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Anonymous wrote:You know what Crossfield?

Just stay at Oakton.

Skyview doesn’t need you if you’re going to complain like Karen’s all because Skyview doesn’t have a shiny football stadium.

This whole thing has been so tense and poorly planned.

What part of modify the building and add athletic fields before conducting yet another boundary study does FCPS not understand?

Like literally.

And you people have made it worse that now the Western part of Franklin farm could be split up and you’re elementary school can be cut up too.

Also, why does modified scenario 2 include a part of Dogwood nobody asked for.

The elementary schools that should be at Skyview are.

Coates

Floris

Fox Mill

McNair

Oak Hill

And the proposed Silver Line ES that may or may not be needed depending on all of these developments happening near Coates and the yields of students near the proposed site.

But Crossfield, you’ve made it clear, so buzz all the way off!

That Dogwood neighborhood is Polo Fields. No one there sends their kids to Dogwood - most kids go private or are at Fox Mill/Lake Anne/Sunrise Valley. It’s odd that it’s part of the Dogwood boundary but no one cares enough there to fight it.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing was solved here. Schools are still overcrowded or now, possibly half empty.

They should have made it an AI/Robotics/Engineering magnet school. They would have had a full school and it would have drawn from all the other schools - with no arguing.

This is an epic disaster.

The SB and Reid have failed the schools. Having some schools between 75-85% capacity and others at over 105% when there is a new high school and plenty of space at other schools is irresponsible. Decimating schools like Westfield and South Lakes to ensure the rich constituents are taken care of is just plain wrong and goes against the principles of education. These schools will lose electives and teachers and continue on a downward spiral. These redistricting decisions are so blatantly classist and racist. Vote for a new SB folks.

Democrat here who hates how left the school board is.

Your constant whining about classism and racism are what drives people straight into maga. Your views are not mainstream, even in the Democratic party.

If you think FCPS is racist, Then frankly you likely believe that everyone in the world is racist. Just absurd.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I’m the only Crossfield parent excited about the idea of going to Skyview over Oakton! For where my street is my kids would keep their Carson friends and save significant commuting time going to Skyview.

Anonymous wrote:I expect them to fix the Franklin Farm split and clean up the Crossfield split so that there is a group at Skyview and a group at Oakton. I don’t see Crossfield going to the same HS but hopefully they can get it down to two HS. And the Franklin Farm divide is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing was solved here. Schools are still overcrowded or now, possibly half empty.

They should have made it an AI/Robotics/Engineering magnet school. They would have had a full school and it would have drawn from all the other schools - with no arguing.

This is an epic disaster.

The SB and Reid have failed the schools. Having some schools between 75-85% capacity and others at over 105% when there is a new high school and plenty of space at other schools is irresponsible. Decimating schools like Westfield and South Lakes to ensure the rich constituents are taken care of is just plain wrong and goes against the principles of education. These schools will lose electives and teachers and continue on a downward spiral. These redistricting decisions are so blatantly classist and racist. Vote for a new SB folks.

Anonymous wrote:At least meren is letting people discuss it on her page. I don't see anything on Dixit or McDaniels (correct me if im wrong please!)

Anonymous wrote:You know what Crossfield?

Just stay at Oakton.

Skyview doesn’t need you if you’re going to complain like Karen’s all because Skyview doesn’t have a shiny football stadium.

This whole thing has been so tense and poorly planned.

What part of modify the building and add athletic fields before conducting yet another boundary study does FCPS not understand?

Like literally.

And you people have made it worse that now the Western part of Franklin farm could be split up and you’re elementary school can be cut up too.

Also, why does modified scenario 2 include a part of Dogwood nobody asked for.

The elementary schools that should be at Skyview are.

Coates

Floris

Fox Mill

McNair

Oak Hill

And the proposed Silver Line ES that may or may not be needed depending on all of these developments happening near Coates and the yields of students near the proposed site.

But Crossfield, you’ve made it clear, so buzz all the way off!

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain why so many in crossfield are so laser focused on staying Oakton? I would MUCH prefer my teen having a close option like Skyview rather than the outrageously long commute to Oakton.

They paid oakton price to buy the house in oakton hs. They did not mind the commute to oakton when they bought the house and still do not mind that. For the people who were willing to pay the extra to buy in oakton hs, going to a better school out weighs 10+ minutes of extra commute time. As simple as that.

I actually do not understand why people who hates commute to oakton so much would buy in crossfield in the first place.

This right here is the answer. We bought houses in the Oakton district and absolutely knew the distance from our neighborhoods to the high school.

While I strongly prefer Oakton HS, my biggest concern is that scenario 1 is absolutely bananas in the way the board is proposing to split just a few Crossfield neighborhoods and send that handful of kids to Carson/Skyview. So my kids will have spent 7+ years with their peers at Crossfield, most of their class would move onto Franklin/Oakton, and then they would start MS knowing maybe 5 kids at a school of 1,400 (Carson). The math isn't mathing, and there is a plethora of research that shows what a terrible idea this is from a mental health standpoint.

There's nothing compelling about this. Everyone knows where their zoned high school is when they purchase a house and they also know that can be changed at any time. It makes NO sense to send Herndon kids all the way to Vienna to Oakton when there are going to be 800 empty seats at Westfield and 400 empty seats at South Lakes.

I find students' mental health pretty compelling, but to each their own.

Rezoning your house from Oakton to a close by high school has nothing to do with your HS kids mental health, since they will be grandfathered into Oakton.
More sleep will be great for future kids' mental health though.

Many of us don't have high schoolers who will be grandfathered anywhere, which is why we're concerned. My kids are in elementary and middle school.

Then they will go to whatever middle and high school they go to with the rest of your neighbors.

No they won't, that's the point. Scenario 1 breaks up Crossfield neighborhoods. Four districts will have buses going down the same street. Crossfield shouldn't be a 3/4-way split feeder (Carson, Franklin, Hughes) (Skyview, Oakton, South Lakes, Chantilly). Not to mention, a lot of these kids that are 6th graders now, will have to go to Carson for 1 year and then switch to another new school (Franklin) with a whole other group of new kids. They won't have the 2 years in MS to make friends going into HS.

Your last part isn't a great argument because right now, Crossfield kids are the only ones from Carson that go to Oakton. None of their new friends are going to high school with them. At least this way, in 8th, these kids will be at Franklin with Waples and Navy kids going to Oakton with them.

Navy AAP kids are at Carson currently and most of them are going to Oakton. At least 100 kids or more.

They tend to stick to their little AAP groups. My Honors child at Carson does not know any kids from Navy or Waples Mill.

Anonymous wrote:At least meren is letting people discuss it on her page. I don't see anything on Dixit or McDaniels (correct me if im wrong please!)

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Anonymous wrote:I expect them to fix the Franklin Farm split and clean up the Crossfield split so that there is a group at Skyview and a group at Oakton. I don’t see Crossfield going to the same HS but hopefully they can get it down to two HS. And the Franklin Farm divide is ridiculous.

Its like they hate Franklin Farm.

Anonymous wrote:I expect them to fix the Franklin Farm split and clean up the Crossfield split so that there is a group at Skyview and a group at Oakton. I don’t see Crossfield going to the same HS but hopefully they can get it down to two HS. And the Franklin Farm divide is ridiculous.