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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain why McLean HD goes around Pimmit Hills? It makes no sense as it puts it on an island, while under scenario 4 there is a McLean island to the east of the Marshall HS district.  [/quote]
Part of Pimmit Hills walks to Marshall. Technically, if assigned, part of Pimmit Hills would walk to McLean. Instead of splitting the neighborhood, everyone is sent to Marshall. McLean doesn’t have the capacity to take the whole neighborhood, even if they dropped the Timber Lane island. [/quote]

Under Scenarios 1-3 part of Pimmit Hills was supposed to go to McLean HS, so clearly they understand that a portion can walk to McLean. It seems very odd to do a complete 180. [/quote]
Actually the portion that could walk to McLean has never been recommended for McLean HS. It’s a portion of Westgate that’s across Magarity from the Commons of McLean. The McLean assigned portion of Westgate are walkers. If they understood that portion, they’d have split the neighborhood by Griffith Rd. Then the Lemon Road and Westgate splits would have been more evenly split, and they’d pick up McLean walkers without losing Marshall ones. [/quote]

That was my thought. Use Griffin and Peabody as they offer a nice cut off area for McLean. It eliminates the peninsula area of Pimmit Hills(which is surrounded by McLean boundary) and I do not think would add a lot of students. [/quote]
Based on the Kent Garden study, it would move about 100 students from Marshall to McLean. McLean would be at 105% capacity with modulars. It would make Lemon Road about 40/60 McLean/Marshall split and Westgate a 35/65 split.

The only way I see them doing it (aside from pure apathy at appeasing any and all requests) is if Kilmer capacity can’t be resolved through Thoreau, which I don’t think is the case.

Assuming TOV gets their way and the Wolftrap/Westbriar swap is undone, Kilmer’s boundaries will essentially look like Marshall’s existing boundaries without the Stenwood cutout. That would put both Kilmer and Thoreau at around 103% each (if my math on the current Kilmer split is correct… Thru states 12% to Madison in their change log.) So they’d both be “in the clear” capacity wise.

I don’t see them pushing McLean to their capacity threshold (105%) to get Kilmer capacity under 100% but it’s not outside the realm of possibility. Especially since Madison rejected modeling the Thoreau-Marshall students to Madison because they worried it would add too much capacity (it wouldn’t.)[/quote]

Unless you're on the BRAC and have access to data not available to most, it seems like it would be hard to know the impact of this proposal with any certainty.  The numbers for the SPAs in the Kent Gardens study were for K-6 enrollment, not the high school enrollments.  You can pro-rate, but it's quite imprecise since there are KG families who may go private for high school or only start sending their kids to public school in high school.  Also, Thru and the BRAC still appear to be working with September 2024 numbers and it's unclear they will update to use fall 2025 numbers.

The initial proposals for Marshall and McLean were so bad that I think they've been beating a retreat ever since.  Insofar as Scenario 4 is concerned, Longfellow/McLean just lose the Spring Hill island in Tysons, and those families won't complain about moving to Cooper/Langley with the other 62% at Spring Hill.  The Marshall boundaries still seem to be up in the air.  The Madison parents in Vienna are fighting a move to Marshall, [b]there's a group of Lemon Road parents pushing now to get moved from Marshall to McLean after other Lemon Road parents fought earlier to stay at Marshall and not move to McLean[/b], and Scenario 4 leaves the Westbriar island even more isolated.  [/quote]

That group of Lemon Road parents is taking it a step further and aggressively lobbying to push the LR families in the townhomes and apartments next to Marshall out of Lemon Road, under the flimsy guise of eliminating a split feeder… conveniently omitting the fact that as an AAP center, LR will remain a split feeder. [/quote]
They’re being pretty short sighted. I would like to think that most Lemon Road families don’t want the townhouses and apartments across RT-7 reassigned. The Pimmit Hills families just want to go to McLean. They’re arguing for the split feeder to be eliminated, when they should be advocating for a more even split. The current strategy is either going to move other people’s kids to Freedom Hill or get the Idylwood neighborhood moved to Marshall, and then they’ll scream their heads off about getting moved. It’s a pretty pointless exercise that would be undone by draft 6 and hurt a lot of feelings in the process.  [/quote]

They aren't speaking for the Idylwood neighborhood.  The Idylwood neighborhood is already at McLean and they are fine with Scenario 4, which leaves Lemon Road as a split feeder with most going to Kilmer/Marshall.  I do understand that if the Pimmit Hills parents push hard enough for the elimination of the Lemon Road split feeder, the response could be to send all of LR to Kilmer/Marshall, but that will agitate a group of people who haven't been moved in any of the prior scenarios.

The townhouses and apartments on the Marshall side of Route 7 used to be at Freedom Hill before they moved to Lemon Road.  Freedom Hill probably has space now to accommodate them, but they are also potential candidates to move to Dunn Loring when it opens, along with big sections of Freedom Hill and Stenwood.  Dr. Reid is now saying Dunn Loring might be shelved for years and not open for another decade, but if they moved that piece of Lemon Road back to Freedom Hill it could also eventually get moved to Dunn Loring as well (and that would end up being a lot of moves over a relatively short period).  [/quote]

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