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Anonymous
No. They belong at Carson. You can have a center at Franklin with the Chantilly kids and Carson with the Oakton kids. That makes good sense. After all, Franklin is part of the Chantilly pyramid and Carson is in the Oakton pyramid. |
Anonymous
Wrong- Carson is in the Westfields pyramid |
Anonymous
Not according to this: https://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108%3A50%3A%3A%3A%3A%3AP0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID%3A171 |
Anonymous
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Carson is in Region 1.
Westfield is Region 5. |
Anonymous
Why do they "belong" at Carson if Franklin is their base school? |
Anonymous
On the one hand they supposedly have a separate Parklawn study. On the other hand, the 4/11 presentation includes information on revising boundaries so that the attendance area for Bailey's Upper ES is aligned with its location, including potential revisions that would move some Glen Forest kids to Parklawn and then move some Parklawn kids to Columbia. And then they show a slew of changes to other schools in that general area, which among other things would eliminate the current split feeder at Mason Crest by assigning all the Glasgow/Justice kids there to Sleepy Hollow. |
Anonymous
I think you should reread it. One PP wants to move Chantilly kids out of Franklin. That is absurd as some of the Chantilly kids walk to Franklin. Franklin is in the Chantilly pyramid. |
Anonymous
But there won’t be many kids at either school next year. Don’t you get this? Every working parent in FCPS is getting fired or otherwise affected. The FARMS kids will all self-report back to Central America with their parents; Trump already cancelled their social security numbers (and he is only getting started). How can you plan now, when next year will look nothing at all like the past 50 years in FCPS? PAUSE IT NOW. |
Anonymous
| Any guesses on the likelihood that changes so far will stick? Trying to determine how worried I should be… |
Anonymous
I can try to speak to the bolded info, but with the caveat that I have no inside info. Navy is an AAP center that kids from Crossfield can choose to attend. If you move Navy kids to Crossfield, you are moving them from an AAP center school to a non-center school. You end up with a weird situation where the kids eligible for AAP in third grade can choose to go (back) to Navy whereas the kids who don't qualify for AAP would not have that choice. Oak Hill is an AAP center, so all the kids in the island would be moved to Oak Hill regardless of AAP or Gen Ed, and there would not be any situation where some of them end up right back at the school they got moved from. At least some, if not all, of Ashvale Drive is definitely Franklin Glen. Franklin Farm and Franklin Glen were built before Fairfax County Parkway was such a big road. That's why some of FF is east of the parkway and some is west, and same with FG. The developers did not envision such a large highway running through. I know it would never happen, but it seems like all the homes east of the parkway should just become part of the FF HOA and all the homes west of the parkway should be FG. |
Anonymous
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Huh, I bet that was a coincidence, thru isn’t that good lol.
But if this is long term why make an important decision that impacts 3 years only (former navy kids electing aap at navy). |
Anonymous
I don't think anyone knows. It's like they are putting some changes out there, but they'll expand on some over the coming weeks, back off on others, and then presumably expose a set of recommendations or options to the public. When you just look at the changes in the 4/11 presentation, they created as many new issues as they addressed. For example, is it really worth the squeeze to eliminate an attendance island if in the course of doing so you create multiple new split feeders, some very lopsided? |
Anonymous
I'm not sure that Thru is astute enough to come up with your Navy/Crossfield theory. Looking at the map and knowing the neighborhoods, it makes no sense to me. And, i agree about the Franklin Glen/Ashvale explanation. However, I don't think Thru is concerned about the "history." I think it was an oversight that they missed it. I have been told that the Navy portion of Franklin Farm stayed at Oak Hill when the rest was moved to Crossfield. Later, when Oak Hill was crowded they moved it to Navy. I cannot vouch for this story, but was told by someone who lived there. I think Oak Hill originally had most of Franklin Farm before Chantilly Highlands was built out. Oak Hill was built in 1983 and Crossfield in 1988. |
Anonymous
According to the timeline, these are draft scenarios. They are collecting initial BRAC feedback per region and releasing these one by one iterations, attendance islands, split feeders, then capacity. Looks like next month will open to community feedback for more context. After all that, they will present the final scenario for the school board to approve. So I am sure some of these will stick. Others will evolve with the other scenario releases and feedback. |
Anonymous
The pyramid representatives may know nothing about your own neighborhood. These are from high school pyramids and not the neighborhood elementary schools. They should have spread a wider net. |