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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Pathways”. My point is that there will likely never be a traditional boundary. They will get 500 this year and once people see that this group survived and thrived, next year’s waiting list will be 750. And year 3 they will be asking for scores. It’s so blatantly obvious this is happening. The new school has almost as many robotic and science labs as classrooms and no one is dismantling it them. Meaning Oakton moms are wringing their hands that they might be compelled to go the engineering school instead of the mid tier basketball one should rest easy. I think it will work out for everyone. [/quote]

The School Board has directed Reid to open a traditional high school, and you can’t have a traditional high school without traditional boundaries. I think you’re indulging in a fantasy about Western’s future that aligns with your vision for where you think nerdy kids will thrive. But it’s not going to be TJ West.  [/quote]

I think there will be a lot of interest in pupil placing and people will use the pathways as their justification. Herndon sends around 200 kids to SLHS for IB or Japanese, I can easily see families who want to leave Herndon will turn to Western for the AP and pathways instead of IB at SLHS. The number of transfers to SLHS are not reflected in the number of people who complete the IB Diploma, you only need to take a certain number of IB classes and there are anecdotal stories that some kids transfer and don't take any IB classes but it is not an issue because there is room at the school. I can fully see kids from SLHS pupil placing into Western for the pathways. It is an AP school that is close by and will have better test scores then Herndon. It is not the drive to Langley and Oakton, that a good number of SLHS students already make.

The question is more if Western will allow pupil placement and then how will that change the FARMs rate. I don't think they are going to have a problem getting 1,000 students for next year and I expect a decent percentage are going to be from schools that are not potentially going to attend Western. And I think that demand is going to stay.

There is enough interest that they could have created a magnet school but a traditional school is needed. It should be a traditional school because that is needed in the area. But I am going to guess that there will be a high demand for pupil placing. [/quote]

I suspect that most of those are in the AAP program at Hughes.  118 from Herndon transferred to Hughes last year.  That could easily equate to 200 at South Lakes.[/quote]

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