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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they're not sharing the maps ahead of the first meeting on Tuesday, is that correct? If so, I think to no surprise that's a change from what they previously communicated.

They don't want people coming to the meeting prepared with their complaints and talking points in response to what is on the maps.

Thats wrong because preemptive feedback should be able to be given by attendees, because the options they share might be atrocious and/or blatantly awful.

FCPS has shown at a preponderance of the evidence, that they are grossly incompetent in the operations of schools; staffing of schools, centers, and offices; constructions, modifications, and renovations of school facilities; openings and closings of schools; and in boundary decisions.

They are very committed to managing the process in a way that tries to center the discussion around the options they present and tries to make people feel important and heard by suggesting tweaks to the FCPS proposals. In no way, shape, or form do they want to hear, or willing to consider, the possibility that their proposals might be fundamentally flawed.

At least with Skyview, they clearly need to establish new boundaries and that does mean some people will have to move. With the county-wide study many of their proposals addressed “problems” that weren’t really problems and did so by proposing “solutions” that were worse than the “problems” they were ostensibly trying to fix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they're not sharing the maps ahead of the first meeting on Tuesday, is that correct? If so, I think to no surprise that's a change from what they previously communicated.

They don't want people coming to the meeting prepared with their complaints and talking points in response to what is on the maps.

Thats wrong because preemptive feedback should be able to be given by attendees, because the options they share might be atrocious and/or blatantly awful.

FCPS has shown at a preponderance of the evidence, that they are grossly incompetent in the operations of schools; staffing of schools, centers, and offices; constructions, modifications, and renovations of school facilities; openings and closings of schools; and in boundary decisions.

Community input is overrated. FCPS just needs to make decisions and let the people live with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they're not sharing the maps ahead of the first meeting on Tuesday, is that correct? If so, I think to no surprise that's a change from what they previously communicated.

They don't want people coming to the meeting prepared with their complaints and talking points in response to what is on the maps.

Thats wrong because preemptive feedback should be able to be given by attendees, because the options they share might be atrocious and/or blatantly awful.

FCPS has shown at a preponderance of the evidence, that they are grossly incompetent in the operations of schools; staffing of schools, centers, and offices; constructions, modifications, and renovations of school facilities; openings and closings of schools; and in boundary decisions.

Community input is overrated. FCPS just needs to make decisions and let the people live with them.

That might be the case if FCPS had a track record of making good decisions. It doesn’t, so your suggestion is a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they're not sharing the maps ahead of the first meeting on Tuesday, is that correct? If so, I think to no surprise that's a change from what they previously communicated.

They don't want people coming to the meeting prepared with their complaints and talking points in response to what is on the maps.

Thats wrong because preemptive feedback should be able to be given by attendees, because the options they share might be atrocious and/or blatantly awful.

FCPS has shown at a preponderance of the evidence, that they are grossly incompetent in the operations of schools; staffing of schools, centers, and offices; constructions, modifications, and renovations of school facilities; openings and closings of schools; and in boundary decisions.

Community input is overrated. FCPS just needs to make decisions and let the people live with them.

That might be the case if FCPS had a track record of making good decisions. It doesn’t, so your suggestion is a bad idea.

I'm just tired of everything taking a year or more. Just make decisions.

[Anonymous]

Skyview boundary options will be released next week (April) , community meetings will take place in April and May, the final boundary vote will be in June.
This has been an interesting way to open a HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Skyview boundary options will be released next week (April) , community meetings will take place in April and May, the final boundary vote will be in June.
This has been an interesting way to open a HS.

It only makes sense if you assume Reid’s goal was to open a school with quite different demographics from what they’d get than if they opened Skyview as a traditional high school with fixed boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Skyview boundary options will be released next week (April) , community meetings will take place in April and May, the final boundary vote will be in June.
This has been an interesting way to open a HS.

It has been a horrible process. It is also very different then opening a HS that you have to build. If you buy the land and build the school you have that construction time to discuss boundaries and set them. There is built in period to have the conversations and handle the process.

FCPS bought an existing building and seemed to feel pressure to use it as soon as possible, probably to justify the purchase. That is a different boundary process because the building is there and needs to be used. Toss in a messed up boundary process across the county and you have the mess that is happening now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skyview boundary options will be released next week (April) , community meetings will take place in April and May, the final boundary vote will be in June.
This has been an interesting way to open a HS.

It has been a horrible process. It is also very different then opening a HS that you have to build. If you buy the land and build the school you have that construction time to discuss boundaries and set them. There is built in period to have the conversations and handle the process.

FCPS bought an existing building and seemed to feel pressure to use it as soon as possible, probably to justify the purchase. That is a different boundary process because the building is there and needs to be used. Toss in a messed up boundary process across the county and you have the mess that is happening now.

If they had set boundaries, they could have opened it with ninth graders or ninth and tenth. That is the problem. No boundaries set. Could have done it months ago.

[Anonymous]

YES The boundary process has been very flawed, stay tuned for more fired up communities starting with the release of the boundary proposals next week.

[Anonymous]

I’m getting really anxious about this process.

There isn’t enough Pinot Noir and Xanax for me to get through this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m getting really anxious about this process.

There isn’t enough Pinot Noir and Xanax for me to get through this!

It's fine. Either your kid goes to the school you thought they were going to go to when you bought the house or they're going to a new school that is closer to your house. Why the stress?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m getting really anxious about this process.

There isn’t enough Pinot Noir and Xanax for me to get through this!

It's fine. Either your kid goes to the school you thought they were going to go to when you bought the house or they're going to a new school that is closer to your house. Why the stress?

Not if it is true that Lee's Corner is in the mix. Most of its neighborhoods are much closer to Chantilly than Skyview.

[Anonymous]

Lees Corner is definitely in the mix now that the Crossfield is likely staying at Oakton. That's why that happened.

[Anonymous]

When people say Lees Corner, which part are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people say Lees Corner, which part are you talking about?

I would guess all of it. It should not be in the mix at all.