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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live near Wolftrap and are zoned for Kilmer - Madison. We loved the neighborhood and didn't know about the split when we purchased the house. I'm not worried about it.  The kids in the neighborhood are all close and who knows who they will be friends with in a few years anyway.  We have heard people zoned for Marshall talk about possibly pupil placing later for AP and vice versa for IB. It's impossible to predict where all of their friends will end up. [/quote]

The analysis isn't the same if your kids attend elementary school in the area before going to Kilmer and then Madison.  If your child has 60+ kids they know from elementary school, then most of those same kids will be continuing on to Madison after Kilmer.  Not a social problem.

If your child is new to the area going into Kilmer, and then is part of the 10% that goes on to Madison, there is a very real likelihood that your child will know no one or almost no one going over to Madison.  That's the difference.[/quote]

Easy to solve split feeder problem if the Kilmer boundaries became the Marshall boundaries and the Thoreau boundaries became the Madison boundaries. But then some Town kids might have to go to Marshall (gasp).[/quote]

Kilmer and Thoreau are very close to one another. Just as easy to move all of the kids in Dunn Loring to Kilmer and they are closer to Marshall. there are no Madison bound kids that are close to Marshall.[/quote]

Not going to happen. Thoreau is almost in Dunn Loring (the closest neighborhood is Dunn Loring Woods). Would you have kids who live a few blocks from Thoreau go to Kilmer instead?  The Vienna middle schools will just continue to be split feeders when they don't need to be.

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Actually, Stonewall Manor is probably the closest to Thoreau than Dunn Loring Woods.

Proximity is not always an indicator as to which school a neighbohood feeds into.  For examples, all the apartment/condo buildings, except 1, surrounding the Dunn Loring metro feed into Shervewood, even though Stenwood is less than 1/4 of a mile away.   Stenwood just doesn't have the space to handle the amount of kids that live in the apartment/condo buildings.  [/quote]

Point taken re Stonewall Manor, although DLW is very close as well.

In any event, people at Kilmer and Thoreau complain a lot about the split feeder patterns that send a very small percentage of Kilmer students to Madison and a very small percentage of Thoreau students to Marshall.  Without a doubt, the easiest way to fix that is to align Madison's boundaries with Thoreau's, and Marshall's boundaries with Kilmer's.   You can't do the opposite because both Kilmer and Thoreau are located within the Marshall district.

Otherwise, you end up just changing the current Kilmer and Thoreau boundaries to align the feeders, and there's no particular logic to adjusting them so that all Town students attend Thoreau and Madison.  Neither Thoreau nor Madison is located within the Town of Vienna, and Town residents have no special right to dictate school boundaries. [/quote]

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