FCPS Skyview Boundary Scenario 1/2/3

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

They aren't turning Rocky Run into a split feeder. Give it up, Lees Corner mom. I think I recognize you from when Armfield Farms neighborhood was recommended to move to Westfield in the boundary review last summer.

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What i find strange about this thread is people seem to think that every post that disagrees with their perspective is the same exact person , but all the posts agreeing with them are many, many, many different people. i find that interesting. human nature, its a trip.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

I can't figure out how this fact is relevant. Road miles traveled is miles traveled, regardless of whether you are crossing route 50 or where the airport is (all these neighborhoods are south of the airport). LC is MUCH closer than PT and BRES and tied with Brookfield. So either LC or Brookfield makes the most sense if what we care about it decreasing the distances traveled to a school (by ALL the kids attending the school, not just your kids.

I'm not sure why you are so angry when your neighborhood was singled out and protected by the SB members despite its obvious choice as a candidate for rezoning.

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Anonymous wrote:Highland Oaks has been proposed to move from Chantilly to Oakton. Does anyone think that makes sense? They are also in walking distance of Chantilly.

I live in Highland Oaks and I’d prefer to stick with the rest of the ES community, whether it’s feeding into Chantilly or Oakton. I don’t care, they’re both great schools. It’s sad that 90% of Navy goes to Oakton except for this little sliver of communities off of RT 50.

Tell me you don’t have a high schooler without telling me you don’t have a high schooler. The commute to Oakton is brutal and would be very difficult once your kid has after school activities/evening events. Navy Chantilly Moms are very happy with Chantilly and their short commute.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, there’s the merits and then there’s the process.

On the merits, you have Lees Corner close to Chantilly, but also closer to Westfield than other areas likely to get moved there. And then you have some Centreville areas that are further away from Westfield but also not as close to Centreville as Lees Corner is to Chantilly.

Unless they just plan to gut Westfield, someone has to move there if a large chunk of Westfield moves to Skyview, and it’s hard to say one area has a better argument than the other. They don’t have a clear flow chart in place that dictates the “right” result.

That’s when the process kicks in. In theory, the School Board hired a third-party consultant to make recommendations to Reid and for Reid to make recommendations to the School Board. When you have School Board members weighing in now, in the middle of the process, it looks like they are jumping the gun. And once a few members do this, the other members with potentially affected schools feel like they are stooges if they don’t also enter the fray, and we’re off to the races.

It happened during the county-wide review and now it’s happening again. I’d argue that it’s a significant enough break-down in how they should be approaching major decisions that the current School Board should be replaced next year, with the next School Board firing Reid after being sworn in. Any boundary process will be controversial, but they repeatedly take challenging situations and make them worse.

I agree with this entire post. Especially regarding the process and SB members butting in and disrupting the established process. We are paying these consultants I assume a lot of money to come up with objective, reasonable approaches. Almost all of the proposed HS boundaries in their three proposed scenarios made logical sense from an unbiased birds eye view. (ES and MS not so much, but now ES is off the table.)

But, I would add, the one rabid Lees Corner parent who sits on this thread all day and night screeching at people is not doing her neighborhood any favors. I am pretty much rooting for them to get moved at this point just to p!ss her off. The rest of the many posters can't even have a discussion without her jumping in with her crazy exaggerations and nonsense.

What makes you think this consultant knew what they were doing? Speaking from my neighborhood, they took a small portion of our elementary school boundary and took them out of the rest of their neighborhood which currently is in the elementary school. Really stupid move. So, no, I don't think these people were objective or experts.

But, people are mistaken if they think the School Board members are out of line. Perhaps, they should not have been so vocal, but the decision is THEIRS. At least, it always has been in the past. (Ask me how I know? I've been involved in three boundary discussions.) They vote on it.

And, it does not make any sense to take kids who are five minutes from the school and send them 20 to 30 minutes away. If any Centreville students are five minutes from Centreville and being sent 20 to 30 minutes away, that also does not make sense. I don't think that is the case, but, if it is, please feel free to post the details here.

You presumably like what Dixit and McDaniel are doing, so you give them flowers. No surprise there.

But your logic is flawed. No one denies that the School Board makes the final decisions about boundaries. But when they commit in advance to a process where a third-party consultant is supposed to work with Reid to come up with recommendations to provide to the School Board, and School Board members interject themselves in the middle of the process, they are making a hash of things and corrupting an agreed-upon process to set boundaries. The School Board members who didn't jump in and were prepared to let the process work as intended then feel like they have no alternative but to start weighing in as well. And it also creates the impression that Dixit and McDaniel were doing the bidding of the community members who yelled the loudest.

That's just what they did.
and Reid! Who caved to Walney Oaks with literally no discussion or analysis.

How do we know they caved? Did they?

McDaniel and Dixit both sent emails this week saying Lees Corner won't be moved.
Reid told Walney Oaks at a meeting that she promised she wouldn't move them (are they in any of the three scenarios)?

The Lee's Corner move was a non starter for anyone familiar with the area.

Chantilly's senior class this year is huge. The other classes are smaller and losing Oak Hill and the Cub Run people should be sufficient. I've no idea what the Walney Oaks folks did, but looking at the map, it does seem logical to send them to Westfield. But, if they are at Brookfield, I guess that could play into it.

Westfield has lots of new construction and it is continuing. I've no idea which neighborhoods should go there, but it is for sure not Lee's Corner. Bull Run does share boundaries with other Westfield elementary schools. Lee's Corner does not and would not. Perhaps, Bull Run should be a split feeder.

Bull Run is already a split feeder. Some neighborhoods that are actually close to the school and off of Route 29 already go to Westfield.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

I can't figure out how this fact is relevant. Road miles traveled is miles traveled, regardless of whether you are crossing route 50 or where the airport is (all these neighborhoods are south of the airport). LC is MUCH closer than PT and BRES and tied with Brookfield. So either LC or Brookfield makes the most sense if what we care about it decreasing the distances traveled to a school (by ALL the kids attending the school, not just your kids.

I'm not sure why you are so angry when your neighborhood was singled out and protected by the SB members despite its obvious choice as a candidate for rezoning.

PP who does not understand that it is relevant whether or not the neighborhood is connected to other neighborhoods has likely not had a high school child.

When kids reach high school, one would hope and expect that they would increase their "friend group." If friends are also separated from other neighborhoods as well as the school that becomes very difficult. Need a ride home from an activity? Hard to find or carpool if everyone else lives in a different direction.

It is extremely important that the neighborhoods be contiguous. Lee's Corner neighborhoods would not be contiguous to any other neighborhoods attending Westfield. That is significant.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

I can't figure out how this fact is relevant. Road miles traveled is miles traveled, regardless of whether you are crossing route 50 or where the airport is (all these neighborhoods are south of the airport). LC is MUCH closer than PT and BRES and tied with Brookfield. So either LC or Brookfield makes the most sense if what we care about it decreasing the distances traveled to a school (by ALL the kids attending the school, not just your kids.

I'm not sure why you are so angry when your neighborhood was singled out and protected by the SB members despite its obvious choice as a candidate for rezoning.

PP who does not understand that it is relevant whether or not the neighborhood is connected to other neighborhoods has likely not had a high school child.

When kids reach high school, one would hope and expect that they would increase their "friend group." If friends are also separated from other neighborhoods as well as the school that becomes very difficult. Need a ride home from an activity? Hard to find or carpool if everyone else lives in a different direction.

It is extremely important that the neighborhoods be contiguous. Lee's Corner neighborhoods would not be contiguous to any other neighborhoods attending Westfield. That is significant.

Wouldn’t both Franklin Glen and Armfield Farms move to Westfield together? Those are pretty darn close to each other. And aren’t there a couple other neighborhoods right near there like Foxfield? I’m not in favor of LC moving to Westfield over other options that make a lot more sense, but I do think you’re being a little dramatic here.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

I can't figure out how this fact is relevant. Road miles traveled is miles traveled, regardless of whether you are crossing route 50 or where the airport is (all these neighborhoods are south of the airport). LC is MUCH closer than PT and BRES and tied with Brookfield. So either LC or Brookfield makes the most sense if what we care about it decreasing the distances traveled to a school (by ALL the kids attending the school, not just your kids.

I'm not sure why you are so angry when your neighborhood was singled out and protected by the SB members despite its obvious choice as a candidate for rezoning.

PP who does not understand that it is relevant whether or not the neighborhood is connected to other neighborhoods has likely not had a high school child.

When kids reach high school, one would hope and expect that they would increase their "friend group." If friends are also separated from other neighborhoods as well as the school that becomes very difficult. Need a ride home from an activity? Hard to find or carpool if everyone else lives in a different direction.

It is extremely important that the neighborhoods be contiguous. Lee's Corner neighborhoods would not be contiguous to any other neighborhoods attending Westfield. That is significant.

Wouldn’t both Franklin Glen and Armfield Farms move to Westfield together? Those are pretty darn close to each other. And aren’t there a couple other neighborhoods right near there like Foxfield? I’m not in favor of LC moving to Westfield over other options that make a lot more sense, but I do think you’re being a little dramatic here.

They are both currently Lee's Corner Elementary. The point is that none of the Lee's Corner neighborhoods would be contiguous with any other Westfield neighborhoods. They would be limited to their current neighborhood.

You do not get that? Do you not expect your high school child to interact with kids from other elementary schools? Participate in activities with new friends?

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I don’t have a dog in this fight but I’ve read many posts here about how great Skyview will be because kids north of Route 50 would no longer have to go to Westfield. It would seem awfully odd to then flip a Chantilly neighborhood that’s north of 50 and quite close to Chantilly to Westfield instead.

It’s also pretty obvious that no one wants to get moved to Westfield and that deserves attention in and of itself. Is it the school’s location, typical racism, or other things about the school that raise concerns? It doesn’t sound like anyone moved to Westfield would end up with the lengthy commutes of parts of Herndon and Great Falls to Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in this fight but I’ve read many posts here about how great Skyview will be because kids north of Route 50 would no longer have to go to Westfield. It would seem awfully odd to then flip a Chantilly neighborhood that’s north of 50 and quite close to Chantilly to Westfield instead.

It’s also pretty obvious that no one wants to get moved to Westfield and that deserves attention in and of itself. Is it the school’s location, typical racism, or other things about the school that raise concerns? It doesn’t sound like anyone moved to Westfield would end up with the lengthy commutes of parts of Herndon and Great Falls to Langley.

Why would anyone want to be ripped out of their beloved school to go to a school much further away? I’m in a similar boat, except my proposed change would be from Chantilly to Oakton. I don’t want to be moved to Oakton because of the horrific commute and we really like Chantilly and my oldest is already established there.

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Forgive my ignorance. I’m looking at the map and it seems like Mosaic elementary ( old Mosby Woods) is being moved to Skyview. What about developments that are walkable to Oakton high school? Are we considering busing those students to Skyview?

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Anonymous wrote:Forgive my ignorance. I’m looking at the map and it seems like Mosaic elementary ( old Mosby Woods) is being moved to Skyview. What about developments that are walkable to Oakton high school? Are we considering busing those students to Skyview?

You’re not reading the maps correctly. The maps merely highlight Mosaic because it’s in the Oakton pyramid and Oakton is one of the five pyramids within the scope of the Skyview boundary study. But none of the scenarios move Mosaic away from Oakton. In fact, Oakton HS sits within the Mosaic ES attendance area.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

I can't figure out how this fact is relevant. Road miles traveled is miles traveled, regardless of whether you are crossing route 50 or where the airport is (all these neighborhoods are south of the airport). LC is MUCH closer than PT and BRES and tied with Brookfield. So either LC or Brookfield makes the most sense if what we care about it decreasing the distances traveled to a school (by ALL the kids attending the school, not just your kids.

I'm not sure why you are so angry when your neighborhood was singled out and protected by the SB members despite its obvious choice as a candidate for rezoning.

PP who does not understand that it is relevant whether or not the neighborhood is connected to other neighborhoods has likely not had a high school child.

When kids reach high school, one would hope and expect that they would increase their "friend group." If friends are also separated from other neighborhoods as well as the school that becomes very difficult. Need a ride home from an activity? Hard to find or carpool if everyone else lives in a different direction.

It is extremely important that the neighborhoods be contiguous. Lee's Corner neighborhoods would not be contiguous to any other neighborhoods attending Westfield. That is significant.

Wouldn’t both Franklin Glen and Armfield Farms move to Westfield together? Those are pretty darn close to each other. And aren’t there a couple other neighborhoods right near there like Foxfield? I’m not in favor of LC moving to Westfield over other options that make a lot more sense, but I do think you’re being a little dramatic here.

They are both currently Lee's Corner Elementary. The point is that none of the Lee's Corner neighborhoods would be contiguous with any other Westfield neighborhoods. They would be limited to their current neighborhood.

You do not get that? Do you not expect your high school child to interact with kids from other elementary schools? Participate in activities with new friends?

If your highschooler lives in a neighborhood that is in walking distance to multiple other neighborhoods, all zoned to the same high school, that sounds pretty good to me. Do you really think every high school boundary map is made up of a bunch of neighborhoods that are all connected to each other without any big roads cutting between them? This is not a very compelling argument that you are making. Just admit you don’t wanna leave Chantilly and that’s fine but stop making up ridiculous sounding reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a dog in this fight but I’ve read many posts here about how great Skyview will be because kids north of Route 50 would no longer have to go to Westfield. It would seem awfully odd to then flip a Chantilly neighborhood that’s north of 50 and quite close to Chantilly to Westfield instead.

It’s also pretty obvious that no one wants to get moved to Westfield and that deserves attention in and of itself. Is it the school’s location, typical racism, or other things about the school that raise concerns? It doesn’t sound like anyone moved to Westfield would end up with the lengthy commutes of parts of Herndon and Great Falls to Langley.

Westfield is a middle of the pack school. There are schools that have a stronger peer group and more AP/IB selections because of the size of the peer group that people would prefer to go to. Chantilly and Oakton are both involved in this move and are higher ranked schools. Centerville is a higher ranked school, then Westfield. Better test scores, more AP classes offered, a larger AP peer group. People don’t want to leave those schools and that makes sense. They don’t want to be moved from higher ranked programs that offer more AP classes due to more kids in those AP classes.

Westfield is losing some of the FARMs kids that tend to have lower test scores and not to take AP classes. It’s performance could improve, dependent on the schools that are move into it. Like it or not, part of the decisions on who to move or not move is going to be based on balancing out FARMs rates so that we don’t end up with another Lewis or Herndon or Mt. Vernon. It is why Meren doesn’t want to give up Floris or Fox Mill, she doesn’t want to lose the test score bump that those kids bring.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason given for Lees Corner getting super special treatment? Does a SB member live there?

I wondered this too, they capitulated so fast and made the promise so quickly it certainly seemed like a personal favor. There was no logical reason to single out that one neighborhood as more important than any other area.

It is the closest one to Chantilly, that's literally why they picked it and not your neighborhood. Sorry you live further away from Chantilly, but that's just how it works.

Didn't they pick Lees Corner to move because it was the closest neighborhood to Westfield from an overcrowded school?

No, it’s Brookfield and Poplar Tree are closer. There’s no logical reason they proposed Lees Corner to move

Per google maps, Lees Corner ES is 4.3 miles and Brookfield ES is 4.2 miles. That's pretty much identical. They are equally close. Poplar tree es is farther: 5.3 miles. Why do you keep repeating that Poplar Tree is closer? I'm baffled.

Pretty obvious they just picked one of the two identically closest ESes. No other elementary school is closer to Westfield that doesn't already go there (besides that sliver of Cub Run which will for sure be moved.)

DP, and don't live in either area. Lees Corner would be isolated from the rest of Westfield as the only school north of 50 and east of the airport. Brookfield and Poplar Tree are both right up against the existing Westfield neighborhoods. So is Bull Run. The fact that you can't look at the map and acknowledge that all 3 of those zones are better fits for Westfield than Lees Corner shows your bias along with a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance.

I can't figure out how this fact is relevant. Road miles traveled is miles traveled, regardless of whether you are crossing route 50 or where the airport is (all these neighborhoods are south of the airport). LC is MUCH closer than PT and BRES and tied with Brookfield. So either LC or Brookfield makes the most sense if what we care about it decreasing the distances traveled to a school (by ALL the kids attending the school, not just your kids.

I'm not sure why you are so angry when your neighborhood was singled out and protected by the SB members despite its obvious choice as a candidate for rezoning.

PP who does not understand that it is relevant whether or not the neighborhood is connected to other neighborhoods has likely not had a high school child.

When kids reach high school, one would hope and expect that they would increase their "friend group." If friends are also separated from other neighborhoods as well as the school that becomes very difficult. Need a ride home from an activity? Hard to find or carpool if everyone else lives in a different direction.

It is extremely important that the neighborhoods be contiguous. Lee's Corner neighborhoods would not be contiguous to any other neighborhoods attending Westfield. That is significant.

Wouldn’t both Franklin Glen and Armfield Farms move to Westfield together? Those are pretty darn close to each other. And aren’t there a couple other neighborhoods right near there like Foxfield? I’m not in favor of LC moving to Westfield over other options that make a lot more sense, but I do think you’re being a little dramatic here.

They are both currently Lee's Corner Elementary. The point is that none of the Lee's Corner neighborhoods would be contiguous with any other Westfield neighborhoods. They would be limited to their current neighborhood.

You do not get that? Do you not expect your high school child to interact with kids from other elementary schools? Participate in activities with new friends?

If your highschooler lives in a neighborhood that is in walking distance to multiple other neighborhoods, all zoned to the same high school, that sounds pretty good to me. Do you really think every high school boundary map is made up of a bunch of neighborhoods that are all connected to each other without any big roads cutting between them? This is not a very compelling argument that you are making. Just admit you don’t wanna leave Chantilly and that’s fine but stop making up ridiculous sounding reasons.

This is more than "roads." It is miles away from any other residential area going to Westfield and it is across the road from Chantilly High School and other neighborhoods at Chantilly.