Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:26
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
A, C, or D.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:26
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?
I didn't get a reply but I know a good number of parents who are writing in favor of moving and I think Crossfield has a lot of parents writing to stay at Oakton. As such, it makes it a bit safer for the board to move the people who want to board and are close by.
The current projections essentially turn Carson into a feeder for the Western School. If they don't move Fox Mill, Carson remains a split feeder or they have to move Fox Mill to Hughes, and no one I know in Fox Mill wants to move to Hughes. I have seen some conversation about shifting Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin to deal with the MS split feeder issue.
Moving Fox Mill means less risk to the school board, moving Crossfield upsets a lot of folks. And Fox Mill is a part of the Carson community so moving Fox Mill is not a stretch.
Crossfield is part of the Carson community too. It hurts my heart that my kid has made friends at Carson that she's going to lose when she goes to Oakton. This is an opportunity for her to stay with them. They all play sports together. No one at Oakton plays CYA sports. It will be a whole new group of people.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:23
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?
I didn't get a reply but I know a good number of parents who are writing in favor of moving and I think Crossfield has a lot of parents writing to stay at Oakton. As such, it makes it a bit safer for the board to move the people who want to board and are close by.
The current projections essentially turn Carson into a feeder for the Western School. If they don't move Fox Mill, Carson remains a split feeder or they have to move Fox Mill to Hughes, and no one I know in Fox Mill wants to move to Hughes. I have seen some conversation about shifting Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin to deal with the MS split feeder issue.
Moving Fox Mill means less risk to the school board, moving Crossfield upsets a lot of folks. And Fox Mill is a part of the Carson community so moving Fox Mill is not a stretch.
I never want to hear another complaint about long bus rides if Crossfield stays at Oakton.
A LOT of us want to move to Western. It's just a vocal minority with older kids that want to stay at Oakton.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:22
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
We have kids at Crossfield. They play CYA sports and go to Carson with current Chantilly and Westfield kids. They should be able to stay with their friends in that community instead of being literally the only kids at Carson that go to Oakton. I am very Pro-Western High School. The only people that want to stay in Oakton have older kids. Most of them don't even have kids at Crossfield.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:21
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Why is there an option to keep the Navy enclave going to Oakton when everyone else around them woukd go to the new school? I thought the Navy enclave was getting redistributed to Oak Hill anyway, so why would they continue to go to Oakton HS? Makes no sense.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:19
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Option A - Move AP kids to an AP school, leave the IB kids alone.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:17
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regardless of which scenario they choose, they need to move the Fox Mill Woods neighborhood from Crossfield into Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. They fixed it in Scenario 4 and now are showing them go wherever Crossfield goes in these options.
In the general boundary review there is an option to move Fox Mill Woods into Crossfield/Carson/Oakton, and from what I saw from this forum some Fox Mill Wood parents weren't happy.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/7005/1259707.page
That's why I said they should be Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. That area is Reston and identifies with the Reston community and rec / travel sports. It makes much more sense for them to go to Hunters Woods so they will all stay with their friends through middle and high school rather than the weird split between pyramids.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:06
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?
I didn't get a reply but I know a good number of parents who are writing in favor of moving and I think Crossfield has a lot of parents writing to stay at Oakton. As such, it makes it a bit safer for the board to move the people who want to board and are close by.
The current projections essentially turn Carson into a feeder for the Western School. If they don't move Fox Mill, Carson remains a split feeder or they have to move Fox Mill to Hughes, and no one I know in Fox Mill wants to move to Hughes. I have seen some conversation about shifting Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin to deal with the MS split feeder issue.
Moving Fox Mill means less risk to the school board, moving Crossfield upsets a lot of folks. And Fox Mill is a part of the Carson community so moving Fox Mill is not a stretch.
I never want to hear another complaint about long bus rides if Crossfield stays at Oakton.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 14:05
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Regardless of which scenario they choose, they need to move the Fox Mill Woods neighborhood from Crossfield into Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. They fixed it in Scenario 4 and now are showing them go wherever Crossfield goes in these options.
In the general boundary review there is an option to move Fox Mill Woods into Crossfield/Carson/Oakton, and from what I saw from this forum some Fox Mill Wood parents weren't happy.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/7005/1259707.page
Anonymous
10/29/2025 13:57
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Regardless of which scenario they choose, they need to move the Fox Mill Woods neighborhood from Crossfield into Hunters Woods/Hughes/South Lakes. They fixed it in Scenario 4 and now are showing them go wherever Crossfield goes in these options.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 13:56
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
A plus Discovery Square seems like the logical choice. Doesn't make sense to move Fox Mill out of South Lakes just to move Crossfield in their place in 5 years.
Yep, Crossfield people need to be thinking about what happens if they get their way now. If Fox Mill goes to the new school that leaves space for Crossfield to be moved into South Lakes later. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 13:55
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?
I didn't get a reply but I know a good number of parents who are writing in favor of moving and I think Crossfield has a lot of parents writing to stay at Oakton. As such, it makes it a bit safer for the board to move the people who want to board and are close by.
The current projections essentially turn Carson into a feeder for the Western School. If they don't move Fox Mill, Carson remains a split feeder or they have to move Fox Mill to Hughes, and no one I know in Fox Mill wants to move to Hughes. I have seen some conversation about shifting Oak Hill to Carson and Crossfield to Franklin to deal with the MS split feeder issue.
Moving Fox Mill means less risk to the school board, moving Crossfield upsets a lot of folks. And Fox Mill is a part of the Carson community so moving Fox Mill is not a stretch.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 13:53
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
I meant A plus the rest of Floris above
Anonymous
10/29/2025 13:50
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
A plus Discovery Square seems like the logical choice. Doesn't make sense to move Fox Mill out of South Lakes just to move Crossfield in their place in 5 years.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 13:49
Subject: Re:Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:As a Fox Mill parent, who wrote the school board, I think B is most likely. I really hope Fox Mill is moved, if not, I they need to drop IB at SLHS.
What makes you think so? Something they said in a reply to you, or just speculating?