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

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should put that western tj magnet at westfield. Clearly they need a pot sweetener to get enough kids out there.

I actually love this idea.

Its solid. Not enough students live nearby to fill the seats. Put a magnet in. TJ West.

Wow. Yes. As a Floris parent I don't like the commute to Westfield but it's so much better than TJ.

I’ve long heard rumors that Skyview is going to be a twice exceptional (2E) magnet program. I don’t know why that has to be Skyview though. Maybe that could be Westfield instead?

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Anonymous wrote:Between Westfield and Skyview, Skyview is better.

This is not a competition.

Skyview will 50% full of Westfield kids and some of its most challenging.

Hi RIO parent. Thanks for admitting that you think your kid is too good to have to deal with what you think would be a terrible situation, but it’s ok for other people’s kids.

You pay more for "good schools" which is precisely why people who have "good schools" want to keep them.

This is going to cause people to move accordingly however its adopted over the next few years.

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Anonymous wrote:Between Westfield and Skyview, Skyview is better.

This is not a competition.

Skyview will 50% full of Westfield kids and some of its most challenging.

Hi RIO parent. Thanks for admitting that you think your kid is too good to have to deal with what you think would be a terrible situation, but it’s ok for other people’s kids.

You pay more for "good schools" which is precisely why people who have "good schools" want to keep them.

This is going to cause people to move accordingly however its adopted over the next few years.

Skyview will be a good school. I doubt people will move. It will be a strong community school unless Reid throws another monkey wrench.

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Why isn’t Crossfield zoned for Skyview? They are no where near Oakton!

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Anonymous wrote:Between Westfield and Skyview, Skyview is better.

This is not a competition.

Skyview will 50% full of Westfield kids and some of its most challenging.

Hi RIO parent. Thanks for admitting that you think your kid is too good to have to deal with what you think would be a terrible situation, but it’s ok for other people’s kids.

You pay more for "good schools" which is precisely why people who have "good schools" want to keep them.

This is going to cause people to move accordingly however its adopted over the next few years.

Skyview will be a good school. I doubt people will move. It will be a strong community school unless Reid throws another monkey wrench.

In time people will absolutely move.

Why do some schools have high concentrations of certain demographics? Because for us those schools are desirable.

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Fox Mill wants Skyview to get away from South Lakes. I bet a lot of Fox Mill folks are opting in.
How will South Lakes get backfilled? Maybe Crossfield should backfill them.

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Any School Board with a brain and a spine would have already decided months ago that Skyview would comprise Floris, Coates, McNair, Oak Hill, and Crossfield, and made it official. You’d have a school that serves the closest neighborhoods that have long asked for their own HS, provides overcrowding relief to crowded Chantilly, and eliminates some of the long commutes in the county (to Oakton). Families at Fox Mill would have a good shot at pupil placing to Skyview if interested.

For whatever reason, these incompetent bufffoons have dragged this out, paid excessive attention to some rabid Oakton parents looking to blow things up, and created enough uncertainty that fewer people now want to go to Skyview, while others are now equally outraged over who might get reassigned to Westfield. All because they have failed to act decisively and efficiently.

Every single thing Reid and this School Board do becomes a case study in how not to manage a large school system effectively.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill wants Skyview to get away from South Lakes. I bet a lot of Fox Mill folks are opting in.
How will South Lakes get backfilled? Maybe Crossfield should backfill them.

Backfilling at South Lakes is not the same issue as at Westfield because they won’t be moving three 100% or majority feeders from South Lakes to Skyview.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill wants Skyview to get away from South Lakes. I bet a lot of Fox Mill folks are opting in.
How will South Lakes get backfilled? Maybe Crossfield should backfill them.

The SLHS PTA was told that 45 9th graders opted in to Skyview next year. If the Floris and Fox Mill students at SLHS are moved to Skyview that will open up around 90 seats per grade, so 360 total seats and I think that number is high. Not a huge amount. SLHS is close to capacity now and there are new townhouses, apartments, and SFH being built in the area that will fill those seats naturally.

The Floris and Fox Mill student bodies are SLHS are small, far less of a chunk then moving Oak Hill or McNair or Coates or the other ES that are being discussed. As a matter of fact, the response when 45 freshmen opted in from SLHS was "It's not a big deal, it's not that many kids."

Keep in mind, that is the number of kids moving without sports. The number would have been higher with sports.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill wants Skyview to get away from South Lakes. I bet a lot of Fox Mill folks are opting in.
How will South Lakes get backfilled? Maybe Crossfield should backfill them.

Backfilling at South Lakes is not the same issue as at Westfield because they won’t be moving three 100% or majority feeders from South Lakes to Skyview.

SLHS would drop to something like 89% capacity and there is construction in the area that will fill those seats.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill wants Skyview to get away from South Lakes. I bet a lot of Fox Mill folks are opting in.
How will South Lakes get backfilled? Maybe Crossfield should backfill them.

Backfilling at South Lakes is not the same issue as at Westfield because they won’t be moving three 100% or majority feeders from South Lakes to Skyview.

South Lakes would lose 1 and a half schools. South Lakes has 500 fewer students than Westfield. So, there would not be a big difference here.

Maybe neither school would need to be backfilled.

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Why doesn't Crossfield want to move? It's not just 1 thing! In no particular order
1) No sports or activities ie no culture or typical high school experience
2) 50%+ from districts with "problem kids" makes learning more difficult and a more stressful / potentially unsafe bullying environment
3) Our kids have been in a construction zone through elementary school and don't want to have to do it through high school too.
4) Our kids don't know the Coates, McNair,Floris crowd. They know Waples Mill and Navy
5) We've been paying the price to be in the Oakton district and this could affect our home value
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Ctm9ZYNz4

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't Crossfield want to move? It's not just 1 thing! In no particular order
1) No sports or activities ie no culture or typical high school experience
2) 50%+ from districts with "problem kids" makes learning more difficult and a more stressful / potentially unsafe bullying environment
3) Our kids have been in a construction zone through elementary school and don't want to have to do it through high school too.
4) Our kids don't know the Coates, McNair,Floris crowd. They know Waples Mill and Navy
5) We've been paying the price to be in the Oakton district and this could affect our home value
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Ctm9ZYNz4

1) It is one year.
2) Your kids already go to MS with the kids you are complaining about
3) Construction is going on in the outbuildings not the main building
4) Your kids know the kids from Coates and McNair and Floris because they are at Carson with your kids
5) Home values have nothing to do with the school board decisions, that argument didn't work for Floris or South Lakes in 2008, why should it work for you today

Get over it. The kids you are complaining about are already in school with your kids at MS. It isn't an issue. They will be a smaller percentage of the HS because you will be adding Oak Hill to the ES mix so it will be even less of an issue. You sound like a bunch of elitist tools.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't Crossfield want to move? It's not just 1 thing! In no particular order
1) No sports or activities ie no culture or typical high school experience
2) 50%+ from districts with "problem kids" makes learning more difficult and a more stressful / potentially unsafe bullying environment
3) Our kids have been in a construction zone through elementary school and don't want to have to do it through high school too.
4) Our kids don't know the Coates, McNair,Floris crowd. They know Waples Mill and Navy
5) We've been paying the price to be in the Oakton district and this could affect our home value
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Ctm9ZYNz4

None of these are valid arguments over other schools.
#1 I am confident that all the schools being redistricted are concerned about #1. You don't have to worry about that. By the time the school is opened for set in boundary, it will have sports.
#2 is a very odd statement. Are you "putting down" those schools? Sounds like it. But, you've been fine with sending your child to Carson?
#3 carries no weight at all.
#4 Sounds like you are not speaking for everyone. Your child must be in Navy AAP. Your child must have difficulty making new friends.
#5 Skyview will be a good school. Most people don't want their kids spending hours on a bus. This is a very, very bad argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Fox Mill wants Skyview to get away from South Lakes. I bet a lot of Fox Mill folks are opting in.
How will South Lakes get backfilled? Maybe Crossfield should backfill them.

Backfilling at South Lakes is not the same issue as at Westfield because they won’t be moving three 100% or majority feeders from South Lakes to Skyview.

South Lakes would lose 1 and a half schools. South Lakes has 500 fewer students than Westfield. So, there would not be a big difference here.

Maybe neither school would need to be backfilled.

South Lakes has less than 400 fewer students than Westfield. It would also lose less than 1 1/2 schools under any likely scenario. Why do you people lie?