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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new mascot is incredibly stupid.

Why bother making it a traditional high school when she clearly wants an aviation magnet.

Just prepare for the boundaries to be nullified at a programming re-vote.[/quote]
Fortunately for us there already was a public review period and a school board vote making it a traditional school.  No matter how much fear-mongering some people try to stir up on this board a magnet isn't happening.  They are fully underway opening as a traditional school.[/quote]

This is not quite true. The county’s recent approval to allow Skyview to open as a public school was based on its initial 1000-student enrollment. If FCPS wants Skyview to operate as a traditional school with a typical, larger enrollment, it will have to come back to the county within the next year.  And if the county were to deny the follow-up application FCPS’s fall-back might be to cap enrollment and operate Skyview as a magnet or lottery school.

I know that’s not what the School board directed, and FCPS may be able to satisfy the county Skyview can accommodate more than 1000 students, but it’s somewhat misleading to claim there aren’t still uncertainties.[/quote]
How does a school transition from traditional to magnet? Do the students who are already there have to make it through the application process or be sent back to their base school?[/quote]

I would argue that Skyview isn't really a "traditional" school until it's a neighborhood school where a super-majority of the students attending the school live within the defined boundaries.

If for whatever reason they were to decide to cap enrollment at 1000, then it's a question of managing future class sizes. They almost surely wouldn't send kids who've opted into Skyview back to their base schools.  They'd just come up with some process for admitting small classes in the future.  That could mean a lottery process, like HB Woodlawn in Arlington, or a selective process, like TJ.

They are going pretty far down the road in signaling the intent is to do what's necessary to operate as a neighborhood high school with around 2000 students, most drawn from within the school's future boundaries.  But they have a fair amount of work left to do to make that happen, and if the costs were to spiral or the logistics prove too challenging, some type of smaller magnet school is an exit ramp. 
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