New Home Choice: Is Oakton High Really Better than Chantilly?
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Anonymous
It's not going to work like that. At the last board meeting on the topic it was essentially confirmed that they would first consider program availability and boundary adjustments for capacity fixes as they develop a new queue. Chantilly won't get a free expansion anytime soon without changes to their boundary - most likely along with Centreville. |
Anonymous
What might be feasible is to push the School Board to get staff to issue a new renovation queue sooner rather than later. The instinct of staff is no need to rush because it's going to take years to finish renovating schools on the queue developed in 2008. But if they could put out a new queue it would at least give people comfort that FCPS isn't completely unconcerned about the schools that need renovation or expansion, and that something will happen eventually. What's not going to happen is Chantilly getting on a bond in 2025 (there won't be a school bond this fall) for a renovation, much less getting a full renovation. Kids from Chantilly will get moved to Centreville first. |
Anonymous
We were last renovated in 88. We almost had our roof collapse the week before school started. Newer schools have no business getting renovated before. And a centreville chantilly boundary change isnt as realistic as those who dont live in that area suggest( the parts of chantilly closer to centreville do not have that many students) |
Anonymous
In theory, it would be great if the 2008 queue was superseded now with a new queue that took into account current overcrowding and building conditions, and prioritized the schools that are really most in need now over those that are just at the tail end of the 2008 queue. But, politically, if FCPS tells people whose schools are in the 2008 queue, but haven't been renovated yet, that they are getting bumped in favor of a full-scale renovation of Chantilly, they'll have a fit and so will their School Board representatives. And if Chantilly remains well over capacity with 2900 kids, and Centreville is expanded to 3000 and has hundreds of extra seats, they can find a way to pull kids out of Chantilly. You're no different from anyone else who has been redistricted. |
Anonymous
Not to mention that it would be a far better use of their resources to build a high school to serve the Oak Hill area than renovate Chantilly. |
Anonymous
Exactly. There is already a renovation queue. PP doesn't understand that the bonds are for the schools in the queue. You can't just skip the line. So stupid, entitled wealthy parents. |
Anonymous
Sorry lady, if kids in Herndon are being bussed to Oakton, kids in Chantilly can surely be sent to Centerville. Your wish is not going to happen. |
Anonymous
Lmao im a student but okay. Do you even know what tilly's boundaries look like? Draw the part of the attendance zone on the map you think will be rezoned to centreville and how many students you think live there. btw, nobody thinks oakton's boundaries are ok or should be permanent. |
Anonymous
The lastest draft CIP indicates Chantilly was renovated in 1993, not 1988. The schools most recently renovated or with renovations well underway were built or last renovated before 1993. |
Anonymous
DP. So you're a kid. That might explain why you think your needs come first or you'll always get your way. Sadly, FCPS isn't mommy or daddy. |
Anonymous
Yep, our building is definetely sustainable until the 2030s. Why dont you come out here and take a look yourself? The only 4 high schools that should be renovated before us are mclean, lewis, hayfield, and mt vernon. If you think its selfish to have a building that isnt falling apart, then so be it. |
Anonymous
No, that's not correct. It was renovated while my best friend was a student there (I went to OHS, she went to CHS), and we graduated in 1995. Additionally, there are still schools in the queue that have never been renovated, and they were built before CHS's last renovation. They need it before CHS does. |
Anonymous
CHS isn't falling apart. It has needs, but it's not falling apart. Don't be so histrionic. |
Anonymous
I don’t want a renovation while my kids go there so I’ll be against it. Going to school while the school is undergoing renovation absolutely sucks. |
Anonymous
What happens is that FCPS has its formal renovation queue for when schools get major, comprehensive renovations/expansions. Chantilly is not in this queue, so it's not going to get a full rehab any time soon. The queue dates back to 2008 and there are still schools on that queue waiting to get renovated. At various times through 2017, the School Board deviated from the queue and authorized expansions (not renovations) of schools that weren't otherwise in the queue - including South Lakes, West Potomac, Madison, and Justice. If the School Board were still doing that, schools like Chantilly and McLean might get expanded, but at some point the School Board appears to have decided it's not going to keep expanding schools outside the queue if they can redistrict. However, apart from the formal renovation queue, there's a budget for critical infrastructure needs. FCPS taps into that budget to do things like keep the roof from Chantilly from collapsing, replace broken tiles at McLean, etc. Because that budget is smaller than the budget for major projects, it can do this with less scrutiny about who's getting what and when. It may seem unsatisfactory if you're at Chantilly and you see the very nice Oakton renovation, but that's how things play out. You have to wait your turn, and then some, and if you get fed up and pull out of FCPS they won't lose any sleep over it. |