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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m thrilled about this. We are in Fox Mill/Carson and the transition from Carson to SLHS where our neighborhood kids are a minority is awful. I am hoping very much that our neighborhood along with RCMS area will go to this new school. [/quote]

It’s going to very interesting to see what they do if they make this a general HS. Fox Mill is a big neighborhood. They may not want to pull it out of SLHS. There is also the reducing transportation time vs. reducing split feeder issue. I don’t see how they solve both because the new HS won’t have room for everyone. Look at
who people think should attend this new school… Fox Mill, Emerald Chase, Franklin Farm, Chantilly Highlands, who else? There’s isn’t room for everyone so someone is either keeping their long commute to Oakton or staying at Westfield or South Lakes [/quote]

Fox Mill used to go to Oakton and South Lakes was just fine without it.[/quote]

Actually it wasn’t; hence, the large boundary change in 2008.

And then South Lakes got expanded after that outside the renovation queue.

Fox Mill isn’t that far from South Lakes and should stay there. If anything they should look to adjust the boundaries so it goes to Hughes as well.

The last thing anyone should be implying is that we need to build an addition to KAA before the sale has even closed. [/quote]

Fox Mill parent here. I would love to be moved to the new school. Pupil placing is in our future because the IB program is 1) weak 2) not a good fit for our student. And I am pretty sure that moving kids from Carson to Hughes will cause an uproar. We were already moved from Oakton, an AP HS with better course offerings, to SLHS, an IB school with limited offerings. Moving from a top MS to a weka MS is not what anyone wants.

The New HS is perfectly close to Fox Mill, the kids already go to Carson, we know the commute. And most of the neighborhood fought to not be moved to SLHS.

I am sure some of my neighbors would be fine with staying at SLHS, no one person speaks for everyone, but the parents who already pupil place out of SLHS because they don’t like IB would be happy with the move. And I suspect that there are plenty of parents who are indifferent and would be happy to move to a newer building even if the are AP/IB agnostic. The IB kids can continue to attend SLHS through pupil placement. [/quote]

The KAA school may be great for those who go there, but FCPS's purchase of that building doesn't mean that we've embarked on some great new era where the School Board actually cares about what most people want.

They don't care if moving kids from Carson to Hughes would cause an uproar, and your area got moved from Oakton to South Lakes over 15 years ago.  Individual families aren't switching schools twice unless they spaced out their kids quite a bit.

If you look at the logical assignment of kids to KAA, it goes like this:

1.  Floris/Coates/McNair because KAA is in the Floris district and Coates and McNair become a Westfield attendance island unless reassigned.  Coates also adds diversity.

2.  Oak Hill because it relieves overcrowding at Chantilly.

3.  Crossfield because it avoids long commutes to Oakton.

4.  Fox Mill because it's been a Carson feeder and some people don't like South Lakes or IB.

In the scheme of things, Fox Mill has the weakest case and it's not clear at all KAA has room for six feeders.   Indeed, when the dust settles from all these changes, some high schools may only be left with four.  [/quote]

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