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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tune in by zoom for these meetings.  Scenario 4 was driven by input and BRAC.  Who screams the loudest gets what they want.

10/16 Reid:
1. SPA's will be available in response to a question from someone dev scenarios.  Community participant -Static SPA's do not account for students in new residential - ie Tysons area new builds.  
2.  Expects no macro changes - could be other changes for scenario 5 based on community comments and BRAC.
[b]3. no response I heard on the 1 comment I heard on Kingsley Commons- isolated feed now to Timberlane and might be only SPA assigned to Jackson/Falls Church.  It's a sad mess for that community which didn't appear to participate.[/b]
4. Relooking at TOV now assigned to Marshall in scenario 4

Lots of Lemon Rd commenters- less than 25% and some years 10% are in boundary for Longfellow/Mclean.  Some want split redrawn so more goes to Mclean- ie Route 7 is the line.
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It’s such a difficult situation. It’s great that the Jefferson Village/Greenway Downs neighborhoods get to attend the same school instead of being split between three, but Kingsley Commons is being sacrificed to achieve it.

Graham Road will lose Title I status and the distribution of the Hollywood Road apartments will put a larger strain on Shrevewood without them qualifying for Title I resources. They’ll be 50/50 FARMs.

Timber Lane will suffer worst. The McLean neighborhoods will get what they want (to stay at McLean) while the Kingsley Commons community will be an attendance island split feeder, crossing RT 29 to attend elementary school outside the Falls Church HS community.

Throwback to Obama celebrating the achievements of that community: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-graham-road-elementary-school-falls-church-virginia[/quote]

Did they explain why move the Hollywood Road residents to Shrevewood?  Seems they should stay at Timber Lane, and Kingsley Road makes more sense to be at Pine Spring.  If they need to then shift some of Pine Spring -> Shrevewood to balance capacity, could reassign the portion outside the beltway since it's not walking distance nor community-connected to either school (about same drive/bus time either way). Maybe there's a good reason for it the way it is but if so it's not evident from the map.[/quote]

Has anyone said anything about Dunn Loring in any of these meetings? My kids were at Shrevewood pre-Covid when it was overcrowded and we asked for a boundary review. Karl F. took advantage of Covid to cancel the boundary review and plan for a school that nobody wanted or needed and now Shrevewood is under capacity and I haven't heard anything about Dunn Loring being cancelled.[/quote]

Yes  , Dr Reid said Dunn losing is no where close and 10 years from now it may come into play. [/quote]

I hope the people complaining about the new high school see how long it takes to build just an elementary school. This project was launched in 2020 and it won't be ready until 2035?? Imagine how long a high school would take!![/quote]
It sounds like the FCHS renovation is years delayed as well. One of the parents noted it was supposed to be done by now, and facilities were wishy washy on giving an end date. [/quote]

FCHS is not delayed.  https://www.fcps.edu/falls-church-high-capital-project  The Reid Dance on the topic was obvious because her comprehensive boundary project is based on SPA's not having to change school assignments IF they don't want to move.    So that means FCPS wasted money expanding FCHS.  So why expand Centreville?  Permits to expand rather than renovate are moot.

More important to keep Mclean over capacity with modulars [relocated NOT a new one for the site] and trailers than use the new build.   Marshall even with the modular could better accommodate Timber Lane.   [/quote]

They are moving kids from Glasgow/Justice into Poe/Falls Church now to eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest and help with overcrowding at Glashow, and there’s also a new development planned in Merrifield that will feed to Falls Church.

If you’re worried about Falls Church not using its capacity you should pay attention to the parents at Fairhill who have been lobbying to get redistricted from Falls Church to Oakton, Madison, or Fairfax.  [/quote]

Yes I heard that last night.  I think Reid is going to meet with them.   I remember years ago when that Daventry persistently lobbied to get out of Lewis and then came an administrative boundary change to WSHS.   Now scenario 4 has more out of Lewis into WSHS.

This process has become "Daventry" on steroids.  Lemon Road has some that want more from Marshall to Mclean.  Nobody talks about the condition of the old modulars or trailers.  Reid should have used no modular as the baseline.[/quote]

That Rolling Valley/Lewis neighborhood is going to end up with as many or more kids than Daventry brought to WSHS.[/quote]

Hunt Valley to Lewis. Just wait.[/quote]

It’s not happening. [/quote]

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