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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving 4022 from Kent Gardens to Haycock makes sense. It’s close to Haycock and many people were suggesting it even before FCPS released any of the scenarios.

Moving 4022 to Lemon Road would create an attendance island and it’s only 38 kids.  Had FCPS proposed that, it would have been heavily criticized.

[b]Addressing the current KG overcrowding, not worrying about the situation at Haycock a decade from now, needs to remain the top priority.[/b] [/quote]

Yet moving Haycock kids to Lemon Road is exactly what another poster suggested for their inevitable overcrowding, and 4022 would be the best candidate of the available bad options. Only alternatives are trailers, move kids to Chesterbrook or (*checks map*) Kent Gardens, or reduce its AAP Center population that’s coming from other schools. Or, here’s a crazy idea, find other ways to reduce near-term overcrowding at KG without creating an overcrowding problem at Haycock. They could for example move more kids to schools with available capacity like Chesterbrook or Churchill Road, although the latter touches the apparent 3rd rail of MS/HS shifts.

But the bolded notion (that we can’t address short-term issues while ALSO being mindful of and planning for medium-term ones) is exactly the problem.[/quote]

The suggestion that FCPS create a new Lemon Road attendance island by moving 4022 there just isn’t very compelling.  There are enough attendance islands already.

And the bolded language just reflects reality when it comes to planning in FCPS.  Kent Gardens has been overcrowded for years.  The plan they’ve proposed is fairly sensible to address both short-term and medium-term issues, recognizing that they may need to revisit Haycock down the road. [/quote]

The plan only addresses the short-term. They don't even provide projections beyond 5 years, so no ability to look at the medium-term impacts.[/quote]

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