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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here[/quote]

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it. [/quote]

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools. [/quote]

Sure they can.  South Lakes and Langley groups have been very vocal in the past about which areas they did and did not want rezoned to their schools, and they got their way in 2008 and 2021.  [/quote]

Maybe the middle class Westfield parents are not as big of obnoxious a-holes as those other groups were. [/quote]

OK.  Someone started off by suggesting Westfield parents couldn’t advocate on their own behalf. Then, when it’s pointed out that other school communities have done just that, the response is that it would be obnoxious.

So that leaves them dependent on FCPS staff and School Board members - the very people who’ve put them in the position they find unattractive.  Good luck with that.

It doesn’t strike me as particularly obnoxious to ask FCPS to ensure that a smaller Westfield can continue to offer core classes and important electives, and that attention to the school’s demographics is part of that process.  [/quote]

Westfield will be large enough to offer core classes and a good number of electives. It might not offer as many sections of some electives but they will be offered.

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They are losing 1000 students and backfilling with a few hundreded almost all FARMs students. 
Once schools get below a certain number, the staffing formula which requires 32 students per class, only allows principals to offer one section of most APs. So if the times conflict, the student has to choose between say AP English and AP history. And most of the less popular APs simply won't be offered at all, b/c they won't have 32 students who want to take them. 
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This is a huge complaint from families at the smaller HS with a lot of low income kids. The AP options are very limited and only one section due to the staffing formulas principals must follow.[/quote]

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