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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]

Because this map version is highly focused on feedback from the BRAC. The Thru guy at the meeting last night made that very clear. He didn't sound happy about it either.[/quote]

I could not care less if he wasn't happy.  His outfit was the one that came up with ridiculous scenarios that would move kids living next door to Marshall to McLean and next door to Westgate to Franklin Sherman, create a new, lopsided split feeder at Shrevewood, and even now leave Marshall with a ridiculous Westbriar attendance island out near Reston even after many families asked to move to closer Colvin Run.  And we're still paying them for this garbage.

If the quality of Thru's earlier work had been better, we wouldn't have what we now have, which are basically a limited number of changes largely intended to allow the School Board to wrap up this turd and move on to the next great thing. [/quote]
What’s the point of implementing any of it? Just look at Marshall. Shrevewood still becomes a split feeder under scenario 4. The Westbriar attendance island is even more isolated. And Thoreau is still a three way feeder.

Marshall could just as easily be fixed by adding the 200 seats back to Kilmer that mysteriously disappeared after the 2023-24 school year.[/quote]

I think it's too late to revert to the status quo given the options that have been dangled before people but it would certainly make more sense if:

1.  The Westbriar island moves to Colvin Run/Cooper/Langley (and part of Forestville moves into the Herndon pyramid, if but only if truly necessary);

2.  The area east of Trap Road, south of the Dulles Toll Road, and north of Old Courthouse moves from Wolftrap to Westbriar, and stays at Kilmer/Marshall;

[b]3.  The remainder of the Wolftrap area south of the Dulles Toll Road previously at Kilmer/Marshall moves to Thoreau/Madison; [/b]

4.  The remainder of the Westbriar area previously at Kilmer/Madison moves to Marshall and stays at Kilmer; and

5.  The small area at Vienna ES that currently feeds to Kilmer/Marshall moves to Thoreau/Madison with the rest of Vienna ES.

This would result in more compact boundaries, eliminate split feeders at Wolftrap, Westbriar, and Vienna, and eliminate (rather than make worse) the Westbriar attendance island.[/quote]

Wasn't that done in Scenario 4? The latest maps eliminated the Wolf Trap split feeder so that all of Wolf Trap goes to Thoreau/Madison[/quote]

Yes.  This was an overall suggestion for changes impacting Marshall.

Pretty much everything Thru has proposed so far has had major flaws.  Scenario 4 cleans up the Wolftrap split feeder, but is also takes what had been a Westbriar attendance island and makes it even more isolated by turning it into a Kilmer and Marshall attendance island as well.

PP suggested rolling back everything affecting Marshall, but I think that will be a challenge now, because many of the people they are now proposing to move from Marshall to Madison from Wolftrap and Vienna ES will want that to occur.  Conversely, there are some Westbriar areas that logically should go to Marshall rather than Madison.  And some in that attendance island want to move to Colvin Run, which is much closer, and the Langley pyramid.  [/quote]

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