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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like the traditional school motion passed as expected, but they removed the details about the 2027 and 2028 school years.  I tried to watch that part of the meeting to see the discussion, but maybe that part of the meeting was private?  It's not on YouTube.  
From Board Docs:  
[quote]Amended Main Motion: I move that the School Board approve Western High School to be a comprehensive high school with traditional boundaries, that includes a special programming pathway option, and the following enrollment plan will be implemented:
2026-2027 Grades 9 and 10 opt-in.

Motion by Seema Dixit, second by Karl V Frisch.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yes: Karl V Frisch, Marcia St John-Cunning, Sandy B Anderson - Chair, Seema Dixit, Rachna Sizemore Heizer, Mateo Dunne, Ilryong Moon
No: Melanie K Meren, Ryan McElveen, Ricardy J Anderson
Abstain: Robyn Lady - Vice Chair[/quote][/quote]

The following opt-in language was apparently added last night (that’s why they had to suspend the 48 hour notification requirement):

[i] and the following enrollment plan will be implemented:
For SY26-27. Grades 9 and 10 will be opt-in; 
for SY27-28, grades 9, 10, and 11 will be opt-out;
and for SY28-29, grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 will be firm boundary.[/i]

Meren was furious about this last minute change and wanted to strike them out. Her motion failed. Instead they decided to remove only SY2027 and SY2028 details. [/quote]

Meren sent and email out that said that the school wouldn’t open next year and then backtracked in her FB comments to say that she meant that the first year would be opt in. She is doing her damndest to stop this. Fox Mill parent here, just to be transparent. I think that there is pressure from SLHS families to keep Floris and Fox Millat SLHS. I think that there are a good number of fox Mill families writing her that they want to move, but I know not everyone does. I think the loud screams to not move Crossfield are creating a scenario where Fox Mill moves and Meren knows that she has constituents that won’t be happy with that. She also has pressure to not allow the Vienna folks from being moved to a different HS. I suspect that she knows that she is losing one, if not both, of those arguments.[/quote]

The Crossfield screamers are the worst. And yes, I'm a Crossfield parent and would love for my kid to go to the new high school.[/quote]

Same! I think the big problem is that they are a bunch of SAHMs with too much time on their hands. I don't have time to post over and over again and write a million AI-generated letters to the school board. I sent my letters once. Maybe I'll send them again, but at this point, I am resigned to the fact that because of these people, my kid is going to have to move from Carson to Franklin for 8th grade and go to Oakton for high school when there are now FIVE high schools closer to our home. And my younger child who is in AAP won't even get to to Carson for AAP because by the time he's in middle school, they will have eliminated AAP Centers. [/quote]

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