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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they had done this properly and stuck to objective standards, this could have been settled months ago.  And, with a lot less angst.

In the past, SB members were always non-committal to neighborhoods, while at least pretending to listen.  I never recall an earlier superintendent making promises or even getting involved.  Staff was involved, but we never saw the superintendents.

It was mostly SB members doing the wheeling and dealing, but they were careful not to make promises.

Reid promised Walney Oaks.  Somehow, they were taken totally out of the equation.  And, those final scenarios did not include most of Crossfield.

I don't see them changing it now, but the School Board could if they wanted to do so.  I don't think they will.

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I still wonder if Kyle McDaniel and Melanie Meren will join together at the last minute to strike some sort of deal with everyone else to swap Crossfield and Fox Mill. They both seem pretty adamant about putting Crossfield at Skyview and keeping Fox Mill out.[/quote]

Why would they do this when it would piss off so many people?[/quote]

McDaniel already said he will not bring forth any amendments to the final scenario as he knows how much work and due diligence FCPS and the consultants have put into it…his words from his call last week not mine.  Meren has not been publicly specific about not moving Fox Mill except apparently in a few emails to people on this board.  She will at best make a statement and abstain from voting.  [/quote]

In other words, it’s important to respect the process, even when that same process has been utterly corrupted.  Clowns. [/quote]

The Westfield families, who followed the process of commenting on the boundary tool and emailing their school board members, were ignored.
The only people who got special treatment were the ones who did NOT follow the process.[/quote]

Westfield and South Lakes waited too long to engage. Every version of the Western High School/Skyview thread discussed the backfill and that Westfield and South Lakes could take hits but there were not many posts from Westfield and South Lakes folks discussing this. The one South Lakes post I remember was from the opt in period when someone posted that the SLHS PTA had been briefied on the opt in numbers and that there were "only" 45-50 9th graders who opted in. That was "only" 10% of the class, it wasn't a big deal. They ignored the sign that if 45-50 kids were willing to opt in to Skyview, with no sports and history, that it might be a sign of a larger group that wanted to be moved for their kids in ES who would arrive when there were sports and a community had begun to develop.

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Fair point, but people who are fighting to get moved or not to get moved will always suck more of the oxygen out of the room than those who’ll be left behind and would like the SB to consider for at least a minute the impact on schools that will lose a lot of kids or a lot of their higher-performing kids.  People feel sheepish about raising the “hey, what about us” concern, and then when their schools decline they just head for the exits.  Loudoun will happily serve them. 
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Honestly.  It is not Westfield that is the loser.  It is those poor kids being shipped out of Chantilly.  Not because Westfield is bad, but because it is way too far when there is a school that is walking distance.

Shame on whoever made this decision.[/quote]

They are really physically and socially isolated from the rest of Westfield. Its about 1/3rd of the Brookfield ES school population, they will be going on to Stone with only their neighborhood from their ES. [/quote]

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