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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Madison is in Vienna.[/quote]

And serves some areas well to the west of South Lakes.  It was expanded based on the assumption it would continue to serve these areas. [/quote]

So, keep Fox Mill at South Lakes.  No need to reduce population at South Lakes.  Take the kids who go --or should go--to Chantilly (but are going to Oakton) and the Westfield kids between 50 and the toll road.

Coates
McNair
Floris
Oak Hill
Crossfield[/quote]

Floris is at SLHS to. If you are screwing over Fox Mill, you can screw over Floris as well. Or better yet, move both to the new school like the rest of Carson.

Losing the kids from SLHS to the new school would still leave SLHS at 90+% capacity, it is not going to under populate the school. Fox Mill got screwed when it was moved from Oakton to SLHS 20 or so years ago. [/quote]

The KAA property sits in the Floris district so of course Floris would go to any new school.

Floris feeds to Westfield, as do Coates and McNair to the north.  So they couldn't go to Westfield any longer without creating a new attendance island, which is frowned upon.  So you either move them to the new school or you move Coates to Herndon and McNair to the new school, but there would be reluctance to move Coates to HHS given the demographics.

The main justification for this school is relieving overcrowding at Chantilly, so that pulls in Oak Hill, and Crossfield is the group complaining the most about traveling from the Sully District to Oakton.

No one knows yet what capacity is feasible at the new school.  We only know the current private school enrollment is around 1000.  So Coates, McNair, Floris, Oak Hill, and Crossfield may be all the new school can accommodate.  Fox Mill may indeed need to stay at South Lakes.  No one there can claim they are traveling as far to South Lakes as Crossfield kids are traveling to Oakton.  And some other high schools only have four or five feeders.  [/quote]

You are leaving off that keeping Carson at SLHS means moving it to Langston Hughes for MS to end the split feeder. Not only does Fox Mill get sacrificed to IB it moves to a weaker MS. That is BS. Oak Hill is at Westfield right now, they can stay there or move to Fox Mill and go to the new HS. Crossfield is as close to SLHS as Fox Mill and not at Carson, move them to SLHS.

Tired of Fox Mill being sacrificed because it is a smaller school with fewer parents to piss off. [/quote]

Well, again, we don't know yet capacity is feasible at the new school.

Carson is already a split feeder, and may need to remain one.  It's not like they weren't proposing to leave Thoreau as a three-way split feeder.  And most of Oak Hill feeds to Chantilly, not Westfield.

Fox Mill has been at South Lakes for over 15 years.  You're used to IB.  The new school will likely be AP and that's what most at Crossfield are used to, so it would be sketchy to move the Oakton piece of Crossfield into an IB school.

Also, if you move Floris, Crossfield AND Fox Mill out of South Lakes you're basically undoing all of the 2008 South Lakes boundary change, except for the small piece moved from Madison.  It starts to look like FCPS is playing with Legos when it comes to SLHS.

I'm sorry you dislike South Lakes so much, but it's going to blow the project up if you're suggesting there can only be a new high school at the KAA site if we build an addition to accommodate six feeders that include Fox Mill.  That's not how this is being sold; it's being described as an existing building that FCPS can readily convert to a high school.  [/quote]

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