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Anonymous
They are only asking to stay at an AP high school. There are parents who want to be moved to Chantilly, but it’s not the consensus position in the neighborhood—there are many parents who want to stay at Westfield. The efforts are primarily aimed at keeping the same elementary school. |
Anonymous
Isn’t that exactly what Scenario 1 gives them? They remain Oak Hill/Carson/Westfield. The article only refers to Chantilly HS and doesn’t mention that they currently go to Westfield, an AP school. I understand the neighborhood is divided on their goals, but the campaign is extremely obvious and deliberate. |
Anonymous
Also, quite doubtful that many kids from there bike to Oak Hill. It is a dark wooded trail. |
Anonymous
There has been a parent on these forums for quite a while who seems to especially hate the split feeder at Carson. That neighborhood is a very small portion of the membership at Oak Hill. |
Anonymous
And they have to “cross” the Fairfax County Parkway to get to Fox Mills when that’s via an overpass. |
Anonymous
It is a nice community, but it is rather isolated from all the other neighborhoods in that area. And, part of that neighborhood is part of Bradley Farms. I'm not sure of the breakdown of that. Bradley Farms is split by roads into three areas, but one of them is absorbed into Emerald Chase--or vice versa. It is very difficult to tell the difference. The sign says Emerald Chase. |
Anonymous
No, they are at an AP school right now, Westfield. If they were fighting to stay at Oak Hill and Westfield, people would be fine. They don't want to move to Fox Mill and SLHS. Their solution is to stay at Oak Hill and move to Chantilly. It is that last bit that is angering people. I don't doubt that it is not the entire community but there is agroup actively trying to move to one of the overcrowded schools that needs to shed people. So their solution is to force other people to move so they can move to Chantilly, which coincidently has higher test scores then Westfield. As a SLHS parent, I get it. I would be happy if they pushed hard to drop IB at SLHS because I would join them in that. But the Let us stay at our preferred ES and move to a better HS shtick is BS. |
Anonymous
Scenario one moves them to Fox Mill ES and then South Lakes, they MS remains the same. This is a group of families that was moved from Floris to Oak Hill not long ago, so I understand not wanting to change ES again. They don't want IB, which I fully understand, but theya re not asking to stay at Westfield, they are trying to move to Chantilly. |
Anonymous
I do remember that when Emerald Chase was moved to Oak Hill from Floris(?) that they asked to be moved to Chantilly. At that time, Westfield was rated higher than Chantilly. I understood the request because I think it was to stay with the elementary community--which does seem logical. And, Chantilly is closer. They were shut down. I don't remember exactly, but I think this is when the rest of that area was left in Floris. |
Anonymous
Scenario One keeps Emerald Chase at Oak Hill. The only change in that one is Oak Hill picking up the Navy island. There is probably an argument to be made that more of Floris north of West Ox could be sent to Fox Mills, since much of that neighborhood is chopped up to the point that next door neighbors attend different elementary schools. Then Emerald Chase could move back to Floris. It still puts a wrench in their plans to funnel students out of Westfield. If AP is truly the issue (which I doubt) there’s always Herndon’s empty seats. |
Anonymous
Go find the videos from the 2008 boundary study. Parents redistricted from Westfield begged to have South Lakes adopt AP. Mostly Asian speakers. They were ignored. |
Anonymous
I have no idea what scenario moves Emerald Chase to Fox Mill but one of them does. It is the move to Fox Mill that triggers the move to South lakes, which is what triggered this. They don't want to move to South Lakes. There is a group in Emerald Chase that is slated to move to Fox Mill/Carson/South Lakes. And yes, it is the same group that was moved from Floris to Oak Hill. I get their wanting to stay at Oak Hill because they have been moved but their ask to move to Chantilly is bogus. |
Anonymous
Those of us in Fox Mill Woods would LOVE not to be moved to Oakton and Rachel Carson in the scenarios 2 and 3. It's absurd that this is even on the table. Our secondary kids are in the middle of the IB MYP or IB program. Langston Hughes and South Lakes are ONE MILE away. And we live in Reston, not Oakton. Are they going to send busses down Hunter Mill and Vale just for the 10 kids in our neighborhood who attend MS/HS at any given time when we're on an existing bus route? Emerald Chase people -- we want to team up with you. Our situation is as absurd as yours. We can walk to Crossfield and our neighborhood is split on staying there or not (all scenarios keep us there) versus moving to Hunters Woods. But what we know is that we all want to stay in Hughes and South Lakes. And scenario 3 overenrolls Oakton and gives us a 5 mile bus ride. Absurd. I don't know who these morons at Thru Consulting are, but they're terrible at their jobs and the school board never should have taken this on. Fix Coates and a few weird situations, but dont upend the whole county. |
Anonymous
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Thru is just as good a consulting firm as Michelle Reid is a superintendent. And Reid is just as good a superintendent as Karl Frisch, Sandy Anderson, Kyle McDaniel, and Robyn Lady are School Board members.
If you continue to elect low quality board members don’t be surprised when you get low quality employees and low quality consultants. |
Anonymous
Thanks for the helpful and totally not politically motivated response. |