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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is politically connected and lives in the tiny area moved from FHS to overcrowd CHS even more? How bizarre.[/quote]

+1,000 adding more kids to Chantilly?? Totally ridiculous.[/quote] I went to chantilly and regretted it.

That's why I'm fighting the Western High School fight with parents who want to move.

Chantilly was awful, and despite being a community, the staff have loose lips and are not afraid to throw other staff under the bus; students were constantly involved in drama, with some dramas being so severe they required administrative intervention; organizational challenges at the school level were prevalent, and abusive staff are extant at the school even with staffing changes in occurrence.

I had some of the laziest staff I could possibly have, where community is just a front.

Chantilly is a sinking ship much like the Titanic, with an obvious distinction between Franklin and Rocky Run kids.

I have dealt with split feeders from K-8, having attended Oak Hill, and I found that they really do come at a detriment to a student's social-emotional development.

Hear it from someone who has lived overcrowding and split feeders first hand, it was not fun.

In regards to the overcrowding:

It was not fun having to zigzag around other kids to avoid injury.

It was not fun having to face delays in the halls from severe backups.

It was not fun having to wait in the bathroom for a toilet or sink to open up, when everyone went in there at once.

It was not fun being crammed into a class of 30 people, and not receiving the specialized attention from the teacher students deserve.

It was not fun being crammed into spaces that were not built to accommodate the amount of people it had to hold from enrollment pressures.

In regards to the split feeder situation:

It was not fun making friends with people you knew would be heading in a different direction as you.

It was not fun having to say goodbye to those you grew to love, appreciate, and cherish.

It was not fun knowing that students were going to a better or worse school than you, with a pervasive feeling of angst and envy knowing that our overall experience at the next level would not be the same.

It was not fun attending schools with people so vastly dissimilar from you that you felt like you couldn't maintain a proper social standing, and stuck with who was familiar.

It was not fun leaving people I had known for the past seven years, and then having to do the same with people you knew for the past two years.

It was certainly not fun knowing that cross-school parties exist, where artificial ethnocentrism at the high school level created social rifts, with students from one school being uninvited in order to maintain a feeling of community with people you may never see again in life, not to mention fights that would occur if students from other schools showed their face.

And most importantly, it was not fun having relationships be strained from defective and awfully drawn school boundary lines.

Chantilly was overcrowded, socially difficult to navigate, a safety hazard (there was one time I was stuck in the building during a fire drill), and a discombobulated mess that faced neglect over many years, where now the county comes up with a solution, that then they try to make problems with by considering turning it into an aerospace academy.

That's the truth behind what was felt as someone who has lived through FCPS' concocted BS that they have to clean up when they shot themselves in the foot and walked into this mess through chronic incompetence, gerrymandering, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds, if not straight up embezzlement and fraud. [/quote]

Parent here of one introvert and one extrovert.  One excellent student and one who could have been, but did not want to be bothered.  Both thrived at Chantilly.

I'm sorry PP did not have a decent experience.

One thing, I don't understand was the leaving friends of 7 years, and then 2 years.  
Also, FWIW, the number of kids in the classroom has very little to do with the number in the school.  30 is pretty normal.[/quote]

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