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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]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]

I don't think many people would have thrown a fit if they'd been honest, acknowledged from the start this was not a "turnkey" acquisition, and then set a realistic timetable for opening Western as a school with fixed boundaries that 9th and 10th grade students were required to attend, absent a valid pupil placement, and which 11th grade students could voluntarily choose to attend.

Since they say this is a tremendous bargain that's going to save FCPS hundreds of millions, and this has been repeated regularly, I would have thought you'd have said they'd be praised, not screwed, no matter what they did.  [/quote]
You keep using that word. They have done zero renovations so far and will open to 9th and 10th graders. They didn't even have to buy furniture. That is turnkey.  No one promised a 4 year high school opening on day one like you keep asserting.[/quote]

The initial statements all suggested they were getting a four-year, ready-to-go high school for $150 million, and all the statements about the savings to FCPS were based on that assumption as well.

Obviously that isn’t turning out to be the case, and there’s no point in pretending otherwise.  [/quote]

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