FCPS Skyview Boundary Revised Scenario 1 / 2

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Anonymous wrote:I think Crossfield families are going to feel betrayed in the not-too-distant future when Skyview turns out to be a really good school and their kids lost out on going to Carson and there, only to end up at South Lakes when Oakton is overcrowded even more. They'll be the new sacrificial lambs to get the SLHS scores back up.

At which point we get to pay to bus them past Fox Mill to get to SLHS.

i don’t think that’s right. crossfield is east of fox mill. if you moved crossfield to skyview they would go past fox mill but they won’t going to SLHS. if you look at a map there is zero reason they should be at oakton. they didn’t want skyview so looks like they’ll get south lakes

Much of Crossfield is in Franklin Farms - beyond Fox Mill on Reston Parkway.

The school is east of Fox Mill. The neighborhoods, with one exception, are west. To go down Reston Parkway towards South Lakes they would pass Fox Mill on the west, but would not go through Fox Mill neighborhoods.
Some of Crossfield neighborhoods are quite close to South Lakes.

Yes, the ones that already go there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, will rising 7th graders from crossfield have to go to Carson for a year and then move to Franklin for 8th grade?

Do boundary changes start in 27-28? And are older kids all grandfathered in to their high schools? Will South Lakes families who want to participate in the IB program get to stay there? Some of our neighbors specifically moved to this neighborhood because of South Lakes. I know they're in the minority, but they're pretty disappointed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, will rising 7th graders from crossfield have to go to Carson for a year and then move to Franklin for 8th grade?

Do boundary changes start in 27-28? And are older kids all grandfathered in to their high schools? Will South Lakes families who want to participate in the IB program get to stay there? Some of our neighbors specifically moved to this neighborhood because of South Lakes. I know they're in the minority, but they're pretty disappointed.

They should be able to pupil place there with no problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Crossfield families are going to feel betrayed in the not-too-distant future when Skyview turns out to be a really good school and their kids lost out on going to Carson and there, only to end up at South Lakes when Oakton is overcrowded even more. They'll be the new sacrificial lambs to get the SLHS scores back up.

At which point we get to pay to bus them past Fox Mill to get to SLHS.

i don’t think that’s right. crossfield is east of fox mill. if you moved crossfield to skyview they would go past fox mill but they won’t going to SLHS. if you look at a map there is zero reason they should be at oakton. they didn’t want skyview so looks like they’ll get south lakes

Much of Crossfield is in Franklin Farms - beyond Fox Mill on Reston Parkway.

The school is east of Fox Mill. The neighborhoods, with one exception, are west. To go down Reston Parkway towards South Lakes they would pass Fox Mill on the west, but would not go through Fox Mill neighborhoods.
Some of Crossfield neighborhoods are quite close to South Lakes.

Yes, the ones that already go there

Oh, there are plenty that are very close. Folkstone area and those off Reston Parkway between Folkstone and Fox Mill Rd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield, which has the largest HS building capacity in the county, will now be in the bottom 10 of HS’s population wise. Meanwhile at least 5 schools in the county at over or near capacity…. What the hell are we doing? Why bother to start another HS when you are wasting one. FCPS can’t get out of their own way.

Some of Bull Run is equidistant to Centreville and Westfield. They also share boundaries with Westfield elementary schools. And, Centreville is not a large building.
The one neighborhood they picked for Westfield is closer to Centreville than most of Bull Run. It makes no sense at all.

The neighborhood *Seema Dixit* picked to move-which is just one low income apartment building.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield, which has the largest HS building capacity in the county, will now be in the bottom 10 of HS’s population wise. Meanwhile at least 5 schools in the county at over or near capacity…. What the hell are we doing? Why bother to start another HS when you are wasting one. FCPS can’t get out of their own way.

Some of Bull Run is equidistant to Centreville and Westfield. They also share boundaries with Westfield elementary schools. And, Centreville is not a large building.
The one neighborhood they picked for Westfield is closer to Centreville than most of Bull Run. It makes no sense at all.

The neighborhood *Seema Dixit* picked to move-which is just one low income apartment building.

There’s been a line of school board members cherry picking neighborhoods to move in or out of their favored schools. Kathy Smith and Elaine Tholen specialized in this.

No point in slogging through all those boring meetings on the FCPS budget if you can’t occasionally engage in some good old fashioned self-dealing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think Crossfield families are going to feel betrayed in the not-too-distant future when Skyview turns out to be a really good school and their kids lost out on going to Carson and there, only to end up at South Lakes when Oakton is overcrowded even more. They'll be the new sacrificial lambs to get the SLHS scores back up.

At which point we get to pay to bus them past Fox Mill to get to SLHS.

i don’t think that’s right. crossfield is east of fox mill. if you moved crossfield to skyview they would go past fox mill but they won’t going to SLHS. if you look at a map there is zero reason they should be at oakton. they didn’t want skyview so looks like they’ll get south lakes

Much of Crossfield is in Franklin Farms - beyond Fox Mill on Reston Parkway.

The school is east of Fox Mill. The neighborhoods, with one exception, are west. To go down Reston Parkway towards South Lakes they would pass Fox Mill on the west, but would not go through Fox Mill neighborhoods.
Some of Crossfield neighborhoods are quite close to South Lakes.

Yes, the ones that already go there

Oh, there are plenty that are very close. Folkstone area and those off Reston Parkway between Folkstone and Fox Mill Rd.

Very close? Much closer than Oakton yes but Folkstone is not very close to South Lakes.

[Anonymous]

Poll result:

Scenario 1: 26%
Scenario 2: 74%

[Anonymous]

Many Crossfield parents in the meeting.

They are very against Scenario 1.

Fox Mill families support both scenarios.

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There will be only ONE scenario in the next round.

June 16.

[Anonymous]

Many people agree the revised scenarios are better than the original three scenarios.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Crossfield families are going to feel betrayed in the not-too-distant future when Skyview turns out to be a really good school and their kids lost out on going to Carson and there, only to end up at South Lakes when Oakton is overcrowded even more. They'll be the new sacrificial lambs to get the SLHS scores back up.

At which point we get to pay to bus them past Fox Mill to get to SLHS.

i don’t think that’s right. crossfield is east of fox mill. if you moved crossfield to skyview they would go past fox mill but they won’t going to SLHS. if you look at a map there is zero reason they should be at oakton. they didn’t want skyview so looks like they’ll get south lakes

Idiot who clearly doesn't live here. Most people who go to Crossfield have to pass Fox Mill Estates to get to the school. Many Crossfield families live closer to Skyview than Many Fox Mill families (and the other way around, too). We live closer to Fox Mill ES, Oak Hill ES, some of us even live closer to Navy ES, than we do to Crossfield ES. The boundaries for our school suck.

maybe they should change elementary boundaries so they make sense then. either way leaving crossfield at oakton is stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poll result:

Scenario 1: 26%
Scenario 2: 74%

Scenario 2 opens Skyview with only 1760 students from within the boundary.

This has been structured to validate Reid’s goal of a hybrid model where hundreds of kids are pupil placing from outside the boundary for the pathways program.

Could mean lots of extra vehicles clogging up the area - at a school that currently doesn’t have a normal-sized parking lot.

And I wonder what they’ll do if this plan so guts Westfield that a lot of Westfield families who remain within the school’s boundaries try to pupil place to Skyview.

[Anonymous]

Is there. Q and a at the meeting? Ask who edited the maps after they were published.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poll result:

Scenario 1: 26%
Scenario 2: 74%

Scenario 2 opens Skyview with only 1760 students from within the boundary.

This has been structured to validate Reid’s goal of a hybrid model where hundreds of kids are pupil placing from outside the boundary for the pathways program.

Could mean lots of extra vehicles clogging up the area - at a school that currently doesn’t have a normal-sized parking lot.

And I wonder what they’ll do if this plan so guts Westfield that a lot of Westfield families who remain within the school’s boundaries try to pupil place to Skyview.

Not necessarily. There is a lot of development in that area right around Coates/Floris border (supposed future silver line elementary) that will add a lot of kids in a few years so I think those numbers make sense.