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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, if what Meren says is correct about delaying the opening, why didn't Reid mention that at the Saturday meeting?

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Because the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing? Idk I’ve worked in plenty of dysfunctional organizations and this all seems pretty par for the course, lots of people making statements that may or may not be true and never checking with anyone else first, lots of abrupt deadline changes, lots of “well let’s fold in this slightly related but ultimately not core project into this larger project so we can fix both things at the same time” muddying the waters. [/quote]

DP. It might be somewhere in the middle. At the Chantilly meeting, Reid said they still wanted to do a soft open in 2026 but they would focus on finishing the county wide study first before looking at the KAA boundaries early next year. [/quote]

What is a “soft open” for a high school?  How would people have any idea what they are signing their kids up for, other than that it wouldn’t have VHSL sports?

I’ve yet to see a compelling reason why they shouldn’t delay opening Western until it has three grades, with only juniors given an automatic option to remain at their current schools.  [/quote]

It sounded like they wanted to let anyone who wants to go there attend, whether in boundary or not. Not sure what grades specifically. [/quote]

I understand but that’s still incoherent from a planning perspective.  They gear up to offer the standard course of studies to 500 kids?  What happens if you’re out of boundary and you send your kid to Western but they adopt boundaries later?  Does your kid get booted?

The School Board needs to grow a spine and squelch Reid Charter before it opens. [/quote]

There is no reason they cannot open next year--except that these people do not know how to plan anything.

Schools destroyed by tornadoes, etc, manage to open elsewhere under much more difficult circumstances.

They can open next year and have JV sports teams.  It just takes someone being pro-active on this.  Or, open with ninth grade and Freshman sports.  [/quote]

One challenge with this is that freshmen coming out of Carson have very different academic needs.  You'll have the kids who should have gotten into TJ ready for higher-level math courses and kids needing remedial math to be ready for Algebra I.  The smaller Western opens, the more challenging it becomes to build a schedule that accommodates these diverse requirements. [/quote]

I don't see why anyone would choose to go there unless you are right across the street or something. It sounds like course offerings will be questionable. Will there be enough kids to form interest in typical clubs? Will sports kids bother with being bussed back to the base school for sports when they can just choose to stay at the base school to begin with? In [b]truth, the longer they delay required boundaries, the longer it takes to fully establish the school. [/b][/quote]

Agree with the bolded. They need to stop quibbling and just do the dang thing.

Families in the neighborhoods most likely to go to Western HS are overwhelmingly in support of it, and would absolutely do whatever they needed to support clubs and sports.

Squelch the magnet idea and get to work.[/quote]

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