FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:How much deference do SB members get for their own areas? Are you all saying she could literally dictate to the consultants which neighborhoods in the Sully area were moved around?

Yes. Absolutely.

I think Seema tried to balance out her blatant favoritism for Centreville HS by creating a split at Brookfield and moving Walney Oaks along with Chantilly Mews. Thats why the last map came out with the brand new split feeder and WO moved over. She didn't realize Reid had made some other random promise at a meeting to some liar from that neighborhood. Then the map was published with WO moved to Westfield as Seema requested and had to be taken down and hastily edited to honor Reid's dictate.That's why all the supporting documents showed WO at Stone/Westfield.

winner winner chicken dinner.

their story that the contractor put up a map without mistake-checking it was laughable. the address search bar AND all the slides showed that area was planned to be moved.

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It was incredibly foolish of Reid to make spontaneous promises to people at meetings without understanding the area and neighborhoods.

I don't see how someone with such poor judgment is running an enormous entire school system!

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Anonymous wrote:All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that.

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them? If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.

The projection has it at only 2083, which is fewer than 2150, with the only MC neighborhood being rezoned lobbying FCPS hard to get out. There's no chance they add more kids in but based on the shenanigans so far, there's a likely chance they move kids back to Chantilly, which would leave them with 1900 or fewer.

You're right that the projection has Westfield at 2083, not 2150. That's still higher than nine other high schools based on all the boundary adjustments adopted and proposed: Herndon, Marshall, South County, Falls Church, Annandale, South Lakes, Mount Vernon, Skyview, and Lewis.

Interesting that this list of smallest schools also includes all the academic have-not schools people are desperate to avoid in FCPS and that FCPS ignores and refuses to improve. They are deliberately moving Westfield from a regular middle of the pack school down to the bottom tier of Avoid at All Cost schools.

If the only thing keeping Westfield in the middle of the pack was all those kids north of 50, then this was inevitable.

There is nothing special about those particular 1000+ kids. Moving back in a similar mix of 500-600 kids would keep Westfield afloat. FCPS is refusing to do that.

Wait til they cave to the Cub Run criers and moves them back to Chantilly at the last minute. That's how this process has been going down. Every time they put a map out, whatever middle class area got moved to Westfield tantrums and gets themselves moved back (except for the low income neighborhoods who are just being used as pawns at this point.)

They are simply following the lead of RIO and Lees Corner.

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Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

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Anonymous wrote:(In case you don't know, teachers are destaffed when enrollment goes down based on seniority, so the youngest teachers are the first to go.)

It isn't quite that simple. The district has also been looking at people who hold multiple endorsements and whose endorsement can be used elsewhere. Therefore, there could be a biology teacher with seniority who gets transferred because she also has an endorsement in French or special education, and she is needed to teach French or special education somewhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:If Seema Dixit thinks the Skyview purchase and subsequent rezoning was so great, then she needs to put her money where her mouth is and move her own neighborhood. If its just fine to move people around, volunteer yourself and your neighbors as tribute. Her area--the BRES split feeder-- was moved to WF on almost every prior map.

What's the big deal, right?

+1. Seema Dixit has done everything possible to enrich her own neighborhood and neighborhood school at the expense of everyone else. Reid and the other School Board members who haven't spoken up about this corruption are complicit.

I hope you at least got your tin foil hat on sale.

What is incorrect about pp's description of the events?

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Anonymous wrote:(In case you don't know, teachers are destaffed when enrollment goes down based on seniority, so the youngest teachers are the first to go.)

It isn't quite that simple. The district has also been looking at people who hold multiple endorsements and whose endorsement can be used elsewhere. Therefore, there could be a biology teacher with seniority who gets transferred because she also has an endorsement in French or special education, and she is needed to teach French or special education somewhere else.

My understanding was that you couldn't get transferred involuntarily in FCPS if there is someone with less seniority than you at your school. So that Biology teacher would only get transferred to teach French if she was more junior than any other French teacher at her school.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

Because their reasoning has been based on elitist arguments. The super vocal people from that neighborhood seem to believe that they are superior to other neighborhoods and that their kids are smarter and wealthier (as though wealth is somehow tied to worth) than other people's kids. They also seem to be under the impression that they are in the top 1% of wealth in Fairfax County, which is laughable.

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Anonymous wrote:(In case you don't know, teachers are destaffed when enrollment goes down based on seniority, so the youngest teachers are the first to go.)

It isn't quite that simple. The district has also been looking at people who hold multiple endorsements and whose endorsement can be used elsewhere. Therefore, there could be a biology teacher with seniority who gets transferred because she also has an endorsement in French or special education, and she is needed to teach French or special education somewhere else.

My understanding was that you couldn't get transferred involuntarily in FCPS if there is someone with less seniority than you at your school. So that Biology teacher would only get transferred to teach French if she was more junior than any other French teacher at her school.

That doesn't seem to be the way it is working this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

Because their reasoning has been based on elitist arguments. The super vocal people from that neighborhood seem to believe that they are superior to other neighborhoods and that their kids are smarter and wealthier (as though wealth is somehow tied to worth) than other people's kids. They also seem to be under the impression that they are in the top 1% of wealth in Fairfax County, which is laughable.

Oh please, its the same exact attitude that the RIO people held and the Bull Run people who wanted to stay at CVHS held and the Lees Corner people held.

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I work at a nearby school. I have heard that a social studies teacher, 9th grade LA teacher and a 9th grade PE teacher were all involuntarily destaffed from Westfield for this coming school year. These are just the ones I happened to hear about, if they are losing over 200 freshmen there are likely several more, and they will also lose admins and counselors as those positions are based on butts in seats.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

Because their reasoning has been based on elitist arguments. The super vocal people from that neighborhood seem to believe that they are superior to other neighborhoods and that their kids are smarter and wealthier (as though wealth is somehow tied to worth) than other people's kids. They also seem to be under the impression that they are in the top 1% of wealth in Fairfax County, which is laughable.

That's the charge against any neighborhood that complains loudly. Compared to the rest of the country, all of Fairfax County is elitist - I'm surprised looking down on things isn't a HS sport parents hire private coaches for.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

Because their reasoning has been based on elitist arguments. The super vocal people from that neighborhood seem to believe that they are superior to other neighborhoods and that their kids are smarter and wealthier (as though wealth is somehow tied to worth) than other people's kids. They also seem to be under the impression that they are in the top 1% of wealth in Fairfax County, which is laughable.

Oh please, its the same exact attitude that the RIO people held and the Bull Run people who wanted to stay at CVHS held and the Lees Corner people held.

I don't recall hearing the Lees Corner people talking about how filthy rich they were and therefore why they shouldn't have to send their kids to a certain school.

I live near Walney Oaks. Those parents are at at Wegmans, Target, the ballfield, and on walks in the neighborhood, talking about how their kids are too good, and they are too wealthy, for their kids to go to certain schools. It is disgusting to listen to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

Because their reasoning has been based on elitist arguments. The super vocal people from that neighborhood seem to believe that they are superior to other neighborhoods and that their kids are smarter and wealthier (as though wealth is somehow tied to worth) than other people's kids. They also seem to be under the impression that they are in the top 1% of wealth in Fairfax County, which is laughable.

Oh please, its the same exact attitude that the RIO people held and the Bull Run people who wanted to stay at CVHS held and the Lees Corner people held.

+1,000,000

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly don't get the hate for the Walney whatever people. Every other complaining area got what they wanted: why shouldn't they?

Because their reasoning has been based on elitist arguments. The super vocal people from that neighborhood seem to believe that they are superior to other neighborhoods and that their kids are smarter and wealthier (as though wealth is somehow tied to worth) than other people's kids. They also seem to be under the impression that they are in the top 1% of wealth in Fairfax County, which is laughable.

Oh please, its the same exact attitude that the RIO people held and the Bull Run people who wanted to stay at CVHS held and the Lees Corner people held.

I don't recall hearing the Lees Corner people talking about how filthy rich they were and therefore why they shouldn't have to send their kids to a certain school.

I live near Walney Oaks. Those parents are at at Wegmans, Target, the ballfield, and on walks in the neighborhood, talking about how their kids are too good, and they are too wealthy, for their kids to go to certain schools. It is disgusting to listen to them.

That's funny b/c honestly, their neighborhood is kind of mid.