Franklin MS email about Western High School

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill attends Franklin and is likely switching to the new HS. All of the MS that feed into the 5 HS that could be impacted by Western are getting the presentation. They got it at Hughes MS and Carson MS.

Ok then pull the Oak Hill kids out of advisory and leave the rest of us the hell alone!

Lady, put down the bottle!!! All kids within the boundaries of Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield, Centerville, and South Lakes will have the option to attend Western, regardless of whether they are in boundary or not. THAT MEANS YOUR KID. So, sorrynotsorry, but this does apply to you. Relax. Get help.

You’re an idiot. My kid will actually not have the option to attend because I’m not driving them on a daily basis. It’s an automatic no for us. We are not going to be in boundary so there would be no bus transportation. I’m also not switching my child to a school that is further away from their base school and where none of their friends would be going. I don’t give a d@mn what offerings the joint has.

The option is available. You may not allow your child to opt in and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way, but that doesn't mean the option is not available. Nobody here is telling you to send your child to Western. Get a grip!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens if you don’t opt in and eventually end up in boundary? Do your kids eventually have to attend Western? How soon?

I hate them for creating so much confusion and uncertainty. Where is there a clear description in one place of how this will work?

100% agree. They should have just set the boundaries and then allowed people to opt in and out. There are a handful of schools that know that they'll be rezoned to Western and have bussing. It's an easy choice to opt in for those families. But making people choose if they are opting in or out without knowing who is in boundary and who is not, especially when they are supposed to start choosing classes next month is ridiculous!!!

But that doesn't negate anything I just told the crazy lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound like a Navy mom. What do you expect your kid to be doing during advisory the week before Winter break? I mean, really.

Probabl so. Same as the rooted on oakton creators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we really need 800 threads about this?

This is the first thread about an email from Franklin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oak Hill attends Franklin and is likely switching to the new HS. All of the MS that feed into the 5 HS that could be impacted by Western are getting the presentation. They got it at Hughes MS and Carson MS.

Ok then pull the Oak Hill kids out of advisory and leave the rest of us the hell alone!

Lady, put down the bottle!!! All kids within the boundaries of Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield, Centerville, and South Lakes will have the option to attend Western, regardless of whether they are in boundary or not. THAT MEANS YOUR KID. So, sorrynotsorry, but this does apply to you. Relax. Get help.

You’re an idiot. My kid will actually not have the option to attend because I’m not driving them on a daily basis. It’s an automatic no for us. We are not going to be in boundary so there would be no bus transportation. I’m also not switching my child to a school that is further away from their base school and where none of their friends would be going. I don’t give a d@mn what offerings the joint has.

The option is available. You may not allow your child to opt in and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way, but that doesn't mean the option is not available. Nobody here is telling you to send your child to Western. Get a grip!!!

I think they shouldn’t be wasting advisory time pumping up this school to the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound like a Navy mom. What do you expect your kid to be doing during advisory the week before Winter break? I mean, really.

All the honors classes have work this week, including quizzes and tests. Maybe advisory isn’t important to your kid, but it is for mine.

[Anonymous]

Carson parent here. I was not happy when we got this email! The school had no additional info when I called, just said they were scrambling because they just found out about it from central office the night before. I actually felt bad for the middle school admin! But they told me to give them the benefit of the doubt, to trust that it would be informational. Incorrect! It was absolutely persuasive, advertising glitzy programs not yet funded or approved! And it was all of the extreme possibilities: building an airplane, flight training, aerospace internships. We are in what we thought was an opt-in area, — but as usual, the district is trying to disrupt parental authority. Of course my kid came home more interested in the new school! If they had lots of interest, as Reid has claimed, and had done this with full disclosure and with a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn’t need to parade around to our children spreading propaganda. Show me the actual programs that are approved, funded, and staffed. Enthusiasm will follow. This has been a nightmare roll out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we really need 800 threads about this?

This is the first thread about an email from Franklin.

I think the idea is that they could have posted in the Western thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Carson parent here. I was not happy when we got this email! The school had no additional info when I called, just said they were scrambling because they just found out about it from central office the night before. I actually felt bad for the middle school admin! But they told me to give them the benefit of the doubt, to trust that it would be informational. Incorrect! It was absolutely persuasive, advertising glitzy programs not yet funded or approved! And it was all of the extreme possibilities: building an airplane, flight training, aerospace internships. We are in what we thought was an opt-in area, — but as usual, the district is trying to disrupt parental authority. Of course my kid came home more interested in the new school! If they had lots of interest, as Reid has claimed, and had done this with full disclosure and with a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn’t need to parade around to our children spreading propaganda. Show me the actual programs that are approved, funded, and staffed. Enthusiasm will follow. This has been a nightmare roll out!

Informing kids of an option is not disrupting parental authority. You can tell your child that they cannot opt in and why. Start with, we are not going to be in boundary so there will not be transportation and we cannot drive you for four years. Move on to, most of your friends are going to go to their current school and you will probably want to be with your friends. End with the programs/sports/music options you love are fully established at your current school but will be brand new at the new school.

Should they just set the boundaries and be done with it? Yes. There is no reason to wait until the Spring, set them now. I have no idea why they are refusing to do that. Kids will still have the chance to opt in once the boundaries are set, although I suspect they would simply call it principal placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carson parent here. I was not happy when we got this email! The school had no additional info when I called, just said they were scrambling because they just found out about it from central office the night before. I actually felt bad for the middle school admin! But they told me to give them the benefit of the doubt, to trust that it would be informational. Incorrect! It was absolutely persuasive, advertising glitzy programs not yet funded or approved! And it was all of the extreme possibilities: building an airplane, flight training, aerospace internships. We are in what we thought was an opt-in area, — but as usual, the district is trying to disrupt parental authority. Of course my kid came home more interested in the new school! If they had lots of interest, as Reid has claimed, and had done this with full disclosure and with a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn’t need to parade around to our children spreading propaganda. Show me the actual programs that are approved, funded, and staffed. Enthusiasm will follow. This has been a nightmare roll out!

Informing kids of an option is not disrupting parental authority. You can tell your child that they cannot opt in and why. Start with, we are not going to be in boundary so there will not be transportation and we cannot drive you for four years. Move on to, most of your friends are going to go to their current school and you will probably want to be with your friends. End with the programs/sports/music options you love are fully established at your current school but will be brand new at the new school.

Should they just set the boundaries and be done with it? Yes. There is no reason to wait until the Spring, set them now. I have no idea why they are refusing to do that. Kids will still have the chance to opt in once the boundaries are set, although I suspect they would simply call it principal placement.

It’s ridiculous to get kids excited who aren’t even in boundary. It causes friction within families. Kid wants one thing and parent says no due to transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Carson parent here. I was not happy when we got this email! The school had no additional info when I called, just said they were scrambling because they just found out about it from central office the night before. I actually felt bad for the middle school admin! But they told me to give them the benefit of the doubt, to trust that it would be informational. Incorrect! It was absolutely persuasive, advertising glitzy programs not yet funded or approved! And it was all of the extreme possibilities: building an airplane, flight training, aerospace internships. We are in what we thought was an opt-in area, — but as usual, the district is trying to disrupt parental authority. Of course my kid came home more interested in the new school! If they had lots of interest, as Reid has claimed, and had done this with full disclosure and with a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn’t need to parade around to our children spreading propaganda. Show me the actual programs that are approved, funded, and staffed. Enthusiasm will follow. This has been a nightmare roll out!

+1 thanks for sharing your experience. This is exactly what I feared.

[Anonymous]

Could someone please explain to me why they cannot set the boundaries sooner rather than later? This should have been considered in the January decision of the comprehensive boundary study.
Please explain the logic here. Surely, there must be some logic? Because it makes no sense at all to me.

I watched the video that was presented at Carson (someone posted a link a while back). I found it pretty much met the description given by PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could someone please explain to me why they cannot set the boundaries sooner rather than later? This should have been considered in the January decision of the comprehensive boundary study.
Please explain the logic here. Surely, there must be some logic? Because it makes no sense at all to me.

I watched the video that was presented at Carson (someone posted a link a while back). I found it pretty much met the description given by PP.

They are afraid of setting firm boundaries now and forcing people to attend and the enormous uproar it would cause. They think making it opt in would get more buy in and make it more successful and then when they eventually set the firm boundaries people won’t freak out. It’s idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carson parent here. I was not happy when we got this email! The school had no additional info when I called, just said they were scrambling because they just found out about it from central office the night before. I actually felt bad for the middle school admin! But they told me to give them the benefit of the doubt, to trust that it would be informational. Incorrect! It was absolutely persuasive, advertising glitzy programs not yet funded or approved! And it was all of the extreme possibilities: building an airplane, flight training, aerospace internships. We are in what we thought was an opt-in area, — but as usual, the district is trying to disrupt parental authority. Of course my kid came home more interested in the new school! If they had lots of interest, as Reid has claimed, and had done this with full disclosure and with a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn’t need to parade around to our children spreading propaganda. Show me the actual programs that are approved, funded, and staffed. Enthusiasm will follow. This has been a nightmare roll out!

Informing kids of an option is not disrupting parental authority. You can tell your child that they cannot opt in and why. Start with, we are not going to be in boundary so there will not be transportation and we cannot drive you for four years. Move on to, most of your friends are going to go to their current school and you will probably want to be with your friends. End with the programs/sports/music options you love are fully established at your current school but will be brand new at the new school.

Should they just set the boundaries and be done with it? Yes. There is no reason to wait until the Spring, set them now. I have no idea why they are refusing to do that. Kids will still have the chance to opt in once the boundaries are set, although I suspect they would simply call it principal placement.

It’s ridiculous to get kids excited who aren’t even in boundary. It causes friction within families. Kid wants one thing and parent says no due to transportation.

I mean, that’s just called… parenting. The world is going to dangle all kinds of things in front of your kid that they will then want, and you will have to say no. Think of it as a practice for when they tell you they want to go to a certain college that you can’t let them apply to whether it be due to cost, location, ranking, whatever. Or do you just give in to whatever your kid wants in order to avoid friction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carson parent here. I was not happy when we got this email! The school had no additional info when I called, just said they were scrambling because they just found out about it from central office the night before. I actually felt bad for the middle school admin! But they told me to give them the benefit of the doubt, to trust that it would be informational. Incorrect! It was absolutely persuasive, advertising glitzy programs not yet funded or approved! And it was all of the extreme possibilities: building an airplane, flight training, aerospace internships. We are in what we thought was an opt-in area, — but as usual, the district is trying to disrupt parental authority. Of course my kid came home more interested in the new school! If they had lots of interest, as Reid has claimed, and had done this with full disclosure and with a reasonable timeframe, they wouldn’t need to parade around to our children spreading propaganda. Show me the actual programs that are approved, funded, and staffed. Enthusiasm will follow. This has been a nightmare roll out!

Informing kids of an option is not disrupting parental authority. You can tell your child that they cannot opt in and why. Start with, we are not going to be in boundary so there will not be transportation and we cannot drive you for four years. Move on to, most of your friends are going to go to their current school and you will probably want to be with your friends. End with the programs/sports/music options you love are fully established at your current school but will be brand new at the new school.

Should they just set the boundaries and be done with it? Yes. There is no reason to wait until the Spring, set them now. I have no idea why they are refusing to do that. Kids will still have the chance to opt in once the boundaries are set, although I suspect they would simply call it principal placement.

It’s ridiculous to get kids excited who aren’t even in boundary. It causes friction within families. Kid wants one thing and parent says no due to transportation.

I mean, that’s just called… parenting. The world is going to dangle all kinds of things in front of your kid that they will then want, and you will have to say no. Think of it as a practice for when they tell you they want to go to a certain college that you can’t let them apply to whether it be due to cost, location, ranking, whatever. Or do you just give in to whatever your kid wants in order to avoid friction?

Do you just blindly accept what FCPS has your kids do without any thought to how it impacts them academically? Let me guess, you love all those surveys too. Simply out, it’s all time wasting. I don’t need or want the school to tout Western during what should be a work period for my child. They can send a power point and video to the parents about the new school and let them make an informed decision. It’s not going to the kids’ decision anyway. Propaganda for the kids during the school day about a new school that they may or any not attend is weird and a waste of time.