FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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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.

And this fight was simply going to occur if the mythical West County ever materialized. Well, voila!