+1. Community isn’t just an afterthought, it’s what draws people to public schools. |
Yup which is why it's such a joke that the Oakton moms want to keep Crossfield zoned there. We are absolutely NOT part of the Oakton community. |
This is pretty bogus when those ToV families in NE Vienna send their kids to both an elementary school and a middle school that feed over 80% to Marshall, but they just have to stay zoned to Madison. It’s not about “community,” just property values. |
All you have to do is read their own reports from a few years ago and see how it's changed to eliminate the blatantly illegal bits |
What's entitled is moving kids from one high school to another because you need them to boost the quality of the school you ruined with your own policies. |
Precisely |
| Isn’t Thoreau a significant split feeder to Madison, Oakton, and a little bit of Marshall? How are the kids from Wolftrap ES going to handle that or will they not make any new friends during those years! |
Yup. And guess what. Marshall (and some closer in Oakton kids) participate in Vienna activities and events. To tell those kids they aren’t part of the community bc of the high school they attend is such BS. |
Westbriar parents whose kids go to Kilmer then Madison are mad. Some are even like “split feeders actually make kids stronger??” Bc they want to stay with Madison. The Wolftrap parents are happy with the proposal to make the entire school end up at Madison. |
That’s a different block of students. Currently, Westbriar and Wolftrap feed 100% into Kilmer and then Kilmer goes on to split about 10-15% to Madison. Scenario 4 proposed sending all of Wolftrap to Thoreau/Madison and all of Westbriar to Kilmer/Marshall, which would have resolved 3 split feeders and kept their cohorts together. The Thoreau/Marshall split feeder comes from Stenwood and Cunningham Park. About 40% of Stenwood goes to Thoreau because they’re in the walk radius and then sent to Marshall. So they make new friends for two years and then are sent back to their elementary cohort. The Cunningham Park kids get the worst deal. It’s a very small number of kids who spend K-8 in the Madison Pyramid and then go to Marshall for HS. |
On paper this makes sense but it also shows you have never spent any significant time in the town of Vienna. There is more community in that mile stretch of 123 than in the actual small midwest town I grew up in. |
No one is being moved out of Great Falls now because the numbers don’t justify it. In five years things may be different and a move may be necessary based on capacity grounds. If that happens, don’t expect anyone to buy your bogus argument that it’s based on an “anti-community” or “anti-capitalist” agenda. ALL it would mean is that you’re part of the same county as everyone else. |
Any attempt to clean up these split feeders is always frustrated by Town of Vienna families who claim a “special relationship” with Madison HS, which is not within the Town of Vienna. They think their extra town taxes must afford them the right to attend a high school that’s wealthier and whiter than Marshall. And Reid and the School Board let themselves get steamrolled by these folks. |
Sure, that would be nice, but how many established “towns” are there in the county? Vienna, Mclean, Great Falls, Herndon, Clifton, Fairfax, Falls Church (not really parts of Ffx Co). |
It’s only Town of Vienna, Herndon, and Clifton and the City of Fairfax and Falls Church. McLean tax district is split between Langley and McLean HS. I don’t know if Great Falls has any sort of tax district or if they’re just full of advocates. |