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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the parents of older elementary school students at Crossfield think of Oakton as an elite school. That's why. [/quote]
The loudest ones don't even have kids at Crossfield anymore.  Their kids are 7th and 8th graders.[/quote]

Yup, I believer the leader of the group is a middle school parent.[/quote]

Then why are they fighting so hard after Reid said only rising 7th graders will have to go and older ones can be grandfathered? [/quote]

Because some of them also have younger kids and are concerned the new school won’t be good enough even by then for their precious children. Being the star of everything at the new school doesn’t carry the same social media bragging rights as being the star of everything at Oakton. [/quote]

Or maybe they love the community at Oakton and feel like that's their home. I'm not a Crossfield parent, though I live in the area and want to go to the new school. But I don't think it's wrong to want to stay at Oakton anymore than it's wrong to want to go to the new school. [/quote]

Spending on specific location, many of the homes in this Oakton zoned area are closer to FIVE other high schools with this new one opening up. At some point logic and what is best for the most children in the long term need to come into the equation. It’s one thing to advocate for your current middle school child to have a choice. It’s another thing to deny all the children coming after from attending a high school closer to home that can actually be their community high school because of your own short term interests.

This area has been a mess of split feeders and kids who live next to each other in the same neighborhood to different schools. There’s a chance to finally fix it and certain selfish people want to block it because they only care about their own kids. [/quote]

I think giving a choice to all affected middle school children is insane. The only kids who should have an option between the schools are the rising 10th graders and [b]those who will have older HS siblings in rising 10th, 11th or 12th remaining at their currently zoned HS[/b]. [/quote]

I think this right here would alleviate the concerns of a lot of the pro-Oakton families.[/quote]

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