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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schools along Rte 50 inside the beltway's attendance boundaries are a clusterf_ck - I'm talking Graham Rd, Pine Spring, Beech Tree. And then there's Timberlane - a random school half zoned to McLean - in the middle of all that, and Shrevewood which is very overcrowded. Such a mess.[/quote]

Yup, and the Stenwood parents continue to fight allowing kids who are closer to Stenwood than Shrevewood attend.  It's absurd.[/quote]

Stenwood is going to have its boundaries substantially changed when Frisch's Dunn Loring project is finished.  Part of Shrevewood will finally move to Stenwood, and much of Stenwood (and part of Freedom Hill) will end up at Dunn Loring. [/quote]
There’s a zone part of Freedom Hill that seems out of the way-near Pimmit.  [/quote]

Yes, and those kids really should be swapped with the ones behind Marshall High School, which is closer to Freedom Hill than Lemon Road, but god forbid a McLean school get any more brown kids.[/quote]

The kids who live behind Marshall already go to Freedom Hill.  There's an area on the same side of Route 7 slightly further east who go to Lemon Road.

Regardless of whether they go to Freedom Hill or Lemon Road, do you want to create a new attendance island that sends kids who live on the same side of Route 7, within walking distance of Marshall, to McLean instead?  
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I don't know what you're talking about. I meant the townhouses next to Marshall - Marshall Heights -  that are zoned to Lemon Road should go to Freedom Hill. Lemon Road is a split feeder, Freedom Hill is zoned to Marshall. The kids behind Whole Foods that are zoned to Freedom Hill should either go to Lemon Road or Shrevewood, both of which are MUCH closer to them and they could still go to Marshall. Shrevewood is overcrowded, Lemon Road is not.[/quote]

OK.  I guess I don't know what you're talking about, either.  Sounds like you just want to revisit the Freedom Hill/Lemon Road adjustments from a few years ago (and swap some Freedom Hill and Lemon Road kids who are going to Marshall in any case), and think the McLean parents at Lemon Road would have an issue with it.

Lemon Road is mostly a Marshall feeder and the Lemon Road families in Pimmit Hills are at least as likely to weigh in on the Lemon Road boundaries as any other parents.   And I don't see any logic in moving Freedom Hill kids to Shrevewood as long as Shrevewood is overcrowded.  Maybe that will get revisited if/when the Dunn Loring site reopens.

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