FCPS Skyview Boundary Scenario 1/2/3
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Anonymous
66 is a HIGHWAY. It gets backed up, merging is insane. I know this, I do this every. signal. day. I see fender benders on 66 at least twice a month. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Nope, I’ve never advocated for anyone to move anywhere against their will. I think that the school board has taken its eye off the things that matter over the last couple of years with unnecessary boundary changes. Families should only be moved when absolutely necessary. |
Anonymous
Because Carson is going to feed into Skyview. And Crossfield has a deal with the consultants to not be moved to Skyview. Therefore they will not place Crossfield at Carson anymore. |
Anonymous
Old enough to remember when 2 Oakton students were killed on it 50 on the way home from 2nd day of school. |
Anonymous
One way or another, Oak Hill kids are changing MSs. A large number of Oak Hill kids attend Carson through the AAP program. When the AAP Center goes away, those kids will revert to Franklin. The Oak Hill to Carson move moves the rest of Oak Hill to Carson and ends a split feeder situation into Skyview. All the kids attending Skyview would be at the same MS. Crossfield moves to Franklin, joining other ES that feed into Oakton. It is an actual logical move for the County to make. I know that there are Oak Hill families that are walking distance to Franklin, I know some of those families, so I understand why it is not ideal but there are also Oak Hill families that are in walking distance to Carson if Carson allowed walkers. |
Anonymous
Unfortunately, HS drivers are killed on wide roads with 35 mile an hour speed limits because HS drivers are less experienced and more prone to making poor decisions regarding speed. And in all honesty, seeing a few fender benders a month is not really that big a deal, they are a relativly rare event given the amount of traffic on the road. I am not saying that the distance and road conditions are a reason to move or not move but I don't think that the likelihood of an accident or event with teenagers involved changes that much. Teens are already at a far higher risk for accidents regardless of where they are driving. |
Anonymous
But Franklin will still be a split feeder. Lees Corner will be there and they go to Chantilly. On one of the scenarios they have Crossfield coming to Franklin and going to Skyview. How does that make sense for Franklin?? |
Anonymous
It doesn't. Check the RIO website. They advocated for it on purpose because they want to be assigned to Franklin so that scenario wouldn't make sense. They view moving to Franklin as a way to lock them in at Oakton. |
Anonymous
Both now and in the next boundary review cycle when Oakton is (still) overcrowded and they are still the farthest away, with South Lakes being the only school with room for them. Then they will use Franklin as their reasoning why they couldn't possibly be moved - although it will be overcrowded too when the AAP kids return so maybe they're the ones who end up at Hughes/SL instead of Fox Mill in this scenario. What a colossal self-own. |
Anonymous
Yes I realize that but moving them to Franklin doesn’t solve the issue of split feeders as someone suggested. Lees Corner ES will still be at Franklin MS and now be the only ones going to Chantilly? That’s not fair. |
Anonymous
DP. Wild how dismissive you are of kids’ deaths when they don’t fit your narrative. |
Anonymous
DP. You will all play whatever rhetorical games serve your preferred schools narrative. There's no point in your pretending you're more considerate than anyone else because you've all behaved so badly. |
Anonymous
Statistics are statistics. I can find awful examples of all sorts of things that I find disturbing, drunk driving deaths, teen driving deaths, child molestation, school shootings. They are all horrific and they are all rare events. Awful, life changing for many people, rare events. You can point to the death of teen drivers on the highway and other people can point to the death of teen drivers on a flat road with a 35 mile an hour speed limit. Both are horrific, does either really impact the decision for boundaries? People want to use their worst case scenarios to make their case so that they get what they want, it is manipulative and you know it. So calling out people pointing to cases that occur on the other side of the coin and calling them dismissive is only slightly hypocritical. |
Anonymous
That's not the point. I have nothing against Westfield. My concern is splitting ONE street (with a few secondary streets) in the development to a different high school. I also can't figure out why Tuckaway doesn't go to Navy since it is perpendicular to the road off which Navy sits. If they chose to change a bunch of Franklin Farm to Westfield, I wouldn't question it. I just think it's very strange that they chose only Tuckaway. |