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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The School Board should shift its priorities, and yes, I have communicated my feelings to my School Board members.

1) KAA boundaries take priority. This would address Coates and Chantilly.

Coates is included in the move to KAA, thus is the time to shift the Coates kids to different ES to help relieve Coates, which will influence needs for MS and HS.

Chantilly is scheduled to lose Oak Hill students, which would deal with the over-crowding at Chantilly.

Shifting the ES to KAA will start the shifts needed in the Western part of the County.

2) Move Centerville students and other Chantilly if needed.

The KAA moves will open spaces in Westfield, that can be backfilled by Centerville and Chantilly students.

3) Look at the other overcrowded schools. WSHS is one of those schools, I am not sure about other ES/MS/HS issues. I have heard the most about Chantilly, Centerville, and WSHS.

It makes no sense to redraw boundaries in January only to do it again in June. [/quote]

Most of the WSHS feeder elementary schools are dropping enrollment by a significant amount.

The largest WSHS pyramid class is graduating this year.  After that, the classes continue to get smaller.  There is a huge drop, well over a hundred kids when class of 2026 graduates.  After that, the classes are steadily replaced with smaller classes as each one graduates.[/quote]

One would hope that the School Board takes that into consideration. I have no clue about construction and all of that fun stuff. I also know that there are plenty of parents that don't want to move and that position doesn't shift when the school is overcrowded. We are in the Western area and are going to be impacted by the new school in some way. The passionate discussion as to why people should stay at their base or move or other people should move is intense. None of the Chantilly families I know want to move or have their kids friends move even though the school is overcrowded. There is an Oakton subset that is going all out to stay, much to the annoyance of their neighbors who want to move. There are SLHS families who don't want to move. Lots of folks are attached to their schools.

In the case of schools that are overcrowded, and appear to stay overcrowded, someone needs to move and that leads to hurt feelings and loud voices. [/quote]

No one at the crowded schools are asking for rezoning.[/quote]

No, they are. They just want other people to be moved and not their kid. See the above post on KAA and Chantilly. I would bet that there are people at WSHS who want the school population to diminish but are not screaming for it because they don't want to be moved but they will be fine if other kids are moved out of the school.

The voices that are screaming about being moved are the people who are in the boundary areas being moved. Trust me, other people in your school are emailing their reps and asking for it to happen. They won't post it or attend a meeting and publicly say it and they are not saying it to your face. They don't want to deal with your being upset at them, but they want you to move so that the school is less crowded. Their public face is different than then the private face.

And I know people at SLHS and Herndon who would not want to be moved from those schools, even though there are people here who think that it would be awful to be moved to those schools. People are attached to the schools that they know, many even if other people think their school is awful. [/quote]

I am absolutely one of those parents.  My kids' school is overcrowded and FCPS should have planned for it years ago.  I'm not at risk to be moved out because I specifically bought a house close to the school not wanting to be rezoned.  Some areas need to be rezoned.  FCPS is in one of the wealthiest areas in the country.  There is no reason for kids to be going to school in a trailer park and eating lunch out in the hallway.[/quote]
Which school did you buy close to, elementary, middle, or high? Because this is such a dumb argument unless someone has found the thirdary school that combines all three.[/quote]

My home is within a half-mile of of our ES, MS and HS. Fairfax County.[/quote]

Poplar Tree/Rocky Run/Chantilly?  Or maybe Greenbriar West?[/quote]

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