Anonymous
01/19/2026 10:27
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
Guess what?
Some of those Carson --> TJ kids are actually Franklin kids OR are kids whose base HS is Westfield, so it isn't as though the Oakton- bound kids are the only smart ones.
100% Navy moms think everything is about them and their kids. Navy kids are zoned to Franklin. Don't let those house listings fool you, it's not Franklin or Carson. You don't have a choice unless your child is AAP and for some reason, Navy has it worked out so that a disproportionate amount of their student population is AAP. I remember when FCPS changed the rules to something like only the 10% of top students in every school can be AAP - somehow that did not change for Navy because it is its own center. Are there any other elementary schools where they are their own center + 1 other school?
What do Navys test scores look like? Also you have about half a class per year which comes in from Crossfield which is a much smaller student body.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 10:24
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Don’t high achieving kids have a better chance at getting into TJ from a lower tiered middle school? How much stress are the Carson AAP kids under to get into TJ?
Also, what happens when those TJ students don’t get into their first choice in-state university (UVA / VT Engineering) because there is so much competition? Was it all worth it? The long commutes, classmates living far away, the cut throat environment? For some kids, I assume, this kind of academic environment comes naturally, but for how many is it just soul crushing?
How it works is that if there are unused slots from school a, they can be reallocated to school b.
That's how Carson gets so many kids.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 10:15
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
We used to live in a neighborhood zoned for Carson. I could not believe my eyes when I saw a yard sign advertising tutoring/prep for K-2 grades to pass the AAP test. We ended up sending our kids to private school because I didn’t want them to go to school with families that were so competitive over acadmics. 15 years later, our kid is at UVA.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 10:11
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
Guess what?
Some of those Carson --> TJ kids are actually Franklin kids OR are kids whose base HS is Westfield, so it isn't as though the Oakton- bound kids are the only smart ones.
100% Navy moms think everything is about them and their kids. Navy kids are zoned to Franklin. Don't let those house listings fool you, it's not Franklin or Carson. You don't have a choice unless your child is AAP and for some reason, Navy has it worked out so that a disproportionate amount of their student population is AAP. I remember when FCPS changed the rules to something like only the 10% of top students in every school can be AAP - somehow that did not change for Navy because it is its own center. Are there any other elementary schools where they are their own center + 1 other school?
Anonymous
01/19/2026 10:07
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Don’t high achieving kids have a better chance at getting into TJ from a lower tiered middle school? How much stress are the Carson AAP kids under to get into TJ?
Also, what happens when those TJ students don’t get into their first choice in-state university (UVA / VT Engineering) because there is so much competition? Was it all worth it? The long commutes, classmates living far away, the cut throat environment? For some kids, I assume, this kind of academic environment comes naturally, but for how many is it just soul crushing?
For a lot of those kids, the soul crushing and cut-throat environment begins at home before they are even out of kindergarten. Their parents are so ruthlessly competitive and unaccepting of learning differences that they will stop at nothing to force their kid to fit a mold they may not naturally fit. And they wonder later why their kids are unhappy (though they won't admit that their kids are unhappy because that's an "unacceptable emotion"), hate them, or don't want a relationship with them as they transition into adulthood.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 09:34
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Don’t high achieving kids have a better chance at getting into TJ from a lower tiered middle school? How much stress are the Carson AAP kids under to get into TJ?
Also, what happens when those TJ students don’t get into their first choice in-state university (UVA / VT Engineering) because there is so much competition? Was it all worth it? The long commutes, classmates living far away, the cut throat environment? For some kids, I assume, this kind of academic environment comes naturally, but for how many is it just soul crushing?
Also, what happens when those TJ students don’t get into their first choice in-state university (UVA / VT Engineering) because there is so much competition? Was it all worth it? The long commutes, classmates living far away, the cut throat environment? For some kids, I assume, this kind of academic environment comes naturally, but for how many is it just soul crushing?
Anonymous
01/19/2026 09:27
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
What would aunties say if the kid doesn’t get into TJ?
Anonymous
01/19/2026 09:11
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
Guess what?
Some of those Carson --> TJ kids are actually Franklin kids OR are kids whose base HS is Westfield, so it isn't as though the Oakton- bound kids are the only smart ones.
FWIW:
Chantilly sends more kids to TJ than Oakton or Langley.
Some come from Franklin/Carson and some come from Rocky Run. I don't know the stats, but I suspect most come from Carson--which means Oak Hill and Lees Corner.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 08:55
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Really there is no Oakton.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
But Oakton HS is in Vienna…is that the true Oakton you refer to?
It is a nonsense word meaning I live in Herndon, Fairfax, and Vienna zip codes and act entitled to schools with forced win football team.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 08:32
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
But Oakton HS is in Vienna…is that the true Oakton you refer to?
Anonymous
01/19/2026 07:52
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
Guess what?
Some of those Carson --> TJ kids are actually Franklin kids OR are kids whose base HS is Westfield, so it isn't as though the Oakton- bound kids are the only smart ones.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 00:34
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Why do Oakton people still care about this? I feel like they are not in any Western maps and their boundaries did not change. What am I missing? Did a feeder boundary's change? As someone with both a middle schooler and college grads and college students I hope I can reassure someone that these high schools make no difference. You are stressed over nothing. It’s over in a blink of an eye. You won’t believe it.
Anonymous
01/19/2026 00:06
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
So what do you do if your child is just average academically? Or struggling with mental health? Push them and make them feel bad for not measuring up? I work with college students and I see the effects this parental pressure has on them. They won’t tell their parents how much it has affected them. But they are determined not to continue the cycle with their own children. This culture is not something to be emulated or glorified.
Yes you push them. Not sure why white people don't get this. Might be why they're getting out competed in education and jobs.
Anonymous
01/18/2026 23:10
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Other schools are just as good with homes of varying price points in each attendance zone.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
+1
Pro Western Franklin Farm crossfield parent like to use young kids/older kids as their excuse to get what they prefer. They couldn't care less about other people's younger kids, but their own.
So tired of you Crossfield-to-Navy for AAP/Carson/wannabe TJ but will settle for nothing less than Oakton parents thinking your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. Yes, we can tell who you are by your syntax. If you are so dead set on Oakton as the only acceptable backup to TJ you should have bought a home closer to the high school. Sorry you couldn’t figure out how to be successful enough to afford true Oakton, McLean, or Langley. You you can’t buy a home in Herndon and be shocked at the idea that your child might have to attend high school in… Herndon. You get what you pay for.
Dp. Are you saying all of us who are pushing for Western are poor, including you? All the other schools are lesser schools other than Langley, Mclean and Oakton. That is sad.
What’s sad is that DP posted something that reflects poorly on their fragile masculinity/femininity and elitism that reflects grave insecurity.
In certain communities, there is a high priority on going to the "best" school. Those same communities place a high focus on academics and certain brand name colleges. That is a high priority for those cultures because you are viewed as a failure if you don't go down that path. Obviously people from other communities have a focus on other things for a high school experience. We are not "all the same" which is why diversity is such a great thing!
Traditionally, Carson has been one of the schools that sent the most students to TJ. Perhaps you would understand why so many people want to feed into Carson with Oakton as a backup.
There are a lot of people who bought into the whole Crossfield community with that background for that particular pathway (the crossfield to AAP to Carson to Oakton pathway), who also they tend not to be in the Franklin Farm part of Crossfield. They tend to be in the large houses with larger plots of land on the east side of Ox Road that surprise, surprise, cost the same or MORE as Oakton proper (check Zillow) excluding the 10-15 million dollar estates. These people could have afforded living closer to Oakton, but living closer to Oakton doesn't get you the largest peergroup that heads to TJ which happens to be at Carson.
In 208 pages of this topic, I don't think anyone has noticed this.
You really don’t think people are well aware of this? Are they supposed to be sympathetic to your plight? What about if/when Oakton became overcrowded? Are you supposed to get to stay there forever because of your culture?
Anonymous
01/18/2026 22:45
Subject: Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)
Anonymous wrote:Looks like if pro Western Crossfield families get their way and they have younger kids they can move twice. “ “The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning proposal on Tuesday (Jan. 13) that will bring nearly 450 new residential units to a 12-acre site in the McNair Farms area near Herndon.” The FCPS’ CIP assesses Oakton’s student population will decrease from 103 to 98% by SY31. Sounds like staying at Oakton is the best bet for stability.
Hm, I just drove by 6 acres for sale in Oakton - that's a new neighborhood ready to pop up as soon as it sells + the AT&T site.