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Anonymous wrote:I just watched the community comments. Can someone explain why that Candle lady said her kid has to cross 50 to get to Western? Literally NOWHERE in the Crossfield boundaries has to cross 50 to get there. That lady sounded insane!!

That confused me, as well. But, I think I was more focused on the fact that her younger child could not ride in the car to Oakton with her older child.
Wonder how her child gets to Carson?

I think that was in reference to the possibility that younger siblings may have to attend Western if their home ends up in boundary, even if they have an older sibling who opts out. Hence why these Crossfield moms are fighting it, several have a middle school and a late elementary schooler right now.

I think there are valid arguments to avoid Western, but traffic/crossing big roads is most certainly not one of them considering what you have to do to get from the Crossfield area to Oakton. If your teen isn't on 66 they are on back roads which might actually be worse.

Right but both Crossfield parents who spoke at the school board meeting mentioned traffic, and it's seriously a joke. I have a middle schooler at Carson. It takes me literally LESS time to get to Carson than it takes me to get to Crossfield. I don't understand how these people think anyone can take them seriously if they are complaining about traffic on the way to Carson/Western. Even the people in Folkstone or the horse neighborhood have just one more light than the rest of us, and West Ox/Lawyers is NOT a busy road.

Guess what, takes me 3 min to Crossfield but 15 to Carson without traffic. Seems like many people don't get how WIDE Crossfield's border is. If you're on the East side of west ox its a different experience than west side.

Really hate the backup on West Ox and Mclaren if you don't time the lights right. That Westox/7100 backup can sometimes take 3 light changes, though more often or not it's 2.

Yes but you are in the minority. The vast majority of Crossfield families live West of West Ox Rd/Lawyers Rd.

Anonymous wrote:This honestly annoys me about them. Like good for you that you time to traipse back and forth to Oakton a bunch of times per week in the late afternoon -- I guess it's a big part of your identity to be an "Oakton sports mom!" and wouldn't know what to do with yourself if you weren't doing all those runs back and forth in your SUV. But people have jobs or just better things to do, and that time spent driving adds up over the course of a week/month/year.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

How are they any different than any other group of families opposing a boundary change, and who is to say that some of the opponents to being reassigned don’t have younger kids?

I think you just want to put those who don’t want Western in a bucket and claim they’ll be irrelevant in a few years.

DP but isn't that accurate? Once the change is made people who oppose the change will be irrelevant in a few years. They're not going to keep fighting, LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

No one from Crossfield feeds into Westfield.

No one said that Crossfield feeds to Westfield. The statement was that the anti-western HS voices out of Crossfield are louder tha the anti-Western voices out of SLHS and Westfield.

It wasn't a clear statement since Crossfield does feed to both Oakton and South Lakes (as well as to Chantilly, but not Westfield), but OK.

The Crossfield kids at Chantilly is a pretty tiny number. I guess it is Ashvale? I honestly thought it was only the Lee's Corner kids from there who go to Chantilly.

It is Ashvale and it really is a historical mistake that the Ashvale kids are going to Crossfield when they should be going go Lees Corner with the rest of Franklin Glen (many Ashvale parents pupil place their kids to Lees Corner in any case). That is one thing people hope to fix in the darn boundary change.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

How are they any different than any other group of families opposing a boundary change, and who is to say that some of the opponents to being reassigned don’t have younger kids?

I think you just want to put those who don’t want Western in a bucket and claim they’ll be irrelevant in a few years.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

No one from Crossfield feeds into Westfield.

No one said that Crossfield feeds to Westfield. The statement was that the anti-western HS voices out of Crossfield are louder tha the anti-Western voices out of SLHS and Westfield.

It wasn't a clear statement since Crossfield does feed to both Oakton and South Lakes (as well as to Chantilly, but not Westfield), but OK.

The Crossfield kids at Chantilly is a pretty tiny number. I guess it is Ashvale? I honestly thought it was only the Lee's Corner kids from there who go to Chantilly.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

How are they any different than any other group of families opposing a boundary change, and who is to say that some of the opponents to being reassigned don’t have younger kids?

I think you just want to put those who don’t want Western in a bucket and claim they’ll be irrelevant in a few years.

The issue that some people see now is that if schools are not assigned in this round, there might not be room in later years. If schools have to be moved from Oakton, then the options will be different, probably SLHS but maybe Herndon. Both have strong IB or AP programs but will be more different from Oakton than Western is likely to be.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

How are they any different than any other group of families opposing a boundary change, and who is to say that some of the opponents to being reassigned don’t have younger kids?

I think you just want to put those who don’t want Western in a bucket and claim they’ll be irrelevant in a few years.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

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Anonymous wrote:Western HS Presentation at 9AM today (in order of how I heard things)

1) AP/DE school: all the regular 9th and 10th grade classes will be offered but less clear on electives and foreign languages. They said that they have been hearing from the Japanese and Korean Immersion programs and want to include those languages

Course selection will happen in January, they will have counselors ready to work with the kids. Courses will be offered based on the number of kids opting in. Since there will be fewer kids (1,000 compared to 2,000) there might be fewer electives.

Some discussion about sharing classes between Carson and Western

As more classes join the school, there will be more programs because there will be more kids to participate and take classes.

They expect the have Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean at the school. (Posted int he questions screen)

They will have the standard 9th and 10th grade courses, including the AP classes. 11th grade DE will be available.

2) Special Paths: They hope to have certifications and working with industry to establish internships and learning opportunities.

Aerospace Science
AI
Advanced Tech and Innovation

3) No VHSL sports in the first year

They cannot offer any VHSL sports and allow students to play with their original HS so there will be no VHSL sports in the first year. They think there might be VHSL sports in the second year but they will be established in the third year.

Programs that are not VHSL will be offered at the school, so bands, chorus, theatre and the like

There will be an activities bus from the new HS to old HS for sports, it will leave a few minutes early to get kids to the other school in time for practice and the like. Transportation home from the sport HS will be provided

4) Only in-boundary students will have transportation

Boundaries will be determined int he spring.

They will have a process for selecting students if there are more then 500 kids opting in. In Boundary kids first, then kids who were considered for in boundary (so Fox Mill, Crossfield using those examples only because they are the two that are discussed a lot here not because of anything said in the meeting)

Bussing provided for kids opting out of the new HS and attending the old school

They discussed exception to ride for kids to be placed on a bus nearby if they are out of boundary.

5) Opting In/Out is a 4 year decision. If you choose Western or your old school, that is your school. Any movement would need to be a pupil placement situation

Where can we find this presentation?

I believe the PP attended the actual presentation.

I went to both the morning and evening zoom. It was a 10 minute presentation and about 50 minutes of questions. They recorded the Zoom meeting but I don’t know if they are sending it out or sharing it with people.

Were the sessions very different? I'm guessing the presentation was the same, but what about the questions? Did you get a sense of which schools were represented at the meeting?

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

There are families with younger kids who want to stay at Oakton too.

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Anonymous wrote:Western HS Presentation at 9AM today (in order of how I heard things)

1) AP/DE school: all the regular 9th and 10th grade classes will be offered but less clear on electives and foreign languages. They said that they have been hearing from the Japanese and Korean Immersion programs and want to include those languages

Course selection will happen in January, they will have counselors ready to work with the kids. Courses will be offered based on the number of kids opting in. Since there will be fewer kids (1,000 compared to 2,000) there might be fewer electives.

Some discussion about sharing classes between Carson and Western

As more classes join the school, there will be more programs because there will be more kids to participate and take classes.

They expect the have Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean at the school. (Posted int he questions screen)

They will have the standard 9th and 10th grade courses, including the AP classes. 11th grade DE will be available.

2) Special Paths: They hope to have certifications and working with industry to establish internships and learning opportunities.

Aerospace Science
AI
Advanced Tech and Innovation

3) No VHSL sports in the first year

They cannot offer any VHSL sports and allow students to play with their original HS so there will be no VHSL sports in the first year. They think there might be VHSL sports in the second year but they will be established in the third year.

Programs that are not VHSL will be offered at the school, so bands, chorus, theatre and the like

There will be an activities bus from the new HS to old HS for sports, it will leave a few minutes early to get kids to the other school in time for practice and the like. Transportation home from the sport HS will be provided

4) Only in-boundary students will have transportation

Boundaries will be determined int he spring.

They will have a process for selecting students if there are more then 500 kids opting in. In Boundary kids first, then kids who were considered for in boundary (so Fox Mill, Crossfield using those examples only because they are the two that are discussed a lot here not because of anything said in the meeting)

Bussing provided for kids opting out of the new HS and attending the old school

They discussed exception to ride for kids to be placed on a bus nearby if they are out of boundary.

5) Opting In/Out is a 4 year decision. If you choose Western or your old school, that is your school. Any movement would need to be a pupil placement situation

Where can we find this presentation?

I believe the PP attended the actual presentation.

I went to both the morning and evening zoom. It was a 10 minute presentation and about 50 minutes of questions. They recorded the Zoom meeting but I don’t know if they are sending it out or sharing it with people.

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Anonymous wrote:Western HS Presentation at 9AM today (in order of how I heard things)

1) AP/DE school: all the regular 9th and 10th grade classes will be offered but less clear on electives and foreign languages. They said that they have been hearing from the Japanese and Korean Immersion programs and want to include those languages

Course selection will happen in January, they will have counselors ready to work with the kids. Courses will be offered based on the number of kids opting in. Since there will be fewer kids (1,000 compared to 2,000) there might be fewer electives.

Some discussion about sharing classes between Carson and Western

As more classes join the school, there will be more programs because there will be more kids to participate and take classes.

They expect the have Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean at the school. (Posted int he questions screen)

They will have the standard 9th and 10th grade courses, including the AP classes. 11th grade DE will be available.

2) Special Paths: They hope to have certifications and working with industry to establish internships and learning opportunities.

Aerospace Science
AI
Advanced Tech and Innovation

3) No VHSL sports in the first year

They cannot offer any VHSL sports and allow students to play with their original HS so there will be no VHSL sports in the first year. They think there might be VHSL sports in the second year but they will be established in the third year.

Programs that are not VHSL will be offered at the school, so bands, chorus, theatre and the like

There will be an activities bus from the new HS to old HS for sports, it will leave a few minutes early to get kids to the other school in time for practice and the like. Transportation home from the sport HS will be provided

4) Only in-boundary students will have transportation

Boundaries will be determined int he spring.

They will have a process for selecting students if there are more then 500 kids opting in. In Boundary kids first, then kids who were considered for in boundary (so Fox Mill, Crossfield using those examples only because they are the two that are discussed a lot here not because of anything said in the meeting)

Bussing provided for kids opting out of the new HS and attending the old school

They discussed exception to ride for kids to be placed on a bus nearby if they are out of boundary.

5) Opting In/Out is a 4 year decision. If you choose Western or your old school, that is your school. Any movement would need to be a pupil placement situation

Where can we find this presentation?

I believe the PP attended the actual presentation.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.

There is one clique of families in particular with middle schoolers that are fueling this fire and I just don't think it's fair that families with middle schoolers who have the ability to opt out are trying to ruin this for those of us with younger children. Mine will attend high school years after Western is established and has established sports programs and all of this construction they are going on and on about is long ago completed. It doesn't concern us. I hope FCPS does the right thing for families with much younger children. Think about future families, not current families.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most in the area are excited about having a school. I also think a lot of Crossfield people would like to go there, but you have people like the speakers the other night that make it about their own opinions. Using the pandemic as an excuse and construction at Crossfield as a reason to stay at Oakton? When the distance to Oakton is at least twice as long and very, very difficult. 66 or windy roads.

Hard to say. It also feels like a lot of people at Floris, McNair and Fox Mill don't want to go to Westfield and/or South Lakes, so they want to attend a different school and, of course, have an incentive to make it sound like it's going to be a great school. But PP is spot on when they note that so far it's been too much frosting and not enough cake.

Fox Mill is split. I know people opting in, I think it will be surprising to people how many make the move. I have seen people posting that no one is moving when I know a good number moving. Most of us know our kids will do well regardless of school because the schools will both be good schools.

I think Crossfield is in the same boat but the people who love Oakton are louder then the people who want to stay at SLHS or Westfield.

After hearing the speakers at the SB meeting who want to stay at Oakton, I would jump to move to the new school. Talk about clueless. The gentleman who wanted to name the school --but did not want his kids to go there.