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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I think the real problem is that the local community wants a traditional high school, but the school personnel that have evaluated Skyview know that the building and grounds are a long way away from being a traditional HS.  The school board and gatehouse are trying to find ways to give the community what they want, but it is going to be costly and its boundary adjustments will have repercussions on a lot of people that they won’t like.  It will come down to who FCPS wants to piss off less.  The people living around Skyview, the people who are forced to move to Westfield, or the general taxpayer.  Making Skyview a magnet only upsets one group.  The traditional route will be a much larger group.[/quote]

This is an excellent summary. This process has been horribly mismanaged since day one, and at some point FCPS is going to have to make some tough decisions. [/quote]
+2. In my mind, it’s akin to a highway being rerouted away from one community and through another. Sure, one community is ecstatic, while the other community (or in this case, communities) is furious.

It’s a lose-lose for the school board.[/quote]

Huge blunder (unless you think this was deliberate on Reid’s part to secure a magnet) not to adopt Skyview boundaries at the same time as other boundary changes.  With the county-wide review they continued their post-2008 tradition of only redistricting kids to better or very similar schools (Marshall to Madison, McLean to Langley, Justice to Falls Church). Now they’ve set things up to move Centreville and/or Chantilly kids to Westfield, and those folks are mostly objecting and saying “what’s in it for me?”

If they drop that plan and just use Skyview as a smaller school where everyone opts in indefinitely to be an “Aviator,” they avoid these conflicts, save money, and can turn their attention to other capital projects.  They’ve boxed themselves into quite a mess.[/quote]

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