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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the ideal school size was 2000 then why the hell did they expand westfield to fit 3000 kids? thats ridiculously large.[/quote]

They changed the number in order to justify the redistricting of South Lakes.  They could not justify taking kids out of Westfield unless they came up with a rationale.  Westfield was expanded only a year or so before the SL redistricting.  Most of the kids who were sent to SL from Westfield lived in the Floris Elementary boundary.  There would have been no reason to remove them from Westfield--so the School Board invented one.  Chantilly was also thrown into the mix so that they could take kids from Chantilly and send them to Oakton in order to replace Oakton kids who were sent to SL.  Otherwise, Oakton would have been way down in membership (at that time).  I think it was Fox Mill kids who were sent to SL from Oakton.  Oakton was not overcrowded, so to justify sending them to SL they said that Chantilly needed to downsize and sent kids from Navy Elementary to Oakton and then bumbed Fox Mill Oakton kids to SL.

The point is they had JUST expanded Westfield, but changed the rules to suit their purpose.  Stu Gibson and the SL PTA were determined to bring in high SES to SL.[/quote]

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