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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Centreville. PP is correct: the neighborhoods that go from BRES to Liberty are mostly low income and most of the low income kids at Liberty come from those decelopments. Without the AAP center, the FARMs rate at BRES would probably be more like 70-80+%. That's why they put the AAP center there originally.

There are a few small pockets of single family homes with a handful of kids but the rest are apartments and older townhomes. Specifically, the most kids come from the apartments off Trinity and Paddington and the townhomes by Sunoco and the Crofton Commons apartments and townhomes.

No one is going to want their kids moved from Liberty/CVHS.

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You say “no one is going to want their kids moved from Liberty/Centreville” but what you are really saying is “Westfield doesn’t want more Bull Run kids.”

Just admit parents in the southern part of the Westfield district oppose the KAA purchase because you don’t want the likely  consequence of more Bull Run kids at Westfield.  You cannot pull three feeders out of Westfield if KAA opens and not move some other kids there, and the obvious kids would come from Bull Run. [/quote]

It sounds like both things are true. People don't want their kids moved--especially "down"--and people don't want their kids current school situation to be made worse so other kids school situation can be made better. That's true across the entire county.

KAA boundaries need to be drawn in a way that moves the fewest kids around and doesn't negatively effect other schools or there will be a ton of community pushback.  [/quote]

If they close on the purchase and commit that KAA will be a community school then later “pushback” won’t amount to a hill of beans.

KAA will logically take three current Westfield feeders further north (Floris, Coates, and McNair).  Even if all three don’t end up at KAA, they’ll still need to move out of Westfield.  And then Westfield will need to take some kids from Centreville, which in turn will allow families at Willow Springs who are currently zoned to Fairfax, even though Centreville is much closer, to move to Centreville.

If the future Westfield doesn’t appeal to you, you can move, try to pupil place, or try to block the KAA deal.  Complaining because you think Westfield will end up with a somewhat higher FARMS rate that’s still well below the FARMS rate at Herndon and other schools further east won’t get you very far, as more kids will be able to attend schools closer to where they live. [/quote]

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