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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why aren't they opening with JV/freshman sports? That's stupid. Are they going to be transporting kids back to other schools for sports? That would be a logistical nightmare.

They should open WITH JV and freshman levels set up and ready to go. They have three gyms and a soccer field! [/quote]

They explained this on Friday in the Zoom meetings that they had. They cannot have any VHSL level programs or individual sports and allow kids to play on varsity teams at other schools. As soon as there is 1 VHSL sport at the HS, kids are not allowed to play at another HS for a different sport. If they have VHSL freshman and JV squads, the kids who could play varsity cannot play at a different HS.

[b]The solution is to wait until they have the fields and number of students at the right experience levels to have varsity sports in all sports. They are hoping to have VHSL sports in the second year the school is open but understand that might not happen until the third year the school is open. [/b]

It is all or nothing. You can't have VHSL at any level in any sport and allow kids to play a different sport at a different school.[/quote]

The right solution would be to wait until Western has enough space for three grades, open with fixed boundaries and VHSL sports, and dispense with this opt-in nonsense with extra bus routes for activities at other schools.

These people have absolutely lost their minds.  [/quote]

Because people won’t throw a hissy fit if you tell them their rising Juniors need to move? This will be fine, it will take a few years to have a full school and all that comes with it. That is life.[/quote]

If they weren’t mucking things up with other unnecessary changes there’s no reason they couldn’t wait and open Western as a 9-11 school with established boundaries and the courses and activities families want and provide transportation to grandfathered students.  Give rising juniors the option to attend Western or their current schools but otherwise no need for this stupid opt-in and bussing kids to other schools for sports crap.  [/quote]

It will be one to two years. I will be surprised if they get 500 sophomores, I can’t imagine that they would get enough juniors to offer the wide variety of classes that juniors would want. [/quote]

You could research the history at schools like South County to know how this went when FCPS wasn’t being run by timid idiots. [/quote]

They probably had more time to prepare for South County since they bought the land and built the building. Western was a building that became available and purchased. The process for opening it is going to be different. And people would be throwing a fit if they bought the building and didn’t open the school next year. They were screwed no matter what they did.

We are opting in, it isn’t perfect but we are excited to attend the new school. My kid has no interest in playing sports so the lack of sports is not an issue for them. We have friends opting out and others opting in. [/quote]

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