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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:Floris? They would have to pass McNair to get to Floris. It's definitely closest to Dogwood.

Polo Fields is closer to McNair, but also adjacent to Floris. Were it in Floris, they'd probably send the buses up Monroe.

I don’t think it’s necessary to move Polo Fields families to Skyview. South Lakes will be losing Floris and Fox Mill kids anyway.

Why create a new split feeder and further empty out South Lakes?

I live in Polo Fields and looking at a map, I can see that our neighborhood does make the northern boundaries for Skyview nice and neat. We're also pretty equidistant from either school. I feel like both scenarios make sense. I'm not super jazzed about doing one year at Hughes and then moving to Carson, but my kid is used to switching schools for other reasons and it won't be the end of the world. He'll adapt.

I've also done the Hughes/SLHS experience with my older one and know that things will be fine there. I like the joint campus there, and since my DS went to Terraset, it is a natural flow for us. But at the same time, the chance to go to Skyview is exciting as well and since we do a lot of things.

Either one is much better than the previous options which had our neighborhood possibly going to Dogwood in Reston, down to Carson in Herndon, and then back over to South Lakes for HS in Reston. That one was stupid and provided no continuity for the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, not Michelle, but who can read 34 pages of this and not see the obvious solution. "We don't want a magnet" yet it seems 90% of "we" also don't want to move and will fight to the death and find 1000 flaws in every scenario. This is total insanity when there is massive pent up demand for an advanced technical high school. The people calling me Michelle are the same people who don't want their kid going there by boundary and at the same time would not opt in. So yes, you want a "traditional high school" your child won't attend.

DP, but you’re mischaracterizing things. They’ll have no problem setting boundaries for Skyview with neighborhoods that overwhelmingly will be happy to attend the school. Most of the negative commentary comes from people who don’t want to attend Skyview but probably won’t end up there anyway, or are concerned about the impact on schools other than Skyview.

DP. But that last part of your post is super significant. Sure certain families might be happier with the new school, but a large number of families will have to move to other schools to backfill. I was always floored when this school was first announced that there wasn’t more pushback from these backfill areas.

This is what the school board doesn’t really get - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It will sort itself out. For 18 years they have only moved kids to similar or higher ranked high schools. Given KAA’s location it was always obvious that the new school would draw heavily from Westfield; that they would need to backfill Westfield; and some would object to getting moved there.

So now they are dealing with waves of discontent: first from those who don’t want to move to Westfield and then from those at Westfield (but also South Lakes) worried about what their schools will look like going forward.

Like it or not, they have implicitly decided that the benefits of a new school outweighed the disruption and effects on other schools. They probably don’t have the second-tier adjustments right yet, but there is still time to adjust them if needed.