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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they drop that plan and just use Skyview as a smaller school where everyone opts in indefinitely to be an “Aviator,” ...[/quote]
This is a non-starter as the only people who would opt in to an optional school are the ones coming from a "worse" school.  This would provide no relief to the overcrowded schools in the region, which is the entire reason they spent the money on the new school in the first place.  A small opt in only school would be a complete waste of taxpayer funds, and still leave FCPS with the problem of what to do with Chantilly having 3000 kids they don't have room for.[/quote]

But that’s what the opt-in model will produce this fall.  If the overcrowding were that acute they either would have already taken advantage of the excess capacity at Herndon or gone ahead and set boundaries for Skyview this fall that included Chantilly areas.

Also, their latest projections have Chantilly losing over 300 kids over the next five years, irrespective of Skyview.

Basically they saw a shiny toy and decided they needed to have it.  [/quote]
Herndon is too far away to relieve Chantilly.  And the main reason for the opt in this year is because the school won't have many of the sports and activities that require upperclassmen.  They didn't want to force kids into a situation like that, and instead let families choose what was most important to them this year (commute vs extracurriculars).  The following year they will have a firm boundary and enough kids for VHSL participation.[/quote]

Given the unnecessary expansion of Herndon, it would have been fiscally responsible and efficient to move part of Chantilly to Westfield, and part of Westfield to Herndon.

You can explain away the opt-in model if you like, but it doesn't change the fact that it's inconsistent with claims that the overcrowding at Chantily is acute and demands an immediate solution, because the opt-in model will have only a modest impact on Chantilly's enrollment compared to the impact on the enrollments at Westfield and South Lakes.

They balked at moving kids to Herndon, because they know that people not want to be redistricted there.  But now they are going to face a similar situation where families at Chantilly and/or Centreville don't want to be the ones to backfill Westfield.  They could have put their feet down earlier, but they didn't, and now things could end up being even more contentious.  They are playing a game of whack-a-mole.  [/quote]
Whack-a-mole is what they have been doing the past several years.  Tacking trailers onto schools and doing unnecessary expansions when schools popped up for their turn in the renovation queue.  This new school is the first time in a while they are planning for the future instead of playing whack-a-mole.[/quote]

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