Skyview High School Admin Staff Posted

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of Oakton parents are going to be disappointed when their favorite teachers move to Western. There is a lot of interest.

Doubt it. Not a Crossfield or Oakton parent, but it's clear that rankings and ratings matter to them. Those teachers aren't going to change that.

It's not about rankings/rating. It's about (1) SES (2) Race (3) Sports, not necessarily in that order. The ringleader is obsessed with her child's sports prospects. Ringleader is pretty disliked amongst other sports parents.

Skyview won't have VHSL sports for 2 years because they don't have the necessary fields. Kids will go back to their original school for sports. Not sure why they have an athletic director?

They do need to start preparing. Also they said one year, not two.

They definitely won’t have VHSL sports next year and they may or may not have them in 2027-28.

Why can't they have all of the other sports besides football?

Aren't there all the smaller fields and indoor facilities already in place?

And an adjacent county or middle school field large enough to practice football?

They could have all their football games as away games.

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They don’t have fields for soccer, field hockey and lacrosse either

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t have fields for soccer, field hockey and lacrosse either

Why lie about something so easily verifiable. Just look at it on google maps. The largest, most identifiable feature is the soccer field (which is often used for those other sports).

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t have fields for soccer, field hockey and lacrosse either

Why lie about something so easily verifiable. Just look at it on google maps. The largest, most identifiable feature is the soccer field (which is often used for those other sports).

They would also have access to the fields at Rachel Carson. And, Fairfax County Parks has fields on the other side of Mclearen.

All they need is a stadium--and it does not have to be fancy at first. Home and away bleachers, a fence and a gate. Snack bar hut.

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If having a football field or football stadium is the determinant for having VHSL, it’s going to be a lot longer than a couple of years. Where are they even going to put a football field or stadium? Take some land from Carson? They do have a nice soccer field with a track around it but I don’t see how that can be shared by so many different sports. I think about other high schools where there is a football stadium plus a football practice field that other field sports will use, plus another field or two in many cases. I would be curious to hear the plans for the land around Carson and Skyview. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it seems like it will be a slow process.

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Anonymous wrote:If having a football field or football stadium is the determinant for having VHSL, it’s going to be a lot longer than a couple of years. Where are they even going to put a football field or stadium? Take some land from Carson? They do have a nice soccer field with a track around it but I don’t see how that can be shared by so many different sports. I think about other high schools where there is a football stadium plus a football practice field that other field sports will use, plus another field or two in many cases. I would be curious to hear the plans for the land around Carson and Skyview. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it seems like it will be a slow process.

Ever been to Chantilly? There have been teams practicing off site for decades.

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They are ahead of other schools in that the swim teams can practice on site. Between Skyview and Rachel Carson there is enough land to make it work.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of Oakton parents are going to be disappointed when their favorite teachers move to Western. There is a lot of interest.

Doubt it. Not a Crossfield or Oakton parent, but it's clear that rankings and ratings matter to them. Those teachers aren't going to change that.

It's not about rankings/rating. It's about (1) SES (2) Race (3) Sports, not necessarily in that order. The ringleader is obsessed with her child's sports prospects. Ringleader is pretty disliked amongst other sports parents.

Skyview won't have VHSL sports for 2 years because they don't have the necessary fields. Kids will go back to their original school for sports. Not sure why they have an athletic director?

They do need to start preparing. Also they said one year, not two.

They definitely won’t have VHSL sports next year and they may or may not have them in 2027-28.

Why can't they have all of the other sports besides football?

Aren't there all the smaller fields and indoor facilities already in place?

And an adjacent county or middle school field large enough to practice football?

They could have all their football games as away games.

VHSL won’t let them have some sports and then send kids to other schools for the sports they don’t have. It is ll or nothing. They wouldn’t have enough kids even with 1,000 kids to have all the sports. They are hoping to get to 1,500 kids in year 2 so that they have the kids for all the sports.

Instead of having some sports but not all, they are going the route to allow kids to participate in all sports even if it is at a different school for a year, maybe two. There is no easy answer to this one.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of Oakton parents are going to be disappointed when their favorite teachers move to Western. There is a lot of interest.

Doubt it. Not a Crossfield or Oakton parent, but it's clear that rankings and ratings matter to them. Those teachers aren't going to change that.

It's not about rankings/rating. It's about (1) SES (2) Race (3) Sports, not necessarily in that order. The ringleader is obsessed with her child's sports prospects. Ringleader is pretty disliked amongst other sports parents.

Skyview won't have VHSL sports for 2 years because they don't have the necessary fields. Kids will go back to their original school for sports. Not sure why they have an athletic director?

They do need to start preparing. Also they said one year, not two.

They definitely won’t have VHSL sports next year and they may or may not have them in 2027-28.

Why can't they have all of the other sports besides football?

Aren't there all the smaller fields and indoor facilities already in place?

And an adjacent county or middle school field large enough to practice football?

They could have all their football games as away games.

VHSL won’t let them have some sports and then send kids to other schools for the sports they don’t have. It is ll or nothing. They wouldn’t have enough kids even with 1,000 kids to have all the sports. They are hoping to get to 1,500 kids in year 2 so that they have the kids for all the sports.

Instead of having some sports but not all, they are going the route to allow kids to participate in all sports even if it is at a different school for a year, maybe two. There is no easy answer to this one.

It doesn’t sound like they’ll have anywhere close to 500 sophomores this fall, so they probably won’t have 1500 kids in 2027-28. This is a very slow ramp-up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of Oakton parents are going to be disappointed when their favorite teachers move to Western. There is a lot of interest.

Doubt it. Not a Crossfield or Oakton parent, but it's clear that rankings and ratings matter to them. Those teachers aren't going to change that.

It's not about rankings/rating. It's about (1) SES (2) Race (3) Sports, not necessarily in that order. The ringleader is obsessed with her child's sports prospects. Ringleader is pretty disliked amongst other sports parents.

Skyview won't have VHSL sports for 2 years because they don't have the necessary fields. Kids will go back to their original school for sports. Not sure why they have an athletic director?

They do need to start preparing. Also they said one year, not two.

They definitely won’t have VHSL sports next year and they may or may not have them in 2027-28.

Why can't they have all of the other sports besides football?

Aren't there all the smaller fields and indoor facilities already in place?

And an adjacent county or middle school field large enough to practice football?

They could have all their football games as away games.

VHSL won’t let them have some sports and then send kids to other schools for the sports they don’t have. It is ll or nothing. They wouldn’t have enough kids even with 1,000 kids to have all the sports. They are hoping to get to 1,500 kids in year 2 so that they have the kids for all the sports.

Instead of having some sports but not all, they are going the route to allow kids to participate in all sports even if it is at a different school for a year, maybe two. There is no easy answer to this one.

Agree that once they have sports they would not let kids go to other schools for sports they do not have.

However, there are schools that do not have all sports.

But, they need football because so much of high school revolves around it--fall cheerleading, Spirit Days, Homecoming, etc--though Homecoming for a new school is not exactly needed. I went to a new school--I'll have to dig out my yearbook because I cannot remember Homecoming, though we did have football with a junior class.

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Anonymous wrote:If having a football field or football stadium is the determinant for having VHSL, it’s going to be a lot longer than a couple of years. Where are they even going to put a football field or stadium? Take some land from Carson? They do have a nice soccer field with a track around it but I don’t see how that can be shared by so many different sports. I think about other high schools where there is a football stadium plus a football practice field that other field sports will use, plus another field or two in many cases. I would be curious to hear the plans for the land around Carson and Skyview. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it seems like it will be a slow process.

Ever been to Chantilly? There have been teams practicing off site for decades.

But they do have a football field and stadium. So I assume it's other teams practicing off site? Right now Skyview only has a soccer field which doesn't seem like it could be converted to a football field/stadium.. not a ton of space around it. So then where does football go? It seems easier for the non-football sports to practice elsewhere, but football needs a stadium. Unless they just don't build a stadium, make the soccer field a hybrid soccer/other sports/practice football field (if that's possible with the current dimensions) and Skyview has games somewhere else? And then they would still need another field or two for other sports to practice. I would be curious to hear their thoughts/plans on all this.

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Aren’t the kids at Skyview mostly going to be Indian-American and Hispanic? Will they really have enough kids to have F, JV, and V football? TJ has a football team but it doesn’t play a regular VHSL schedule. They play groups of home schooled kids and much smaller high schools, not other schools with 2000 students.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of Oakton parents are going to be disappointed when their favorite teachers move to Western. There is a lot of interest.

Doubt it. Not a Crossfield or Oakton parent, but it's clear that rankings and ratings matter to them. Those teachers aren't going to change that.

It's not about rankings/rating. It's about (1) SES (2) Race (3) Sports, not necessarily in that order. The ringleader is obsessed with her child's sports prospects. Ringleader is pretty disliked amongst other sports parents.

Skyview won't have VHSL sports for 2 years because they don't have the necessary fields. Kids will go back to their original school for sports. Not sure why they have an athletic director?

They do need to start preparing. Also they said one year, not two.

They definitely won’t have VHSL sports next year and they may or may not have them in 2027-28.

Why can't they have all of the other sports besides football?

Aren't there all the smaller fields and indoor facilities already in place?

And an adjacent county or middle school field large enough to practice football?

They could have all their football games as away games.

VHSL won’t let them have some sports and then send kids to other schools for the sports they don’t have. It is ll or nothing. They wouldn’t have enough kids even with 1,000 kids to have all the sports. They are hoping to get to 1,500 kids in year 2 so that they have the kids for all the sports.

Instead of having some sports but not all, they are going the route to allow kids to participate in all sports even if it is at a different school for a year, maybe two. There is no easy answer to this one.

It doesn’t sound like they’ll have anywhere close to 500 sophomores this fall, so they probably won’t have 1500 kids in 2027-28. This is a very slow ramp-up.

I'd like to see your source for this. Numbers haven't been released anywhere. For all we know they have 450 and just have room for 50 more. You are speculating.

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Anonymous wrote:If having a football field or football stadium is the determinant for having VHSL, it’s going to be a lot longer than a couple of years. Where are they even going to put a football field or stadium? Take some land from Carson? They do have a nice soccer field with a track around it but I don’t see how that can be shared by so many different sports. I think about other high schools where there is a football stadium plus a football practice field that other field sports will use, plus another field or two in many cases. I would be curious to hear the plans for the land around Carson and Skyview. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it seems like it will be a slow process.

Ever been to Chantilly? There have been teams practicing off site for decades.

But they do have a football field and stadium. So I assume it's other teams practicing off site? Right now Skyview only has a soccer field which doesn't seem like it could be converted to a football field/stadium.. not a ton of space around it. So then where does football go? It seems easier for the non-football sports to practice elsewhere, but football needs a stadium. Unless they just don't build a stadium, make the soccer field a hybrid soccer/other sports/practice football field (if that's possible with the current dimensions) and Skyview has games somewhere else? And then they would still need another field or two for other sports to practice. I would be curious to hear their thoughts/plans on all this.

Soccer and football share the same field at most high schools. The field they have is perfectly suitable for football practice. They'll need more stands for games, but they can play their "home" games at a different stadium until theirs is ready.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the kids at Skyview mostly going to be Indian-American and Hispanic? Will they really have enough kids to have F, JV, and V football? TJ has a football team but it doesn’t play a regular VHSL schedule. They play groups of home schooled kids and much smaller high schools, not other schools with 2000 students.

1. Your demographics are incorrect. You must not be familiar with the areas around the school. All ethnicities are fairly represented.
2. You are wrong about the football schedule at TJ. (And, yes, there are Indian Americans who do play football there.) No homeschools on the schedule that I know of. Certainly, they play smaller schools and this is possible for Skyview in the first years, but soon enough it should be in full force. See TJ schedule for yourself:
https://www.northernregionva.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?cwellOnly=1&G5statusflag=view&schoolname=&school_id=9&G5button=13&G5genie=202&vw_schoolyear=1&vw_agl=31-1-48,&manual_access=1