Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted a petition on Next Door. Looks like the Cabell's Mill area is not excited about scenario 2. Shocking that people would mind being switch from Rocky Run to Liberty.

Well, I guess you are getting a real-time lesson that families don’t want to move, even to a school that is perceived as better.

Anonymous wrote:Someone really needs to tell people that its bad form to mention property values.

I know right? I totally cringe when I see someone mention that.

Anonymous wrote:Someone just posted a petition on Next Door. Looks like the Cabell's Mill area is not excited about scenario 2. Shocking that people would mind being switch from Rocky Run to Liberty.

This is why the SB members shouldn't have rashly told Lees Corner they were exempt from being moved, because now every single other neighborhood knows this happened and is demanding the same special treatment.

Someone really needs to tell people that its bad form to mention property values.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

You do an incredible disservice to your equity campaign with your smug ignorance.

What does that mean? Every one knows politicians listen to people with money.

Someone just posted a petition on Next Door. Looks like the Cabell's Mill area is not excited about scenario 2. Shocking that people would mind being switch from Rocky Run to Liberty.

Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

You do an incredible disservice to your equity campaign with your smug ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

They are taking lots of "poor" kids out of Westfield. Should not be a problem.

They are also taking lots of "not poor" kids out of Westfield. If one of the scenarios has them adding back in all poor kids, that's a problem.

None of the scenarios have them adding back “all poor kids.” Your rhetoric is seriously overblown, especially since you are likely one of the “not poor” families at a school now likely to move to Westfield.

NP. You sound unfamiliar with the area so I'll explain it to you. Bull Run is 43% FARMs. They put the AAP center there to try to help their test scores, so the actual FARMs rate of the zoned neighborhoods is even higher . If you know the area, the few Bull Run areas already zoned to Westfield are SFH homes (small neighborhood off Lee Highway and the few houses down by SYA Sports Park). The rest of the school is lower income housing (old townhomes, high and low rise apartments etc), except for one smallish SFH neighborhood over by Centre Ridge and a handful of homes in Bull Run park. Most of Bull Run population goes on to Centreville HS. The areas zoned to Westfield now don't have a lot of students.

Has FCPS put out an analysis on how the changes would alter the FARMs rates at the schools? You know they have run the numbers internally.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

They are taking lots of "poor" kids out of Westfield. Should not be a problem.

Floris is a very wealthy ES.
McNair (44% FARMS) and Coates (53%) are poorer. So, Westfield is losing a mix of kids. Not sure how you can say "should not be a problem" without doing a deep dive into the demographics of all the neighborhoods being taken out and put in.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

They are taking lots of "poor" kids out of Westfield. Should not be a problem.

They are also taking lots of "not poor" kids out of Westfield. If one of the scenarios has them adding back in all poor kids, that's a problem.

None of the scenarios have them adding back “all poor kids.” Your rhetoric is seriously overblown, especially since you are likely one of the “not poor” families at a school now likely to move to Westfield.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

They are taking lots of "poor" kids out of Westfield. Should not be a problem.

They are also taking lots of "not poor" kids out of Westfield. If one of the scenarios has them adding back in all poor kids, that's a problem.

Anonymous wrote:The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

They are taking lots of "poor" kids out of Westfield. Should not be a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe RIO should backfill Westfield. According to my map, it’s closer to them than Oakton HS.

You either have a dumb map or a dumb brain

This is probably why no one listens to you. Lame af arguments. Lol.

PP is correct. Westfield is closer than Oakton. But, remarkably, there are not ONE but THREE schools that are much closer than Oakton or Westfield: Skyview; South Lakes; and Chantilly. Obviously, Chantilly has no room. I think most are closest to Skyview--but some may be closer to South Lakes.

Chantilly would have room if they move a school out to Skyview and another school out to Westfield.

The easiest thing politically for the SB to do is dump even more poor kids at Westfield, shrug, and walk away. Those poor families weren't donating to their campaigns anyway and the Chantilly and Oakton people are up in their face.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe RIO should backfill Westfield. According to my map, it’s closer to them than Oakton HS.

You either have a dumb map or a dumb brain

This is probably why no one listens to you. Lame af arguments. Lol.

PP is correct. Westfield is closer than Oakton. But, remarkably, there are not ONE but THREE schools that are much closer than Oakton or Westfield: Skyview; South Lakes; and Chantilly. Obviously, Chantilly has no room. I think most are closest to Skyview--but some may be closer to South Lakes.