Boundary Review Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The draft is posted on board docs. They backed away from a lot of scenario 4.

Not us - so our high school kids are being moved unnecessarily. Clearly not worth any more of our effort indicating why move is unnecessary and not a good idea as they are going to do what they are going to do and probably the move in our case is popular for many families with Wolftrap elementary school students.

I wish they just drew the Kilmer line along the existing Marshall line and left it at that. Instead Kilmer remains a split feeder with the 2 Westbriar/Madison SPAs left behind and there’s a big gapping hole in the map. Madison will become a richer school and Marshall will lose a large portion of UMC families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The draft is posted on board docs. They backed away from a lot of scenario 4.

Not us - so our high school kids are being moved unnecessarily. Clearly not worth any more of our effort indicating why move is unnecessary and not a good idea as they are going to do what they are going to do and probably the move in our case is popular for many families with Wolftrap elementary school students.

I wish they just drew the Kilmer line along the existing Marshall line and left it at that. Instead Kilmer remains a split feeder with the 2 Westbriar/Madison SPAs left behind and there’s a big gapping hole in the map. Madison will become a richer school and Marshall will lose a large portion of UMC families.

Years ago before they moved a large chunk of Jackson into Thoreau, it seemed like they could have aligned Marshall's boundaries with Kilmer's and Madison's boundaries with Thoreau's. The opposite (aligning Kilmer's boundaries with Marshall's and Thoreau's boundaries with Madison's) was less feasible because both Thoreau and Kilmer are physically located in the Marshall district.

It would have made for a clean MS/HS feeder pattern, and it would have kept these UMC areas at Wolftrap at Kilmer/Marshall. But the Town of Vienna parents zoned for Kilmer/Madison would have objected, just as they did when Scenario 4 came out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The draft is posted on board docs. They backed away from a lot of scenario 4.

Not us - so our high school kids are being moved unnecessarily. Clearly not worth any more of our effort indicating why move is unnecessary and not a good idea as they are going to do what they are going to do and probably the move in our case is popular for many families with Wolftrap elementary school students.

I wish they just drew the Kilmer line along the existing Marshall line and left it at that. Instead Kilmer remains a split feeder with the 2 Westbriar/Madison SPAs left behind and there’s a big gapping hole in the map. Madison will become a richer school and Marshall will lose a large portion of UMC families.

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The draft is posted on board docs. They backed away from a lot of scenario 4.

Not us - so our high school kids are being moved unnecessarily. Clearly not worth any more of our effort indicating why move is unnecessary and not a good idea as they are going to do what they are going to do and probably the move in our case is popular for many families with Wolftrap elementary school students.

I wish they just drew the Kilmer line along the existing Marshall line and left it at that. Instead Kilmer remains a split feeder with the 2 Westbriar/Madison SPAs left behind and there’s a big gapping hole in the map. Madison will become a richer school and Marshall will lose a large portion of UMC families.

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

Especially with the AAP at every middle school impacts on Thoreau. Putting it at 103% capacity is short sighted. They should just split Wolftrap between Kilmer/Thoreau at the exciting HS line, then adjust as it makes sense during the AAP change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's it? I can't believe they spent all that time and money and that's it.

Yeah very underwhelming.

[Anonymous]

I have a heavy heart for all of the FCPS students who are going to be detrimentally impacted by these unnecessary boundary moves.

Remember that the school board forced this upon your families without any compelling justification or need to do so.

[Anonymous]

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

Looks like the driver was the middle school more than the high school - Kilmer was at 118% with modulars. In fixing that they moved 172 middle schoolers from Kilmer to Thoreau, which is in the Madison pyramid. Makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Was this change between Langley and McLean known? I'm on the other side of the county and wasn't focused on this but I thought those areas wouldn't be impacted by this.

[Anonymous]

Underwhelming list is ok by me because so many of the earlier proposed moves did not solve anything and often times created new problems. Now just hope SB makes minor to no changes and we get this behind us (until next time…)

[Anonymous]

Yes Langley and McLean change is known and most kids already go to cooper Langley from Spring Hill Ed it’s just putting the rest of them there - everyone I know at Spring Hill es is happy/fine with move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

Looks like the driver was the middle school more than the high school - Kilmer was at 118% with modulars. In fixing that they moved 172 middle schoolers from Kilmer to Thoreau, which is in the Madison pyramid. Makes sense.


I wouldn't trust the numbers and once on all middle schools have AAP they will be over capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This move 128 high students represents almost 22 percent of all the moves impacting high school students (589). Such a unnecessary move with not well thought out impacts.

Looks like the driver was the middle school more than the high school - Kilmer was at 118% with modulars. In fixing that they moved 172 middle schoolers from Kilmer to Thoreau, which is in the Madison pyramid. Makes sense.

But they left Madison students at Kilmer. The first step should have been to get all Madison students out of Kilmer. It doesn’t make sense to send all of Westbriar to Kilmer and then send 2 SPAs worth of kids to Madison. I get ToV wanted to stay at Madison, but rip the bandaid off and fix the split at MS. They would have gotten Kilmer to 105% if they had only removed Madison students and left Wolftrap/Marshall and Westbriar/Marshall students at Kilmer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Underwhelming list is ok by me because so many of the earlier proposed moves did not solve anything and often times created new problems. Now just hope SB makes minor to no changes and we get this behind us (until next time…)

F their next time. Haven’t we been through enough these last couple of years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was this change between Langley and McLean known? I'm on the other side of the county and wasn't focused on this but I thought those areas wouldn't be impacted by this.

Yes, moving the Spring Hill island from McLean to Langley has been in every proposal and people assumed it was a done deal.

It was other stuff (Langley to Herndon, McLean to Falls Church, McLean to Marshall, Marshall to McLean) that either never got proposed or got proposed and then dropped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was this change between Langley and McLean known? I'm on the other side of the county and wasn't focused on this but I thought those areas wouldn't be impacted by this.

Yes, moving the Spring Hill island from McLean to Langley has been in every proposal and people assumed it was a done deal.

It was other stuff (Langley to Herndon, McLean to Falls Church, McLean to Marshall, Marshall to McLean) that either never got proposed or got proposed and then dropped.

Got it, thanks for the explanation. I wasn't focused on that part of the county and had wondered. Appreciate it!

I wish they'd release the CIP. There's a lot of unanswered questions in this proposal.