Freedom Hill Elementary in Vienna

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at Wolftrap and majority of Wolftrap students will go to Marshall and some will go to Madison since Wolftrap it's a split feeder. I don't see it as an issue.

The majority of Wolftrap kids are zoned for Madison (63%), not Marshall (37%). However, the split is not an issue for you because they'll go to Kilmer, and 85% of Kilmer is zoned for Marshall. So your situation is different from someone at Stenwood whose kid goes to Thoreau, which only sends 10% of its students to Marshall. Many of those kids pupil place to Madison to stay with their Thoreau friends, but PP said that she can't do that (presumably, she can't arrange for transportation).

In some parts of the county, split feeders are inevitable, but there's no reason other than inertia that the Kilmer/Marshall and Thoreau/Madison boundaries aren't aligned like Frost/Woodson, Cooper/Langley and Longfellow/McLean's are.

We are in the Wolftrap boundary Madison bound wishing our kids could go to Thoreau so that they could have more friends before going onto Madison.

My sense is that the Kilmer students who go to Madison acclimate fairly quickly, because they all live in Vienna and know Thoreau kids from VYS and other activities. It's not quite as easy for the Thoreau kids, who also live in Vienna, to get sent to Marshall in Falls Church.

But, again, the simplest fix is to align the Marshall boundaries with Kilmer's current boundaries (which would mean that all of Wolftrap goes to both Kilmer and Marshall), and align the Madison boundaries with Thoreau's current boundaries. I would tell anyone in the Town who objects to getting reassigned to Marshall tough. Some of them claim that the Town of Vienna has "always" gone to Madison, but part of the Town of Vienna used to be zoned for Oakton.

Why wouldn't they just align the middle schools with the high school boundaries? This makes much more sense and would balance things well too. People would fight over being sent to a different high school. They wouldn't fight as much about being sent to a different middle school especially if it aligns with their high school.

It makes more sense to align the high school boundaries with the middle school boundaries than vice versa because both Kilmer and Thoreau physically sit within the Marshall district. If you align the boundaries as you suggest, people living next door to Thoreau on Cedar would go to Kilmer. People would fight over that, particularly if the justification is to kowtow to Town residents who think their kids should go to the same middle and high school.

You don't have that problem if the high school boundaries are aligned with the middle school boundaries, because Madison is within the Thoreau district and Marshall is within the Kilmer district.

Well they've switched the middle schools for many years for the AAP program, so I'm not sure it would matter. Believe me, people will fight against being moved from Madison to Marshall. It's four years verses 2 and there is no AAP program to where you can go to a different school. Maybe they should just make some of those kids around Thoreau go to Cunningham Park and then go to Madison since Marshall will get more kids from Tysons.

It's a bit different with the AAP program, since people are often being given an option to attend two schools. It's another thing to tell families that they can't send their kids to the middle school that's next door to their home because someone in the Town of Vienna thinks their all Town kids should go to the same middle and high school.

Perhaps some people would fight against being moved from Madison to Marshall, but let's be clear about the kids who would be moved to Marshall if the HS boundaries were aligned with the MS boundaries. The kids who'd be moved would have gone to Wolftrap or Westbriar, and then Kilmer, all split feeders to Madison and Marshall. So the parents would basically be saying that they object to sending their kids to HS with other kids who'd primarily gone to the same elementary and middle schools. That would take more than a little chutzpah.

As for moving the Thoreau neighborhoods now at Marshall to Madison, Madison had about 150 more kids than Marshall this year and FCPS is projecting continued growth in Madison's enrollment. There might come a time years from now where that makes sense, depending on what happens in Tysons, but it seems premature. You might also expect Marshall families to object to having single-family neighborhoods taken out of their district without getting other single-family neighborhoods in return, based merely on speculation about how many kids living in new Tysons apartments will end up at GCM.

We could keep going back and forth on this, but it seems to me that, whenever the topic of eliminating the split feeders comes up, some people zoned for Madison recoil at the idea of being moved to Marshall, even if it would keep their children with their ES and MS peers. If I were on the Facilities Staff or the School Board, I'd just shrug and leave the current split feeders in place rather than listen to people complain about getting moved from one good school to another.

When I bought my house in the Wolftrap school district, Kilmer was the AAP center for all of Vienna, so it didn't seem like a big deal to have Kilmer as a middle school. Now that they've moved that program out, Kilmer isn't very enticing of a school to attend for middle with only 15% headed to Madison. Madison is much closer to us and I pay extra money to live in the Town of Vienna which is all districted to Madison, so I would fight to keep Madison as our high school. Stenwood parents do not pay extra money to live in Dunn Loring and all Stenwood children go on to Marshall I believe whereas Wolftrap only has about 40% or less going to Marshall, so it would be easier to fit those children at Madison.

Wolftrap is in the Madison High School Pyramid in Region 1 along with Madison. It is also within the Hunter Mill District which is aligned with Madison and the Town of Vienna. Stenwood is in the Providence District and is in Region 2 Marshall High School Pyramid.

What is the point of the fixation on Stenwood? The Thoreau students who would go to Madison, rather than Marshall, if Madison's boundaries were aligned with Thoreau's come from both Cunningham Park and Stenwood, both of which are in Vienna. And CP is in Hunter Mill and the Madison pyramid, if that's imprtant to you.

Part of Cunningham Park already goes to Madison similar to Wolftap and Westbriar

Correct. Adjusting Madison's boundaries to Thoreau's current boundaries would permit all Cunningham Park students, not just most, to attend Madison.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at Wolftrap and majority of Wolftrap students will go to Marshall and some will go to Madison since Wolftrap it's a split feeder. I don't see it as an issue.

The majority of Wolftrap kids are zoned for Madison (63%), not Marshall (37%). However, the split is not an issue for you because they'll go to Kilmer, and 85% of Kilmer is zoned for Marshall. So your situation is different from someone at Stenwood whose kid goes to Thoreau, which only sends 10% of its students to Marshall. Many of those kids pupil place to Madison to stay with their Thoreau friends, but PP said that she can't do that (presumably, she can't arrange for transportation).

In some parts of the county, split feeders are inevitable, but there's no reason other than inertia that the Kilmer/Marshall and Thoreau/Madison boundaries aren't aligned like Frost/Woodson, Cooper/Langley and Longfellow/McLean's are.

We are in the Wolftrap boundary Madison bound wishing our kids could go to Thoreau so that they could have more friends before going onto Madison.

My sense is that the Kilmer students who go to Madison acclimate fairly quickly, because they all live in Vienna and know Thoreau kids from VYS and other activities. It's not quite as easy for the Thoreau kids, who also live in Vienna, to get sent to Marshall in Falls Church.

But, again, the simplest fix is to align the Marshall boundaries with Kilmer's current boundaries (which would mean that all of Wolftrap goes to both Kilmer and Marshall), and align the Madison boundaries with Thoreau's current boundaries. I would tell anyone in the Town who objects to getting reassigned to Marshall tough. Some of them claim that the Town of Vienna has "always" gone to Madison, but part of the Town of Vienna used to be zoned for Oakton.

Why wouldn't they just align the middle schools with the high school boundaries? This makes much more sense and would balance things well too. People would fight over being sent to a different high school. They wouldn't fight as much about being sent to a different middle school especially if it aligns with their high school.

It makes more sense to align the high school boundaries with the middle school boundaries than vice versa because both Kilmer and Thoreau physically sit within the Marshall district. If you align the boundaries as you suggest, people living next door to Thoreau on Cedar would go to Kilmer. People would fight over that, particularly if the justification is to kowtow to Town residents who think their kids should go to the same middle and high school.

You don't have that problem if the high school boundaries are aligned with the middle school boundaries, because Madison is within the Thoreau district and Marshall is within the Kilmer district.

Well they've switched the middle schools for many years for the AAP program, so I'm not sure it would matter. Believe me, people will fight against being moved from Madison to Marshall. It's four years verses 2 and there is no AAP program to where you can go to a different school. Maybe they should just make some of those kids around Thoreau go to Cunningham Park and then go to Madison since Marshall will get more kids from Tysons.

It's a bit different with the AAP program, since people are often being given an option to attend two schools. It's another thing to tell families that they can't send their kids to the middle school that's next door to their home because someone in the Town of Vienna thinks their all Town kids should go to the same middle and high school.

Perhaps some people would fight against being moved from Madison to Marshall, but let's be clear about the kids who would be moved to Marshall if the HS boundaries were aligned with the MS boundaries. The kids who'd be moved would have gone to Wolftrap or Westbriar, and then Kilmer, all split feeders to Madison and Marshall. So the parents would basically be saying that they object to sending their kids to HS with other kids who'd primarily gone to the same elementary and middle schools. That would take more than a little chutzpah.

As for moving the Thoreau neighborhoods now at Marshall to Madison, Madison had about 150 more kids than Marshall this year and FCPS is projecting continued growth in Madison's enrollment. There might come a time years from now where that makes sense, depending on what happens in Tysons, but it seems premature. You might also expect Marshall families to object to having single-family neighborhoods taken out of their district without getting other single-family neighborhoods in return, based merely on speculation about how many kids living in new Tysons apartments will end up at GCM.

We could keep going back and forth on this, but it seems to me that, whenever the topic of eliminating the split feeders comes up, some people zoned for Madison recoil at the idea of being moved to Marshall, even if it would keep their children with their ES and MS peers. If I were on the Facilities Staff or the School Board, I'd just shrug and leave the current split feeders in place rather than listen to people complain about getting moved from one good school to another.

When I bought my house in the Wolftrap school district, Kilmer was the AAP center for all of Vienna, so it didn't seem like a big deal to have Kilmer as a middle school. Now that they've moved that program out, Kilmer isn't very enticing of a school to attend for middle with only 15% headed to Madison. Madison is much closer to us and I pay extra money to live in the Town of Vienna which is all districted to Madison, so I would fight to keep Madison as our high school. Stenwood parents do not pay extra money to live in Dunn Loring and all Stenwood children go on to Marshall I believe whereas Wolftrap only has about 40% or less going to Marshall, so it would be easier to fit those children at Madison.

Wolftrap is in the Madison High School Pyramid in Region 1 along with Madison. It is also within the Hunter Mill District which is aligned with Madison and the Town of Vienna. Stenwood is in the Providence District and is in Region 2 Marshall High School Pyramid.

What is the point of the fixation on Stenwood? The Thoreau students who would go to Madison, rather than Marshall, if Madison's boundaries were aligned with Thoreau's come from both Cunningham Park and Stenwood, both of which are in Vienna. And CP is in Hunter Mill and the Madison pyramid, if that's imprtant to you.

Part of Cunningham Park already goes to Madison similar to Wolftap and Westbriar

Correct. Adjusting Madison's boundaries to Thoreau's current boundaries would permit all Cunningham Park students, not just most, to attend Madison.

And adjusting Thoreau's to include the entire town of Vienna would eliminate a lot of issues.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at Wolftrap and majority of Wolftrap students will go to Marshall and some will go to Madison since Wolftrap it's a split feeder. I don't see it as an issue.

The majority of Wolftrap kids are zoned for Madison (63%), not Marshall (37%). However, the split is not an issue for you because they'll go to Kilmer, and 85% of Kilmer is zoned for Marshall. So your situation is different from someone at Stenwood whose kid goes to Thoreau, which only sends 10% of its students to Marshall. Many of those kids pupil place to Madison to stay with their Thoreau friends, but PP said that she can't do that (presumably, she can't arrange for transportation).

In some parts of the county, split feeders are inevitable, but there's no reason other than inertia that the Kilmer/Marshall and Thoreau/Madison boundaries aren't aligned like Frost/Woodson, Cooper/Langley and Longfellow/McLean's are.

We are in the Wolftrap boundary Madison bound wishing our kids could go to Thoreau so that they could have more friends before going onto Madison.

My sense is that the Kilmer students who go to Madison acclimate fairly quickly, because they all live in Vienna and know Thoreau kids from VYS and other activities. It's not quite as easy for the Thoreau kids, who also live in Vienna, to get sent to Marshall in Falls Church.

But, again, the simplest fix is to align the Marshall boundaries with Kilmer's current boundaries (which would mean that all of Wolftrap goes to both Kilmer and Marshall), and align the Madison boundaries with Thoreau's current boundaries. I would tell anyone in the Town who objects to getting reassigned to Marshall tough. Some of them claim that the Town of Vienna has "always" gone to Madison, but part of the Town of Vienna used to be zoned for Oakton.

Why wouldn't they just align the middle schools with the high school boundaries? This makes much more sense and would balance things well too. People would fight over being sent to a different high school. They wouldn't fight as much about being sent to a different middle school especially if it aligns with their high school.

It makes more sense to align the high school boundaries with the middle school boundaries than vice versa because both Kilmer and Thoreau physically sit within the Marshall district. If you align the boundaries as you suggest, people living next door to Thoreau on Cedar would go to Kilmer. People would fight over that, particularly if the justification is to kowtow to Town residents who think their kids should go to the same middle and high school.

You don't have that problem if the high school boundaries are aligned with the middle school boundaries, because Madison is within the Thoreau district and Marshall is within the Kilmer district.

Well they've switched the middle schools for many years for the AAP program, so I'm not sure it would matter. Believe me, people will fight against being moved from Madison to Marshall. It's four years verses 2 and there is no AAP program to where you can go to a different school. Maybe they should just make some of those kids around Thoreau go to Cunningham Park and then go to Madison since Marshall will get more kids from Tysons.

It's a bit different with the AAP program, since people are often being given an option to attend two schools. It's another thing to tell families that they can't send their kids to the middle school that's next door to their home because someone in the Town of Vienna thinks their all Town kids should go to the same middle and high school.

Perhaps some people would fight against being moved from Madison to Marshall, but let's be clear about the kids who would be moved to Marshall if the HS boundaries were aligned with the MS boundaries. The kids who'd be moved would have gone to Wolftrap or Westbriar, and then Kilmer, all split feeders to Madison and Marshall. So the parents would basically be saying that they object to sending their kids to HS with other kids who'd primarily gone to the same elementary and middle schools. That would take more than a little chutzpah.

As for moving the Thoreau neighborhoods now at Marshall to Madison, Madison had about 150 more kids than Marshall this year and FCPS is projecting continued growth in Madison's enrollment. There might come a time years from now where that makes sense, depending on what happens in Tysons, but it seems premature. You might also expect Marshall families to object to having single-family neighborhoods taken out of their district without getting other single-family neighborhoods in return, based merely on speculation about how many kids living in new Tysons apartments will end up at GCM.

We could keep going back and forth on this, but it seems to me that, whenever the topic of eliminating the split feeders comes up, some people zoned for Madison recoil at the idea of being moved to Marshall, even if it would keep their children with their ES and MS peers. If I were on the Facilities Staff or the School Board, I'd just shrug and leave the current split feeders in place rather than listen to people complain about getting moved from one good school to another.

When I bought my house in the Wolftrap school district, Kilmer was the AAP center for all of Vienna, so it didn't seem like a big deal to have Kilmer as a middle school. Now that they've moved that program out, Kilmer isn't very enticing of a school to attend for middle with only 15% headed to Madison. Madison is much closer to us and I pay extra money to live in the Town of Vienna which is all districted to Madison, so I would fight to keep Madison as our high school. Stenwood parents do not pay extra money to live in Dunn Loring and all Stenwood children go on to Marshall I believe whereas Wolftrap only has about 40% or less going to Marshall, so it would be easier to fit those children at Madison.

Wolftrap is in the Madison High School Pyramid in Region 1 along with Madison. It is also within the Hunter Mill District which is aligned with Madison and the Town of Vienna. Stenwood is in the Providence District and is in Region 2 Marshall High School Pyramid.

What is the point of the fixation on Stenwood? The Thoreau students who would go to Madison, rather than Marshall, if Madison's boundaries were aligned with Thoreau's come from both Cunningham Park and Stenwood, both of which are in Vienna. And CP is in Hunter Mill and the Madison pyramid, if that's imprtant to you.

Part of Cunningham Park already goes to Madison similar to Wolftap and Westbriar

Correct. Adjusting Madison's boundaries to Thoreau's current boundaries would permit all Cunningham Park students, not just most, to attend Madison.

And adjusting Thoreau's to include the entire town of Vienna would eliminate a lot of issues.

Not in the cards any time soon, as it would create more issues than it would eliminate.

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PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc? If not, how would you know? But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.

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Anonymous wrote:PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc? If not, how would you know? But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.

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Neither the Town nor its residents are some all-powerful political force. If you want your own schools, incorporate as a city like Falls Church or Alexandria. Otherwise, you have to accept that you can be redistricted just like anyone else. Vienna Woods used to go to Oakton and there was a point years ago when the School Board came within a few votes of moving all of both Wolftrap and Westbriar, including parts of the Town, to Marshall. There is no middle or high school within the Town limits or which Town residents have any special right to attend.

This only came up because someone was complaining about the split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau. You can leave the current boundaries as they are, but the chances right now of getting all Town kids zoned for Thoreau are nil. The focus over the next few years will be on setting up new AAP programs at Thoreau and other schools to relieve crowding at Jackson and Kilmer, not changing the base boundaries to appease people in the Town of Vienna.

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Anonymous wrote:PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc? If not, how would you know? But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.

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Neither the Town nor its residents are some all-powerful political force. If you want your own schools, incorporate as a city like Falls Church or Alexandria. Otherwise, you have to accept that you can be redistricted just like anyone else. Vienna Woods used to go to Oakton and there was a point years ago when the School Board came within a few votes of moving all of both Wolftrap and Westbriar, including parts of the Town, to Marshall. There is no middle or high school within the Town limits or which Town residents have any special right to attend.

This only came up because someone was complaining about the split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau. You can leave the current boundaries as they are, but the chances right now of getting all Town kids zoned for Thoreau are nil. The focus over the next few years will be on setting up new AAP programs at Thoreau and other schools to relieve crowding at Jackson and Kilmer, not changing the base boundaries to appease people in the Town of Vienna.

Well unfortunately they just did recently change the boundaries for Kilmer AAP and it isn't working out well for the Madison Wolftrap and Westbriar kids left attending Kilmer and or for the Madison AAP kids zoned for Thoreau having to go to Luther Jackson. The Cooper kids will move out of Kilmer leaving Kilmer with more space and Thoreau will get more space from the renovation. Then FCPS can see how many children can move back to Thoreau and Kilmer in the future. There are many scenarios they could come up with.

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Anonymous wrote:PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc? If not, how would you know? But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.

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Neither the Town nor its residents are some all-powerful political force. If you want your own schools, incorporate as a city like Falls Church or Alexandria. Otherwise, you have to accept that you can be redistricted just like anyone else. Vienna Woods used to go to Oakton and there was a point years ago when the School Board came within a few votes of moving all of both Wolftrap and Westbriar, including parts of the Town, to Marshall. There is no middle or high school within the Town limits or which Town residents have any special right to attend.

This only came up because someone was complaining about the split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau. You can leave the current boundaries as they are, but the chances right now of getting all Town kids zoned for Thoreau are nil. The focus over the next few years will be on setting up new AAP programs at Thoreau and other schools to relieve crowding at Jackson and Kilmer, not changing the base boundaries to appease people in the Town of Vienna.

Vienna has the right to become a city if it wants, and if it does, it would take away a lot of money from Fairfax County. Fairfax City pays a lot less money to the County than Vienna, Herndon, or Clifton. Vienna pays for most of its infrastructure and police force through its town taxes and then pays the same amount of taxes to Fairfax County even though they don't get these services from the County. Fairfax's best interest monetarily is to keep the current system in place.

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Anonymous wrote:PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc? If not, how would you know? But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.

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Neither the Town nor its residents are some all-powerful political force. If you want your own schools, incorporate as a city like Falls Church or Alexandria. Otherwise, you have to accept that you can be redistricted just like anyone else. Vienna Woods used to go to Oakton and there was a point years ago when the School Board came within a few votes of moving all of both Wolftrap and Westbriar, including parts of the Town, to Marshall. There is no middle or high school within the Town limits or which Town residents have any special right to attend.

This only came up because someone was complaining about the split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau. You can leave the current boundaries as they are, but the chances right now of getting all Town kids zoned for Thoreau are nil. The focus over the next few years will be on setting up new AAP programs at Thoreau and other schools to relieve crowding at Jackson and Kilmer, not changing the base boundaries to appease people in the Town of Vienna.

Well unfortunately they just did recently change the boundaries for Kilmer AAP and it isn't working out well for the Madison Wolftrap and Westbriar kids left attending Kilmer and or for the Madison AAP kids zoned for Thoreau having to go to Luther Jackson. The Cooper kids will move out of Kilmer leaving Kilmer with more space and Thoreau will get more space from the renovation. Then FCPS can see how many children can move back to Thoreau and Kilmer in the future. There are many scenarios they could come up with.

The changes to the Kilmer AAP boundaries were made years ago.

And, while there are plans to introduce AAP to Thoreau and Cooper, there are no current plans to assign other Town neighborhoods to Thoreau's catchment area. You do know, right, that some parts of the Town are closer to Kilmer than Thoreau?

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Anonymous wrote:PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc? If not, how would you know? But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.

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Neither the Town nor its residents are some all-powerful political force. If you want your own schools, incorporate as a city like Falls Church or Alexandria. Otherwise, you have to accept that you can be redistricted just like anyone else. Vienna Woods used to go to Oakton and there was a point years ago when the School Board came within a few votes of moving all of both Wolftrap and Westbriar, including parts of the Town, to Marshall. There is no middle or high school within the Town limits or which Town residents have any special right to attend.

This only came up because someone was complaining about the split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau. You can leave the current boundaries as they are, but the chances right now of getting all Town kids zoned for Thoreau are nil. The focus over the next few years will be on setting up new AAP programs at Thoreau and other schools to relieve crowding at Jackson and Kilmer, not changing the base boundaries to appease people in the Town of Vienna.

Vienna has the right to become a city if it wants, and if it does, it would take away a lot of money from Fairfax County. Fairfax City pays a lot less money to the County than Vienna, Herndon, or Clifton. Vienna pays for most of its infrastructure and police force through its town taxes and then pays the same amount of taxes to Fairfax County even though they don't get these services from the County. Fairfax's best interest monetarily is to keep the current system in place.

Have at it, but there are no middle or high schools in the Town, so you'd have to find places to build them and raise the construction funds. In addition, you'd have to buy the elementary schools in the Town from FCPS.

I can't help but think that the talk about how important it is for all Town students to attend the same middle and high school is just a bunch of BS intended to try to make living in the TOV sound more special. I think most people see through that.

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For all who are interested in the many split feeder issues with regard to elementary schools that feed into both Kilmer and Thoreau, the school system is holding dialogue meetings tonight and tomorrow night.

Tonight’s meeting (June 8) is at Vienna E.S., 6:00-7:30 pm in the VES Library
Tomorrow’s meeting (June 9) is at Freedom Hill E.S., 6:00-7:30 pm in the FHES Library

Come and let your voice be heard on the split feeder issue for all elementary schools that feed into Kilmer and Thoreau.

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Anonymous wrote:For all who are interested in the many split feeder issues with regard to elementary schools that feed into both Kilmer and Thoreau, the school system is holding dialogue meetings tonight and tomorrow night.

Tonight’s meeting (June 8) is at Vienna E.S., 6:00-7:30 pm in the VES Library
Tomorrow’s meeting (June 9) is at Freedom Hill E.S., 6:00-7:30 pm in the FHES Library

Come and let your voice be heard on the split feeder issue for all elementary schools that feed into Kilmer and Thoreau.

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss a specific expedited boundary proposal involving Freedom Hill and Vienna, which is why meetings are being held at those two schools on consecutive nights. I don't think Stenwood parents were notified of the meetings or invited to attend.

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These public meetings were mentioned previously in this thread, so what's the big deal...or is FCPS hiding something as usual.

(not 9:02)

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Anonymous wrote:These public meetings were mentioned previously in this thread, so what's the big deal...or is FCPS hiding something as usual.

(not 9:02)

The letter sent to parents:

http://www.fcps.edu/FreedomHillES/docs/Index/Boundary_letter_to_Parents.pdf

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Ahh.... yes, the Town of Vienna... all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others... Why do they think they are SO special to have their own little fix when the rest of us in suffer from the same issue!?!?!?

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I think all high schools should be aligned. There are a lot of moving parts. At some point there will be another high school built out west. There really should have been one built years ago. That will change boundaries and hopefully align pyramids better. Tysons and Springfield are areas where the county has designed higher density so boundaries will change in these areas too. I've long fought for no less than 30% of any school, elementary or middle, be a split feeder. If you are going to have a split feeder, the division needs to be as equal as possible.