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What is your point then? Sounds like either way your kids attend schools with kids outside of your self-defined "community". If you want to handpick your community, there is a thing called private school that allows you to do just that. |
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I don't know how you came up with this stupid narrative, but once again, Floris, McNair, and Coates were ALWAYS going to go to Skyview. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether Crossfield stays at Oakton or not. |
There's one mom who goes on and on about her child's 45 minute bus ride from Franklin Farm to Carson but I have talked to my neighbors - the middle school bus ride from the first stop near our house is 30 minutes and the bus ride to Oakton (our stop is somewhere in the middle) is 40 minutes. |
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100% I don't know why these parents are claiming they are part of the Waples + Navy communities when they really aren't AT ALL. Literally the only connection is that their middle schoolers are in AAP with these kids but guess what? They are also in AAP with kids from....Floris, McNair, Coates, and Oak Hill. And no, PTO presidents, your annual basketball game between Navy and Crossfield 6th graders in which they interact literally ONE TIME in 7 years of elementary school does NOT make your kids best friends. None of those kids know each other. The "but we go to Navy for AAP" excuse is NOT a good excuse. Only a small handful of AAP kids from Crossfield go to Navy every year and we all know yours are not among those kids. |
Not to mention look at where Waples kids go for AAP. You don't see them clamoring to go to South Lakes so they can stay with their AAP community, do you? |
So Oakton is 10 minutes longer for you. |
We don't live in Franklin Farm. We live about as close to oakton as you're going to get and still go to carson. There's a different experience if you're on the east side of west ox vs west in a number of ways. Thats why all the distance/time arguments aren't persuasive for our situation. |
On the bus, yes. But let's talk about driving because let's face it, in high school, a lot of kids are either driving themselves, carpooling, or being picked up after school because of activities. From Franklin Farm to Oakton at 5pm when I would, for example, be picking up a child from any sort of after school program, it would take me 20-30 minutes to get to the high school and then at least 20-30 minutes on the way back (on a good day), so potentially 60+ minutes round trip. Meanwhile, if I were doing the same to Carson/Skyview, it would take me max 10 minutes each way. Which one of those is more appealing to you as the parent doing a lot of this driving in the younger years? And what sounds safer for a high schooler that's a new driver on an icy winter evening? Driving on congested 66 to avoid dealing with ice on windy, narrow Waples Mill or Fox Mill Roads or taking literally three turns on major, easy to drive on roads to get home? It's a no brainer! |
20171 is also a Navy zip code fwiw |
You are in the minority. And don't tell me you live in Folkstone. That's literally a straight shot with one left turn to get to Carson/Skyview. I know the Crossfield boundaries and you cannot convince me that Oakton is closer/easier for the majority of people who are zoned to Crossfield. Maybe we should listen to PP's argument about people East of West Ox/Reston Parkway vs those of us West of it. Fine, make Crossfield a split feeder. You guys can stay at Oakton. |
You STILL live closer to Carson than Franklin in this case, PP. |
You are digging yourself into a hole, RIO mom. Just stop. No amount of arguing is going to make your case legitimate. |
Dp. She may not even be RIO. You sound unhinged with your conspiracy theories about Navy and Fox Mill. No one wants to join in your Crossfield PTA mom wars. |