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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its absolutely insane that they did not move those Herndon kids over to a closer school and left them at Oakton in both scenarios.

Literally one of the reasons they bought the school was to reduce overcrowding at *OAKTON* and to keep those kids from having to go such a long way to school.

Now both scenarios have no one moving out of Oakton, but leaving South Lakes and Westfield without enough students.

It makes no sense.

A school in the perfect location falls into their lap and they still manage to make a complete disaster out of it.

And the self-dealing by Seema Dixit and apparently, Kyle McDaniel, needs to be reviewed by an FCPS ethics office.[/quote]

The first revised scenario does move kids out of Oakton, just not all of Crossfield.

I’d check my facts more carefully next time before composing such a screed.

By the way, there’s no requirement for School Board members to recuse themselves from decisions affecting schools to which they are zoned.  In the past, School Board members like Stu Gibson and Elaine Tholen were visibly involved in championing boundary changes that benefited their own schools (South Lakes and Langley).  If you don’t like it, your recourse is to vote her out next year because the chances of an ethics inquiry are nil. [/quote]

However, people seem to have no problem suggesting that Lee's Corner which is on Chantilly's doorstep to Westfield--which is not close in any way.

What I don't understand is why, if they can make Brookfield such an egregious split feeder (picking winners and losers) why can't they do the same with Bull Run?  There are people at Bull Run who live  in neighborhoods that border Westfield schools.  That would make sense.  And, yes, I know they picked one small area of Bull Run to add to Westfield--an area that is one of the closer ones to Centreville. 
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Its obviously because Seema Dixit intervened to preserve her own property values. [/quote]

“Obviously”. More like conspiracy theory. [/quote]

Can you think of an explanation for the consultants to change their minds on moving all of Bull Run and instead, move just one random low income building instead? [/quote]

This question was asked and answered last night at the meeting. You either weren’t there or missed that part. They said the online map went live before the consultant and FCPS had finished the final scenarios.

[b]You can accept it at face value, or keep twisting in the wind with your conspiracy theories[/b]. Your choice. [/quote]

I don't think it takes a crazy conspiracy theorist to see this explanation is absurd. 
The consultant put the maps online "before they were finished"? No freaking way would that happen. We are supposed to believe they were still working on the substance of who was moved where 5 minutes before maps were to be posted?

The consultants final scenarios designated Walney Oaks as an area that made sense to move to Westfield. Instead of leaving it for the community to discuss, someone at FCPS demanded the map be edited. [/quote]

So from the comprehensive boundary project here is what went down with Walney Oaks.   In some of the scenarios they got moved to Westfield, but they argued against it saying they could hear the Chantilly marching band from their community (would love to go test that out).   Ultimately FCPS withdrew all of the proposed changes to high schools in the comprehensive boundary because of what was coming with the Skyview boundary project.    [b] The Walney group currently goes to Franklin and was advocating hard to be moved to Rocky Run, presumably as a defensive move to put them in a cohort with the rest of Chantilly.   [/b] The move to Rocky Run was not in any of the 5 scenarios proposed, nor was it in the Reid's final recommendation of about 15 changes that were presented in a slide deck to the School Board.    Suddenly though in a revised deck they were added as an additional change moving them from Franklin to Rocky Run. [/quote]

Huh, this sounds familiar. Like when RIO lobbied to get to Franklin MS so they could then stay at Oakton HS. RIO wanted out of Carson so they wouldn’t dare be sent to Skyview. Crossfield has never been at Franklin in the last 20 years.[/quote]

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