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

[Anonymous]

They should reassign you to Herndon as it will provide stability and reallocate your home equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should reassign you to Herndon as it will provide stability and reallocate your home equity.

You know this is a thread about western, right? Get back to the boundary thread with your little obsessive equity project.

[Anonymous]

I’m in Fox Mill. It takes 7 minutes for us to drive to Carson, so I suppose Western would be about 8 minutes.
I am annoyed at Meren for implying Fox Mill families all want to stay at SLHS. I don’t think this is the case at all, it just happens to be what SHE wants.
I want us to move to Western, because A. Property values and B. Kids being able to attend high school with their MS friends. This is a big one. And C. IB is not that great and I don’t like the amount of violence and drug and gang stuff going on at SLHS.

My kids suffered greatly in the transition between having made friends at Carson MS and then being separated while their friends all went to another HS. It is horrible and needs to end for future generations of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should reassign you to Herndon as it will provide stability and reallocate your home equity.

You know this is a thread about western, right? Get back to the boundary thread with your little obsessive equity project.

You’re missing the plot. It’s some Great Falls folks gratuitously glomming on in support of the Crossfield families who don’t want to move to Western because they’re afraid the long distance to Oakton will be cited as a reason to move Crossfield to Western. And they dislike that precedent for reasons that should be obvious at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That petition was shared far and wide. Definitely not just Crossfield or even Oakton signatures.

I have three kids at Crossfield and know and talk to a lot of parents - only about 10 of them have signed the petition. Everyone else is pretty ambivalent about this whole thing. By the time our kids get to high school, Western will be an established school. It's really not a big deal either way although it would be nice to have middle schoolers and high schoolers right next door to each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should reassign you to Herndon as it will provide stability and reallocate your home equity.

You know this is a thread about western, right? Get back to the boundary thread with your little obsessive equity project.

You’re missing the plot. It’s some Great Falls folks gratuitously glomming on in support of the Crossfield families who don’t want to move to Western because they’re afraid the long distance to Oakton will be cited as a reason to move Crossfield to Western. And they dislike that precedent for reasons that should be obvious at this point.

It's also parents of current high schoolers who don't want to lose their bussing and Navy parents who don't want a precedent to be set for the furthest away schools to get rezoned out of Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked at the comments on the petition. I guess they think they care more about their kids than other people. One did bring up property values, too.

It is the epitome of dumb when people pretend that property values don’t matter.

I’ve heard this over and over from the school board members, and then they turn around and kvetch about not having enough money.

Citizens care deeply about property values and the school board really hurts FCPS by ignoring it.

And I’m not even a die-hard free market person.

If you look at this general area - there are $2Million houses zoned to South Lakes, Westfield, and Chantilly. It doesn't make that much of a difference around here. Franklin Farm house values won't go down if they are rezoned. They will go down because they are getting old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just checked petition page:

80% of supporters come from:
20171
22033
20191

22033 is Fairfax/Navy. That one road that is split between Lee's Corner and Crossfield also has 22033--but there are not that many homes there to contribute that many signatures, I don't think. Navy friends may be helping with the petition.
20191 is Reston. Fox Mill Woods. But, they are not at Oakton.

The real question is: where do the other 20% of signatures come from? That may be Grandma and Grandpa.

20191 may be at SL, but they would be impacted by a move to Western too.

The point is that Fox Mill families are signing the petition because they'd rather be at Western. Navy families are signing because they see the writing on the wall. If Oakton goes significantly over capacity, they're next in line to get kicked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Fox Mill. It takes 7 minutes for us to drive to Carson, so I suppose Western would be about 8 minutes.
I am annoyed at Meren for implying Fox Mill families all want to stay at SLHS. I don’t think this is the case at all, it just happens to be what SHE wants.
I want us to move to Western, because A. Property values and B. Kids being able to attend high school with their MS friends. This is a big one. And C. IB is not that great and I don’t like the amount of violence and drug and gang stuff going on at SLHS.

My kids suffered greatly in the transition between having made friends at Carson MS and then being separated while their friends all went to another HS. It is horrible and needs to end for future generations of students.

Why do Crossfield families have to suffer in this same way? We're in the exact same boat - our kids make friends at Carson and they get torn away. It's not fair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the comments on the petition page:


"Moving students in Franklin Farm navy elementary school from Oakton high school to western high is unacceptable, unnecessary, unjustified and unfair. Families in Oakton high are the ones who value opportunities to access high quality education for children higher than many other things and have invested heavily in children’s futures. No one has right to decide family priorities for use and no one have right to hurt our children’s futures."

But Franklin Farm should be in one high school, not two.

Are you crazy?

Franklin Farm is already in two different high schools. The western part of Franklin Farm goes to Chantilly.

[Anonymous]

I think we should ignore the Navy parents. They're nuts, we all know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just checked petition page:

80% of supporters come from:
20171
22033
20191

22033 is Fairfax/Navy. That one road that is split between Lee's Corner and Crossfield also has 22033--but there are not that many homes there to contribute that many signatures, I don't think. Navy friends may be helping with the petition.
20191 is Reston. Fox Mill Woods. But, they are not at Oakton.

The real question is: where do the other 20% of signatures come from? That may be Grandma and Grandpa.

20191 may be at SL, but they would be impacted by a move to Western too.

The point is that Fox Mill families are signing the petition because they'd rather be at Western. Navy families are signing because they see the writing on the wall. If Oakton goes significantly over capacity, they're next in line to get kicked out.

Had not considered that Fox Mill might be signing to keep Crossfield at Oakton. I don't think South Lakes people would be signing, because they do not appear to be in the pool being considered for Western.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the comments on the petition page:


"Moving students in Franklin Farm navy elementary school from Oakton high school to western high is unacceptable, unnecessary, unjustified and unfair. Families in Oakton high are the ones who value opportunities to access high quality education for children higher than many other things and have invested heavily in children’s futures. No one has right to decide family priorities for use and no one have right to hurt our children’s futures."

But Franklin Farm should be in one high school, not two.

Are you crazy?

This is one instance where property values ARE determined by schools, but in this case, those 1970s shacks on Nestlewood have many families who specifically bought there to go to Navy. It's not even about the high school, it's about the elementary school. They are adamant about not wanting to be rezoned to Crossfield even though that would make the most sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just checked petition page:

80% of supporters come from:
20171
22033
20191

22033 is Fairfax/Navy. That one road that is split between Lee's Corner and Crossfield also has 22033--but there are not that many homes there to contribute that many signatures, I don't think. Navy friends may be helping with the petition.
20191 is Reston. Fox Mill Woods. But, they are not at Oakton.

The real question is: where do the other 20% of signatures come from? That may be Grandma and Grandpa.

20191 may be at SL, but they would be impacted by a move to Western too.

The point is that Fox Mill families are signing the petition because they'd rather be at Western. Navy families are signing because they see the writing on the wall. If Oakton goes significantly over capacity, they're next in line to get kicked out.

Fox Mill Woods is not Fox Mill elementary. There are Crossfield kids in Fox Mill Woods that go to South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m in Fox Mill. It takes 7 minutes for us to drive to Carson, so I suppose Western would be about 8 minutes.
I am annoyed at Meren for implying Fox Mill families all want to stay at SLHS. I don’t think this is the case at all, it just happens to be what SHE wants.
I want us to move to Western, because A. Property values and B. Kids being able to attend high school with their MS friends. This is a big one. And C. IB is not that great and I don’t like the amount of violence and drug and gang stuff going on at SLHS.

My kids suffered greatly in the transition between having made friends at Carson MS and then being separated while their friends all went to another HS. It is horrible and needs to end for future generations of students.

It would be about the same baby doll.

It actually takes 7 minutes and 30 seconds to get there.