FCPS Skyview Boundary Scenario 1/2/3

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I braved the sus link.
The data that breaks out FCPS, public, private, homeschool enrollment by year doesn’t seem particularly phony.

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Anonymous wrote:Any tea leaves to read in Reid's e-mail she just sent out about the next steps in the process? The "themes" they have identified so far from the boundary tool seem to hint at transportation distance, safety, and teenage driving as issues and concerns. Maybe not boding well for the RIO folks???

I sure hope so. But they listed “keeping neighborhoods together” as the first one.

Remember, currently the “neighborhood” of Franklin Farm is divided as the East side goes to Oakton and the West side goes to Chantilly …

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Anonymous wrote:Social engineers are out in force this morning!

They say, let’s ignore Fairfax families and make moves no one wants!

Can you elaborate what you mean? I thought we were talking about a public school system.

She doesn't want her kids to attend schools with all of their neighbors, just a bespoke curated selection of neighbors.

Uh that's why people move to certain neighborhoods

Location location location

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/12/fairfax-schools-financial-scandal/?fbclid=Iwb21leARxhmJjbGNrBHGFJ2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo8AOqcDhxFLsbb11J8uyf95XxiMhRmn5ClAe0KhXVYhRXq-dJuNoF2mbZW2_aem_jBIFUDdO87EaKawb9OLpiA

Hi Stephanie!

For those who aren’t familiar with your work. Are you still making fun of autistic children these days?

https://wjla.com/news/local/stephanie-lundquist-arora-candidate-running-republican-gop-fairfax-county-school-board-race-drops-out-laughing-autistic-student-meeting-singing-national-anthem-controversy-7news-reporting-nick-minock-harry-jackson-youngkin-glenn-fcps

I think the current SB members are not smart and pretty bad at making decisions, but are THESE the kind of people people are saying we should have voted for instead? Complete and utter disasters of human beings?

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Does that crazy lady have kids in FCPS right now?

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Anonymous wrote:Any tea leaves to read in Reid's e-mail she just sent out about the next steps in the process? The "themes" they have identified so far from the boundary tool seem to hint at transportation distance, safety, and teenage driving as issues and concerns. Maybe not boding well for the RIO folks???

I sure hope so. But they listed “keeping neighborhoods together” as the first one.

The part of Franklin Farm zoned for Oak Hill will most likely end up at Skyview. Sending the Crossfield and Navy island parts to Skyview would keep that neighborhood together. But RIO cares more about perceived prestige than neighborhood cohesion.

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Anonymous wrote:Any tea leaves to read in Reid's e-mail she just sent out about the next steps in the process? The "themes" they have identified so far from the boundary tool seem to hint at transportation distance, safety, and teenage driving as issues and concerns. Maybe not boding well for the RIO folks???

I sure hope so. But they listed “keeping neighborhoods together” as the first one.

The part of Franklin Farm zoned for Oak Hill will most likely end up at Skyview. Sending the Crossfield and Navy island parts to Skyview would keep that neighborhood together. But RIO cares more about perceived prestige than neighborhood cohesion.

That would indictate that there is no cohesion.

Split feeders are awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/12/fairfax-schools-financial-scandal/?fbclid=Iwb21leARxhmJjbGNrBHGFJ2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo8AOqcDhxFLsbb11J8uyf95XxiMhRmn5ClAe0KhXVYhRXq-dJuNoF2mbZW2_aem_jBIFUDdO87EaKawb9OLpiA

Hi Stephanie!

For those who aren’t familiar with your work. Are you still making fun of autistic children these days?

https://wjla.com/news/local/stephanie-lundquist-arora-candidate-running-republican-gop-fairfax-county-school-board-race-drops-out-laughing-autistic-student-meeting-singing-national-anthem-controversy-7news-reporting-nick-minock-harry-jackson-youngkin-glenn-fcps

I think the current SB members are not smart and pretty bad at making decisions, but are THESE the kind of people people are saying we should have voted for instead? Complete and utter disasters of human beings?

It's a cut-and-paste on your part at this point. I know Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is highly partisan and not especially credible, but then Rachna Sizemore-Heizer paraded her autistic son, an adult at the time of this "performance," before every possible audience to promote his musical career. The man is a talented musician, but objectively not a good vocalist. If he'd been introduced as autistic, perhaps the reception would have been different, but instead the local Democrats quickly capitalized on the reaction for political purposes. The whole situation was icky from beginning to end.

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I sure hope so. But they listed “keeping neighborhoods together” as the first one.

Where did u see this?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/12/fairfax-schools-financial-scandal/?fbclid=Iwb21leARxhmJjbGNrBHGFJ2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo8AOqcDhxFLsbb11J8uyf95XxiMhRmn5ClAe0KhXVYhRXq-dJuNoF2mbZW2_aem_jBIFUDdO87EaKawb9OLpiA

Hi Stephanie!

For those who aren’t familiar with your work. Are you still making fun of autistic children these days?

https://wjla.com/news/local/stephanie-lundquist-arora-candidate-running-republican-gop-fairfax-county-school-board-race-drops-out-laughing-autistic-student-meeting-singing-national-anthem-controversy-7news-reporting-nick-minock-harry-jackson-youngkin-glenn-fcps

I think the current SB members are not smart and pretty bad at making decisions, but are THESE the kind of people people are saying we should have voted for instead? Complete and utter disasters of human beings?

It's a cut-and-paste on your part at this point. I know Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is highly partisan and not especially credible, but then Rachna Sizemore-Heizer paraded her autistic son, an adult at the time of this "performance," before every possible audience to promote his musical career. The man is a talented musician, but objectively not a good vocalist. If he'd been introduced as autistic, perhaps the reception would have been different, but instead the local Democrats quickly capitalized on the reaction for political purposes. The whole situation was icky from beginning to end.

Yes. I remember when this happened. When I read about it, I found the video of them. I can understand why they laughed. There was nothing to indicate the young man was special needs. It just kind of bizarrely showed up on the end of the video of the SB meeting and it was a pretty awful performance. The singing was discordant.
They could be criticized for lots of reasons, but this was not one of them. The whole performance was strange. But, nothing to indicate that the performer was autistic.

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Anonymous wrote:Navy/Oakton and Crossfield/Oakton shares same zip, same city.

Navy/Oakton and Crossfield/Oakton should stay together like before!

I have full respect for Crossfield families who advocate for their own kids, regardless of their preference.

That is actually not true.

You do not live within Oakton boundary, that is why you spread misinformation.

Why do you want to move other people's kids?

Why do you drive a wedge among Oakton parents?

Why do you drive a wedge between Oakton and Chantilly & Centreville parents?

I've come up with a new game: Guess the parent!!

This one above lives within Crossfield boundaries but has a child at Navy for AAP.

Dp

If true why would that make their concerns any less valid?

Personally I wish they never bought KAA for all the discord it's brought.

I said nothing about their concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:Rocky Run is right next to Chantilly. Kids zoned to RR should all go to Chantilly (And I think now they do, except for the AAP kids).

They should but now Navy Oakton kids are getting rezoned there because Franklin MS is suddenly getting an elementary school that hasn’t been there in years and has priority apparently when they could just stay at Carson. Proximity doesn’t matter to these folks (they’re willing to commute all the way out to Oakton) so explain to me why should they all get moved over to Franklin while Navy kids will be split to different middle schools?

Really. I agree that there is difficulty with avoiding a split feeder. If Crossfield stays at Carson, then Oak Hill will stay at Franklin. Oak Hill is pretty certain to go to Skyview.

Honestly, Oak Hill and Crossfield should be at Carson/Skyview. Put Fox Mill at Hughes when AAP centers are in every middle school.

I would set Skyview boundary. Adjust Westfield on the edges and leave it be for a year or two. Then, work on the middle schools, if needed.

Franklin has been a split feeder forever--at least thirty years--maybe more. It's not optimum, but it is only two years.

Hughes is already a Center and there is no space for Fox Mill. Fox Mill should be at Skyview. There are Fox Mill kids within a mile of Skyview. We share a boundary with Floris and go to Oak Hill for AAP. Carson is right next door and we attend Carson. And most of us want to attend Skyview.

Let Crossfield stay at Oakton since that is where they want to be. And yes, I think that there are more Crossfield families that want to stay at Oakton then want to move to Skyview. The families that want to attend Skyview can pupil place for the specialized programs. They should be able to get permission to pick up a bus int he Fox Mill area or one of the other close by spots.

Hughes is not overcrowded. No need to lie.

DP.

Hughes is at 95% now and would be overcrowded if Fox Mill gets moved. I doubt it will happen.

The following middle school feeding pattern is plausible and very clean:

Fox Mill - Carson - Skyview
Oak Hill - Carson - Skyview
Crossfield - Franklin - Oakton

This will minimize or eliminate the split feeding at Carson and help Franklin.

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Hughes will be fine. For proximity, it should be Crossfield-Carson-Skyview and Fix Mill-Hughes-South Lakes. This will eliminate split feeders and keep space at Franklin for when AAP ends and all the Navy and Waples kids come back in 2 years.

Sure, move me from a school 1.5 miles from my house to one 4 times the distance.

It's literally right next door to where your kids will go to high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Rocky Run is right next to Chantilly. Kids zoned to RR should all go to Chantilly (And I think now they do, except for the AAP kids).

They should but now Navy Oakton kids are getting rezoned there because Franklin MS is suddenly getting an elementary school that hasn’t been there in years and has priority apparently when they could just stay at Carson. Proximity doesn’t matter to these folks (they’re willing to commute all the way out to Oakton) so explain to me why should they all get moved over to Franklin while Navy kids will be split to different middle schools?

Really. I agree that there is difficulty with avoiding a split feeder. If Crossfield stays at Carson, then Oak Hill will stay at Franklin. Oak Hill is pretty certain to go to Skyview.

Honestly, Oak Hill and Crossfield should be at Carson/Skyview. Put Fox Mill at Hughes when AAP centers are in every middle school.

I would set Skyview boundary. Adjust Westfield on the edges and leave it be for a year or two. Then, work on the middle schools, if needed.

Franklin has been a split feeder forever--at least thirty years--maybe more. It's not optimum, but it is only two years.

Hughes is already a Center and there is no space for Fox Mill. Fox Mill should be at Skyview. There are Fox Mill kids within a mile of Skyview. We share a boundary with Floris and go to Oak Hill for AAP. Carson is right next door and we attend Carson. And most of us want to attend Skyview.

Let Crossfield stay at Oakton since that is where they want to be. And yes, I think that there are more Crossfield families that want to stay at Oakton then want to move to Skyview. The families that want to attend Skyview can pupil place for the specialized programs. They should be able to get permission to pick up a bus int he Fox Mill area or one of the other close by spots.

Hughes is not overcrowded. No need to lie.

DP.

Hughes is at 95% now and would be overcrowded if Fox Mill gets moved. I doubt it will happen.

The following middle school feeding pattern is plausible and very clean:

Fox Mill - Carson - Skyview
Oak Hill - Carson - Skyview
Crossfield - Franklin - Oakton

This will minimize or eliminate the split feeding at Carson and help Franklin.

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Hughes will be fine. For proximity, it should be Crossfield-Carson-Skyview and Fix Mill-Hughes-South Lakes. This will eliminate split feeders and keep space at Franklin for when AAP ends and all the Navy and Waples kids come back in 2 years.

Hughes is not fine, it's classes and after school programs do not match or come close to matching Carson's offerings. It really is that simple. Fox Mill ES lost access to a large number of classes when it was forced to move from Oakton, electives that do not have enough of a peer group to offer, even HL IB classes because there are not enough kids interested in taking them, as well as a large number of clubs that there is not enough of a peer group to have at SLHS. Now you want FMES to give up similar programming and move to Hughes?

When the County gets around to offering similar level classes, clubs, and electives at all of the schools you will see people stop wanting to move from a strong school to a weak school. Want to keep kids at SLHS? Offer IB Physics HL even if there are only 10 kids interested. Or offer IB Japanese HL, the only language IB that is not offered at the HL level is the Japanese one which serves mainly Fox Mill families. Otherwise, kids will pupil place out. And now that Skyview will be the closest AP school, I promise you the pupil placement numbers for AP and the specialized pathways will increase. Until then, people will pupil place out or fight moving to a school that does not have the same programming.

There is a reason I feel strongly about moving FMES to Skyview. The kids at that school lost opportunities with the move to SLHS. There is an opportunity to regain access to lost programs. They were moved in the name of equity and were the ones thrown under the bus by every other UMC school in the area. It was BS and remains BS. We were sacrificed in the name of equity once, stop offering us up as Tribute.

It was 20 years ago, get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Social engineers are out in force this morning!

They say, let’s ignore Fairfax families and make moves no one wants!

Can you elaborate what you mean? I thought we were talking about a public school system.

We are talking about a public school system that is hemorrhaging students.

When we talk of boundary decisions based on farms instead of stability, then more UMC and MC families leave. It’s the death spiral that a PP mentioned.

If people want to go to private school to avoid public school, that's their call. The people running the school system have a duty to make decisions that benefit all the students, not just the wealthy ones.

They also need to make decisions knowing if they alienate wealthy families that the wealthy families will disinvest, put their kids in private, or move out of the district, and have no desire to pay high property taxes.

I can't tell if you are joking or actually serious.

Totally serious. It may not sound nice or woke, but it’s reality.

Where are they going to move? What private schools will they go to? Give it a rest.

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Anonymous wrote:Crossfield is nowhere near Franklin MS - why are they getting moved in there in all 3 scenarios??

Because RIO lobbied for it to try to ensure their kids stayed franklin to oakton. And they have a parent embedded at Gatehouse.

1) look at a map, Franklin makes sense for resolving split feeders, and yes feeding Oakton

2) this is a blatant lie that keeps getting repeated by some troll(s) who is not connected with reality

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FWIW, and I am a person who believes Crossfield should be at Skyview:

Pretty sure that Crossfield was at Franklin prior to Carson being built. Franklin and Carson are very close together. Most of Crossfield is very close to Franklin. Some are closer to Skyview. All are close to Skyview.

cont. and none are close to Oakton.

To add Franklin middle school should be used for the Oakton zoned schools near Oakton when they move them out of Thoreau. Let’s add that to the mix. Figure out that mess while we are at it.