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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know if there is a link to opt-in for 26-27?

Slide 14 here says enrollment begins on Nov 14: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DN829T0122CD/%24file/11-12%20Work%20Session%20-%20FCPS%20Boundary%20Review%20Presentation.pptx%20%20-%20%20SB%20Final.pdf[/quote]

Honest question, why would you want to? You don't know what programs will be offered. You don't know who the teachers will be. You don't know who the student body will be. No sports or extra curriculars. No idea of you'll even have transportation after year 1. Is your current high School that bad? Our do you have that much faith in our superintendent and school board?[/quote]

Easy, because they will have teachers for all the classes for freshman and sophomore year and they will have freshman and JV sports, even if they are not VHSL certified. I know they will have the classes and basics in place because they want to encourage kids to attend and be happy to be there. I know that the kids will be encouraged to create clubs and extra curricular activities.

I don’t know the teachers at SLHS and I know my kid has no shot of making sports teams at SLHS, he probably ha a better chance at the new school with fewer kids attending and the sports fanatics attending SLHS.

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For what it's worth, I have a friend who is a science teacher at one of the highly rated high schools (don't want to out her) that has already talked to HR about a job at the new high school. She lives out here, and while her current commute isn't awful (20-30 minutes), this one would be 5-10. I know that's just one person, but I think it's silly to think that it will be all unknown and unseasoned teachers. I can imagine that a lot of experienced teachers who are fed up with their current administration or team members might apply to this school so that can start fresh. I also agree with this PP that it's a good opportunity for kids to start new clubs or for younger kids to be leaders in clubs/activities that they wouldn't have an opportunity to at Oakton/Chantilly/Westfield/SLHS. My daughter and her friends have been talking about it and it sounds like most of them want to opt in (no idea how their parents feel, of course, at least one of them is supposed to go to Oakton). [/quote]

Sounds like your daughter and her friends are currently slotted to go to different high schools and they want to opt-in to the western high School so they can all go to the same school. Not the best reason, but at least it's one that makes sense. [/quote]

This is the whole point though, isn't it? Carson is currently a four way split feeder. Western allows it to become a school that feeds one, or at most two, high schools. FCPS does need to make a decision about what it's going to do about Fox Mill/Crossfield. One of them is going to be left out and it's not fair to those kids to be the only ones at the whole middle school that don't go to Western. Whichever school gets left out should be zoned to the same middle school as their South Lakes/Oakton peers (so Hughes/Franklin).[/quote]

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