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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you from SLHS, Westfield, or are you from Chantilly. Which one of the school is better than Oakton?

One thing for sure is that your kids is going to KAA and you are upset to hear that KAA can not be better than Oakton.

I think you are expecting a KAA to be the only top tier school in west part of fcps. The only way KAA can be the top tier is to become a magnet school. [/quote]

I was asked why people have a problem with the Oakton families pitch, and the issue is you sound like elitists who think that the other kids being moved to the new school are going to be beneath you.

You do realize that there are people with kids at SLHS who wouldn't want to be moved to Oakton, right? Different people value different things. SLHS has a strong community and lots of kids have had a great experience there. The families are not worried about the rating and there are plenty of kids going to strong colleges. There are even people who love IB. The SLHS families I know worried about being moved are concerned about the lack of programs in the first bunch of years but mainly feel like they are a part of a strong community. They know that will build over time but the genuinely love their school.

The difference is when they talk about their school, they don't sound like elitists who are hoping and praying that their kids are not moved from the school to a school that is beneath them.  Oakton families that don't want to move sound like they are going to be punished by having to go to a HS with kids from Oak Hill, Floris, and Coates. Great Falls families have the same problem. They sound like snobs. The argument that your kids should be at a school that is a 30-40 minute bus drive when there is a school 10 minutes away is kind of ridiculous. And your logic for why you should stay there is that the other schools aren't as good and you don't want to go there.

If you can't understand why that sounds bad, then I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]
Great Falls families sound like snobs because they don’t want their kids to go to Herndon High which had a student recently murdered in a drive-by after receiving death threats at Herndon High from fellow students?

Call me crazy, but that doesn’t sound snobby to me. Sounds like great falls families want their kids to be safe from violence.
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Franklin Farm families and neighborhoos families that want to leave Oakton:

Please also reconsider what is best for your kids: convenience for adults.  Vs.    Safety for kids[/quote]
Sigh, if they want to move our kids around like pawns without regard to their mental health, they’ll at least have to get a handle on the safety issues that are a real concern at many of the high schools.
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It seems like there is so much grandfathering/phasing and opting in/out going on that the "move our kids around like pawns" argument falls flat anymore.  Seems like most changes are reassignments of where kids will go in the future at this point.  And seriously, what magic place do you come from where no schools change boundaries ever?  How do you expect adjustments to ever be made without moving anyone?[/quote]

Please volunteer your kid to go to a school with recent death threats and a drive-by.  We’ll pass, thank you, even if it’ll only be in the future that kids will be forced to go there.[/quote]
Good thing for you that you have at least 5 years until the next review to move away from such a dangerous place so you won't be assigned to go to school there.[/quote]

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