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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]200+ rising 9th graders opted to Skyview from Westfields boundaries.  So instead of 680 freshman Westfield will have 480 freshman.  That’s where a lot of the destaffs came from.  They will continue and get steeper the next few years with the redistricting plan.  All Westfields young staff and many assistant coaches will be sent away.[/quote]

Where did you get this number? [/quote]

Yes.  I did a search of this forum and found nothing from that post.[/quote]

I live with someone who works at Westfield and is in the know.  Westfield is terrified about the staff they will lose over the next couple of years.  The young staff that will not be retained wear many hats in that building.[/quote]

This is more than a year away.  Teachers retire and move every year in a high school.  This will not be a wholesale shift in staff.  There will be natural attrition and a few always shift to other schools.   Some move away.  [/quote]

They are already destaffing some teachers for this fall, that's two months away.[/quote]

This is what happens at all the FCPS HS with a sizable farms population once the school population drops down low enough. Its not an issue at the Langleys of FCPS. They can't run electives and APs with fewer than 32 students. So the schedule might have 1 AP French section, and 1 AP physics section. If you want to take physics and french, best hope they don't conflict with the one section of your DE English or the one section of honors math. Oh, its August and they only have 26 students for AP Physics-now that class is canceled. Or they can't find a DE teacher, but the one section of AP English is full and there aren't 32 kids to open another section. There aren't enough students to put together a marching band; there aren't enough students to find managers for the sports teams; there aren't enough parent volunteers to run the booster clubs, etc. Its a downward spiral until the school gets bad enough that everyone who can, finds a way to avoid it. Then you are sitting at 1600 students in a building for 2800+. 
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