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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]Emails went out that the Skyview kids will be getting Academic Counseling soon. I am hoping that we have a better idea about the class size for the 9th and 10th graders tomorrow night. I would guess that there is a higher number of 9th graders then 10th graders. [/quote]

Given that taxpayers across the county are funding this new school, they really should be transparent about the number of students opting in and whether they plan to open up enrollment to students outside the designated five pyramids.

But they've boxed themselves in.  If they limit enrollment to students in the five pyramids and don't get 1000 kids opting in, it demonstrates their opt-in model didn't meet expectations.  If they start welcoming students from other pyramids, people will say Reid was more intent on opening a quasi-magnet than focusing on overcrowding relief at Chantilly or other schools.      [/quote]

I can confirm they have 500 for each grade[/quote]

Interesting, I heard 650 total but no breakdown on the 9th vs 10th grade. The email sent out to my student mentioned that they had spots and that students outside of the 5 HS could apply to attend but it did not mention the process. I am hoping we get the numbers tomorrow night. [/quote]

Well official numbers may be a bit less. Admin at the school feel confident they will have 500 9th and at least 450 10th[/quote]

That I can believe but I don’t think that they are there yet but no one has publicly said what the numbers are, which is kind of ridiculous.[/quote]

It sounds like they'll keep admitting kids under the table for as long as needed to hit their fall 2026 numbers.

The hypocrisy of shutting down pupil placements at other schools for foreign language while at the same time recruiting kids for Skyview is gross.   [/quote]

Anything else you want to complain about? It is one year that they are using in the opt in approach. Families know that they have to provide transportation. It is likely that the school will be open to pupil placement through the pathways unless they are full. They always knew that hitting the numbers would be hard, asking 500 rising 10th graders to move is ambitious. Next year they will have set boundaries and filling the class will be easier. [/quote]

No, families don’t know that they have to provide transportation, whether this fall or later.  They have to guess whether they’ll end up in boundary or not, which is no way to open a new school.  And they made it hard on themselves to open a school with 1000 kids by not establishing boundaries when they had a perfect opportunity to do so, since there was already a county-wide review taking place.

You are either a paid shill for FCPS or prepared to justify any bad decision they make about Skyview as long as you can avoid another school you consider beneath you.  [/quote]

This year is the only year that deals with that and we all knew that. You seem upset that there are people who are fine with those conditions. No one likes how FCPS has dealt with this, including many of us who opted in. But I am not going to spend time complaining out things outside my control. We are excited with the option and happy to be attending.

If we were not comfortable with the uncertainty we would have made a different choice, some of our neighbors chose to stay at the base school. It was an individual choice.

And yes, reading the constant barrage of negativity is getting old for me. My kid would have been fine at either school, we chose Skyview for our reasons. [/quote]

It’s pretty crazy how one person says Skyview will have 650 kids next year and another 1000, and no one really knows who is telling the truth and who is making stuff up.  [/quote]

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