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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]All the other proposed maps in the other versions had Westfield with a more reasonable population-at least 23-400 students by pulling from Lees Corner, or Bull Run, or the Walney area, etc. This "final" map is the only one that dipped all the way down to @2000. I'm sure the Westfield people were taken aback by that. [/quote]

Where were all the people thinking an enrollment of 2300 or 2400 kids is "reasonable" when FCPS was refusing to invest in other schools and downsizing them?  [b]If Westfield ends up with 2150 kids[/b] or so, it will still have an enrollment larger than nine other high schools, including Skyview.  [/quote]

The projection has it at only 2083, which is fewer than 2150, with the only MC neighborhood being rezoned lobbying FCPS hard to get out. There's no chance they add more kids in but based on the shenanigans so far, there's a likely chance they move kids back to Chantilly, which would leave them with 1900 or fewer. [/quote]

You're right that the projection has Westfield at 2083, not 2150.  That's still higher than nine other high schools based on all the boundary adjustments adopted and proposed:  [b]Herndon,[/b] Marshall, South County, [b]Falls Church, Annandale, South Lakes, Mount Vernon[/b], Skyview, and[b] Lewis. [/b] [/quote]

Interesting that this list of smallest schools also includes all the academic have-not schools people are desperate to avoid in FCPS and that FCPS ignores and refuses to improve. They are deliberately moving Westfield from a regular middle of the pack school down to the bottom tier of Avoid at All Cost schools. [/quote]
If the only thing keeping Westfield in the middle of the pack was all those kids north of 50, then this was inevitable.[/quote]

There is nothing special about those particular 1000+ kids. Moving back in a similar mix of 500-600 kids would keep Westfield afloat. FCPS is refusing to do that.[/quote]

Wait til they cave to the Cub Run criers and moves them back to Chantilly at the last minute. That's how this process has been going down. Every time they put a map out, whatever middle class area got moved to Westfield tantrums and gets themselves moved back (except for the low income neighborhoods who are just being used as pawns at this point.)[/quote]

They are simply following the lead of RIO and Lees Corner.[/quote]

They may be following RIO, but Lee's Corner is not the same thing.  Lee's Corner had extremely valid arguments for staying at Chantilly.  It was ridiculous that they were ever thrown into the mix.  Their arguments were valid.  (An No I do not live in Lee's Corner boundary)

RIO has no valid arguments based on objective standards.  Read the comments on their petition.  Mostly, "i bought"[/quote]

Everyone thinks their own reasons are valid. I could see both pros and cons of moving Lees Corner and why the consultants thought it made sense. Now the situation they are in is that FCPS kept making exceptions for every area with their own "valid" reasons (the Chantilly band lady, the Seema Dixit Special, etc) and is left with no one to attend Westfield. [/quote]

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