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

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Anonymous wrote:If proximity is important, then CROSSFIELD NEEDS TO MOVE TO SKYVIEW.

I think it's absurd that there are families at our school more concerned about their kids doing sports or their "property value" than about being able to pick up their kids from activities, having their kids drive safely to high school instead of on narrow windy roads, and staying in a high school that is part of their community instead of a completely different town just because they think it's more prestigious. Gatehouse needs to stop listening to the Crossfield PTO and listen to the rest of the parents in the community. No, we don't have a website, but there are a lot of us, mostly with children in younger grades who play sports in Chantilly and Herndon and want to go to Carson and Skyview because a 5 minute drive makes a lot more sense than a 25 minute drive (which can be 45 during rush hour).

Scenario 2 is bad.

Scenario 2 is a clear winner.

It has the largest number of schools in the target utilization range and is also least disruptive.

They will look into the travel time as opposed to the distance, but it seems like most people want Scenario 2.

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LOL! The Crossfield and Lees Corner Moms have banded together to promote Scenario 2. LOLOL

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Anonymous wrote:Navy mommies are outdoing the Rios tonight. God forbid their first grader gets moved to Chantilly from Oakton. Half the distance and a fairly equal school. Where is the humanity??? Welp!

LOL. I heard that. A clueless parent who literally said “distance doesn’t matter so much as keeping them with friends.” For a first grader!!!

Are you on the spectrum? By first grade my kid had deep friendships with classmates.

I feel sorry for your kids that they have a parent that thinks distance is the only factor to consider in schools.

You and PP are learning, shockingly apparently in real-time, that it is not just about rankings and distance, most of us care about our community above all else. Community is what makes a school desirable.

You nasty person. First of all, being autistic is not an insult you nasty person. Second of all, kids don't have "deep friendships" in first grade. Their friends change every few months. It's very easy for a first grader to move and have a new best friend the first week of school. You sound stupid <-- valid insult.

This must have really gotten to you because you keeping repeating across your multiple posts that it was an insult when I was just stating a fact. Seems like you get easily worked up over things.

Anyway, lay off other people’s kids and I won’t feel the need to respond. But until then, I stand by everything that I said. And your multiple posts won’t change that.

Uhhhhh I posted once. And I did not post anything in this thread other than calling you nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is RIO so scared or Skyview?

My guess (and I don't know who RIO is and, while I live in the area, I am not in Franklin Farm), I think they have kids at Oakton and are vested in Oakton. They likely have younger kids, as well.
I understand that. I'm a Chantilly parent and we like Chantilly and would be happy to stay there, but it is not likely.

One of the big pluses of Chantilly is that you feel it is a community school. Their friends are within reach--even if they come from the other side of the boundary. It is a compact boundary and no one in boundary lives more than 10 minutes away--even in traffic.

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Now why does it seem like they are constricting enrollment at Skyview by keeping it at 2000 students when in 2008, the policy was 2500 students?

So stupid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now why does it seem like they are constricting enrollment at Skyview by keeping it at 2000 students when in 2008, the policy was 2500 students?

So stupid!

NO. In 2008 it was 2000 students. That was the rationale for the boundary study.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just baffled that they are paying all these consultants to do the job of FCPS staffers that we also pay to apparently do nothing, and then it all gets thrown out the window when someone has a tantrum.

If they spent all the money they spent on consultants to renovate Chantilly. They would solve the capacity issues.

No room.

This is a frequently repeated claim. If there was room to expand Justice and Madison (smallest HS campuses in FCPS) there was probably a way to expand Chantilly.

So, Chantilly is pushing 3000. Madison is 2100 (barely over). Justice is under 2200.
Big difference.
Also proves that, if Madison at 2100 is considered fine, then Westfield should also be fine. Put in all of Cub Run and be done with this. There is still construction in that area.

Justice and Madison were expanded to 2500. That's more than Chantilly's current capacity, excluding the 14-unit modular.

They just moved kids to Madison from Marshall, so they plan to increase its enrollment.

So basically what you posted proves nothing about Westfield or Chantilly.

So you think it is better to shift kids to a distant school so they will have 2500 students instead of 2000 or so?

It's hard to answer this in a vacuum. It depends on the capacities and enrollments of the other schools after Skyview adjustments.

We had been talking about Chantilly, which has not been a "distant school" for anyone assigned there.

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Anonymous wrote:McDaniel just sent this out:

Dear friends,

Thank you for reaching out to my office about your concerns about recently proposed boundary changes. I wanted to make sure you receive the following joint statement to the Lees Corner Elementary School community from Sully District School Board Member Seema Dixit, and myself:

“Thank you to the parents and community members who have reached out to us regarding a draft boundary scenario that would move Lees Corner Elementary School from Chantilly High School to Westfield High School. This move is indicated in one of the three draft scenarios generated for the new Skyview High School boundaries. Based on the feedback from the Lees Corner community, it is our expectation that Lees Corner remains within the Chantilly High School pyramid."

Right result but totally inept and corrupt process.

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OK, so based on Lees Corner then the official FCPS position is that every area that doesn't want to move will stay put?

Nope. The Lees Corner move makes NO SENSE. The Crossfield move on the other makes a lot of sense and it's stupid to keep them at Oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:After seeing the success from Lees Corner, the Cub Run people are for sure stalking Dixit and McDaniel to get a similar promise.

1000%

Absolutely. Every area that complains gets what they want with no thought or logic.

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Anonymous wrote:After seeing the success from Lees Corner, the Cub Run people are for sure stalking Dixit and McDaniel to get a similar promise.

1000%

Absolutely. Every area that complains gets what they want with no thought or logic.

The difference: Lee's Corner had logic and geography on its side.

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Anonymous wrote:After seeing the success from Lees Corner, the Cub Run people are for sure stalking Dixit and McDaniel to get a similar promise.

1000%

Absolutely. Every area that complains gets what they want with no thought or logic.

The difference: Lee's Corner had logic and geography on its side.

Thats what everyone thinks about their own wants.

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Anonymous wrote:After seeing the success from Lees Corner, the Cub Run people are for sure stalking Dixit and McDaniel to get a similar promise.

1000%

Absolutely. Every area that complains gets what they want with no thought or logic.

The difference: Lee's Corner had logic and geography on its side.

Thats what everyone thinks about their own wants.

But, in this case it is true.

What is RIO's logic?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has the most incompetent SB members on planet earth. All they had to do was pick neighborhoods in the 5 mile radius of the new Western High School, redistrict them and call it a day. But they like to waste millions on XYZ consultants or whoever to create a bigger mess and drama. Maybe the school board just loves the drama of this all. Maybe it makes them feel powerful even if it makes them look like fools on every level. This is why you need to study and screen school board member heavily before you cast a vote, otherwise you end up with no value added humans taking up important positions and decisions.

Shame on the entire FCPS school board for your sneaky last minute tactics screwing over EVERYONE. You should all resign immediately. The schools would truly operate better without you.

They did. But RIO fought them tooth and nail with excuses about sports and community. So now the whole county is screwed.

RIO has nothing to do with backfilling Westfield. The location of Skyview severs Westfield’s two population centers. Because of the airport and the business parks there are virtually no students between Rt-50 and the Skyview walk radius within the existing Westfield boundaries. Backfilling Westfield will be controversial regardless of where Crossfield goes to high school. The school is isolated and far from every potential neighborhood. I agree with an earlier poster that they should be looking to move academies from Chantilly to Westfield to better utilize the space.

Yes it does. They can fill Skyview with plenty of RIO kids and take less kids out of Westfield and then they don’t need to backfill Westfield at all.

Do tell me

Which of the follow schools should stay at Westfield?

McNair
Coates
Floris

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has the most incompetent SB members on planet earth. All they had to do was pick neighborhoods in the 5 mile radius of the new Western High School, redistrict them and call it a day. But they like to waste millions on XYZ consultants or whoever to create a bigger mess and drama. Maybe the school board just loves the drama of this all. Maybe it makes them feel powerful even if it makes them look like fools on every level. This is why you need to study and screen school board member heavily before you cast a vote, otherwise you end up with no value added humans taking up important positions and decisions.

Shame on the entire FCPS school board for your sneaky last minute tactics screwing over EVERYONE. You should all resign immediately. The schools would truly operate better without you.

They did. But RIO fought them tooth and nail with excuses about sports and community. So now the whole county is screwed.

RIO has nothing to do with backfilling Westfield. The location of Skyview severs Westfield’s two population centers. Because of the airport and the business parks there are virtually no students between Rt-50 and the Skyview walk radius within the existing Westfield boundaries. Backfilling Westfield will be controversial regardless of where Crossfield goes to high school. The school is isolated and far from every potential neighborhood. I agree with an earlier poster that they should be looking to move academies from Chantilly to Westfield to better utilize the space.

Yes it does. They can fill Skyview with plenty of RIO kids and take less kids out of Westfield and then they don’t need to backfill Westfield at all.

Do tell me

Which of the follow schools should stay at Westfield?

McNair
Coates
Floris

DP. I assume this is a rhetorical question. Skyview is in the Floris ES area and Coates and McNair are north of Floris. If you start by assigning Floris to Skyview it follows that Coates and McNair move to Skyview as well. Otherwise, you'd be creating a Westfield attendance island north of the Skyview area.

I think they've boxed themselves into moving a decent amount of Centreville into Westfield to backfill. Maybe they can move part of the western Fairfax HS island that's closer to Centreville to CVHS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now why does it seem like they are constricting enrollment at Skyview by keeping it at 2000 students when in 2008, the policy was 2500 students?

So stupid!

NO. In 2008 it was 2000 students. That was the rationale for the boundary study.

Well now it should be around 2500 and up!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has the most incompetent SB members on planet earth. All they had to do was pick neighborhoods in the 5 mile radius of the new Western High School, redistrict them and call it a day. But they like to waste millions on XYZ consultants or whoever to create a bigger mess and drama. Maybe the school board just loves the drama of this all. Maybe it makes them feel powerful even if it makes them look like fools on every level. This is why you need to study and screen school board member heavily before you cast a vote, otherwise you end up with no value added humans taking up important positions and decisions.

Shame on the entire FCPS school board for your sneaky last minute tactics screwing over EVERYONE. You should all resign immediately. The schools would truly operate better without you.

They did. But RIO fought them tooth and nail with excuses about sports and community. So now the whole county is screwed.

RIO has nothing to do with backfilling Westfield. The location of Skyview severs Westfield’s two population centers. Because of the airport and the business parks there are virtually no students between Rt-50 and the Skyview walk radius within the existing Westfield boundaries. Backfilling Westfield will be controversial regardless of where Crossfield goes to high school. The school is isolated and far from every potential neighborhood. I agree with an earlier poster that they should be looking to move academies from Chantilly to Westfield to better utilize the space.

Yes it does. They can fill Skyview with plenty of RIO kids and take less kids out of Westfield and then they don’t need to backfill Westfield at all.

Do tell me

Which of the follow schools should stay at Westfield?

McNair
Coates
Floris

DP. I assume this is a rhetorical question. Skyview is in the Floris ES area and Coates and McNair are north of Floris. If you start by assigning Floris to Skyview it follows that Coates and McNair move to Skyview as well. Otherwise, you'd be creating a Westfield attendance island north of the Skyview area.

I think they've boxed themselves into moving a decent amount of Centreville into Westfield to backfill. Maybe they can move part of the western Fairfax HS island that's closer to Centreville to CVHS.

I think they will have to move some Chantilly kids to Westfield but that will be very unpopular.