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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sangster Split Feeder Family here -

Most of Sangster is closer to LB.  We are about 100 houses that are in the WSHS district (in terms of voting representations, neighborhood communities etc.)

The homes physically closest to Sangster are also closest to WSHS.

We have been petitioning to stay a split feeder and continue going to WSHS for several reasons, but one main issue is for our voting representation.  We will be voting for WS seats/reps because of our location, but our students will be attending a school where we do not get to vote for issues.

LBSS is a great school and most of Sangster is physically closer, but for our small neighborhood we are closer to WS and do not mind being split. [/quote]

Most of WSHS zone does not get to vote for their school board rep, due to board of supervisors gerrymandering Pat Herrity's Springfield district a couple year's ago in an attempt to drive him out.

Not voting for the Springfield Rep is not a legitimate argument for Sangster families as the only WSHS neighborhoods that fully vote for the Springfield rep are Hunt Valley and Orange Hunt.

Most of Cardinal Forest and all of Keene Mill vote for the Braddock district rep.

All of West Springfield Elementary and part of Rolling Valley vote for the Franconia district rep.

Most of Rolling Valley votes for the Springfield rep, but not all of it.

Irving now sits in the Braddock district.

Half of Saratoga (zoned for Lewis) votes for the Springfield rep instead of the Franconia rep.

All of this was gerrymandered by Supervisor Chair McKay at the 11th hour at the last redistricting, in spite of many objections from West Springfield families and Springfield Supervisor Pat Herrity.  Nearly all of the redistricting in Fairfax County targeted dividing West Springfield into peacemeal voting districts, even the neighborhoods walkable to Pat Herrity's office on Rolling Rd and in spite of 22152 having the least population shift (least growth and least loss) in the entire county.

Voting for the Springfield rep instead of the Braddock rep just is not a valid argument against eliminating the Sangster split feeder and sending the entire school to Lake Braddock.[/quote]

Redistricting happens. Sounds like you republicans need to move on and stop whining. That part of Herrity’s district shifts every time the county redistricts because of fluctuations between Springfield, Braddock, Mount Vernon, and Providence.

It’s not some vast left wing conspiracy. [/quote]

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