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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entire Walney area should be moved to Westfield. Brookfield should be a 50% split feeder. The Chantilly Mews kids should be moved back to CHS. The rest of Bull Run should be moved to Westfield. That would give Westfield around 2300-2400 students.[/quote]

What would that do to Centreville? If people are worried about what Westfield can offer with 2100 kids they should ask what Centreville could offer with 1800 kids.

The bigger problem here is that they should have taken a harder look at the Oakton boundaries. When you open Skyview but leave Oakton with over 2700 kids you are ensuring some other schools serving western Fairfax are going to shrink drastically.

Instead they followed their typical approach of saying they want to move as few kids as possible.  But when their starting point is moving over 1000 kids out of Westfield to populate Skyview, that approach no longer makes sense.

These people screw everything up, over and over again. And they pay themselves on the back for doing it. [/quote]

Centreville is already a very small school. I think they have around 2100 students right now, and that's overcrowded. I don't think losing half of Bull Run would make much difference.[/quote]

It would actually bring them into FCPS's "ideal capacity" zone. The capacity is only 1943 students. [/quote]

And yet there was and perhaps still is a plan to expand Centreville to 3000.

If you think it’s the natural order of things to leave CVHS with 1943 or fewer seats you have to ask why we bothered to expand Oakton so much, or why it would be a problem for Westfield to have 2150 kids but OK for Centreville to have hundreds fewer.

People here are so blatantly transparent in advocating for changes that benefit their schools to the detriment of others. [/quote]

Centreville was built for less than 2000 students. There is no need to expand it to 3000 with open seats all over the Western part of the county. Its a huge waste of money. Where are you gong to get 1000 more students to fill up that building? 
 
Westfield was built for 2800-3000 students.

If you don't see the difference between pulling out 800+ students (and the associated teachers, and programming) from an existing school and keeping a school where its designed for and been at for years, I don't really know how to explain it to you. [/quote]

I would scale back the scope of the Centreville expansion significantly but not entirely.

If you don’t see the inconsistency between claiming Westfield will flounder if it’s down to 2100 kids and asserting Centreville will be fine with 1800 or 1900 kids just because it currently has a shitty, under-sized facility, I don’t know how to explain it to you.  [/quote]

The school has the correct number of students for the building size
Expanding makes no financial sense when there are going to be 800 open seats right next door. Who is going to fill up all those seats?[/quote]

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