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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain why so many in crossfield are so laser focused on staying Oakton? I would MUCH prefer my teen having a close option like Skyview rather than the outrageously long commute to Oakton. [/quote]

They paid oakton price to buy the house in oakton hs.  They did not mind the commute to oakton when they bought the house and still do not mind that.  For the people who were willing to pay the extra to buy in oakton hs, going to a better school out weighs 10+ minutes of extra commute time.  As simple as that.

I actually do not understand why people who hates commute to oakton so much would buy in crossfield in the first place.[/quote]

[b]This right here is the answer. We bought houses in the Oakton district and absolutely knew the distance from our neighborhoods to the high school.[/b]

While I strongly prefer Oakton HS, my biggest concern is that scenario 1 is absolutely bananas in the way the board is proposing to split just a few Crossfield neighborhoods and send that handful of kids to Carson/Skyview. So my kids will have spent 7+ years with their peers at Crossfield, most of their class would move onto Franklin/Oakton, and then they would start MS knowing maybe 5 kids at a school of 1,400 (Carson). The math isn't mathing, and there is a plethora of research that shows what a terrible idea this is from a mental health standpoint.[/quote]

There's nothing compelling about this. Everyone knows where their zoned high school is when they purchase a house and they also know that can be changed at any time. It makes NO sense to send Herndon kids all the way to Vienna to Oakton when there are going to be 800 empty seats at Westfield and 400 empty seats at South Lakes.[/quote]

I find students' mental health pretty compelling, but to each their own.[/quote]

Rezoning your house from Oakton to a close by high school has nothing to do with your HS kids mental health, since they will be grandfathered into Oakton. 
More sleep will be great for future kids' mental health though.[/quote]

Many of us don't have high schoolers who will be grandfathered anywhere, which is why we're concerned. My kids are in elementary and middle school.[/quote]

Then they will go to whatever middle and high school they go to with the rest of your neighbors. [/quote]

No they won't, that's the point. Scenario 1 breaks up Crossfield neighborhoods. Four districts will have buses going down the same street. Crossfield shouldn't be a 3/4-way split feeder (Carson, Franklin, Hughes) (Skyview, Oakton, South Lakes, Chantilly). Not to mention, a lot of these kids that are 6th graders now, will have to go to Carson for 1 year and then switch to another new school (Franklin) with a whole other group of new kids. They won't have the 2 years in MS to make friends going into HS. [/quote]

Scenario 1 send the western edge of Crossfield to Skyview. I don’t consider the western edge to be “neighbors” with the eastern edge. They’re miles apart.

Crossfield has been a split (Oakton and South lakes) for years. If you’re going to claim all splits are bad, then you have to send them all to one of those 3 (Oakton, Skyview, or South lakes). Oakton can’t absorb more kids and keeping Crossfield there will result in another change during the next boundary review cycle; so much for the coveted stability people keep talking about. So which is it? Skyview or South lakes? Or back off on the claim that splits are inherently bad and live with it?[/quote]

Exactly, this could be solved if more of Crossfield is open to going to a local highschool like Skyview or Southlakes, Scenario 1 would work if they move more of crossfield to Skyview, and there is capacity to do so. Otherwise we will just be revisiting again in a few years when Oakton continues to be overcrowded.[/quote]

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