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When Potomac Falls high school opened back in 1997 they played football against my very rural single A school that year. Our school was usually under 100 kids per grade.
That was temporary and they quickly moved up divisions as their program got up and running and the school population increased.

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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

Guess you don't know what the NVHAA Centurions or FCA Bucks are, or how much smaller Manassas Park HS and Meridian HS are than TJHSST.

Skyview will be better at tennis than football, assuming they ever figure out their stadium situation. Just wait.

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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

Guess you don't know what the NVHAA Centurions or FCA Bucks are, or how much smaller Manassas Park HS and Meridian HS are than TJHSST.

Skyview will be better at tennis than football, assumthe ing they ever figure out their stadium situation. Just wait.

Maybe, but it sounds like you are trying to sow negative seeds into the field. A stadium will be built. Will they have a championship football team? Probably not. There are not many of them who have championships. But, they will have a team. Chantilly has highest enrollment and very few championships in football.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious the most enthusiasm for Skyview comes from Westfield and South Lakes families, not Chantilly or Oakton families. If anyone is trashing those schools, it’s those families. They claim Westfield is too far away or overcrowded, or they don’t want IB at South Lakes.

And then they attack the Oakton and Chantilly families who actually like their schools and would prefer to stay at successful schools rather than be part of Reid’s schemes.

I can be happy to have my kid attend Skyview because we prefer AP to IB and not be trashing SLHS. SLHS has plenty of high achieving kids who love the school. We have friends very happy to have their kids at SLHS. They love the theatre, sports, and classes. Some complete to IB diploma. They are happy there. The Fox Mill families are split on wanting to move or not, but I don’t think that we are yelling at each other.

We don’t think IB is a good fit for our kid and are happy to move to AP. That is not a slam on SLHS, it is saying we don’t think the IB program is a great fit for out kid.

We see Skyview as having all sorts of unique opportunities for any student who attends. The kids get to start clubs and activities, it provides a unique opportunity for leaadership and growth. DS can influence the clubs that are at the school, which we think is cool.

I have no clue what Westfield students are thinking. I know our friends at Chantilly are less excited. They have the classes that they and are happy with the clubs and sports. The Crossfield families we know want to move to Skyview because it is closer to home.

The only posters I know “attacking” the Oakton families are other Oakton families. Their little Civil War is between them. It seems to me like there is one aggressively anti-Oakton poster and lots of response to that one poster.

I thought most top 10% at schools like Chantilly and Oakton take at least 1 AP in 9th grade, 2-3 in 10th and load up in 11th and 12th. Last FCPS faq saw said no AP planned for next year and then will slow roll in by topic —so won’t new school not be good fit for most families who want AP until 2-3 years from now, earliest?

From the FAQs:

Will AP courses be offered?
Yes. We will offer a full complement of Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) courses. While 9th and 10th graders generally have limited access to AP courses, students will remain competitive for advanced diplomas.

There may be options to take another course virtually or at another high school. Higher level AP courses and AP courses that are traditionally taken in 11th and 12th grades will probably not be offered initially but should be by 2027-28.

This would seem to imply the AP courses typically taken by 9th and 10th graders might be offered in 2026-27. Clarification would have been useful, and the lack of specificity likely reduced the willingness of some families to opt in.

If enough 8th graders going to Skyview selected AP courses, then they will offer those courses. That's how staffing works at high schools, friends.

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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.

Give it a rest. There are plenty of reasons why people would avoid Skyview right now.

Reason? Yes. Legitimate reasons? No.

Plenty of them.

Just because some South Lakes and Westfield parents really seem to dislike those schools and want to bail doesn’t mean others want to go to a school with an uncertain enrollment, no established school boundaries, no faculty (yet), an unclear curriculum, limited space for traditional classrooms, no VHSL sports, no traditions or track record, and a silly name.

In one to two years there will be sports and the kids will be building the traditions. The curriculum is clear, there will be AP classes with more electives offered as the student body number increases. There will be boundaries set in June. The first year is messy, that is not the fault of the Skyview Admin or the families that see the opportunities.

We get it, you don’t like the process or the purchase or whatever but it is done, kids are going to be attending. Maybe stop with the rehashed negativity and let those who chose to attend be happy with their decision and excited. You may or may not end up there, I doubt that you are attending next year.

While I agree with all of your points, the comments such as Oakton parents are going to be angry when their favorite teachers leave or people only want to stay there because of money, race, and sports are bound to bring out the lurkers. Let’s collectively be accountable and I think these debates which ultimately unjustly disparage Skyview will minimize.

Teachers from across FCPS, APS, aCPS, and LCPS are applying for those jobs. Some are applying because it is closer to home. Some are applying because they want the challenge of starting a new school. Some are applying because they want a new position, they don’t like their current school for some reason.

The Oakton poster is just stirring the pot to upset the Crossfield families that don’t want to leave Oakton. We already have two threads where the RIO/anti-RIO people are picking at each other. It would be nice to have one thread were people can discuss the school without it turning into a Crossfield pissing match or the folks upset that the school was purchased.

So you’re claiming it’s an Oakton poster who claims Oakton’s best teachers will decamp for Skyview?

Evidence?

Dp, yeah, it's the Crossfield mom who hates RIO. There may be multiple on here who want to go to Western, but there's one who is particularly persistent and whose writing is distinctive.

Eagerly waiting for your text or email since you clearly know who I am.

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

Are you stupid? They have a huge soccer field, which can be re-used for several other sports. What they don't have is stadium seating or a baseball diamond (but they can probably build up the one at Carson).

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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.

Give it a rest. There are plenty of reasons why people would avoid Skyview right now.

Reason? Yes. Legitimate reasons? No.

Plenty of them.

Just because some South Lakes and Westfield parents really seem to dislike those schools and want to bail doesn’t mean others want to go to a school with an uncertain enrollment, no established school boundaries, no faculty (yet), an unclear curriculum, limited space for traditional classrooms, no VHSL sports, no traditions or track record, and a silly name.

In one to two years there will be sports and the kids will be building the traditions. The curriculum is clear, there will be AP classes with more electives offered as the student body number increases. There will be boundaries set in June. The first year is messy, that is not the fault of the Skyview Admin or the families that see the opportunities.

We get it, you don’t like the process or the purchase or whatever but it is done, kids are going to be attending. Maybe stop with the rehashed negativity and let those who chose to attend be happy with their decision and excited. You may or may not end up there, I doubt that you are attending next year.

While I agree with all of your points, the comments such as Oakton parents are going to be angry when their favorite teachers leave or people only want to stay there because of money, race, and sports are bound to bring out the lurkers. Let’s collectively be accountable and I think these debates which ultimately unjustly disparage Skyview will minimize.

Teachers from across FCPS, APS, aCPS, and LCPS are applying for those jobs. Some are applying because it is closer to home. Some are applying because they want the challenge of starting a new school. Some are applying because they want a new position, they don’t like their current school for some reason.

The Oakton poster is just stirring the pot to upset the Crossfield families that don’t want to leave Oakton. We already have two threads where the RIO/anti-RIO people are picking at each other. It would be nice to have one thread were people can discuss the school without it turning into a Crossfield pissing match or the folks upset that the school was purchased.

So you’re claiming it’s an Oakton poster who claims Oakton’s best teachers will decamp for Skyview?

Evidence?

Dp, yeah, it's the Crossfield mom who hates RIO. There may be multiple on here who want to go to Western, but there's one who is particularly persistent and whose writing is distinctive.

Eagerly waiting for your text or email since you clearly know who I am.

This exchange is unnecessary.

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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.

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.

You forgot about marching band, which is far more important than your silly school dance and "spirit days".

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious the most enthusiasm for Skyview comes from Westfield and South Lakes families, not Chantilly or Oakton families. If anyone is trashing those schools, it’s those families. They claim Westfield is too far away or overcrowded, or they don’t want IB at South Lakes.

And then they attack the Oakton and Chantilly families who actually like their schools and would prefer to stay at successful schools rather than be part of Reid’s schemes.

I can be happy to have my kid attend Skyview because we prefer AP to IB and not be trashing SLHS. SLHS has plenty of high achieving kids who love the school. We have friends very happy to have their kids at SLHS. They love the theatre, sports, and classes. Some complete to IB diploma. They are happy there. The Fox Mill families are split on wanting to move or not, but I don’t think that we are yelling at each other.

We don’t think IB is a good fit for our kid and are happy to move to AP. That is not a slam on SLHS, it is saying we don’t think the IB program is a great fit for out kid.

We see Skyview as having all sorts of unique opportunities for any student who attends. The kids get to start clubs and activities, it provides a unique opportunity for leaadership and growth. DS can influence the clubs that are at the school, which we think is cool.

I have no clue what Westfield students are thinking. I know our friends at Chantilly are less excited. They have the classes that they and are happy with the clubs and sports. The Crossfield families we know want to move to Skyview because it is closer to home.

The only posters I know “attacking” the Oakton families are other Oakton families. Their little Civil War is between them. It seems to me like there is one aggressively anti-Oakton poster and lots of response to that one poster.

I thought most top 10% at schools like Chantilly and Oakton take at least 1 AP in 9th grade, 2-3 in 10th and load up in 11th and 12th. Last FCPS faq saw said no AP planned for next year and then will slow roll in by topic —so won’t new school not be good fit for most families who want AP until 2-3 years from now, earliest?

From the FAQs:

Will AP courses be offered?
Yes. We will offer a full complement of Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) courses. While 9th and 10th graders generally have limited access to AP courses, students will remain competitive for advanced diplomas.

There may be options to take another course virtually or at another high school. Higher level AP courses and AP courses that are traditionally taken in 11th and 12th grades will probably not be offered initially but should be by 2027-28.

This would seem to imply the AP courses typically taken by 9th and 10th graders might be offered in 2026-27. Clarification would have been useful, and the lack of specificity likely reduced the willingness of some families to opt in.

If enough 8th graders going to Skyview selected AP courses, then they will offer those courses. That's how staffing works at high schools, friends.

Nice effort to minimize the uncertainties.

Skyview was seeking 9th and 10th graders to opt in.

There are usually only a couple of AP courses that 9th graders are allowed to take in FCPS. So, yeah, they can probably offer AP Human Geography and AP Computer Science Principles.

10th graders, on the other hand, take a wider variety of AP courses, and the ability to offer those courses at some schools depends on kids in higher grades taking those courses as well. That's where Skyview is more of a crap shot, because people expect fewer rising sophomores to opt in (so why should I) and it's less clear what courses will be offered.

These problems would be less of an issue if Skyview opened with clear boundaries, 9th and 10th grade classes where the in-boundary kids are expected to attend the school (no opt-in or opt-out), and an optional 11th grade class. Then by year two they'd at least be over 75% of the way towards being a typical school.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious the most enthusiasm for Skyview comes from Westfield and South Lakes families, not Chantilly or Oakton families. If anyone is trashing those schools, it’s those families. They claim Westfield is too far away or overcrowded, or they don’t want IB at South Lakes.

And then they attack the Oakton and Chantilly families who actually like their schools and would prefer to stay at successful schools rather than be part of Reid’s schemes.

I can be happy to have my kid attend Skyview because we prefer AP to IB and not be trashing SLHS. SLHS has plenty of high achieving kids who love the school. We have friends very happy to have their kids at SLHS. They love the theatre, sports, and classes. Some complete to IB diploma. They are happy there. The Fox Mill families are split on wanting to move or not, but I don’t think that we are yelling at each other.

We don’t think IB is a good fit for our kid and are happy to move to AP. That is not a slam on SLHS, it is saying we don’t think the IB program is a great fit for out kid.

We see Skyview as having all sorts of unique opportunities for any student who attends. The kids get to start clubs and activities, it provides a unique opportunity for leaadership and growth. DS can influence the clubs that are at the school, which we think is cool.

I have no clue what Westfield students are thinking. I know our friends at Chantilly are less excited. They have the classes that they and are happy with the clubs and sports. The Crossfield families we know want to move to Skyview because it is closer to home.

The only posters I know “attacking” the Oakton families are other Oakton families. Their little Civil War is between them. It seems to me like there is one aggressively anti-Oakton poster and lots of response to that one poster.

I thought most top 10% at schools like Chantilly and Oakton take at least 1 AP in 9th grade, 2-3 in 10th and load up in 11th and 12th. Last FCPS faq saw said no AP planned for next year and then will slow roll in by topic —so won’t new school not be good fit for most families who want AP until 2-3 years from now, earliest?

From the FAQs:

Will AP courses be offered?
Yes. We will offer a full complement of Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) courses. While 9th and 10th graders generally have limited access to AP courses, students will remain competitive for advanced diplomas.

There may be options to take another course virtually or at another high school. Higher level AP courses and AP courses that are traditionally taken in 11th and 12th grades will probably not be offered initially but should be by 2027-28.

This would seem to imply the AP courses typically taken by 9th and 10th graders might be offered in 2026-27. Clarification would have been useful, and the lack of specificity likely reduced the willingness of some families to opt in.

If enough 8th graders going to Skyview selected AP courses, then they will offer those courses. That's how staffing works at high schools, friends.

9th graders don't take AP courses. Maybe a few take AP Computer science, but otherwise, none.

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

This is silly. No FCPS HS has separate fields for FH or lacrosse. Soccer is played in Spring. Football is played in Fall and can be played on a soccer field. They just need bleachers.

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

This is silly. No FCPS HS has separate fields for FH or lacrosse. Soccer is played in Spring. Football is played in Fall and can be played on a soccer field. They just need bleachers.

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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.

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.

You forgot about marching band, which is far more important than your silly school dance and "spirit days".

Sorry. That is a good point. And, without football, how many schools have marching band?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious the most enthusiasm for Skyview comes from Westfield and South Lakes families, not Chantilly or Oakton families. If anyone is trashing those schools, it’s those families. They claim Westfield is too far away or overcrowded, or they don’t want IB at South Lakes.

And then they attack the Oakton and Chantilly families who actually like their schools and would prefer to stay at successful schools rather than be part of Reid’s schemes.

I can be happy to have my kid attend Skyview because we prefer AP to IB and not be trashing SLHS. SLHS has plenty of high achieving kids who love the school. We have friends very happy to have their kids at SLHS. They love the theatre, sports, and classes. Some complete to IB diploma. They are happy there. The Fox Mill families are split on wanting to move or not, but I don’t think that we are yelling at each other.

We don’t think IB is a good fit for our kid and are happy to move to AP. That is not a slam on SLHS, it is saying we don’t think the IB program is a great fit for out kid.

We see Skyview as having all sorts of unique opportunities for any student who attends. The kids get to start clubs and activities, it provides a unique opportunity for leaadership and growth. DS can influence the clubs that are at the school, which we think is cool.

I have no clue what Westfield students are thinking. I know our friends at Chantilly are less excited. They have the classes that they and are happy with the clubs and sports. The Crossfield families we know want to move to Skyview because it is closer to home.

The only posters I know “attacking” the Oakton families are other Oakton families. Their little Civil War is between them. It seems to me like there is one aggressively anti-Oakton poster and lots of response to that one poster.

I thought most top 10% at schools like Chantilly and Oakton take at least 1 AP in 9th grade, 2-3 in 10th and load up in 11th and 12th. Last FCPS faq saw said no AP planned for next year and then will slow roll in by topic —so won’t new school not be good fit for most families who want AP until 2-3 years from now, earliest?

From the FAQs:

Will AP courses be offered?
Yes. We will offer a full complement of Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) courses. While 9th and 10th graders generally have limited access to AP courses, students will remain competitive for advanced diplomas.

There may be options to take another course virtually or at another high school. Higher level AP courses and AP courses that are traditionally taken in 11th and 12th grades will probably not be offered initially but should be by 2027-28.

This would seem to imply the AP courses typically taken by 9th and 10th graders might be offered in 2026-27. Clarification would have been useful, and the lack of specificity likely reduced the willingness of some families to opt in.

If enough 8th graders going to Skyview selected AP courses, then they will offer those courses. That's how staffing works at high schools, friends.

9th graders don't take AP courses. Maybe a few take AP Computer science, but otherwise, none.

Wrong

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obvious the most enthusiasm for Skyview comes from Westfield and South Lakes families, not Chantilly or Oakton families. If anyone is trashing those schools, it’s those families. They claim Westfield is too far away or overcrowded, or they don’t want IB at South Lakes.

And then they attack the Oakton and Chantilly families who actually like their schools and would prefer to stay at successful schools rather than be part of Reid’s schemes.

I can be happy to have my kid attend Skyview because we prefer AP to IB and not be trashing SLHS. SLHS has plenty of high achieving kids who love the school. We have friends very happy to have their kids at SLHS. They love the theatre, sports, and classes. Some complete to IB diploma. They are happy there. The Fox Mill families are split on wanting to move or not, but I don’t think that we are yelling at each other.

We don’t think IB is a good fit for our kid and are happy to move to AP. That is not a slam on SLHS, it is saying we don’t think the IB program is a great fit for out kid.

We see Skyview as having all sorts of unique opportunities for any student who attends. The kids get to start clubs and activities, it provides a unique opportunity for leaadership and growth. DS can influence the clubs that are at the school, which we think is cool.

I have no clue what Westfield students are thinking. I know our friends at Chantilly are less excited. They have the classes that they and are happy with the clubs and sports. The Crossfield families we know want to move to Skyview because it is closer to home.

The only posters I know “attacking” the Oakton families are other Oakton families. Their little Civil War is between them. It seems to me like there is one aggressively anti-Oakton poster and lots of response to that one poster.

I thought most top 10% at schools like Chantilly and Oakton take at least 1 AP in 9th grade, 2-3 in 10th and load up in 11th and 12th. Last FCPS faq saw said no AP planned for next year and then will slow roll in by topic —so won’t new school not be good fit for most families who want AP until 2-3 years from now, earliest?

From the FAQs:

Will AP courses be offered?
Yes. We will offer a full complement of Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) courses. While 9th and 10th graders generally have limited access to AP courses, students will remain competitive for advanced diplomas.

There may be options to take another course virtually or at another high school. Higher level AP courses and AP courses that are traditionally taken in 11th and 12th grades will probably not be offered initially but should be by 2027-28.

This would seem to imply the AP courses typically taken by 9th and 10th graders might be offered in 2026-27. Clarification would have been useful, and the lack of specificity likely reduced the willingness of some families to opt in.

If enough 8th graders going to Skyview selected AP courses, then they will offer those courses. That's how staffing works at high schools, friends.

9th graders don't take AP courses. Maybe a few take AP Computer science, but otherwise, none.

Tell me you don’t have a HS DC without telling me.