Skyview is Open for Opt-In from Any Rising 9th and 10th grader in Fairfax County

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Wondering if DCUM thinks that principals are currently hiring around the county. They may be interviewing, but I seriously doubt that there is much hiring right now. Some, but most hiring is done in the summer--when they have better counts.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Wondering if DCUM thinks that principals are currently hiring around the county. They may be interviewing, but I seriously doubt that there is much hiring right now. Some, but most hiring is done in the summer--when they have better counts.

The internal transfer window closed weeks ago and schools have mostly filled employees who were destaffed. The few openings now are for external applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

If they have boundaries in place that make sense, they can fill the school.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

They really need to redouble their efforts to find 1000 kids, which was the number upon which these hiring decisions were made. If they can’t do that some new hires should be de-staffed, as would happen at other schools that see enrollment declines.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

They really need to redouble their efforts to find 1000 kids, which was the number upon which these hiring decisions were made. If they can’t do that some new hires should be de-staffed, as would happen at other schools that see enrollment declines.

Except, as I have already mentioned, there are no longer positions for any destaffed employees to go back to. Also, those staff were hired based on the current enrollment numbers at the time, not 1,000 students. So instead of taking your frustrations on teachers, keep it focused on Reid and other central admin. Saying that teachers who were just hired weeks ago should be destaffed is not the answer.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t want boundaries set if they cause total chaos and disruption.

That's dumb. The boundaries must be set. They need to just set something sensible and move on.

I was a student at a new high school elsewhere 30 yeas ago. The boundaries were set. 9th grade had to go. 10th was given an option to stay or go (most went to the new school). This gave a critical mass of kids where all the typical classes were able to be offered. There were JV sports the first year then varsity the next year. It really was well run.

That is how it should have been done.
Instead, they wasted time with the magnet option and special paths.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

They really need to redouble their efforts to find 1000 kids, which was the number upon which these hiring decisions were made. If they can’t do that some new hires should be de-staffed, as would happen at other schools that see enrollment declines.

Skyview must succeed, they will run classes with 10 kids if necessary. Full spectrum of classes will be offered. Those teaching at Skyview will for at least the first year have kids that want to be there and most likely reasonable class sizes. Just the way it is going to be.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

Plus, once they set boundaries, I think there will be more "opt-ins." I don't have a ninth grader, but I would not opt in with all the uncertainty about where my neighborhood will end up.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

They really need to redouble their efforts to find 1000 kids, which was the number upon which these hiring decisions were made. If they can’t do that some new hires should be de-staffed, as would happen at other schools that see enrollment declines.

Skyview must succeed, they will run classes with 10 kids if necessary. Full spectrum of classes will be offered. Those teaching at Skyview will for at least the first year have kids that want to be there and most likely reasonable class sizes. Just the way it is going to be.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

They really need to redouble their efforts to find 1000 kids, which was the number upon which these hiring decisions were made. If they can’t do that some new hires should be de-staffed, as would happen at other schools that see enrollment declines.

Except, as I have already mentioned, there are no longer positions for any destaffed employees to go back to. Also, those staff were hired based on the current enrollment numbers at the time, not 1,000 students. So instead of taking your frustrations on teachers, keep it focused on Reid and other central admin. Saying that teachers who were just hired weeks ago should be destaffed is not the answer.

Families bear the consequences of FCPS’s bad planning all the time. They should have had a contingency plan that, if Skyview didn’t have a minimum number of kids, the school’s opening would be deferred. Further, they should be scaling the number of administrators and staff to the number of students who do show up, just like at any other school.

I’m so sick of the union reps and staff acting like Skyview is just a jobs program with absolute guarantees. If this school takes unnecessary money out of the operating budget that means fewer resources available to everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have the enrollment numbers but I do have a close friend who will be teaching at Skyview and they are pumped about what is going on there - this is a teacher with decades of experience at a highly rated HS. Skyview will absolutely offer every advanced class even if there are a handful of kids - sorry, they will. Consider it a start up cost and those handful of kids will get private school ratios. I agree they should leave it a magnet and be clear on transport at and everything changes overnight. You only have to read the western boundary thread to see what a miserable group of parents FCPS has and they will never be happy with anything. If you said it’s TJ East with centralized pick ups you’d have a waiting list. It’s the double talk that has cost them. And what, they want to force a bunch of malcontents to attend? Why? Just properly label it a magnet and get ready for crowd control. I can’t believe the amount of BS on this thread based on insiders I know there. Reid definitely f-ed this up trying to cater to masses. The people who want Skyview are tech-forward AAP kids. Stop pandering to everyone else who seem to all prefer their own school.

This is the silliest thing I’ve ever read. TJ is a regional magnet. Skyview right now is an opt-in school struggling to find kids and opening its doors to any rising 9th or 10th grader in the county with a pulse. I know you are desperate to pretend your Carson kid on a TJ waitlist will be attending some highly coveted TJ replica, but this ain’t it.

Skyview has over 400 kids registered for 9th grade, there are 250 registered for 10th grade. This shouldn't surprise anyone, not many kids want to move going into 10th grade, especially kids who are involved in sports or the arts at their current school. This is what most the people I know expected to happen. There would be 9th graders happy to move and families that would gamble that Skyview will be the in boundary school so have their kid opt-in for transportation services.

Once the boundaries are set, Skyview will be just fine. Next year is going to be small, which surprises no one since the school is 100% opt-in.

If they only have 750 or fewer kids they should not be opening a high school, even one limited to two grades. It’s a ridiculous amount of overhead per student given costs in this area.

Too late for that.

It's not too late. We're four months away from the beginning of the 2026-27 school year and students could attend their current base schools.

They've already hired 60 staff members and their positions have been filled at their current schools.

If kids are back at their base schools and not at Skyview, those schools will need more teachers. The number of students isn't changing, just their location.

We shouldn't be opening a school with few students and massive overhead just because Missy who teaches Geometry and lives in Sterling was looking forward to a shorter commute to Herndon than she has to Chantilly.

750 students spread around the district is not going to make 60 positions available, especially with several staff coming from middle and elementary school. You clearly know nothing about how school systems work.

Do you know how pathetic you sound? Skyview ought to open as a functioning high school for a reasonable number of students, not a public works program for aspiring administrators and teachers looking to jump ship.

If they can't serve more than 750 kids, we should not be opening this school. Period.

Do you know how stupid you sound? You are concerned about overhead but think returning 60 staff members to places that no longer have openings is the answer.

Also, many of those staff members supposedly jumping ship are transferring from highly rated schools.

If Skyview can't find 750 kids for this fall, it should not be opened and FCPS should figure out how to put the folks who'd expected to work there to better use. If there aren't enough kids, they aren't going to be fully occupied and we shouldn't be paying for them to twiddle their thumbs.

Based on the number of staff currently, teachers will have a full load of 5 sections to teach. The classes might be closer to 25 students instead of 30 but, don't worry, they won't be "twiddling their thumbs."

They really need to redouble their efforts to find 1000 kids, which was the number upon which these hiring decisions were made. If they can’t do that some new hires should be de-staffed, as would happen at other schools that see enrollment declines.

Skyview must succeed, they will run classes with 10 kids if necessary. Full spectrum of classes will be offered. Those teaching at Skyview will for at least the first year have kids that want to be there and most likely reasonable class sizes. Just the way it is going to be.

Really? I hope the numbers are widely publicized. It might help kick our dopey School Board member out next year.