I know two Westfield teachers who wanted to stay and are being forced to move for fall. One is going to Skyview and I don't know where the other is going.

Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

SLHS is losing positions as well. And it is hard for the school but people wanted to opt in to Skyview for a variety of reasons, probably some of them were the same for Westfield and SLHS.

1) It was closer to their homes.
2) They have friends who move from MS at Carson to a different MS and they are hoping to move with their friends for HS.
3) They needs bus transportation for 3-4 years of HS and all the scenarios pointed to their school being moved to Skyview so they opted-in
4) They like the new pathways.

The boundary changes were going to cause changes at the schools that Skyview was going to draw from. There should be more kids moved out of Centreville. I am baffled that the School Board seems to be ok with leaving Centreville overcrowded while moving so many kids out of Westfield.

Chantilly and South Lakes will lose some teachers with the changes. That will hurt SLHS more then Chantilly because SLHS is likely to lose more kids in the IB programs. That said, SLHS already didn't offer IB HL if there were not enough kids in the class and I know that there were many years where there were not enough kids in IB sciences and some of the language for there to be IB HL classes. Chantilly will ose some sections for classes. Westfield is losing a net of 700 kids, that is going to lead to a lot of lost positions. I would guess that it will impact the Gen Ed offerings, since the Floris contingent is a smaller portion of the kids that they are losing.

But when a new school is opened or you rdistribute students from a crowded school to a less crowded school, staff positions have to move. That said, Westfield is getting slammed and the fact that the school board has shown zero spine in backfilling Westfield is embarrassing.

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Anonymous wrote:Spending money to expand Centreville while leaving 800 seats open at Westfield is crazy.

And Centreville does not need more affordable housing. Another area can take their fair share. How do we vote against the project?

Not sure how. But the county and FCPS are being sneaky about it.

I live in Centreville. I would love a nice new library like they build in Loudoun. I do NOT want affordable housing stacked on top of it! There is a ton of affordable housing in Centreville already!

Can we just have one nice thing here, please? Even our new community center was designed for the elderly

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

The boundary changes don’t start until 2027-2028 nitwit.

Nitwit, if you don't understand how high school staffing works, you don't need to be posting your sub-80-IQ thoughts in this thread.

Anonymous wrote:Spending money to expand Centreville while leaving 800 seats open at Westfield is crazy.

And Centreville does not need more affordable housing. Another area can take their fair share. How do we vote against the project?

Not sure how. But the county and FCPS are being sneaky about it.

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

The boundary changes don’t start until 2027-2028 nitwit.

Wow you are really stupid. Let me explain it using small words.

Kids who would be attending Westfield for 9th grade opted to attend Skyview next year instead. Westfield will have fewer freshman and so the least senior teachers of 9th grade courses are losing their positions.

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Anonymous wrote:The Navy island is like a cockroach after a nuclear war. It survives everything.

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It really is remarkable.

I really don’t think it’s because of anything nefarious. They are just so afraid of making people mad when they get pushback. When they tried to move the island to Oak Hill last year, people fought that. Then they tried to move the island to Crossfield with the new Skyview maps, and other people freaked out because of the various ES changes being proposed along with it. So then they scrapped ES changes entirely. I think most people in the Navy island would have accepted a change to Crossfield, or at least not pushed back as much, because the streets around the island go to Crossfield. I think they overreacted getting rid of all ES changes related to Skyview. Nothing they are doing is measured and well thought out… just reacting to who is complaining.

Who could ever have guessed that boundary changes would be unpopular?

So you think school boundaries should never ever change? You think that’s realistic?

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

It’s kind of a shit-show. They can’t really claim they’d leave Westfield at 74% because it was “too big” when they are leaving Oakton so large. They just make short-term decisions based on what they think they get away with and what will placate the loudest people with the most money. Money may not exchange hands, but it’s still corrupt.

100% agree there is a LOT of corruption. When a large block of people organize, the school board members think about that large block of votes and nothing else. Disgusting.

Wait, so you want the school board to ignore the community? Talk about disgusting.

DP. Obviously some people have more time and resources to work the system to their advantage. The School Board should be serving the entire community and not just deferring to the wishes of the loudest.

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

The boundary changes don’t start until 2027-2028 nitwit.

Explain your “nitwit” insult to us because it is in no way clear why you are jazzed up by your preceding sentence.

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

It’s kind of a shit-show. They can’t really claim they’d leave Westfield at 74% because it was “too big” when they are leaving Oakton so large. They just make short-term decisions based on what they think they get away with and what will placate the loudest people with the most money. Money may not exchange hands, but it’s still corrupt.

100% agree there is a LOT of corruption. When a large block of people organize, the school board members think about that large block of votes and nothing else. Disgusting.

Wait, so you want the school board to ignore the community? Talk about disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

The boundary changes don’t start until 2027-2028 nitwit.

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

It’s kind of a shit-show. They can’t really claim they’d leave Westfield at 74% because it was “too big” when they are leaving Oakton so large. They just make short-term decisions based on what they think they get away with and what will placate the loudest people with the most money. Money may not exchange hands, but it’s still corrupt.

100% agree there is a LOT of corruption. When a large block of people organize, the school board members think about that large block of votes and nothing else. Disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

It’s kind of a shit-show. They can’t really claim they’d leave Westfield at 74% because it was “too big” when they are leaving Oakton so large. They just make short-term decisions based on what they think they get away with and what will placate the loudest people with the most money. Money may not exchange hands, but it’s still corrupt.

Anonymous wrote:How many 9th grade teachers were destaffed from Westfield for next year? I know two personally.

Sad. And it’s infuriating how the school board completely disregards the negative impacts of these types of boundary changes.

Anonymous wrote:there must be someone who works at Gatehouse or donates to the SB who lives in that Navy island. Has it been altered in any proposal?

I don't understand why that Island exists. The bests thing FCPS could do is rezone that part of Franklin Farm to Crossfield and move Waples Mill AAP to Navy to make up for the loss in students.