Is Western high school going to be sought after?

[Anonymous]

I think the farms rate will very low based on what I saw at the open house. What’s the farms rate of TJ? That’s what I saw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the farms rate will very low based on what I saw at the open house. What’s the farms rate of TJ? That’s what I saw.

The FARMs rate will be about 25%, McNair and Coates are moving to Western and they are both high FARMs rate schools. I would guess that most of the people at the open house came from Crossfield, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill with fewer people coming from McNair and Coates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the farms rate will very low based on what I saw at the open house. What’s the farms rate of TJ? That’s what I saw.

The FARMs rate will be about 25%, McNair and Coates are moving to Western and they are both high FARMs rate schools. I would guess that most of the people at the open house came from Crossfield, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill with fewer people coming from McNair and Coates.

Yes, eventually. It will be lower at first when it’s based on the opt-ins. That will make some of the Carson families happy. Then it will inch up over time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the farms rate will very low based on what I saw at the open house. What’s the farms rate of TJ? That’s what I saw.

The FARMs rate will be about 25%, McNair and Coates are moving to Western and they are both high FARMs rate schools. I would guess that most of the people at the open house came from Crossfield, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill with fewer people coming from McNair and Coates.

Yes, eventually. It will be lower at first when it’s based on the opt-ins. That will make some of the Carson families happy. Then it will inch up over time.

LOL. You seem very anxious to promote that.
About a third of Coates's FARMS will be at Herndon High. They already go to Herndon. It will be fine. Like Carson. And, Coates numbers have been going down every year on FARMS.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I was a FARMS student growing up and these days my annual comp package is over 7-figures with incentive comp so there might a few bright kids in this group of misfits no one wants. Never can tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the farms rate will very low based on what I saw at the open house. What’s the farms rate of TJ? That’s what I saw.

The FARMs rate will be about 25%, McNair and Coates are moving to Western and they are both high FARMs rate schools. I would guess that most of the people at the open house came from Crossfield, Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill with fewer people coming from McNair and Coates.

Yes, eventually. It will be lower at first when it’s based on the opt-ins. That will make some of the Carson families happy. Then it will inch up over time.

LOL. You seem very anxious to promote that.
About a third of Coates's FARMS will be at Herndon High. They already go to Herndon. It will be fine. Like Carson. And, Coates numbers have been going down every year on FARMS.

To the contrary, I’m just being objective. You’re the one who seems obsessed with promoting how low the FARMS rate will be at Western. It’s screams insecure striver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, I was a FARMS student growing up and these days my annual comp package is over 7-figures with incentive comp so there might a few bright kids in this group of misfits no one wants. Never can tell.

No one is saying there isn't. Just playing the law of averages. Of course you know that. I was a FARMS kid too, and a valedictorian - but I still chose to buy a home zoned to a low FARMS school and you probably did too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

Or the lack of locker space

Or the classrooms that can't fit 30 people. It's no where near fitting 1000 students as is. That will require additoinal buildings or turning 1 of the 3 gyms into classroom space. I can see this project balooning out of control cost wise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

The TWO multi level indoor-outdoor cafeterias with flex bleacher seating as well near rising up to ping pong and foosball table overviews? Or maybe you were looking at two of their auxiliary gyms which are larger than many high school gyms but the main gym is an enormous light filled space with bleachers. What exactly are they going to renovate? The large modern clean weight room? The Olympic sized pool? Scientific vent hoods you only see in colleges? 4 robotics labs? Ceramics labs and soundproof music rooms? I mean sorry, other than taking away some signs with Arabic I’m not sure what to renovate. Maybe some of the pods they did not show us had smaller desks and chairs but I think they can solve that. The library - I’ll be honest, who cares? Who uses a physical library anymore? Are we worried the card catalog won’t fit? Can’t get the whole Dewey decimal display up? The library should be a computer and a kindle. Done.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe they aren’t doing much to the Building.

The conniving snake that is Michelle Reid is getting her way, brainwashing you into wanting g a smaller high school to avoid lawsuits from Oakton parents.

Not including Fox Mill is insanity by the way.

And mind you, we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors selling the land to the Saudi’s, who then built the KAA, and went bankrupt, most likely because of sensitivities surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict.

FCPS snuck in and blindsided us with this purchase, and now they want us to fight again over the fact that in a 16 year time span or so, this high school has been in the back of their heads until FCPS got lucky.

They love seeing Oakton parents fight, South Lakes parents kick and Scream, Westfield Parents in shock, and certainly love to give Chantilly some form of false hope, as we don’t know what’s to come of them after Western opens.

This county is surrounded by sociopaths, Democrat and Republican alike, and we are being torn apart out here in the west because of the blindside that is Western High School!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

Or the lack of locker space

Or the classrooms that can't fit 30 people. It's no where near fitting 1000 students as is. That will require additoinal buildings or turning 1 of the 3 gyms into classroom space. I can see this project balooning out of control cost wise.

We’ll see what’s to come.

Michelle Reid will probably find new ways to screw us over, so buckle up because this is going to be a long and tumultuous ride unforeseen by FCPS (the dummies in the board), but that we are used to and have to deal with cyclically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

Or the lack of locker space

Or the classrooms that can't fit 30 people. It's no where near fitting 1000 students as is. That will require additoinal buildings or turning 1 of the 3 gyms into classroom space. I can see this project balooning out of control cost wise.

NP. I don't believe the school will open in the Fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

They had the academics, transportation, and athletics people in the gym. We all saw it. They have two out building that tey can use creatively. Maybe the library goes into one of those buildings and the existing library space is used for classroom space.

I doubt that they keep all of the pods but I can see keeping some of them and using them for combined classes, like Chantilly’s English/History class. My husband pointed out that they can schedule A/B days to make use of the pods more efficiently.

They will have to do some remodeling, I am not certain why they have not started but I don’t understand the permit process or the inability of FCPS to do what they should be doing. It is frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have doubts that they are going to lie to the entire inaugural population of the school. They said the model will be interdisciplinary learning with integration of traditional subjects and special pathways and had a sample pod set up to show what they meant. They are adapting to the space - they aren't going to gut the entire school to make a rows and rows of square classrooms, they are going to adapt the model to the facilities. I honestly saw very little that will need to be renovated. I think they will size classes to fit the spaces. Based on the turnout - I think they are going to have plenty of opts in and no one will be disrupted who doesn't want to be. The only ones they may lose are the sports-centric kids.

Then you didn't see the cafeteria(s) or library, did you? Or the gym without high school sized bleachers.

Or the lack of locker space

Or the classrooms that can't fit 30 people. It's no where near fitting 1000 students as is. That will require additoinal buildings or turning 1 of the 3 gyms into classroom space. I can see this project balooning out of control cost wise.

NP. I don't believe the school will open in the Fall.

Only way school opens in the fall is if the intent is to have a magnet school.