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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was terrible what they did to Thoreau with Wolftrap. All while using incorrect information about Kilmer’s enrollment. They are a disgrace. Should have sent all of Wolftrap to Kilmer!  [/quote]

All of Wolftrap already was at Kilmer.  It just split, fairly evenly, to Madison and Marshall.

They moved all of Wolftrap Thoreau and Madison.  It creates a new Marshall attendance island and drives up the enrollment at Thoreau.

The island will be unstable.  These people will resent getting bused so far to Marshall when their neighbors to the south go to Madison and their neighbors to the east go to Langley.  And the eventual addition of AAP to Thoreau will blow up its boundaries given all the kids who’ll now live within its base boundaries.

Worst of all, they justified this as necessary to address overcrowding at Kilmer, but the Kilmer capacity numbers were wrong, and had been corrected by  the time of the vote.

Of course they are going to screw up the Skyview adjustments as well.  They’ve already shown they are incapable of making sensible decisions.  Westfield will get screwed just like they screwed Marshall, except worse. [/quote]

They did this ALL wrong.  When they opened Carson and Westfield, they had community meetings at area schools that could be impacted.  They explained the process, etc.

1. They should have tabled comprehensive boundary review.  Continuing that made no sense.
2.  They could have presented it and planned it in a positive manner for Westfield.  For one thing, everyone seemed to think that Westfield was only losing affluent kids--really, not true at all.  
3. They could have presented it to Bull Run community as an opportunity to have a true community school with a more cohesive student population.  It certainly could be.

As for Skyview, if Meren had stepped in earlier in a positive manner--instead of screaming about the "process,"  maybe she could have recommended a process that would work better. Instead, she just tried to stop it.

Honestly, looking at the maps and being quite familiar with the area, they should have taken Option A for Skyview.  (Crossfield instead of  Fox Mill).  Both neighborhoods would not fit and either make geographic sense, but South Lakes is not far from Fox Mill.  Leaving Crossfield out made no sense at all.  But, splitting it also makes no sense.

But, in reality, Reid wants her 22nd century school when we are not anywhere near the 22nd century and no one really knows what that is.  And that delayed the boundary choices.

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