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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally. [/quote]

SLHS is losing positions as well. And it is hard for the school but people wanted to opt in to Skyview for a variety of reasons, probably some of them were the same for Westfield and SLHS.

1) It was closer to their homes.
2) They have friends who move from MS at Carson to a different MS and they are hoping to move with their friends for HS. 
3) They needs bus transportation for 3-4 years of HS and all the scenarios pointed to their school being moved to Skyview so they opted-in
4) They like the new pathways.

The boundary changes were going to cause changes at the schools that Skyview was going to draw from. There should be more kids moved out of Centreville. I am baffled that the School Board seems to be ok with leaving Centreville overcrowded while moving so many kids out of Westfield.

Chantilly and South Lakes will lose some teachers with the changes. That will hurt SLHS more then Chantilly because SLHS is likely to lose more kids in the IB programs. That said, SLHS already didn't offer IB HL if there were not enough kids in the class and I know that there were many years where there were not enough kids in IB sciences and some of the language for there to be IB HL classes. Chantilly will ose some sections for classes. Westfield is losing a net of 700 kids, that is going to lead to a lot of lost positions. I would guess that it will impact the Gen Ed offerings, since the Floris contingent is a smaller portion of the kids that they are losing.

But when a new school is opened or you rdistribute students from a crowded school to a less crowded school, staff positions have to move. That said, Westfield is getting slammed and the fact that the school board has shown zero spine in backfilling Westfield is embarrassing. 
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