Mythical Western HS

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Anonymous wrote:Agree my kids are at a 2800 school-westfield-and it too huge.

And, yet, Chantilly parents are happy. Is it administration issue?

Chantilly has a much lower FARMs rate than any of their surrounding schools.

Parents don't want to be moved to a weaker school. Ideally, they want their kids attending a non crowded CHS.

please. What about Oakton?

That's the point. Chantilly doesn't consider Oakton a "surrounding school." They consider it a distant school that some kids near Chantilly are forced to attend.

Chantilly has a tight community and compact boundaries, and too many kids for its building. It deserves an expansion, but FCPS leaves it with just over 2300 seats.

Bad planning.

Chantilly is not this massively tight community. We live maybe 10 minutes from Chantilly High School, the kids in that area are hanging out with kids who go to Westfield, SLHS, Herndon, and Centerville. The entire area is intermingled. If the area was so tight knit, why do 230 some kids attend Carson instead of Franklin MS? They go to Carson because it has a better reputation then Franklin. The parents in Chantilly want their kids at higher rated schools with a shorter drive.

They don't want to go to Westfield or SLHS or Herndon because they are seen as being worse schools. It is taht simple.

I know the families in Emerald Chase that are desperately trying to be moved to Chantilly. They want to stay at Oak Hill, a well-regarded AAP Center, and move from Westfield to Chantilly because Chantilly is a better HS the Westfield, it has higher test scores and fewer FARMs/ELL kids. I have heard their comments. They don't want to go to SLHS, where they could be moved, because of IB but also because of the higher FARM rate and ELL rate. I sympathize with not wanting to be moved again, but the push to go to Chantilly is a blatant play to move to a school that they think is better. They lost a lot of sympathy from folks with that move.

The Western HS is not going to be built. There is space in neighboring schools, boundaries should be adjusted to make use of that space but no one wants to move from a more highly ranked to school to a lower ranked school with fewer advanced classes offered. And yes, SLHS and Herndon offer fewer high level AP and IB classes because they don't have the population to support those classes. It is part of the reason why so many kids principal place out of those schools to schools like Langley and Oakton. I mean, the herndon kids principal palce to SLHS to move into a better environment.

The Emerald Chase parents lost ALL credibility when they insisted the boundary change was bad, not because their kids will have be rezoned to a different high school, but because they wish their kids were rezoned to a "better" different high school. I hope to god they get rezoned to South Lakes because their children absolutely need to be exposed to a diverse community before they turn out as racist as their parents.

South Lakes is actually much less diverse, i.e., many more white students, than either Chantilly or Westfield. I’m not sure if South Lakes is any more or less socio-economically diverse.

There are more white kids at Chantilly than South Lakes, and South Lakes is more economically diverse (35% FARMS vs. 23% at Chantilly). These things are not hard to check, so no idea why you'd post misinformation here.

According to the FCPS profile pages for 2023-2024 the percentage of white students is over 40% at South Lakes and about 30% at Chantilly. In terms of numbers, there are a few more at South Lakes.

DP. Is this what it is about? Race? Both of you need to get a life.

DP. It always starts with one poster calling another racist just because they have a different opinion - specifically the one wishing kids get rezoned because they are accusing all of Emerald Chase of being racist. No one likes to be called a racist, so the person defending themself with facts is perfectly understandable here. Only one loser in that conversation above, before you chimed in.

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The Emerald Chase families I know don’t want to move to a third ES and don’t like the IB program, they want to stay at an AP school. It has nothing to do with race. My kids base school is SLHS, he was friends in the Emerald Chase neighborhood. They don’t like the IB program, which is fair. The attempt to move to Chantilly and not just stay at Westfeld is BS but that is a small group in the neighborhood, they don’t speak for their entire neighborhood. But they are not racist or trying to avoid diversity, they don’t want IB. And I don’t blame them, I don’t want IB.

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Anonymous wrote:The Emerald Chase families I know don’t want to move to a third ES and don’t like the IB program, they want to stay at an AP school. It has nothing to do with race. My kids base school is SLHS, he was friends in the Emerald Chase neighborhood. They don’t like the IB program, which is fair. The attempt to move to Chantilly and not just stay at Westfeld is BS but that is a small group in the neighborhood, they don’t speak for their entire neighborhood. But they are not racist or trying to avoid diversity, they don’t want IB. And I don’t blame them, I don’t want IB.

Emerald Chase parent here, the comments about race are completely unfounded. As others have mentioned we’ve been moved numerous times and just want stability for our kids. We love Oak Hill, it’s our community ES, which is geographically the closest to us. We don’t like being a split feeder and wish that could be resolved but not at the expense of getting taken out of Oak Hill. The other 90% of Oak Hill goes to Franklin-Chantilly, so once the “comprehensive” boundary project started, we were hoping we might get switched so that our kids could stay other their friends from Oak Hill. Chantilly is the geographically closest high school to us. It was never about race or “trading up” high schools. Given that Chantilly is overcapacity, that was never an actually possibility, so we are hoping to maintain the status quo and see what happens as enrollment changes.

The purchase of the KAA site changes everything now. The site is 4 mins from our community, so we would welcome being moved to the this school and could care less about what the demographics will be.

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Anonymous wrote:The Emerald Chase families I know don’t want to move to a third ES and don’t like the IB program, they want to stay at an AP school. It has nothing to do with race. My kids base school is SLHS, he was friends in the Emerald Chase neighborhood. They don’t like the IB program, which is fair. The attempt to move to Chantilly and not just stay at Westfeld is BS but that is a small group in the neighborhood, they don’t speak for their entire neighborhood. But they are not racist or trying to avoid diversity, they don’t want IB. And I don’t blame them, I don’t want IB.

Emerald Chase parent here, the comments about race are completely unfounded. As others have mentioned we’ve been moved numerous times and just want stability for our kids. We love Oak Hill, it’s our community ES, which is geographically the closest to us. We don’t like being a split feeder and wish that could be resolved but not at the expense of getting taken out of Oak Hill. The other 90% of Oak Hill goes to Franklin-Chantilly, so once the “comprehensive” boundary project started, we were hoping we might get switched so that our kids could stay other their friends from Oak Hill. Chantilly is the geographically closest high school to us. It was never about race or “trading up” high schools. Given that Chantilly is overcapacity, that was never an actually possibility, so we are hoping to maintain the status quo and see what happens as enrollment changes.

The purchase of the KAA site changes everything now. The site is 4 mins from our community, so we would welcome being moved to the this school and could care less about what the demographics will be.

That's because you already know a school that draws from Coates, McNair, Floris, Oak Hil, and Crossfield will have demographics similar to Chantilly.

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Anonymous wrote:The Emerald Chase families I know don’t want to move to a third ES and don’t like the IB program, they want to stay at an AP school. It has nothing to do with race. My kids base school is SLHS, he was friends in the Emerald Chase neighborhood. They don’t like the IB program, which is fair. The attempt to move to Chantilly and not just stay at Westfeld is BS but that is a small group in the neighborhood, they don’t speak for their entire neighborhood. But they are not racist or trying to avoid diversity, they don’t want IB. And I don’t blame them, I don’t want IB.

Emerald Chase parent here, the comments about race are completely unfounded. As others have mentioned we’ve been moved numerous times and just want stability for our kids. We love Oak Hill, it’s our community ES, which is geographically the closest to us. We don’t like being a split feeder and wish that could be resolved but not at the expense of getting taken out of Oak Hill. The other 90% of Oak Hill goes to Franklin-Chantilly, so once the “comprehensive” boundary project started, we were hoping we might get switched so that our kids could stay other their friends from Oak Hill. Chantilly is the geographically closest high school to us. It was never about race or “trading up” high schools. Given that Chantilly is overcapacity, that was never an actually possibility, so we are hoping to maintain the status quo and see what happens as enrollment changes.

The purchase of the KAA site changes everything now. The site is 4 mins from our community, so we would welcome being moved to the this school and could care less about what the demographics will be.

I am curious what special claim the Emerald Chase people think they have to this new school when there are lots of other kids who commute all the way to Oakton that could just as easily be put there. There isn't room for everyone. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. Emerald Chase is not more deserving of a community school than anyone else in Oak Hill area that has not been able to have this.

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Anonymous wrote:The Emerald Chase families I know don’t want to move to a third ES and don’t like the IB program, they want to stay at an AP school. It has nothing to do with race. My kids base school is SLHS, he was friends in the Emerald Chase neighborhood. They don’t like the IB program, which is fair. The attempt to move to Chantilly and not just stay at Westfeld is BS but that is a small group in the neighborhood, they don’t speak for their entire neighborhood. But they are not racist or trying to avoid diversity, they don’t want IB. And I don’t blame them, I don’t want IB.

Emerald Chase parent here, the comments about race are completely unfounded. As others have mentioned we’ve been moved numerous times and just want stability for our kids. We love Oak Hill, it’s our community ES, which is geographically the closest to us. We don’t like being a split feeder and wish that could be resolved but not at the expense of getting taken out of Oak Hill. The other 90% of Oak Hill goes to Franklin-Chantilly, so once the “comprehensive” boundary project started, we were hoping we might get switched so that our kids could stay other their friends from Oak Hill. Chantilly is the geographically closest high school to us. It was never about race or “trading up” high schools. Given that Chantilly is overcapacity, that was never an actually possibility, so we are hoping to maintain the status quo and see what happens as enrollment changes.

The purchase of the KAA site changes everything now. The site is 4 mins from our community, so we would welcome being moved to the this school and could care less about what the demographics will be.

I am curious what special claim the Emerald Chase people think they have to this new school when there are lots of other kids who commute all the way to Oakton that could just as easily be put there. There isn't room for everyone. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. Emerald Chase is not more deserving of a community school than anyone else in Oak Hill area that has not been able to have this.

Fox Mill parent here. Emerald Chase is less than a 5-minute drive from Carson and the new HS, the placement makes sense and it is not likely that the school would be moved again. I am hoping Fox Mill lands at the new HS as well, we really don't like IB, it isn't a good fit for our kid. We strongly prefer AP.

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Why is everyone worried about IB in Western HS? KAA had IB because it has a large portion of international families. Why would we assume Western HS would be IB focused like KAA? Is there any evidence supporting that assumption?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone worried about IB in Western HS? KAA had IB because it has a large portion of international families. Why would we assume Western HS would be IB focused like KAA? Is there any evidence supporting that assumption?

No one has posted that they are worried about IB. I am the Fox Mill poster who is hoping that Fox Mill goes to the new school so that they can get away from IB. We prefer AP.