a raise for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Westfield is only bordered by three schools-Skyview, Chantilly, and Centreville--then only two schools can logically have kids rezoned there without creating islands--Chantilly & Centreville.

Pulling over 1000 kids from Westfield (not currently overcrowded!) and then only sending 70 from Centreville and leaving Centreville still over capacity makes no sense. Chantilly will also be at 99 percent capacity.

The SB and FCPS need to do their job of sensibly managing a large school system and stop doing special favors for whoever lives in Walney Oaks, and Seema Dixit's neighborhood.[/quote]

Agree, and I'm not an FCPS hater but this entire process from start to finish with RIO and all that nonsense has been completely nuts. How many different drafts have we seen for this area between the comprehensive review and the western only review-like at least 12? And we still aren't at a map that makes logical or fiscal sense.

A normal functioning school system puts out ONE map, has a hearing and lets all the people say their piece at one go, and then votes.

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[Anonymous]

The vacancies at Westfield with neighboring schools at or above capacity is a gross misuse of county resources. On top of that it’s all being done in order to appease a school board member and a wealthy neighborhood. FCPS is a fraud. They scream equity from the rooftops until it affects the people that attend their house parties. Westfield staff and community members should bring this up publicly every chance they get. Make the decision makers regularly have to hear about how they screwed Westfield over. Make it an issue the school board members can’t get rid of and are consistently making excuses for. That’s the only way forward and it will force their hands on future decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reid will screw Westfield and the School Board will give her a raise for it.

I don’t think anyone is intentionally trying to screw Westfield, they are just scared of dealing with blowback from neighborhoods who don’t want to be moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vacancies at Westfield with neighboring schools at or above capacity is a gross misuse of county resources. On top of that it’s all being done in order to appease a school board member and a wealthy neighborhood. FCPS is a fraud. They scream equity from the rooftops until it affects the people that attend their house parties. Westfield staff and community members should bring this up publicly every chance they get. Make the decision makers regularly have to hear about how they screwed Westfield over. Make it an issue the school board members can’t get rid of and are consistently making excuses for. That’s the only way forward and it will force their hands on future decisions.

See Lewis - West Springfield or Mt. Vernon - West Potomac. Same story. Vote of no confidence in Lewis and Mt. Vernon - by not moving students to those schools or by moving students out - accelerated decline.

FCPS is a farce and has been since School Boards became elected positions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reid will screw Westfield and the School Board will give her a raise for it.

I don’t think anyone is intentionally trying to screw Westfield, they are just scared of dealing with blowback from neighborhoods who don’t want to be moved.

But by even entertaining the drama, they are reinforcing the whining that Westfield is not "good enough" for certain neighborhoods. If someone gets up at a public meeting and complains high school A doesn't have all the good classes high school B has, then the correct response from FCPS is to investigate why they aren't providing the same education as school A as school B, not to publicly commiserate at the horror of being sent to a different school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vacancies at Westfield with neighboring schools at or above capacity is a gross misuse of county resources. On top of that it’s all being done in order to appease a school board member and a wealthy neighborhood. FCPS is a fraud. They scream equity from the rooftops until it affects the people that attend their house parties. Westfield staff and community members should bring this up publicly every chance they get. Make the decision makers regularly have to hear about how they screwed Westfield over. Make it an issue the school board members can’t get rid of and are consistently making excuses for. That’s the only way forward and it will force their hands on future decisions.

See Lewis - West Springfield or Mt. Vernon - West Potomac. Same story. Vote of no confidence in Lewis and Mt. Vernon - by not moving students to those schools or by moving students out - accelerated decline.

FCPS is a farce and has been since School Boards became elected positions.

They are moving a few dozen West Potomac kids to Mount Vernon. Of course, they picked some of the poorest kids at West Potomac to move.

When something like that happens once, it might be justified under the circumstances. But there’s a consistent pattern of FCPS deferring to the wishes of the well-heeled, and then treating poorer kids as low-hanging fruit who can be moved around for whatever reason. What they are proposing to do to backfill Westfield (only partially) is very consistent with some of their other proposals. It’s not fair to those kids and it’s not fair to Westfield, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vacancies at Westfield with neighboring schools at or above capacity is a gross misuse of county resources. On top of that it’s all being done in order to appease a school board member and a wealthy neighborhood. FCPS is a fraud. They scream equity from the rooftops until it affects the people that attend their house parties. Westfield staff and community members should bring this up publicly every chance they get. Make the decision makers regularly have to hear about how they screwed Westfield over. Make it an issue the school board members can’t get rid of and are consistently making excuses for. That’s the only way forward and it will force their hands on future decisions.

See Lewis - West Springfield or Mt. Vernon - West Potomac. Same story. Vote of no confidence in Lewis and Mt. Vernon - by not moving students to those schools or by moving students out - accelerated decline.

FCPS is a farce and has been since School Boards became elected positions.

They are moving a few dozen West Potomac kids to Mount Vernon. Of course, they picked some of the poorest kids at West Potomac to move.

When something like that happens once, it might be justified under the circumstances. But there’s a consistent pattern of FCPS deferring to the wishes of the well-heeled, and then treating poorer kids as low-hanging fruit who can be moved around for whatever reason. What they are proposing to do to backfill Westfield (only partially) is very consistent with some of their other proposals. It’s not fair to those kids and it’s not fair to Westfield, either.

Especially when there have been ten+ rounds of maps, and the "final" scenario is the first time they redlined that Trinity island and Brookfield apartments specifically for Westfield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vacancies at Westfield with neighboring schools at or above capacity is a gross misuse of county resources. On top of that it’s all being done in order to appease a school board member and a wealthy neighborhood. FCPS is a fraud. They scream equity from the rooftops until it affects the people that attend their house parties. Westfield staff and community members should bring this up publicly every chance they get. Make the decision makers regularly have to hear about how they screwed Westfield over. Make it an issue the school board members can’t get rid of and are consistently making excuses for. That’s the only way forward and it will force their hands on future decisions.

See Lewis - West Springfield or Mt. Vernon - West Potomac. Same story. Vote of no confidence in Lewis and Mt. Vernon - by not moving students to those schools or by moving students out - accelerated decline.

FCPS is a farce and has been since School Boards became elected positions.

They are moving a few dozen West Potomac kids to Mount Vernon. Of course, they picked some of the poorest kids at West Potomac to move.

When something like that happens once, it might be justified under the circumstances. But there’s a consistent pattern of FCPS deferring to the wishes of the well-heeled, and then treating poorer kids as low-hanging fruit who can be moved around for whatever reason. What they are proposing to do to backfill Westfield (only partially) is very consistent with some of their other proposals. It’s not fair to those kids and it’s not fair to Westfield, either.

Especially when there have been ten+ rounds of maps, and the "final" scenario is the first time they redlined that Trinity island and Brookfield apartments specifically for Westfield.

I agree that was extremely suspicious. That part of Brookfield was never moved in any other prior map, because moving them from CHS is dumb. Circling a tiny Bull Run ES island was also not done on any previous map.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vacancies at Westfield with neighboring schools at or above capacity is a gross misuse of county resources. On top of that it’s all being done in order to appease a school board member and a wealthy neighborhood. FCPS is a fraud. They scream equity from the rooftops until it affects the people that attend their house parties. Westfield staff and community members should bring this up publicly every chance they get. Make the decision makers regularly have to hear about how they screwed Westfield over. Make it an issue the school board members can’t get rid of and are consistently making excuses for. That’s the only way forward and it will force their hands on future decisions.

See Lewis - West Springfield or Mt. Vernon - West Potomac. Same story. Vote of no confidence in Lewis and Mt. Vernon - by not moving students to those schools or by moving students out - accelerated decline.

FCPS is a farce and has been since School Boards became elected positions.

They are moving a few dozen West Potomac kids to Mount Vernon. Of course, they picked some of the poorest kids at West Potomac to move.

When something like that happens once, it might be justified under the circumstances. But there’s a consistent pattern of FCPS deferring to the wishes of the well-heeled, and then treating poorer kids as low-hanging fruit who can be moved around for whatever reason. What they are proposing to do to backfill Westfield (only partially) is very consistent with some of their other proposals. It’s not fair to those kids and it’s not fair to Westfield, either.

Especially when there have been ten+ rounds of maps, and the "final" scenario is the first time they redlined that Trinity island and Brookfield apartments specifically for Westfield.

I agree that was extremely suspicious. That part of Brookfield was never moved in any other prior map, because moving them from CHS is dumb. Circling a tiny Bull Run ES island was also not done on any previous map.

I have followed this with great interest. Those areas have been a split feeder after Brookfield to Franklin for years, but then they join back at Chantilly. I am 99% sure that Brookfield area was included along with Walney Oaks to go to Westfield at one of the first comprehensive boundary scenarios. I remember specifically a Karen raging over it at on a virtual town hall. Walney Oaks showed up in force at the next in person town hall and made friends with Reid, got a promise to stay at Chantilly and also be moved to Rocky Run while they were at it. The other areas did not show up in a memorable way.

[Anonymous]

I just hope Westfield won't get further decimated, but things don't look promising.

Reid will make a recommendation not based on the merits but based on the feedbacks (mostly from parents who want to avoid Westfield).

From Skyview FAQ:

Will the scenario shared at the June meeting be the superintendent's recommendation to the School Board?

The superintendent will present a recommendation to the School Board based on the totality of the feedback received during this boundary study. The School Board will vote on a final recommendation on Thursday, July 16.