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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain all the hate for Crossfield here? I'd never heard of this school up until this year![/quote]

Crossfield is an elementary school in Herndon that pulls from Herndon and Reston neighborhoods. At the middle school level, most of Crossfield goes to Carson, but other Crossfield kids go to Hughes and Franklin. At the high school level, the Crossfield/Carson kids go to Oakton, the Crossfield/Hughes kids go to South Lakes, and the Crossfield/Franklin kids go to Chantilly.

Crossfield is fairly close to South Lakes, a fair distance to Chantilly, and quite a distance to Oakton. No kids now at Oakton commute further to Oakton than the Crossfield kids. With the opening of the new Western high school, there is some possibility - although by no means guaranteed - that some or all of Crossfield would be reassigned to the new HS.

The "hate" for Crossfield is directed primarily towards the Crossfield/Carson/Oakton families most adamant that they want to stay zoned to Oakton. It's directed towards these families because some are very outspoken about their belief that Oakton is "better" than some other schools and "better" than the new Western high school could ever aspire to be. That also gets under some people's kids because these parents act like their kids shouldn't have to slum it with the same Crossfield and/or Carson kids in high school that they were around in elementary or middle school.

Some of the outspoken parents are also very into youth sports, and suggest that their kids are potential D1 recruits and will see that jeopardized unless they can attend Oakton. They give the impression that they don't care what happens to other kids, and indeed some go out of their way to push for the reassignment of other kids to the new western HS so they can stay at Oakton.

To be clear, this is just a subset of Crossfield parents, and there are other Crossfield/Carson/Oakton parents who either don't care if they get reassigned to the new western HS or would welcome a move. But right now people are associating the entire school with the noisiest pro-Oakton parents.[/quote]

DP adding that one of the loudest is the Crossfield PTO president who is using that position to claim that their viewpoint is shared by the entire Crossfield community.
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