I'm not a Westfield parent but I agree that FCPS needs to put some kind of high level academic programming into the building to get kids wanting to attend. Adding academy classes doesn't help the Westfield community b/c those kids just come in for one class.

Also, its refreshing that they aren't out whining like all these other groups had/were/did. Makes me much more sympathetic to how they are getting d!cked over here by FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:SLHS is losing a lot of kids, though not as many as Westfield.

They are losing 300-400. going from 99% full to 83% full.
Westfield is losing @700-800 and going down to 74%.

83% full is fine, especially with the construction in the area. Westfield is being hammered.

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of IB. People have been screaming this for over 20 years.

There used to be information on the cost difference to FCPS and it was significant. However, I cannot seem to find it now.

Or do what Loudon and Arlington do and make IB opt in. They house the program at specific schools and the kids who are interested in IB apply for the program. In applying, they are agreeing to pursue the IB Diploma. They are provided transportation to the school closest to them that provides IB. Set one IB school for the North, South, East, and West of FCPS and kids can opt into that program. Have a full AP program for all of the other students in the school. Kids who want IB can make the choice to attend an IB school, parents don't have to worry about transportation, everyone else can do AP.

The parents who want a school within a school or really value IB can send their kids to those schools. Everyone else has AP.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it.

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools.

Sure they can. South Lakes and Langley groups have been very vocal in the past about which areas they did and did not want rezoned to their schools, and they got their way in 2008 and 2021.

Maybe the middle class Westfield parents are not as big of obnoxious a-holes as those other groups were.

SLHS is losing a lot of kids, though not as many as Westfield.

They are losing 300-400. going from 99% full to 83% full.
Westfield is losing @700-800 and going down to 74%.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it.

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools.

Sure they can. South Lakes and Langley groups have been very vocal in the past about which areas they did and did not want rezoned to their schools, and they got their way in 2008 and 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it.

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools.

It is up to Westfield families to be demanding backfill and not ot be allowed to drop towhatever percentage they are at.

What percentage is SLHS going to be? I don't think they are losing that many kids, the Floris and Fox Mill groups are pretty small. I know the SLHS PTA didn't seem to think that the 45 or so 9th graders that opted in to Skyview was that big a deal, it was like 4% of the overall student body.

I don't think there is any way to do that--organize to tell FCPS to move other people into your school?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

Well, half their students are being moved out and those families are happy.

For a school community to lose half their students and a third of their teachers is really terrible. I can't think of the last time FCPS disrupted and screwed over an existing HS to this extent.

They are not moving out half of Westfield’s students.

It will end up with an enrollment that’s still larger than many high schools in the county.

I wonder how much of the angst is concern that it’s less likely to win state titles in football or basketball when it’s not one of the largest high schools in the state.

The School Board already decided that allowing more kids to attend a high school closer to their homes outweighed Westfield’s possibly getting to hang another state championship banner in the gym. Skyview is located within the current Westfield boundary so of course it will have the most impact on WHS’s boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it.

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools.

It is up to Westfield families to be demanding backfill and not ot be allowed to drop towhatever percentage they are at.

What percentage is SLHS going to be? I don't think they are losing that many kids, the Floris and Fox Mill groups are pretty small. I know the SLHS PTA didn't seem to think that the 45 or so 9th graders that opted in to Skyview was that big a deal, it was like 4% of the overall student body.

Get rid of IB. People have been screaming this for over 20 years.

There used to be information on the cost difference to FCPS and it was significant. However, I cannot seem to find it now.

I don't know how Westfield families would organize to tell the SB and FCPS to do their jobs with a modicum of intelligence and morality.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it.

Well, the families who aren't being zoned out of Westfield can't really advocate for...other neighborhoods to be moved in? How would that work exactly, without sounding totally racist and classist?

It's FCPS's responsibility---that they are abdicating completely--to make fair decisions on behalf of all the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Its absolutely insane that they did not move those Herndon kids over to a closer school and left them at Oakton in both scenarios.

Literally one of the reasons they bought the school was to reduce overcrowding at *OAKTON* and to keep those kids from having to go such a long way to school.

Now both scenarios have no one moving out of Oakton, but leaving South Lakes and Westfield without enough students.

It makes no sense.

A school in the perfect location falls into their lap and they still manage to make a complete disaster out of it.

And the self-dealing by Seema Dixit and apparently, Kyle McDaniel, needs to be reviewed by an FCPS ethics office.

Actually, FCPS first said they bought the school to reduce overcrowding at Centreville, Chantilly, and Westfields.

In the initial October meetings when they started the boundary conversations, Oakton wasn't overcrowded. Now, magically, it is. Does anyone else find that fascinating?

I"m not sure why that's "fascinating". Either a school is overcrowded, or it isn't. This is a knowable fact.

Oakton is overcrowded right now, at 103% capacity. And it is overcrowded in both potential scenarios, which is ridiculous given how close some kids zoned for Oakton live to high schools projected to have hundreds of empty seats.

Well, the target is 85-105%. Oakton is on target.

They need to get SLHS and Westfield up to 85% in that case.

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed no one from Westfield is raging in here

I am reasonably certain that is why Westfield is going to end up losing so many students with limited backfill. The Centreville and Chantilly families have been very vocal about not wanting to move and Westfield has been quiet.

The people who have made the most noise got what they wanted. Crossfield is unhappy because it got what it wanted just not in a way that they wanted it.