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

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Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

What are you going on about? A new neighborhood HS in western Fairfax has been discussed for years, was in the CIP for over a decade, and was agreed upon by the School Board as the intended use of KAA shortly after its purchase. No one is claiming they have a “god/given right to the school.” They are simply asking FCPS to honor its years-long commitment and not change course merely because some parents are throwing a hissy fit over the possibility of being redistricted.

And lo, Szymanski replied, “thoust has seen thine future traditional school in the CIP, and the lord proclaimed it thus and the angels sang from Heaven.” Thy CIP will be done. Amen.

Do you realize how entitled you sound, especially with all the pushback a traditional school is getting from neighbors on multiple fronts?

There is only one person that sounds entitled in this conversation and it is not the person you're quoting. From my understanding, the neighbors who are zoned to this school (for sure Floris, Coates, McNair, and many from Oak Hill, Fox Mill, and Crossfield) are all very excited about this school. Maybe other people in impacted areas (looking at you, Centerville mom) are upset, but the immediate neighbors of this school are happy about it.

I am not sure how it is that the Centerville parents were caught off guard by potential moves to Westfield. This has been discussed since the entire process started. Westfield was going to be moving students to Skyview and Cetnerville would ba backfilling those students. That is how Centerville is able to go from over capacity to a reasonable number of students. It is why people have been saying that Centreville doesn't need the expansion and only renovation.

The purpose of Skyview is to relive over crowding and at capacity schools in Western Fairfax. Chantilly is moving students to Skyview and Centerville is moving students to Westfield. Both of the over capacity schools see relief. The schools at capacity, Westfield and SLHS, drop in numbers so that they are not close to being over capacity any time soon.

Relieving over crowding was the whole point. Did Centreville families think that they were going to stay at an over crowded school when there was now space at Westfield?

Its Centreville.
Everyone doesn't live online. People are going about their lives, hear vaguely something about a new school all the way up in Herndon somewhere (and nowhere near Centreville) and it doesn't even cross their mind that there will be some domino effect with kids moving here or there.

Especially considering when they bought this school, the PR pushed out by FCPS was that it was to relieve Herndon kids from having to travel all the way to Oakton and overcrowded Chantilly HS. Why would anyone at Centreville think this would result in them being moved out of their school? People aren't poring over maps and SPAs all day. People hear "new school" "Herndon "Oakton" and think "sounds like a great idea" and move on with their thoughts.

Agree with this. 99% of people aren't paying attention to things outside of their day to day. Look how surprised the Lees Corner people to be moved were even though they are at a crowded school right near Skyview.

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Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

What are you going on about? A new neighborhood HS in western Fairfax has been discussed for years, was in the CIP for over a decade, and was agreed upon by the School Board as the intended use of KAA shortly after its purchase. No one is claiming they have a “god/given right to the school.” They are simply asking FCPS to honor its years-long commitment and not change course merely because some parents are throwing a hissy fit over the possibility of being redistricted.

And lo, Szymanski replied, “thoust has seen thine future traditional school in the CIP, and the lord proclaimed it thus and the angels sang from Heaven.” Thy CIP will be done. Amen.

Do you realize how entitled you sound, especially with all the pushback a traditional school is getting from neighbors on multiple fronts?

There is only one person that sounds entitled in this conversation and it is not the person you're quoting. From my understanding, the neighbors who are zoned to this school (for sure Floris, Coates, McNair, and many from Oak Hill, Fox Mill, and Crossfield) are all very excited about this school. Maybe other people in impacted areas (looking at you, Centerville mom) are upset, but the immediate neighbors of this school are happy about it.

I am not sure how it is that the Centerville parents were caught off guard by potential moves to Westfield. This has been discussed since the entire process started. Westfield was going to be moving students to Skyview and Cetnerville would ba backfilling those students. That is how Centerville is able to go from over capacity to a reasonable number of students. It is why people have been saying that Centreville doesn't need the expansion and only renovation.

The purpose of Skyview is to relive over crowding and at capacity schools in Western Fairfax. Chantilly is moving students to Skyview and Centerville is moving students to Westfield. Both of the over capacity schools see relief. The schools at capacity, Westfield and SLHS, drop in numbers so that they are not close to being over capacity any time soon.

Relieving over crowding was the whole point. Did Centreville families think that they were going to stay at an over crowded school when there was now space at Westfield?

Its Centreville.
Everyone doesn't live online. People are going about their lives, hear vaguely something about a new school all the way up in Herndon somewhere (and nowhere near Centreville) and it doesn't even cross their mind that there will be some domino effect with kids moving here or there.

The permit process for renovations has been a mess. I know that there has been discussion at those meetings about not needing the expansion since Centreville kids where going to be shifted to Westfield due to the Skyview purchase. This was discussed. I saw it on FB in this topic and on Nextdoor. Centreville was one of the 5 schools that was given the initial option of opting in because it was one of the 5 schools that was going to be impacted by Skyview.

I am sorry, but how so many of you missed this is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

What are you going on about? A new neighborhood HS in western Fairfax has been discussed for years, was in the CIP for over a decade, and was agreed upon by the School Board as the intended use of KAA shortly after its purchase. No one is claiming they have a “god/given right to the school.” They are simply asking FCPS to honor its years-long commitment and not change course merely because some parents are throwing a hissy fit over the possibility of being redistricted.

And lo, Szymanski replied, “thoust has seen thine future traditional school in the CIP, and the lord proclaimed it thus and the angels sang from Heaven.” Thy CIP will be done. Amen.

Do you realize how entitled you sound, especially with all the pushback a traditional school is getting from neighbors on multiple fronts?

There is only one person that sounds entitled in this conversation and it is not the person you're quoting. From my understanding, the neighbors who are zoned to this school (for sure Floris, Coates, McNair, and many from Oak Hill, Fox Mill, and Crossfield) are all very excited about this school. Maybe other people in impacted areas (looking at you, Centerville mom) are upset, but the immediate neighbors of this school are happy about it.

I am not sure how it is that the Centerville parents were caught off guard by potential moves to Westfield. This has been discussed since the entire process started. Westfield was going to be moving students to Skyview and Cetnerville would ba backfilling those students. That is how Centerville is able to go from over capacity to a reasonable number of students. It is why people have been saying that Centreville doesn't need the expansion and only renovation.

The purpose of Skyview is to relive over crowding and at capacity schools in Western Fairfax. Chantilly is moving students to Skyview and Centerville is moving students to Westfield. Both of the over capacity schools see relief. The schools at capacity, Westfield and SLHS, drop in numbers so that they are not close to being over capacity any time soon.

Relieving over crowding was the whole point. Did Centreville families think that they were going to stay at an over crowded school when there was now space at Westfield?

Its Centreville.
Everyone doesn't live online. People are going about their lives, hear vaguely something about a new school all the way up in Herndon somewhere (and nowhere near Centreville) and it doesn't even cross their mind that there will be some domino effect with kids moving here or there.

Especially considering when they bought this school, the PR pushed out by FCPS was that it was to relieve Herndon kids from having to travel all the way to Oakton and overcrowded Chantilly HS. Why would anyone at Centreville think this would result in them being moved out of their school? People aren't poring over maps and SPAs all day. People hear "new school" "Herndon "Oakton" and think "sounds like a great idea" and move on with their thoughts.

Agree with this. 99% of people aren't paying attention to things outside of their day to day. Look how surprised the Lees Corner people to be moved were even though they are at a crowded school right near Skyview.

Lees Corner is surprising because the move that has been suggested is flat out stupid. Fox Mill has been surprised that the new plan split up the ES and is suggesting sending walkers from FMES to Crossfield on a bus. The ES moves that have been suggested are, well, crazy and unnecessary. Lees Corner was not in any of the original boundary maps and even in all the speculation people struggled with how to go about moving them.

Centreville and Chantilly moving students out is what the purchase of the school was all about. How Centreville families didn't see that some where going to be moving to Westfield is beyond most of us. It has been discussed in a number of the Western HS threads.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So just to be clear, there is no mechanism to prevent someone from submitting 1000 comments on the boundary tool. ???

The board members have been talking to actual people and recieving real feedback. The boundary tool isn't the only way they're gauging interest.

But if you have the time and desire to submit 1000 comments, no one is stopping you, I guess...

Have they been?? I don’t think so.

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It seems like as soon as Reid or an SB member is confronted about a specific neighborhood, they immediately cave. Not really sure how that's effective leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like as soon as Reid or an SB member is confronted about a specific neighborhood, they immediately cave. Not really sure how that's effective leadership.

Yeah, exactly. School board members should never listen to the public. For that matter, we should really just get rid of democracy. We should just be told to shut up as the school board destroys a once revered school system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

DP, but the PP was correct, option 2 won overwhelmingly at both meetings.

Even if you were at both meetings, how do you make this assertion? Was there a vote amongst all attendees (in person and zoom) that quantified the support?

Each breakout room had a spokesperson that had to speak to the larger group and answer what scenario their group favored and what factor was most important in the decision, and every spokesperson said Scenario 2 for the most part. And the number one factor that came up was distance/proximity to school. Everyone agreed it didn’t make sense to pull kids out high schools that were much closer to them geographically and send then to one further away.

Were you asleep during the meeting or did you not attend?

And that happened at both meetings? Are these meetings recorded online?

Yep. I have no idea if the meetings are recorded. So essentially you weren’t there so you don’t know and you can’t say that’s not true. So STFU.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

DP, but the PP was correct, option 2 won overwhelmingly at both meetings.

Even if you were at both meetings, how do you make this assertion? Was there a vote amongst all attendees (in person and zoom) that quantified the support?

Each breakout room had a spokesperson that had to speak to the larger group and answer what scenario their group favored and what factor was most important in the decision, and every spokesperson said Scenario 2 for the most part. And the number one factor that came up was distance/proximity to school. Everyone agreed it didn’t make sense to pull kids out high schools that were much closer to them geographically and send then to one further away.

Were you asleep during the meeting or did you not attend?

And that happened at both meetings? Are these meetings recorded online?

Yep. I have no idea if the meetings are recorded. So essentially you weren’t there so you don’t know and you can’t say that’s not true. So STFU.

Option 2 won at 82% of the polling

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like as soon as Reid or an SB member is confronted about a specific neighborhood, they immediately cave. Not really sure how that's effective leadership.

Yeah, exactly. School board members should never listen to the public. For that matter, we should really just get rid of democracy. We should just be told to shut up as the school board destroys a once revered school system.

You’re missing the point. Democracy should mean electing people entrusted to make sound decisions and accountable for bad ones.

Instead, they’ve turned everything into a free-for-all, where they typically defer to those who yell the loudest the soonest. Other people who speak up later are ignored, and they frequently fail to find out what still others who haven’t spoke up might prefer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

DP, but the PP was correct, option 2 won overwhelmingly at both meetings.

Even if you were at both meetings, how do you make this assertion? Was there a vote amongst all attendees (in person and zoom) that quantified the support?

Each breakout room had a spokesperson that had to speak to the larger group and answer what scenario their group favored and what factor was most important in the decision, and every spokesperson said Scenario 2 for the most part. And the number one factor that came up was distance/proximity to school. Everyone agreed it didn’t make sense to pull kids out high schools that were much closer to them geographically and send then to one further away.

Were you asleep during the meeting or did you not attend?

And that happened at both meetings? Are these meetings recorded online?

Yep. I have no idea if the meetings are recorded. So essentially you weren’t there so you don’t know and you can’t say that’s not true. So STFU.

Option 2 won at 82% of the polling

Philosophically, should the opinions of the people who show up for the meeting matter more than the opinions of the people who don't/can't attend?

Should every single SB or FCPS decision be put to a vote?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

What are you going on about? A new neighborhood HS in western Fairfax has been discussed for years, was in the CIP for over a decade, and was agreed upon by the School Board as the intended use of KAA shortly after its purchase. No one is claiming they have a “god/given right to the school.” They are simply asking FCPS to honor its years-long commitment and not change course merely because some parents are throwing a hissy fit over the possibility of being redistricted.

And lo, Szymanski replied, “thoust has seen thine future traditional school in the CIP, and the lord proclaimed it thus and the angels sang from Heaven.” Thy CIP will be done. Amen.

Do you realize how entitled you sound, especially with all the pushback a traditional school is getting from neighbors on multiple fronts?

You’re not fooling anyone here. A new school always gets some pushback. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t open if it’s relieving overcrowding, or that there isn’t significant support for it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like as soon as Reid or an SB member is confronted about a specific neighborhood, they immediately cave. Not really sure how that's effective leadership.

Yeah, exactly. School board members should never listen to the public. For that matter, we should really just get rid of democracy. We should just be told to shut up as the school board destroys a once revered school system.

You’re missing the point. Democracy should mean electing people entrusted to make sound decisions and accountable for bad ones.

Instead, they’ve turned everything into a free-for-all, where they typically defer to those who yell the loudest the soonest. Other people who speak up later are ignored, and they frequently fail to find out what still others who haven’t spoke up might prefer.

Agree. So tired of FCPS always listening to the people who have the biggest tantrums, instead of making hard decisions. Remember the long two years of Covid wishy washiness?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So just to be clear, there is no mechanism to prevent someone from submitting 1000 comments on the boundary tool. ???

The board members have been talking to actual people and recieving real feedback. The boundary tool isn't the only way they're gauging interest.

But if you have the time and desire to submit 1000 comments, no one is stopping you, I guess...

Fwiw, I emailed my board member about a specific concern and got a generic reply directing me to submit a comment in the boundary tool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

DP, but the PP was correct, option 2 won overwhelmingly at both meetings.

Even if you were at both meetings, how do you make this assertion? Was there a vote amongst all attendees (in person and zoom) that quantified the support?

Each breakout room had a spokesperson that had to speak to the larger group and answer what scenario their group favored and what factor was most important in the decision, and every spokesperson said Scenario 2 for the most part. And the number one factor that came up was distance/proximity to school. Everyone agreed it didn’t make sense to pull kids out high schools that were much closer to them geographically and send then to one further away.

Were you asleep during the meeting or did you not attend?

And that happened at both meetings? Are these meetings recorded online?

Yep. I have no idea if the meetings are recorded. So essentially you weren’t there so you don’t know and you can’t say that’s not true. So STFU.

Option 2 won at 82% of the polling

Philosophically, should the opinions of the people who show up for the meeting matter more than the opinions of the people who don't/can't attend?

Should every single SB or FCPS decision be put to a vote?

They offered two meetings both via zoom and in person. Having said that, the SB and FCPS failed everyone with their last minute shift and announcement which shocked every neighborhood that wasn’t in the original maps released a year ago. I don’t know why individual surveys and polls weren’t sent to each family in FCPS addressing each scenario. It’s simple and effective, but the SB and FCPS are incompetent and likely already have their minds made up. It’s all for show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should just make it part-magnet and part-mediocre school. That way, the people who believe they are owed the school can have their regional school (I.e., the ones who say: it was in the CIP, so they are required to give it to us), and we won’t have the musical chairs fight as to which additional school or two gets moved to a place they don’t want.

It’s like the immediate neighborhoods near the new school are desperately trying to throw a block party that many others don’t want to attend, and the school board is now left to figure out which kids must be forced to go.

Make it stop.

No, they absolutely should not. Overwhelming support was, and still is, behind it being a traditional school. The squabbling now is only because the school board didn't do their jobs and come up with a single map to discuss. Instead they put 3 completely different maps out there ensuring as many as people as possible would be upset by at least one of them and this is what you get.

When you say overwhelming support, you mean from your geographic area. Most people outside of that two or three elementary catchment area would be happier with a magnet school. You sound like you are one of those parents who believes that you have a god-given right to the school.

What are you going on about? A new neighborhood HS in western Fairfax has been discussed for years, was in the CIP for over a decade, and was agreed upon by the School Board as the intended use of KAA shortly after its purchase. No one is claiming they have a “god/given right to the school.” They are simply asking FCPS to honor its years-long commitment and not change course merely because some parents are throwing a hissy fit over the possibility of being redistricted.

And lo, Szymanski replied, “thoust has seen thine future traditional school in the CIP, and the lord proclaimed it thus and the angels sang from Heaven.” Thy CIP will be done. Amen.

Do you realize how entitled you sound, especially with all the pushback a traditional school is getting from neighbors on multiple fronts?

There is only one person that sounds entitled in this conversation and it is not the person you're quoting. From my understanding, the neighbors who are zoned to this school (for sure Floris, Coates, McNair, and many from Oak Hill, Fox Mill, and Crossfield) are all very excited about this school. Maybe other people in impacted areas (looking at you, Centerville mom) are upset, but the immediate neighbors of this school are happy about it.

I am not sure how it is that the Centerville parents were caught off guard by potential moves to Westfield. This has been discussed since the entire process started. Westfield was going to be moving students to Skyview and Cetnerville would ba backfilling those students. That is how Centerville is able to go from over capacity to a reasonable number of students. It is why people have been saying that Centreville doesn't need the expansion and only renovation.

The purpose of Skyview is to relive over crowding and at capacity schools in Western Fairfax. Chantilly is moving students to Skyview and Centerville is moving students to Westfield. Both of the over capacity schools see relief. The schools at capacity, Westfield and SLHS, drop in numbers so that they are not close to being over capacity any time soon.

Relieving over crowding was the whole point. Did Centreville families think that they were going to stay at an over crowded school when there was now space at Westfield?

Centreville parents were certainly on notice on what lay in store when the four original maps came out months ago, each of which moved CVHS kids to Westfield.

The opportunities to move some Centreville to Westfield and scale back the massive CVHS renovation are two of the main benefits of opening Skyview.