Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the deal with the special 6:00 PM meeting? Some Marshall and Madison parents taking turns complaining about getting swapped into each other's schools, but more Marshall families supporting a move into Madison than vice versa.

It seemed like this got scheduled on the fly. Madison has another meeting scheduled later this month.

For the billionth time: get rid of IB.

There are some Marshall parents upset getting moved into Madison, an AP school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the deal with the special 6:00 PM meeting? Some Marshall and Madison parents taking turns complaining about getting swapped into each other's schools, but more Marshall families supporting a move into Madison than vice versa.

It seemed like this got scheduled on the fly. Madison has another meeting scheduled later this month.

I don’t know but the link they sent is not working.

It was a 30 minute session. Just comments and Q&A, no presentation by Reid or Thru.

Seemed to have been called because some Madison parents were pissed about getting reassigned to Marshall in Scenario 4. But unclear why Madison got a special meeting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the deal with the special 6:00 PM meeting? Some Marshall and Madison parents taking turns complaining about getting swapped into each other's schools, but more Marshall families supporting a move into Madison than vice versa.

It seemed like this got scheduled on the fly. Madison has another meeting scheduled later this month.

I don’t know but the link they sent is not working.

Check which meeting you registered for. I ended up on a Madison invite and had to log out and register for the Falls Church one. It’s a different link.

Anonymous wrote:What was the deal with the special 6:00 PM meeting? Some Marshall and Madison parents taking turns complaining about getting swapped into each other's schools, but more Marshall families supporting a move into Madison than vice versa.

It seemed like this got scheduled on the fly. Madison has another meeting scheduled later this month.

For the billionth time: get rid of IB.

Anonymous wrote:What was the deal with the special 6:00 PM meeting? Some Marshall and Madison parents taking turns complaining about getting swapped into each other's schools, but more Marshall families supporting a move into Madison than vice versa.

It seemed like this got scheduled on the fly. Madison has another meeting scheduled later this month.

I don’t know but the link they sent is not working.

What was the deal with the special 6:00 PM meeting? Some Marshall and Madison parents taking turns complaining about getting swapped into each other's schools, but more Marshall families supporting a move into Madison than vice versa.

It seemed like this got scheduled on the fly. Madison has another meeting scheduled later this month.

Anonymous wrote:Geez, never did I say anything about a pool. And every traditional FCPS high school has a stadium. Sorry I want my kid to have the same experiences he currently gets if he is rezoned there.

Glad you’re excited for this rushed experiment for your kid, though!

And they may not have that done for another year or two. And you might need to share with another school. And that’s okay. Because you will end up with a brand new stadium and a beautiful school in a few years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, never did I say anything about a pool. And every traditional FCPS high school has a stadium. Sorry I want my kid to have the same experiences he currently gets if he is rezoned there.

Glad you’re excited for this rushed experiment for your kid, though!

I live in an area that could potentially get rezoned to KAA. What I'm seeing is parents of current or almost high schoolers not wanting to be moved there, and parents of younger kids excited about the possibility of a new high school. Which makes sense. But the reality is someone has to be the first group of students there and it may not be the same as a more established school for a few years. They aren't likely to wait to open it until they can promise an exactly equivalent experience. At some point parents have to accept that decisions are made around what will be best for hundreds or thousands of students moving forward not just this one group of kids currently in 9th grade. Such is life in a public school district.

I had that experience of attending a new school. I had gone to junior high school (7-9) and began as a tenth grader with a junior class in front of us. So, I was in the second graduating class.

We had phenomenal teachers and that helped--though i'm not sure how much I appreciated that part at the time.

A lot was done by the staff to establish new "traditions" for us., etc. We had yearbooks, etc., newspaper, and sports. , though not many winning teams.

It can be a good experience. I just hope they get talented people to open the school and that they give it a good name so that there will be no need to change it in a few years. Please don't choose a name to honor someone.
I've no ideas, at this point for a name. Oak Hill is too close a name to Oakton, I think.

Anonymous wrote:Geez, never did I say anything about a pool. And every traditional FCPS high school has a stadium. Sorry I want my kid to have the same experiences he currently gets if he is rezoned there.

Glad you’re excited for this rushed experiment for your kid, though!

I live in an area that could potentially get rezoned to KAA. What I'm seeing is parents of current or almost high schoolers not wanting to be moved there, and parents of younger kids excited about the possibility of a new high school. Which makes sense. But the reality is someone has to be the first group of students there and it may not be the same as a more established school for a few years. They aren't likely to wait to open it until they can promise an exactly equivalent experience. At some point parents have to accept that decisions are made around what will be best for hundreds or thousands of students moving forward not just this one group of kids currently in 9th grade. Such is life in a public school district.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, sure there’s enough parking for sophomores, but the goal is to eventually house all four grade levels. It doesn’t appear to have as many spots as other FCPS high schools.

There is no tennis court, baseball field or softball field.

At our current high school, we start registering for classes in January. Just seems like an awful lot for this school board to pull together in a few short months. They typically have years to plan this stuff when a school is built. They are cramming all the decisions into a couple months. It is too rushed.

We already have a 100-page thread on this school. Can't you take all of your complaints about how you won't have enough Olympic-sized swimming pools and a large 10,000 seat football stadium by next fall there?

This is ridiculous.

LOL! I think this sounds like our Nextdoor screamer. If she lived in the area, she would have known that Carson fields are also likely available. Or, if she knew anything about Chantilly, she would know that for years kids have had to practice many sports off site.

Geez, never did I say anything about a pool. And every traditional FCPS high school has a stadium. Sorry I want my kid to have the same experiences he currently gets if he is rezoned there.

Glad you’re excited for this rushed experiment for your kid, though!

Ugh, who cares what they call the new high school??? People just want to know if this is going to be a neighborhood school and who is going to go there.

Anonymous wrote:Ok, sure there’s enough parking for sophomores, but the goal is to eventually house all four grade levels. It doesn’t appear to have as many spots as other FCPS high schools.

There is no tennis court, baseball field or softball field.

At our current high school, we start registering for classes in January. Just seems like an awful lot for this school board to pull together in a few short months. They typically have years to plan this stuff when a school is built. They are cramming all the decisions into a couple months. It is too rushed.

We already have a 100-page thread on this school. Can't you take all of your complaints about how you won't have enough Olympic-sized swimming pools and a large 10,000 seat football stadium by next fall there?

This is ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Community input is an important part of the process for determining the new high school’s name, as governed by Policy and Regulation 8170. Families in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Langley, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield pyramids will have opportunities to provide their feedback. Langley, Oakton, and South Lakes high school communities are included, because there are students in each of these schools who live in the western part of the county.”

From the new Western HS page on FCPS that came out in the email from FCPS 20ish minutes ago. Absolutely laughable that they included Langley in this community feedback process.

Wow. Why would you say that? They clearly and correctly state that there are some students from EACH of the listed schools who actually live in the area that will be affected by the new Western HS. But don't let those facts get in the way of your irrational obsession!

I think I saw in the transfer data that there are 12 kids from Westfield attending Langley. Could that be why?
But, it really does not make sense to me to include Langley--except that Great Falls does stretch west.
Probably just more cluelessness from FCPS staff.

Anonymous wrote:“Community input is an important part of the process for determining the new high school’s name, as governed by Policy and Regulation 8170. Families in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Langley, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield pyramids will have opportunities to provide their feedback. Langley, Oakton, and South Lakes high school communities are included, because there are students in each of these schools who live in the western part of the county.”

From the new Western HS page on FCPS that came out in the email from FCPS 20ish minutes ago. Absolutely laughable that they included Langley in this community feedback process.

This is typically confusing messaging from FCPS.

The first reference: "Focus on Western Pyramids: The new school will help alleviate overcrowding in the Centreville, Chantilly, and Westfield Pyramids. The Herndon, Oakton, and South Lakes high school communities are also included, because there are families in these schools that live in the western part of the county." No reference to Langley

The second reference: "Community input is an important part of the process for determining the new high school’s name, as governed by Policy and Regulation 8170. Families in the Centreville, Chantilly, Herndon, Langley, Oakton, South Lakes, and Westfield pyramids will have opportunities to provide their feedback. Langley, Oakton, and South Lakes high school communities are included, because there are students in each of these schools who live in the western part of the county." Reference to Langley.