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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rocky Run is right next to Chantilly. Kids zoned to RR should all go to Chantilly (And I think now they do, except for the AAP kids).[/quote]

They should but now Navy Oakton kids are getting rezoned there because Franklin MS is suddenly getting an elementary school that hasn’t been there in years and has priority apparently when they could just stay at Carson. Proximity doesn’t matter to these folks (they’re willing to commute all the way out to Oakton) so explain to me why should they all get moved over to Franklin while Navy kids will be split to different middle schools?[/quote]

Really.  I agree that there is difficulty with avoiding a split feeder.  If Crossfield stays at Carson, then Oak Hill will stay at Franklin.  Oak Hill is pretty certain to go to Skyview.

Honestly, Oak Hill and Crossfield should be at Carson/Skyview.  Put Fox Mill at Hughes when AAP centers are in every middle school.

I would set Skyview boundary.  Adjust Westfield on the edges and leave it be for a year or two.  Then, work on the middle schools, if needed.

Franklin has been a split feeder forever--at least thirty years--maybe more.  It's not optimum, but it is only two years.[/quote]

Hughes is already a Center and there is no space for Fox Mill. Fox Mill should be at Skyview. There are Fox Mill kids within a mile of Skyview. We share a boundary with Floris and go to Oak Hill for AAP. Carson is right next door and we attend Carson. And most of us want to attend Skyview.

Let Crossfield stay at Oakton since that is where they want to be. And yes, I think that there are more Crossfield families that want to stay at Oakton then want to move to Skyview. The families that want to attend Skyview can pupil place for the specialized programs. They should be able to get permission to pick up a bus int he Fox Mill area or one of the other close by spots. 
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Hughes is not overcrowded. No need to lie.[/quote]

DP.

Hughes is at 95% now and would be overcrowded if Fox Mill gets moved. I doubt it will happen.

The following middle school feeding pattern is plausible and very clean:

Fox Mill - Carson - Skyview
Oak Hill - Carson - Skyview
Crossfield - Franklin - Oakton

This will minimize or eliminate the split feeding at Carson and help Franklin. 
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Hughes will be fine. For proximity, it should be Crossfield-Carson-Skyview and Fix Mill-Hughes-South Lakes. This will eliminate split feeders and keep space at Franklin for when AAP ends and all the Navy and Waples kids come back in 2 years.[/quote]

Hughes is not fine, it's classes and after school programs do not match or come close to matching Carson's offerings. It really is that simple. Fox Mill ES lost access to a large number of classes when it was forced to move from Oakton, electives that do not have enough of a peer group to offer, even HL IB classes because there are not enough kids interested in taking them, as well as a large number of clubs that there is not enough of a peer group to have at SLHS. Now you want FMES to give up similar programming and move to Hughes?

When the County gets around to offering similar level classes, clubs, and electives at all of the schools you will see people stop wanting to move from a strong school to a weak school. Want to keep kids at SLHS? Offer IB Physics HL even if there are only 10 kids interested. Or offer IB Japanese HL, the only language IB that is not offered at the HL level is the Japanese one which serves mainly Fox Mill families. Otherwise, kids will pupil place out. And now that Skyview will be the closest AP school, I promise you the pupil placement numbers for AP and the specialized pathways will increase. Until then, people will pupil place out or fight moving to a school that does not have the same programming.

There is a reason I feel strongly about moving FMES to Skyview. The kids at that school lost opportunities with the move to SLHS. There is an opportunity to regain access to lost programs. They were moved in the name of equity and were the ones thrown under the bus by every other UMC school in the area. It was BS and remains BS. We were sacrificed in the name of equity once, stop offering us up as Tribute.

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