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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is Meren and what role do they play? [/quote]

The School Board rep for SLHS who doesn't want to lose any students to Skyview. She is petrified that SLHS scores will drop if it loses Floris and Fox Mill, both of who have a large population of parents who want to move to Skyview. She has been ghosting the Fox Mill PTA since October. Crossfield or Fox Mill were under discussion only because they are small schools whose populations would get Skyview to close to 2,000 students. I don't believe their are similarly sized ES that are at Chantilly or Westfield to make up that number of kids. The numbers of students lost would not significantly diminish SLHS or Oakton. Meren and SLHS knows that they fought hard to force Floris and Fox Mill into SLHS 20 some years ago to improve test scores and are afraid of what will happen if they lose those populations. It is that simple.

Crossfield has a very vocal opposition to moving from Oakton. Fox Mill is split on the move but a significant number of rising 9th graders opted into to Skyview. I have no clue how many kids from Crossfield opted in.[/quote]

Reid and the School Board allowed themselves to get pushed around by loud parents in the just-completed county-wide review.

If they behave the same way again there are enough Oakton parents who vocally oppose moving to Skyview to probably get their way.

That suggests they’ll either move Fox Mill or just start Skyview off with four feeders and invite pupil placements.  Meren may want to keep Fox Mill at South Lakes, but she doesn’t have veto rights and she’s not part of the ruling junta on the School Board.  On the other hand, Reid may hope that pupil placements will boost Skyview’s test scores and overall profile. [/quote]
Your definition of “pushed around” is vastly different than ours. Just sounds like sour grapes.[/quote]

Well, they are claiming (again) that they are going to be guided by the factors in their boundary policy when crafting the boundaries for Skyview, but they just deferred to those who yelled the loudest last time. [/quote]

Sounds like you don’t like accountability.[/quote]

Accountability is fine.  Talking out of both sides of your mouth isn’t. [/quote]

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