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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][quote=Anonymous]It will provide an important data point in the decision making.  For example, it's going to be a useful data point in deciding moving crossfield or foxmil.  That data won't affect Oakhill.
[quote=Anonymous]The boundary decisions are not being made solely on opt-in numbers. That's DCUM speculation. [/quote][/quote]

Gee.  Why didn't they do the boundary study based on those who want to Opt-in to any school?

I do not understand this process at all.

Reid is clueless.

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With how few changes they made in the grand scheme it sort of feels like that’s what they did. [/quote]

I'd be very surprised if Meren supports South Lakes losing Fox Mill.  [/quote]

Meren doesn’t know the difference between Fox Mill and Fox Mill Woods.

I’d love to lose Meren. [/quote]

If Reid’s proposal sends Fox Mill to Skyview the other board members will pass it. [/quote]
Crossfield to Skyview makes so much more sense that I don't think even one board member would object if that were Reid's proposal.[/quote]

What I find crazy is how Navy families are so involved in this. They are worried that if Crossfield is moved to a closer school, that they will be moved to Fairfax, which is closer to them. [/quote]False, Chantilly is closest to Navy, not Fairfax, and Waples mill is closest to Oakton.

Make sure to calculate driving time before making an erroneous post![/quote]

PP said "closer" not "closest."

Chantilly is full.  Navy kids were taken out of Chantilly some years ago because of the overcrowding.  
But, I am not sure that Fairfax is closer than Oakton to the neighborhoods.[/quote]

Navy kids weren't taken out of Chantilly because of overcrowding.  Oakton kids at Fox Mill were moved to South Lakes to bolster the enrollment at South Lakes, and then the School Board member from Providence who lived in the Oakton district wanted other kids moved into Oakton to avoid reducing its enrollment.  He was worried Oakton teams would suffer with a lower enrollment.  Navy fit the bill, and Kathy Smith went along with it.  [/quote]

That is only part of the story. The "official premise" for the redistricting was that Westfield and Chantilly were overcrowded.  Stu and Kathy resurrected an old FCPS policy that said that 2000 was the optimum number for a high school (ironic, since they had just expanded Westfield.)

Those close to this process know that the real reason was the efforts of the South Lakes PTSA who orchestrated the whole thing.  They even posted on their website maps that were acceptable to them.  Their first choice was Armstrong and Aldrin in order to keep Reston together.  However, Herndon PTA objected--and, I think, so did the Armstrong parents.  McNair was suggested, but the demographics did not meet the South Lakes PTA approval.  No one wanted to leave Chantilly, but, as you said, it would not have worked without the ability to backfill Oakton.  At that time, the Floris people wanted to stay at Westfield and the Fox Mill people wanted to stay at Oakton.  But, unlike this current western boundary process, their objections were overruled.  People begged for AP at South Lakes.

And, yes, Oakton did need more students with the removal of Fox Mill, but the official reason for the redistricting was to reduce the numbers at Chantilly and Westfield.[/quote]

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