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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am hoping that mention of middle and high schools means that they will send the FS and Springhill kids to Langley to fix the issue at McLean…win for everyone [/quote]

Don’t even start. This is a Kent Gardens boundary study, not another Langley/McLean boundary study. [/quote]

It sounds like it could be both[/quote]

Not really, especially when you consider how the community meeting later this month is being advertised.

There’s nothing about addressing the overcrowding at KG that requires another MS/HS boundary change. [/quote]

Churchill and Spring Hill are zoned for Cooper/Langley and part of this KG study. I don’t know how you can adjust elementary boundaries without it changing the high school.[/quote]

They have already posted that the options that will be presented tonight won’t involve any changes to MS or HS assignments.

In theory, they could move some Kent Gardens kids to Franklin Sherman, move some FS kids to Churchill Road, and move some CR kids to Spring Hill.  None of that would invoke changing MS or HS boundaries.  The kids moved out of KG would stay and Longfellow/McLean and the kids moved out of FS and CR would stay at Cooper/Langley.

But that may or may not be one of the actual options presented. [/quote]

Most of FS goes to MCLean and not Langley. Moving them to Churchill would likely change their high school. We know families who say they are few families zoned for Cooper/Langley from FS.[/quote]

Again, FCPS has already posted there is no intention to change middle or high school assignments as part of the Kent Gardens boundary study.

It does provide a potential opportunity, if some Kent Gardens kids were to move to Franklin Sherman, to also move the small number of Cooper/Langley neighborhoods at Franklin Sherman to Churchill Road.  That would leave Franklin Sherman as exclusively a Longfellow/McLean feeder and Churchill Road already feeds to Cooper/Langley (apart from the small number of AAP kids from Kent Gardens at Churchill Road).  So it would just be some potential clean-up of the boundaries, recognizing that the 10% of so or Franklin Sherman families at Cooper/Langley might be happier at Churchill Road. [/quote]

Ok, that makes sense.

Would they move part of Churchill to Spring Hill?[/quote]

Possibly. They are supposed to post potential options by 5 PM today. I was just trying to explain why they might include Churchill Road and Spring Hill within the scope of the Kent Gardens boundary study, even though they’ve stated that they will not be proposing to change any middle or high school assignments.

It feels a little bit like scope creep, since in theory they could address overcrowding at Kent Gardens by just moving kids to Chesterbrook, Franklin Sherman and/or Haycock, but if they also wanted to move the Cooper/Langley kids at Franklin Sherman to Churchill Road, or get rid of the weird Churchill Road island within the Spring Hill boundaries, it wouldn’t be a bad time to do it.

It’s really not something I personally feel strongly about, but it’s always seemed to me that more parents in the part of Franklin Sherman that feeds into Cooper/Langley might send their kids to public school if they were at a Langley pyramid feeder like Churchill Road rather than at Franklin Sherman, where about 90% of the kids go to Longfellow/McLean. [/quote]

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