FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there are a lot of Crossfield parents who would prefer Skyview but, more important to them is to stay with their Crossfield community.
The RIO people jumped very quickly to deny a move to Skyview. Almost immediately they had a petition--before many of us even realized the first options were published.

Their reasons for staying at Oakton could be written by Chantilly people. Centreville people also wrote the same things.

Mostly that we like our school and do not want to move.

The School Board's job is to do what is best. Listening to the loudest voices is important, but acting on behalf of those who don't speak up is also important.

School Board should make wise decisions. Not sure they are doing that.

Look at the map comments on Scenarios 1 and 2.

Many red dots in Crossfield and Fox Mill boundary for high school under Scenario 1, indicating Crossfield and Fox Mill parents largely reject Scenario 1.

And so many green dots in Crossfield and Fox Mill boundary for high school under Scenario 2.

Of course I don't doubt there are some Crossfield parents who would send their kids to Skyview but the results are super clear.

What it doesn't show is how many Crossfield parents would want to go to Skyview were the whole school were assigned there. I suspect it would be greater than you think. Many of the comments here and on Meren's Facebook show that the biggest objection is splitting the kids. Some even say they would happily go to Skyview but don't want to be split from their friends.

No.

The feedback was for Originial Scenario 1, under which the entire Crossfield would be going to Skyview.

See the page 27 and 28.

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2026-05/260526-wxy-fairfax-skyview-meeting-2-english.pdf

This is why the consultants dropped the idea of moving the entire Crossfield to Skyview. Instead they proposed sending some of the closest and least resistant Crossfield kids to Skyview under Revised Scenario 1.

[Anonymous]

Chantllly would absolutely contribute 500 kids in a 4 year magnet school. Zero doubt in my mid as my neighborhood has become a STEM magnet zone with robotics team wait lists. What they DONT want is any question as to whether their kid will be able to get at least 10 APs and total chaos in transportation and planning. THIS is why Skyview is under-enrolled despite having proposed the most relevant curriculum in FCPS. They snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory and managed to listen to a million special interests and complaints while doing so. It seems like 80% of the people are fighting not to move so LET THEM STAY. Make it a magnet school. The people they are forcing to move are laughably coming from under-enrolled schools. Kids wont even be able to get entry level jobs out of college soon - they have an opportunity to build something here to address it and instead it a mudfight of people who care about sports and "society" more than education and skills. The solution is so simple. I am astounded at their inability to execute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chantllly would absolutely contribute 500 kids in a 4 year magnet school. Zero doubt in my mid as my neighborhood has become a STEM magnet zone with robotics team wait lists. What they DONT want is any question as to whether their kid will be able to get at least 10 APs and total chaos in transportation and planning. THIS is why Skyview is under-enrolled despite having proposed the most relevant curriculum in FCPS. They snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory and managed to listen to a million special interests and complaints while doing so. It seems like 80% of the people are fighting not to move so LET THEM STAY. Make it a magnet school. The people they are forcing to move are laughably coming from under-enrolled schools. Kids wont even be able to get entry level jobs out of college soon - they have an opportunity to build something here to address it and instead it a mudfight of people who care about sports and "society" more than education and skills. The solution is so simple. I am astounded at their inability to execute.

Slug it out with Floris, honey. You've posted this 1000 times and Skyview is still approved as a neighborhood school. That's why they are paying a consultant money for a boundary proposal.

[Anonymous]

+1 on this. With the offering they are promising, lots of folks would have jumped on that which in turn would reduced over crowding strategically. But that ship has sailed.

Instead what we now have is trauma about school bus assignments and kids anxiety on getting separated from friends from kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chantllly would absolutely contribute 500 kids in a 4 year magnet school. Zero doubt in my mid as my neighborhood has become a STEM magnet zone with robotics team wait lists. What they DONT want is any question as to whether their kid will be able to get at least 10 APs and total chaos in transportation and planning. THIS is why Skyview is under-enrolled despite having proposed the most relevant curriculum in FCPS. They snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory and managed to listen to a million special interests and complaints while doing so. It seems like 80% of the people are fighting not to move so LET THEM STAY. Make it a magnet school. The people they are forcing to move are laughably coming from under-enrolled schools. Kids wont even be able to get entry level jobs out of college soon - they have an opportunity to build something here to address it and instead it a mudfight of people who care about sports and "society" more than education and skills. The solution is so simple. I am astounded at their inability to execute.

Michelle, the people have spoken. We don't want a magnet. No TJ West.

[Anonymous]

Again, not Michelle, but who can read 34 pages of this and not see the obvious solution. "We don't want a magnet" yet it seems 90% of "we" also don't want to move and will fight to the death and find 1000 flaws in every scenario. This is total insanity when there is massive pent up demand for an advanced technical high school. The people calling me Michelle are the same people who don't want their kid going there by boundary and at the same time would not opt in. So yes, you want a "traditional high school" your child won't attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, not Michelle, but who can read 34 pages of this and not see the obvious solution. "We don't want a magnet" yet it seems 90% of "we" also don't want to move and will fight to the death and find 1000 flaws in every scenario. This is total insanity when there is massive pent up demand for an advanced technical high school. The people calling me Michelle are the same people who don't want their kid going there by boundary and at the same time would not opt in. So yes, you want a "traditional high school" your child won't attend.

DP, but you’re mischaracterizing things. They’ll have no problem setting boundaries for Skyview with neighborhoods that overwhelmingly will be happy to attend the school. Most of the negative commentary comes from people who don’t want to attend Skyview but probably won’t end up there anyway, or are concerned about the impact on schools other than Skyview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, not Michelle, but who can read 34 pages of this and not see the obvious solution. "We don't want a magnet" yet it seems 90% of "we" also don't want to move and will fight to the death and find 1000 flaws in every scenario. This is total insanity when there is massive pent up demand for an advanced technical high school. The people calling me Michelle are the same people who don't want their kid going there by boundary and at the same time would not opt in. So yes, you want a "traditional high school" your child won't attend.

DP, but you’re mischaracterizing things. They’ll have no problem setting boundaries for Skyview with neighborhoods that overwhelmingly will be happy to attend the school. Most of the negative commentary comes from people who don’t want to attend Skyview but probably won’t end up there anyway, or are concerned about the impact on schools other than Skyview.

DP. But that last part of your post is super significant. Sure certain families might be happier with the new school, but a large number of families will have to move to other schools to backfill. I was always floored when this school was first announced that there wasn’t more pushback from these backfill areas.

This is what the school board doesn’t really get - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, not Michelle, but who can read 34 pages of this and not see the obvious solution. "We don't want a magnet" yet it seems 90% of "we" also don't want to move and will fight to the death and find 1000 flaws in every scenario. This is total insanity when there is massive pent up demand for an advanced technical high school. The people calling me Michelle are the same people who don't want their kid going there by boundary and at the same time would not opt in. So yes, you want a "traditional high school" your child won't attend.

DP, but you’re mischaracterizing things. They’ll have no problem setting boundaries for Skyview with neighborhoods that overwhelmingly will be happy to attend the school. Most of the negative commentary comes from people who don’t want to attend Skyview but probably won’t end up there anyway, or are concerned about the impact on schools other than Skyview.

Yes. There is a need for the school.
I don't care what the earlier poster said, without a doubt you would not have 500 kids from Chantilly at a magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there are a lot of Crossfield parents who would prefer Skyview but, more important to them is to stay with their Crossfield community.
The RIO people jumped very quickly to deny a move to Skyview. Almost immediately they had a petition--before many of us even realized the first options were published.

Their reasons for staying at Oakton could be written by Chantilly people. Centreville people also wrote the same things.

Mostly that we like our school and do not want to move.

The School Board's job is to do what is best. Listening to the loudest voices is important, but acting on behalf of those who don't speak up is also important.

School Board should make wise decisions. Not sure they are doing that.

Look at the map comments on Scenarios 1 and 2.

Many red dots in Crossfield and Fox Mill boundary for high school under Scenario 1, indicating Crossfield and Fox Mill parents largely reject Scenario 1.

And so many green dots in Crossfield and Fox Mill boundary for high school under Scenario 2.

Of course I don't doubt there are some Crossfield parents who would send their kids to Skyview but the results are super clear.

What it doesn't show is how many Crossfield parents would want to go to Skyview were the whole school were assigned there. I suspect it would be greater than you think. Many of the comments here and on Meren's Facebook show that the biggest objection is splitting the kids. Some even say they would happily go to Skyview but don't want to be split from their friends.

I think “would want to go to Skyview” isn’t quite accurate. Most of these parents, understandably, want to keep their kids in schools where they are already thriving and established, especially those who already have older kids at Oakton.

That is a false argument. Nobody's kids are getting moved out of Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there are a lot of Crossfield parents who would prefer Skyview but, more important to them is to stay with their Crossfield community.
The RIO people jumped very quickly to deny a move to Skyview. Almost immediately they had a petition--before many of us even realized the first options were published.

Their reasons for staying at Oakton could be written by Chantilly people. Centreville people also wrote the same things.

Mostly that we like our school and do not want to move.

The School Board's job is to do what is best. Listening to the loudest voices is important, but acting on behalf of those who don't speak up is also important.

School Board should make wise decisions. Not sure they are doing that.

Look at the map comments on Scenarios 1 and 2.

Many red dots in Crossfield and Fox Mill boundary for high school under Scenario 1, indicating Crossfield and Fox Mill parents largely reject Scenario 1.

And so many green dots in Crossfield and Fox Mill boundary for high school under Scenario 2.

Of course I don't doubt there are some Crossfield parents who would send their kids to Skyview but the results are super clear.

What it doesn't show is how many Crossfield parents would want to go to Skyview were the whole school were assigned there. I suspect it would be greater than you think. Many of the comments here and on Meren's Facebook show that the biggest objection is splitting the kids. Some even say they would happily go to Skyview but don't want to be split from their friends.

No.

The feedback was for Originial Scenario 1, under which the entire Crossfield would be going to Skyview.

See the page 27 and 28.

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2026-05/260526-wxy-fairfax-skyview-meeting-2-english.pdf

This is why the consultants dropped the idea of moving the entire Crossfield to Skyview. Instead they proposed sending some of the closest and least resistant Crossfield kids to Skyview under Revised Scenario 1.

The issue with that scenario was that it sent Crossfield to Franklin then Skyview. Nobody wanted that. It had to be Carson-Skyview.

[Anonymous]

For RIO moms, it's about two things (1) sports and (2) race/socioeconomic status

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For RIO moms, it's about two things (1) sports and (2) race/socioeconomic status

You know Oakton is rated one of the top schools academically in Virginia, right?

I wish people would stop calling Oakton parents “obnoxious” and assuming they know why we like the school. (Yes, I’m an Oakton parent.?

Oakton parents are labeled as “Karens” and whiners when they voice their opinions. I haven’t seen anyone else on this forum labeled as such so frequently when sharing their perspectives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, not Michelle, but who can read 34 pages of this and not see the obvious solution. "We don't want a magnet" yet it seems 90% of "we" also don't want to move and will fight to the death and find 1000 flaws in every scenario. This is total insanity when there is massive pent up demand for an advanced technical high school. The people calling me Michelle are the same people who don't want their kid going there by boundary and at the same time would not opt in. So yes, you want a "traditional high school" your child won't attend.

DP, but you’re mischaracterizing things. They’ll have no problem setting boundaries for Skyview with neighborhoods that overwhelmingly will be happy to attend the school. Most of the negative commentary comes from people who don’t want to attend Skyview but probably won’t end up there anyway, or are concerned about the impact on schools other than Skyview.

DP. But that last part of your post is super significant. Sure certain families might be happier with the new school, but a large number of families will have to move to other schools to backfill. I was always floored when this school was first announced that there wasn’t more pushback from these backfill areas.

This is what the school board doesn’t really get - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It will sort itself out. For 18 years they have only moved kids to similar or higher ranked high schools. Given KAA’s location it was always obvious that the new school would draw heavily from Westfield; that they would need to backfill Westfield; and some would object to getting moved there.

So now they are dealing with waves of discontent: first from those who don’t want to move to Westfield and then from those at Westfield (but also South Lakes) worried about what their schools will look like going forward.

Like it or not, they have implicitly decided that the benefits of a new school outweighed the disruption and effects on other schools. They probably don’t have the second-tier adjustments right yet, but there is still time to adjust them if needed.