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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Westfield has 2800 students. [/quote]

According to the profile, Westfield has fewer than 2700 students.

However, when the SL boundary study was initiated, it was just a year or so after the School Board had expanded capacity at Westfield to greater than 3000.

Then, in order to "justify" the study, the SB decided that all high schools should have a membership of 2000.  That was the only way they could justify taking so many kids from Westfield.

Then, they depleted Oakton--so, they had to take kids from Chantilly.

[b]SL refused the Herndon kids that their PTA chose--so they were sent to Westfield.[/b]

The boundary study was created, designed, and run by the South Lakes PTA under the stewardship of Stu Gibson.
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WHat does this mean? [/quote]
My comment was not confusing.  I meant to say that the proposal had a less affluent Herndon neighborhood switched to South Lakes.  The South Lakes PTA stopped that change.  On the other hand, there was a more affluent Reston neighborhood proposed to switch from Herndon to South Lakes and the Herndon PTA stopped that.

There was a ton of acrimony during this boundary adjustment. South Lakes benefited to the detriment of Herndon and Westfield.  Mainly because of the South Lakes PTA and Stu Gibson.  Kathy Smith was also quite involved.  She and Stu were a team.
What I really remember was watching the hearings and seeing mostly Asian parents beg for SL to switch to AP.  They were ignored.[/quote]

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