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I doubt the whole Oak Hill would go to KAA. But maybe Emerald Chase goes to South Lakes and the rest of Oak Hill go to KAA.

Remember currently Emerald Chase kids (and Bradley Farm kids south of West Ox) go to Westfield. Moving them to KAA won’t give relief to Chantilly. [/quote]

I don't take it for granted that Thru and the school board will do what makes sense, but what makes sense is to send Emerald Chase to KAA with the rest of Oak Hill in order to keep pyramids aligned (and, assuming the Franklin Middle School kids get redistricted for Carson, to eliminate a split feeder). [/quote]

I agree.  The school board has an opportunity to build an actual school pyramid with no split feeders with just making a few changes.  I hope they don’t find a way to screw that up. [/quote]

From last night's meeting:

Centerville had three split feeders (Bull Run, Powell ES and Union).  They fixes ZERO of these split feeders
Robinson had one split feeder (Oak View).  They DID NOT fix this split feeder.

Why are they 'fixing' some split feeders and not others? This was never about fixing split feeders.[/quote]

They started out proposing to fix the lopsided split feeders (where fewer than 25% of the students fed from an elementary school to a middle school, or from a middle school to a high school), but excluded the situations where the split feeders themselves were located in the area with the under 25% split.  They excluded those situations because, if they reassigned those areas, they'd end up with schools located outside their attendance areas.

So that meant they were only dealing with a subset of split feeders from the beginning.

Then, people complained about a lot of the proposed "fixes" to the split feeders, either because they were fine with the existing split or the proposed solutions did things like moving kids who lived within walking distance of a school to a different school or pyramid.

So now they are left proposing to fix a smaller number of lopsided split feeders if people didn't object and it still kind of works from a numbers perspective.  Same thing with the various "attendance islands' they were initially proposing to eliminate.  
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