Anonymous wrote:Looks like a reassessment of the CVHS renovation is on the school board docket for tonight:

“I move that the School Board authorize the Superintendent to negotiate a temporary lease agreement for a lease extension on the Fairfax County School Board’s property at 4630 Stonecroft Blvd, Chantilly, VA 20151 and an area of land at Braddock Park (13000 Braddock Rd, Clifton, VA 20124) sufficient to enable the school division to satisfy Fairfax County’s Floor Area Ratio (FAR) zoning requirements for Centreville High School, including FAR requirements associated with the school division’s planned renovation and expansion of that facility.

I further move that the School Board direct the Superintendent to evaluate, through staff, the planned renovation at Centreville High School, including the projected program capacity of the renovated facility and planned construction in the surrounding area, and provide the School Board with an update, by August 28, 2026, on any resulting impacts to the project scope, timeline, construction planning, or capacity assumptions.”

This got moved from the "consent agenda" to the "action item" category. The relevance of that means that there should actually be some discussion tonight as to what the School Board has in mind in taking these actions. If it had been left on the consent agenda there would likely be no discussion.

Just guessing, but it sounds like Reid or a board member wants an opportunity to make some public statements about what FCPS has been doing to resolve the leasing issues with the Park Authority and explain why they are taking another look at the scope of the renovation project.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, is Centreville High School being built on a different site, or is it for the trailers that are being brought or placed somewhere.

No. Are you not familiar with the area? Thes school is surrounded by parkland owned by the county, or possibly the county owns the whole site and leased it to FCPS. They need to renew the lease before they move forward with any plans to renovate or possibly expand.

The county wanted something in exchange for agree ing to up the lease, and it was something to do with land at Cub Run rec center, but I don't know what the story is with that,

FCPS owns the land where Centreville is located but to meet zoning requirements it had to lease adjacent land from the Park Authority.

That lease ran out several years ago so technically FCPS has been out of compliance with county zoning laws. FCPS asked the Park Authority to grant them a new 99-year lease at no cost. The Park Authority refused and said it was legally required to seek fair compensation.

Alternatively, the Park Authority proposed to extend the lease at Braddock Park in exchange for FCPS extending a lease for the property where the Club Rub Recreation Center is located, which the Park Authority leases from FCPS. FCPS refused on the grounds that the Cub Run lease is more valuable than its lease with the Park Authority.

So there was an extended stalemate and FCPS couldn’t move forward with the Centreville renovation and expansion until it was resolved. However, they did go ahead and pay architects to design the big expansion, which was planned before FCPS bought Skyview.

It seems like they are closer to resolving the issues with the Park Authority but now they have to figure out whether they want to scale back the planned renovation and expansion. If they do, it’s unclear whether they can simply modify the existing plans or would have to pay the architects more to come up with revised plans.

Very few people at CVHS actually want a gargantuan 3000-student school; however, many are frustrated with the delays, whether attributable to Skyview or the resolution of the leasing issues. If School Board members had devoted even a fraction of the time and attention they’ve devoted to Skyview to CVHS, this would have been resolved by now.

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Anonymous wrote:For the Westfield parents who are unhappy - has anyone tried contacting the whole school board and Dr. Reid and pointing out that the process seems contaminated by school boundary gerrymandering?

Yes. Crickets from all of them.

Same here. From the start.

As a WHS family I accepted that the board’s decision to purchase KAA would basically rip apart WHS. We are so heavily impacted that I did expect the board to consider what is good for all FCPS stakeholders and to put as much thought and consideration into how they leave WHS as to how they create Skyview. I was never looking to gerrymander school boundaries and am so disappointed the board seems fine with what appears to be exactly that (in some specific details).

We are both a WHS family and a Skyview family. Our younger child is excited about a STEM-focused neighborhood school. The older one is checked out after three years at Westfield and feels like there's not much there worth saving.

Well, some people will not have the choices you’ve been given. Do you really not realize how gratuitously nasty this sounds?

DP who lives in Skyview area. Do you realize how disconnected from our community Westfield is? The traffic and the location are really difficult when kids want to do afterschool activities. And, 2/3 of the class lives even farther.

Right, so PP is incapable of expressing appreciation for Skyview without crapping all over Westfield in the process? Clearly PP was not just referring to the distance to the school.

I'm the PP, and all I did was to pass along the sentiment of my two teenagers.

And you phrased it in an incredibly obnoxious way.

Anonymous wrote:Wait, is Centreville High School being built on a different site, or is it for the trailers that are being brought or placed somewhere.

No. Are you not familiar with the area? Thes school is surrounded by parkland owned by the county, or possibly the county owns the whole site and leased it to FCPS. They need to renew the lease before they move forward with any plans to renovate or possibly expand.

The county wanted something in exchange for agree ing to up the lease, and it was something to do with land at Cub Run rec center, but I don't know what the story is with that,

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Anonymous wrote:For the Westfield parents who are unhappy - has anyone tried contacting the whole school board and Dr. Reid and pointing out that the process seems contaminated by school boundary gerrymandering?

Yes. Crickets from all of them.

Same here. From the start.

As a WHS family I accepted that the board’s decision to purchase KAA would basically rip apart WHS. We are so heavily impacted that I did expect the board to consider what is good for all FCPS stakeholders and to put as much thought and consideration into how they leave WHS as to how they create Skyview. I was never looking to gerrymander school boundaries and am so disappointed the board seems fine with what appears to be exactly that (in some specific details).

We are both a WHS family and a Skyview family. Our younger child is excited about a STEM-focused neighborhood school. The older one is checked out after three years at Westfield and feels like there's not much there worth saving.

Well, some people will not have the choices you’ve been given. Do you really not realize how gratuitously nasty this sounds?

DP who lives in Skyview area. Do you realize how disconnected from our community Westfield is? The traffic and the location are really difficult when kids want to do afterschool activities. And, 2/3 of the class lives even farther.

Right, so PP is incapable of expressing appreciation for Skyview without crapping all over Westfield in the process? Clearly PP was not just referring to the distance to the school.

I'm the PP, and all I did was to pass along the sentiment of my two teenagers.

Wait, is Centreville High School being built on a different site, or is it for the trailers that are being brought or placed somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a Chantilly parent and emailed the entire SB individually and Reid's office about keeping the Chantilly Mews kids here. I got a form reply about a public hearing from Reid's assistant and nothing from anyone else.
Not even a "thanks for reaching out" form email.

I'm really surprised they don't at least auto send something acknowledging your message. Its really the absolute least, low-effort thing they could do.

agree, they have paid full time staff.

PP should get a reply from her board member and the three at large members, not from every school board member.