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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is still confusing.

Are you saying Emerald Chase/Bradley Farms (the neighborhood in question that is zoned for Oak Hill, Carson, and Westfield) is not an affluent neighborhood? My best friend lives there, and her house is worth around $850K-$900K. That seems fairly affluent to me![/quote]

There were areas that did not want to move to SL. And there were areas that Herndon did not want to lose. I have no clue if the neighborhhod you are talking about did not want to move. Fox Mill really didn’t want to move from Oakton, I am not sure how that came to be be. I was just talking with a Mom whose kids are in MS and are thinking about moving in boundary for Oakton, they had bought the house in Fox Mill for the ES and the HS. [/quote]

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