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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Westfield was great those first few years.[/quote]My kids go there and it is still great.

It may not be as robust as Chantilly for example, but they still are great in their own way![/quote]

My kids go to Westfield and its pretty meh. [/quote]

You can thank Stu Gibson and Kathy Smith for that.[/quote]

That’s absurd. [b]If moving part of Floris to South Lakes destroyed Westfield it can’t have been that great before.  [/b]

The bigger issue is that a lot of the housing built in the Westfield district didn’t age very well and people who previously considered Westfield just moved to Ashburn and South Riding instead. [/quote]

Hmmm...look what happened to South Lakes when those students got moved there. That wasn't the only thing that had a negative impact on Westfield but it started the area on a course that hasn't been reversed.[/quote]

South Lakes picked up kids from
Oakton and Madison, too, and there was turnover in the areas already assigned to SLHS.  It wasn’t like every change there or at Westfield was a result of moving some Westfield kids to South Lakes.

The impact of people having better and/or less expensive housing options in Loudoun impacted Westfield more than the boundary change, but it’s easier to blame Gibson and Smith almost 20 years later than to acknowledge there were other forces at work.  If you want to blame anyone, you should blame the Loudoun officials who facilitated growth in Ashburn and South Riding and gave people more residential options.

Of course, a lot more Westfield kids now stand to move to Western than moved to South Lakes in 2008.  Are you going to try and halt that?  [/quote]

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