You don't have your high school attendance straight. Oak Hill is not at Westfield--except for a very tiny portion. It is at Chantilly. THRU has picked part of the Oak Hill neighborhood to make the 30 minute slog to Oakton. This splits a neighborhood and that is a thirty minute drive. Chantilly overcrowding has been cited repeatedly by the School Board although it is slated to lose membership. And, while Crossfield may be close to South Lakes, its membership comes mostly from Franklin Farm which goes to Oakton--thirty minutes away. It currently is at Carson and is closer to Carson than most of Fox Mill. |
Crossfield will definitely be zoned to go to the new HS - that is without question. |
Can someone help me understand why they’re moving the Wegman’s Chantilly area from Cub Run elementary to Lees Corner elementary? |
I was wondering the same thing. |
Well, again, we don't know yet capacity is feasible at the new school. Carson is already a split feeder, and may need to remain one. It's not like they weren't proposing to leave Thoreau as a three-way split feeder. And most of Oak Hill feeds to Chantilly, not Westfield. Fox Mill has been at South Lakes for over 15 years. You're used to IB. The new school will likely be AP and that's what most at Crossfield are used to, so it would be sketchy to move the Oakton piece of Crossfield into an IB school. Also, if you move Floris, Crossfield AND Fox Mill out of South Lakes you're basically undoing all of the 2008 South Lakes boundary change, except for the small piece moved from Madison. It starts to look like FCPS is playing with Legos when it comes to SLHS. I'm sorry you dislike South Lakes so much, but it's going to blow the project up if you're suggesting there can only be a new high school at the KAA site if we build an addition to accommodate six feeders that include Fox Mill. That's not how this is being sold; it's being described as an existing building that FCPS can readily convert to a high school. |
+1 |
DP. To the Fox Mill parent. Have you protested about IB? I would not want it either, but it is up to the parents at the school to make their voice known. |
I am not in anyway defending their logic, but the area from Cub Run that feeds to Franklin was reassigned to Lees Corner so that Cub Run was no longer a split feeder at the middle school level. However, they kept that area assigned to Westfield, which made Lees Corner a split feeder at the high school level, and gave them an excuse to pull additional Lees Corner neighborhoods to Westfield. |
What is IB? My child just started school I’m
Not familiar with what that is? Can someone explain? And why don’t parents what IB but want Ap? |
Western Fairfax county is where a lot of the growth will be in the next 10-20 years. |
Look, there is clearly a bitter parent or group of parents that have come on this thread and try to derail. We're sorry that you are losing your school and the community built around it, but spreading lies and arguing about what FCPS should and should not do for students is not the way. Please go troll somewhere else. |
God I hope so. There is a tiny contingent of Crossfield that actually lives in Oakton and those mamas are tigers, I hope they don't ruin this for everyone else that lives MUCH closer to the new site. |
Plenty of people complained about IB when the schools were forced to move to SLHS, no one listened. About 200 kids principal place out each year for AP, nobody cares. Only 50 kids complete the IB Diploma, nobody cares. More kids principal place out of IB schools then complete the diploma across the entire county, by a lot, and nobody cares. The parents who strongly want AP at SLHS are probably the ones most interested in moving to the new school. Otherwise, we will simply keep pupil placing to Oakton and Langley, for AP and a language, or even Herndon because we don't like IB. FCPS could care less. |
Perhaps but if you are adding capacity based on where you anticipate growth, which is not how FCPS has operated in the past, adding more capacity in western Fairfax should not be your top priority. They project many of the schools in the area will lose students over the coming years, and those projections predate most of the administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government and clamp down on those in the country illegally. |
Because there is a separate process to get approval from the IBO to operate an IB diploma school it will always be easier for FCPS to open a new school as an AP school. They can always convert later to IB if they really wanted to expand IB but that didn’t happen at either Westfield or South County, the two high schools opened after FCPS started introducing IB at some other schools. |