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Anonymous wrote:Meren’s newsletter e-mail today AGAIN claimed that the FMES to Skyview move was new to her. How dumb does she think people are?!

And she is basically asking people to go into the tool and leave comments after she talked about how it will decrease programming, etc. I thought it was interesting how she just singled out Fox Mill Estates moving…is she advocating for FMES to be split? It was an odd way to phrase it.

Meren is very late in the game. She could have proposed splitting Fox Mill into two: west of 286 going to Skyview and east of 286 staying in SLHS. Most of Fox Mill Estate houses are located in the Eastern side.

It is way too late now. The final scenario is out. Comments are closed. People voted for "proximity." No major change is expected to be made.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm working, someone please take notes and report back!

People voted "Proximity" as the most important criteria.

I expected many Westfield people would show up to support their school.

Instead, a lot of Crossfield parents showed up in support of the final scenario. And many Walney Village and nearby communities who want to be in Chantilly and AVOID Westfield.

Not a single person said anything about Westfield getting gutted out.

This is sad.

Remember what I said about disengaged Westfield parents?

Not sure "disengaged" is really fair. Half the school is leaving. The vast majority of people aren't following along this very convoluted process unless their area is being moved. Most probably don't realize how many kids are leaving Westfield. Seema certainly isn't trying to infor the Westfield community about her machinations.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm working, someone please take notes and report back!

People voted "Proximity" as the most important criteria.

I expected many Westfield people would show up to support their school.

Instead, a lot of Crossfield parents showed up in support of the final scenario. And many Walney Village and nearby communities who want to be in Chantilly and AVOID Westfield.

Not a single person said anything about Westfield getting gutted out.

This is sad.

Remember what I said about disengaged Westfield parents?

I am a crossfield parent and I have been to every Skyview boundary meeting. I also attended Seema's zoom meetings ( 3 of them) with community members and her community meeting at Liberty MS. I also attended Kyle's zoom meeting recently.

I have never heard or seen any Westfield parent at any of these meetings. This is the only place they complain.

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Anonymous wrote:Meren’s newsletter e-mail today AGAIN claimed that the FMES to Skyview move was new to her. How dumb does she think people are?!

And she is basically asking people to go into the tool and leave comments after she talked about how it will decrease programming, etc. I thought it was interesting how she just singled out Fox Mill Estates moving…is she advocating for FMES to be split? It was an odd way to phrase it.

The comments are turned off on the tool!

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Anonymous wrote:Meren’s newsletter e-mail today AGAIN claimed that the FMES to Skyview move was new to her. How dumb does she think people are?!

And she is basically asking people to go into the tool and leave comments after she talked about how it will decrease programming, etc. I thought it was interesting how she just singled out Fox Mill Estates moving…is she advocating for FMES to be split? It was an odd way to phrase it.

From Merens newsletter:

Both proposals move Fox Mill Estates, which is the main neighborhood assigned to Fox Mill Elementary School from the South Lakes pyramid into the Skyview pyramid. This is an entirely new proposal, and I’m unclear why the Superintendent is proposing it. If the goal is to balance enrollment, removing the Fox Mill ES population from South Lakes HS will further decrease the already under-enrolled membership. When membership decreases further and further from planned capacity, staffing for the school decreases. This means that programming decreases - including to a selection of academics and extra-curricular activities.

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Anonymous wrote:Just used Folkstone/West Ox as a starting point. Almost 10 miles to Oakton and less than 3 to Carson.
Using Crossfield as the starting point is bogus. No one going to Carson lives that far.

And, the time--using express lanes is 15 minutes.
Eight minutes to Carson.

And, most of the population lives closer to Carson than that intersection.

He must be getting pushback from some Crossfield people now.

This tells me that Meren is putting pressure on him now. She's had a year to do that.

Really - what MS do you think those students across from Crossfield attend? And why do you think that you know better than their actual experience?
From my home near Crossfield my child's Carson bus ride was always significantly longer than their current ride to Oakton.

I truly love how the RIO mommy shows up AFTER the decision has been made. Where have you been this whole time, sweetie?

DP

Lobbying people with power unlike your snarky spark of sunshine!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm working, someone please take notes and report back!

People voted "Proximity" as the most important criteria.

I expected many Westfield people would show up to support their school.

Instead, a lot of Crossfield parents showed up in support of the final scenario. And many Walney Village and nearby communities who want to be in Chantilly and AVOID Westfield.

Not a single person said anything about Westfield getting gutted out.

This is sad.

Remember what I said about disengaged Westfield parents?

Anonymous wrote:I wish those industrial parks would be redeveloped into housing.

There doesn’t need to be that much commerce.

If you look up from the industrial parks, you'd see why they're industrial parks. They're straight off the end of the Dulles runways.

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Anonymous wrote:Just used Folkstone/West Ox as a starting point. Almost 10 miles to Oakton and less than 3 to Carson.
Using Crossfield as the starting point is bogus. No one going to Carson lives that far.

And, the time--using express lanes is 15 minutes.
Eight minutes to Carson.

And, most of the population lives closer to Carson than that intersection.

He must be getting pushback from some Crossfield people now.

This tells me that Meren is putting pressure on him now. She's had a year to do that.

Really - what MS do you think those students across from Crossfield attend? And why do you think that you know better than their actual experience?
From my home near Crossfield my child's Carson bus ride was always significantly longer than their current ride to Oakton.

I have a feeling that many of the complainers about crossfield are entirely unfamiliar with the area or only know about the Franklin farm side.

Very familiar with the area. Drive West Ox and Reston Parkway regularly. Drive Folkstone from time to time.

So, the vast majority of the Crossfield Oakton kids live between Fairfax County Parkway and West Ox Rd.

So, because a handful of the Crossfield families claim they are closer to Oakton (they are not, you can verify that by driving it or even looking at a map) they claim they should go to Oakton.

All are closer to Carson than to Oakton. But, you know that. Time wise and mileage.

If you live close to Crossfield, your kids should be going to South Lakes along with Fox Mill Woods.

I have continuously posted that in my neighborhood bus rides to oakton are shorter than crossfield for months on these threads.McDaniel confirmed that.

There's far more than a handful of people zoned to crossfield. Less than franklin farm to be sure.

Are you one of the two ladies who pipes up in every single meeting with Kyle that your child's bus ride to Carson is 45 minutes? Every. Single. Time.

No, I'm a man.

And yes the ride to carson is obscenely long if you're east of west ox. I guess that's the price to pay for low density housing.

Anonymous wrote:Meren’s newsletter e-mail today AGAIN claimed that the FMES to Skyview move was new to her. How dumb does she think people are?!

And she is basically asking people to go into the tool and leave comments after she talked about how it will decrease programming, etc. I thought it was interesting how she just singled out Fox Mill Estates moving…is she advocating for FMES to be split? It was an odd way to phrase it.

It’s not that it’s hard to get to, but it’s not walkable/bikeable which is Walney Oaks and Walney Village’s argument. (It was also Lees Corner’s argument, but they truly were very far from Westfield.)

Westfield would be fine to go via school bus in the middle of the day.

Anonymous wrote:1950 kids before all the families with resources finagel their kids over to Chantilly or Skyview.

I expect some will. However, I think FCPS is going to be surprised by the number of kids going private before they even hit middle school because of these decisions.

I wish those industrial parks would be redeveloped into housing.

There doesn’t need to be that much commerce.

In the meeting today: A lot of Walney Village folks advocating for keeping them at Chantilly. Seema, Meren, Moon and Reid were in person. Kyle Mcdaniel was online. Outside of the walney village community advocacy, majority of the questions were related SkyView phasing options, sibling preference , AP courses availability etc.

Anonymous wrote:Its not really hard to get to, its right off route 28. Its just not in a residential area

It is a very long way since it is at the edge of Fairfax County. And, to me, being off 28 was part of the problem with sending kids from south of 50. The traffic is awful.