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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As between South Lakes and Oakton Reid seems to be suggesting more of SL might get moved into KAA than Oakton based on the drafts she's been reviewing.  Obviously reading the tea leaves.  [/quote]

As a Fox Mill parent, please let this be true. Move the Fox Mill and Floris kids at SLHS to KAA.

Or get rid of IB at SLHS. Either would be appreciated. [/quote]I'd be shocked if Fox Mill's included. If it is, they would have to backfill with another ES - expanding the impacted communities - and undoing enough of the SLHS redistricting to put it back on the road to Lewis' status.[/quote]

Exactly, if they pull all of Floris and Fox Mill out of SLHS, and down the road close the Herndon to SLHS IB transfers, then SLHS will start looking like what it sounds like is happening at Lewis.  SLHS falling back into what it was before the 2008 changes.  I think Coates, McNair, Oak Hill, and the majority of Floris are a shoo-in for KAA, but how the rest is filled is where the battle and consternation will be (Remainder of Floris, Fox Mill, Crossfield).[/quote]

Look at boundary maps for Colvin Run, the entire Route 7 strip, Hunter Mill Rd.   Thru moved a paltry number of Westbriar Island to Colvin Run where the residential access road is Route 7.  The rest of it is a large island.  Then find Sunrise Valley, feeds to Hughes /South Lakes.

One of the 3 C's at Colvin Run shares an access road with a newer and more expensive dev that was sent to Forest Edge. Road network leads to Hunter Mill and Route 7.  Fact is SLHS could pick up students from Marshall and Langley.  Oakton ES is a split?  Could get some from there and Madison?[/quote]

The Westbriar island should move to Colvin Run-Cooper-Langley.  Period. It’s ridiculous to have such an isolated island.

If that means some of Great Falls needs to move from Langley to Herndon, so be it.  [/quote]
The Westbriar island is actually closest to SLHS. The neighborhoods are mostly made up of terminal roads that branch off of Belulah and Browns Mill, so while it’s physically close to Colvin Run, transportation savings could be negligible. Either solution would make a lot more sense than the current proposal. [/quote]

So they can send those students to sunrise elementary and south lakes high[/quote]

These families haven't seen their kids bused past Sunrise Valley for years on their way to Westbriar, just Colvin Run.

Region 5 specifically asked Thru to model moving the island to Colvin Run, Cooper, and Langley.  Did that even happen?   Leaving it as a stranded Westbriar-Kilmer-Marshall island is absurd. [/quote]

1.  Region 5 BRAC burned a ton of capital trying to advocate for a Region 1 move as part of their attempt to go to Cooper/Langley.  They made lots of instant enemies that way, and caused enough of an issue that Robyn Lady pushed back against it in a public post.

2.  As part of scenario 3, Thru fixed the attendance island, but it sounds like there was pushback to their solution.  I just don’t think anyone has a lot of sympathy for you if you are rejecting the fixes that are being proposed.

I don’t really care about where you end up, but you seem to think you are owed a certain pyramid that isn’t even your current one. [/quote]

It was the withdrawn recommendation to move part of Langley to Herndon that caused the consternation, not the idea of moving the Westbriar attendance island to the Langley pyramid.  There was a specific Region 5 request that Thru model moving the island to the Langley pyramid.

Plenty of people have pushed back throughout the entire process against proposed fixes that they found unsatisfactory.  That's why there's a Scenario 4 to replace Scenario 3.

It's not a question about what is owed to anyone, just what makes sense for an area that is closer to Colvin Run than any other elementary school and has had kids bused past Colvin Run for years on their way to Westbriar.

You seem to want to gatekeep, and one suspects for all the usual reasons. [/quote]

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