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[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] Not all of Jefferson Village! They still leave the small strip east of Tripps Run in the Justice Pyramid. That makes zero sense! Why won't they let those kids go to school with their community?!?![/quote]

All they'd probably have to do is let their BRAC members in Region 2 and Ricardy Anderson know they want to move into Graham Road/Jackson/Falls Church.

They are very much in the mode right now of accommodating requests to move.  Just look at how they accommodated the Vienna/Kilmer/Marshall families who wanted to move to Thoreau/Madison.  They'd wanted that for years and now it looks like they'll get what they want.

The only hiccup might be that it might put "new" Graham Road over-capacity and leave Beech Tree too under-enrolled, but they really ought to (1) move parts of "new" Graham Road and/or Pine Spring to Timber Lane so that Kingsley Commons isn't an isolated Timber Lane attendance island; and (2) move part of Sleepy Hollow to Beech Tree so it's borders aren't so ridiculous.  [/quote]

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