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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][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]

The current scenario brings Westfield down from 2750 to 2083 students with a program capacity of 2800 and a building capacity of over 3000.
Centreville currently has 2181 and the scenario brings it down to 2118 with a program capacity of 1943. 
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Obsessing over current building and program capacities is the opposite of smart or proactive thinking, when those capacities are largely a product of ad hoc decisions made in the past and the timing of when a school came up in a renovation queue developed almost 20 years ago.  [/quote]

Not sure what you mean by "obsessing". Are you saying it makes financial sense to expand Centreville for a thousand more kids when FCPS can't find kids to attend Westfield, which borders Centreville?[/quote]

It’s not that they can’t find kids to attend Westfield, it’s that they won’t.  [/quote]
Same practice result: tons of space for students at Westfield means no need to add tons of space at Centreville. [/quote]

By that logic [b]empty seats at Herndon should have meant KAA was never acquired[/b].

Obviously the SB didn’t agree.

And it’s not 3000 or nothing when it comes to Centreville.  They can add some capacity to bring it in line with the majority of high schools. [/quote]
The SB got that one right. Herndon is even further from our neighborhood than Westfield, and without a road like 28 to (theoretically) zip along most of the way.[/quote]

+1  Kids in this area shouldn't be at Herndon or at Oakton. Proximity counts.[/quote]

Then you should have no problem with their adding some capacity to Centreville so that as many kids as possible who live near the school can go there.  [/quote]

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