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Anonymous wrote:Follow up to my prev question - will FCPS move Franklin out of Region 5 now that it's going to primarily be an Oakton feeder (the majority of kids will go to Oakton).

It’s hard to say. Carson currently falls under the Oakton pyramid even though it sits well into Westfields’s boundaries and Crossfield is the only Oakton school that feeds to it. Seeing as every high school pyramid has at least one middle school, it would make sense for Carson to move to the Skyview pyramid and for Franklin to by reassigned to Oakton. However, logic has never been this district’s strong point, and I could see Oakton going without a middle school in their pyramid simply because Franklin is in Lees Corners’ boundaries.

They will have to move Franklin to being the Oakton MS since Carson is going to be Skyview. Meren actually tried to defend not turning Carson into a Skyview feeder because Carson was Oakton's MS at a meeting I attended.

What a joke that it was ever considered Oakton's middle school.

This area of western Fairfax has no cohesive pyramids. Franklin has been a split feeder forever. It used to be just Chantilly/Oakton. And, since Fox Mill went to SL, I'm pretty sure far more went to Westfield than Oakton or South Lakes.

We may get a cohesive pyramid with Skyview/Carson.

Prior to the 2008 boundary changes, FMES was at Oakton with Crossfield. I think part of Floris might have been at Oakton, but I am not certain. There was a larger percentage of Oakton HS kids at Carson before the 2008 changes, which is why Carson was Oakton's MS. The boundary shifts impacted that number and makes it head scratching that Carson is considered Oakton's MS.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't gone to Meren's page today, but here were a handful of complaints from non Fox Mill parents whose school is South Lakes. Some of them love IB. One suggested that they always have the option to PP at Herndon for AP.

Some people think that everyone is able to provide daily transportation for their kids.

Ironically, there was a woman on Nextdoor last fall trying to find transport for her Herndon High assigned kid to go to South Lakes. It was a lengthy post with lots of responses.
Pupil placing is not easy for everyone.

I've been surprised that Meren did not step in sooner. That is why I always thought this would be a problem.
Good luck, Fox Mill!

Meren is asleep at the switch and she will just vote against the final proposal and play the victim while blaming everyone else. It’s pathetic actually.

She has already tossed her hat in the ring for School Board election 2027. She may want to keep her Fox Mill constiuents happy--she also has McNair, some Coates, and some Floris who will be happy.

Her strong supporters for IB South Lakes will vote for her anyway.

Many Crossfield neighborhoods are her constituents, too. Including some of the neighborhoods in Scenario 1.

The Crossfield families want to stay at SLHS, they have posted that on her facebook page. They are fine with the status quo and could careless about being at Oakton or Skyview.

You clearly don't know the boundaries. Anything West of West Ox Rd/Folkstone Rd is in Maren's constituency. Look at the map someone posted. That means Crossfield itself, the neighborhoods across the street from it, Money's Corner, one side of Folkstone, Glenbrooke Woods, Oakton Woods, Franklin Oaks, etc. are ALL under Meren. Oakton Woods and Franklin Oaks in Scenario 1 would be zoned to Skyview.

Pretty sure PP meant Fox Mill Woods since the statement says that the Crossfield famlies want to stay at SLHS.

I've seen that indicated on Meren's Facebook.

Yes, but she was quoting me and I said "Many Crossfield neighborhoods are her constituents, too. Including some of the neighborhoods in Scenario 1." Those neighborhoods are the ones I mentioned - Oakton Woods and Franklin Oaks, not Fox Mill Woods who goes to Hughes/South Lakes and stays there in both scenarios.

Yes, I mixed up the neighborhoods. The Fox Mill Woods families seem to be happy to be staying at SLHS.

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Anonymous wrote:Follow up to my prev question - will FCPS move Franklin out of Region 5 now that it's going to primarily be an Oakton feeder (the majority of kids will go to Oakton).

It’s hard to say. Carson currently falls under the Oakton pyramid even though it sits well into Westfields’s boundaries and Crossfield is the only Oakton school that feeds to it. Seeing as every high school pyramid has at least one middle school, it would make sense for Carson to move to the Skyview pyramid and for Franklin to by reassigned to Oakton. However, logic has never been this district’s strong point, and I could see Oakton going without a middle school in their pyramid simply because Franklin is in Lees Corners’ boundaries.

They will have to move Franklin to being the Oakton MS since Carson is going to be Skyview. Meren actually tried to defend not turning Carson into a Skyview feeder because Carson was Oakton's MS at a meeting I attended.

What a joke that it was ever considered Oakton's middle school.

This area of western Fairfax has no cohesive pyramids. Franklin has been a split feeder forever. It used to be just Chantilly/Oakton. And, since Fox Mill went to SL, I'm pretty sure far more went to Westfield than Oakton or South Lakes.

We may get a cohesive pyramid with Skyview/Carson.

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Anonymous wrote:Seema Dixit doesn't seem to consider the Westfield community as her constituents.

Oh well. She'll remember when she's sniveling around trying to get reelected.

I think she was only voted in because a huge portion of Sully is Indian.

And almost all the Indian families zoned to Westfield are being moved to Skyview.

I know nothing about the Indian population at Westfield. I do think that there are a lot of Indian families who live close to Skyview. So, it is not okay for them to have a school that is in their own area? Dixit should keep them bused to Westfield from their area which is isolated from the rest of Westfield?

PP was probably just pointing out that she was pleasing one of her main voting "blocks". For whatever reason, she clearly isn't at all concerned about the Westfield community.

The one thing that is great for Skyview is that all the boundary options have only very close neighborhoods. No one near Skyview should be staying at Westfield.

The issue is now backfilling Westfield. In no world should they send the part of Brookfield that is along 50. It is too close to Chantilly and is a population that needs to be at the closest school.
Definitely, all of Cub Run should go to Westfield and the portion of Bull Run adjacent to those who already attend Westfield.

I also believe that Walney Oaks should go along with a couple of other neigborhoods that exit only to Walney Rd. That makes geographic sense . But, I suspect that ship has sailed.

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Anonymous wrote:Follow up to my prev question - will FCPS move Franklin out of Region 5 now that it's going to primarily be an Oakton feeder (the majority of kids will go to Oakton).

It’s hard to say. Carson currently falls under the Oakton pyramid even though it sits well into Westfields’s boundaries and Crossfield is the only Oakton school that feeds to it. Seeing as every high school pyramid has at least one middle school, it would make sense for Carson to move to the Skyview pyramid and for Franklin to by reassigned to Oakton. However, logic has never been this district’s strong point, and I could see Oakton going without a middle school in their pyramid simply because Franklin is in Lees Corners’ boundaries.

They will have to move Franklin to being the Oakton MS since Carson is going to be Skyview. Meren actually tried to defend not turning Carson into a Skyview feeder because Carson was Oakton's MS at a meeting I attended.

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Anonymous wrote:Seema Dixit doesn't seem to consider the Westfield community as her constituents.

Oh well. She'll remember when she's sniveling around trying to get reelected.

I think she was only voted in because a huge portion of Sully is Indian.

And almost all the Indian families zoned to Westfield are being moved to Skyview.

I know nothing about the Indian population at Westfield. I do think that there are a lot of Indian families who live close to Skyview. So, it is not okay for them to have a school that is in their own area? Dixit should keep them bused to Westfield from their area which is isolated from the rest of Westfield?

PP was probably just pointing out that she was pleasing one of her main voting "blocks". For whatever reason, she clearly isn't at all concerned about the Westfield community.

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Anonymous wrote:Seema Dixit doesn't seem to consider the Westfield community as her constituents.

Oh well. She'll remember when she's sniveling around trying to get reelected.

I think she was only voted in because a huge portion of Sully is Indian.

And almost all the Indian families zoned to Westfield are being moved to Skyview.

Having attended many of the Skyview opt-in meetings, there are a lot of Indian families that opted in. I would guess that those families and schools are sending emails and communication to their elected leaders that they want to move to Skyview. And if I am an elected official and so many people are complaining aboutmoving, I would prioritize the groups that are in the boundary range and who are asking to move and are excited to move. Let the groups that are fighting move stay were they are, move the groups that want to move, and secure a bunch of votes for the next election.

Meren is in a hard place because she has constituients that want to move and others that fear losing the people who want to move. If she fights Fox Mill and Floris moving, she loses those votes. If she doesn't, she is in danger of losing SLHS families votes. If she puts up enough feelers and tries to gather information to show that she was in a rock and a hard place, she might save herself some votes from the side that is disappointed. I know FMES families that won't vote for her if FMES doesn't move, I am less certain that there are people from SLHS that would say the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Seema Dixit doesn't seem to consider the Westfield community as her constituents.

Oh well. She'll remember when she's sniveling around trying to get reelected.

I think she was only voted in because a huge portion of Sully is Indian.

And almost all the Indian families zoned to Westfield are being moved to Skyview.

I know nothing about the Indian population at Westfield. I do think that there are a lot of Indian families who live close to Skyview. So, it is not okay for them to have a school that is in their own area? Dixit should keep them bused to Westfield from their area which is isolated from the rest of Westfield?

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Anonymous wrote:Seema Dixit doesn't seem to consider the Westfield community as her constituents.

Oh well. She'll remember when she's sniveling around trying to get reelected.

I think she was only voted in because a huge portion of Sully is Indian.

And almost all the Indian families zoned to Westfield are being moved to Skyview.

Anonymous wrote:Follow up to my prev question - will FCPS move Franklin out of Region 5 now that it's going to primarily be an Oakton feeder (the majority of kids will go to Oakton).

It’s hard to say. Carson currently falls under the Oakton pyramid even though it sits well into Westfields’s boundaries and Crossfield is the only Oakton school that feeds to it. Seeing as every high school pyramid has at least one middle school, it would make sense for Carson to move to the Skyview pyramid and for Franklin to by reassigned to Oakton. However, logic has never been this district’s strong point, and I could see Oakton going without a middle school in their pyramid simply because Franklin is in Lees Corners’ boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Scenario 3 will swap the Franklin Farm portion of Oak Hill that got screwed in Scenario 2 with the non-Franklin Farm portion of Crossfield that got screwed in Scenario 1. It will be an even swap at Franklin MS, and nobody seems to care that Oakton is overcrowded, so it will just give 50 or so kids from those neighborhoods back.

Yes, and I think they will send the Oak Hill contingent to Carson. So many go there already.

Oak Hill parent here. Yep that’s our hope that all of Oak Hill ends up at Carson and Skyview. The families I know that are walkers to Franklin are fine with the switch to Carson since it’s so close and they would prefer that the kids stay together as a cohort. Otherwise I am guessing the county will be looking to flip them to Lees Corner in the next comprehensive boundary in 5 years to eliminate the new split feeder being created.

Those parents need to be commenting on the scenarios that they would give up walking to Franklin so they can stay with their ES and go to Skyview. There is probably a 1% chance of keeping Oak Hill at Chantilly, so saying that you don’t care which HS you go to isn’t helping. Just say that we want to go to Skyview and will take the short bus ride to Carson over the walk to Franklin.

Anonymous wrote:As a Crossfield parent being moved to Franklin, I would like to know what other elementary schools feed to Franklin. Is it just Waples and Navy that go to Oakton? What other elementary schools and where do they feed? Chantilly I assume?

Lees Corner and the Chantilly portion of Navy still remain as Franklin feeders.

Follow up to my prev question - will FCPS move Franklin out of Region 5 now that it's going to primarily be an Oakton feeder (the majority of kids will go to Oakton).

As a Crossfield parent being moved to Franklin, I would like to know what other elementary schools feed to Franklin. Is it just Waples and Navy that go to Oakton? What other elementary schools and where do they feed? Chantilly I assume?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't gone to Meren's page today, but here were a handful of complaints from non Fox Mill parents whose school is South Lakes. Some of them love IB. One suggested that they always have the option to PP at Herndon for AP.

Some people think that everyone is able to provide daily transportation for their kids.

Ironically, there was a woman on Nextdoor last fall trying to find transport for her Herndon High assigned kid to go to South Lakes. It was a lengthy post with lots of responses.
Pupil placing is not easy for everyone.

I've been surprised that Meren did not step in sooner. That is why I always thought this would be a problem.
Good luck, Fox Mill!

Meren is asleep at the switch and she will just vote against the final proposal and play the victim while blaming everyone else. It’s pathetic actually.

She has already tossed her hat in the ring for School Board election 2027. She may want to keep her Fox Mill constiuents happy--she also has McNair, some Coates, and some Floris who will be happy.

Her strong supporters for IB South Lakes will vote for her anyway.

Many Crossfield neighborhoods are her constituents, too. Including some of the neighborhoods in Scenario 1.

The Crossfield families want to stay at SLHS, they have posted that on her facebook page. They are fine with the status quo and could careless about being at Oakton or Skyview.

You clearly don't know the boundaries. Anything West of West Ox Rd/Folkstone Rd is in Maren's constituency. Look at the map someone posted. That means Crossfield itself, the neighborhoods across the street from it, Money's Corner, one side of Folkstone, Glenbrooke Woods, Oakton Woods, Franklin Oaks, etc. are ALL under Meren. Oakton Woods and Franklin Oaks in Scenario 1 would be zoned to Skyview.

Pretty sure PP meant Fox Mill Woods since the statement says that the Crossfield famlies want to stay at SLHS.

I've seen that indicated on Meren's Facebook.

Yes, but she was quoting me and I said "Many Crossfield neighborhoods are her constituents, too. Including some of the neighborhoods in Scenario 1." Those neighborhoods are the ones I mentioned - Oakton Woods and Franklin Oaks, not Fox Mill Woods who goes to Hughes/South Lakes and stays there in both scenarios.