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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you live in Town of Vienna proper? I think there is a subset of Vienna families who are very rah rah Vienna (and will tell you they live in the Town of Vienna not just Vienna) and yes they can be a bit judgmental.  It's kind of an odd small town mentality with the good and the bad. Not every family buys into the travel sports/Madison sports pride/academic comparison stuff and they do just fine in Vienna and find their groove. [/quote]

One weird thing was that there was an opportunity for FCPS to align the MS/HS boundaries so that all of Thoreau fed into Madison and all of Kilmer fed into Marshall.

But they could never pull it off because Town of Vienna residents zoned for Kilmer couldn't fathom not attending Madison (even though part of the Town of Vienna fed into Oakton decades ago).  So now they've ended turning Thoreau into a three-way split feeder to Oakton, Madison, and Marshall, when supposedly eliminating split feeders is a goal in FCPS (Kilmer also remains a split feeder to Marshall and Madison).  So your middle school kids can count on having good friends heading off to different high schools rather than staying together as in many other pyramids.

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I think its healthy to meet kids in the greater Fairfax area. It's a close enough community that it isn't a major problem.[/quote]

The TOV people thought they needed to all stay together w/the same community - at Madison.  [/quote]

I think the town probably wanted some relation and decision making over the high school like they do in Fairfax and Herndon.[/quote]

As a city, the City of Fairfax owns the schools within the city and contracts with FCPS to operate them.  Towns like Clifton, Herndon, and Vienna don't own school buildings and don't have any decision-making authority over the operation of schools that town residents attend, including Madison (which is located outside the TOV).  The TOV residents just feel like Madison is "their" school because that's where all TOV kids have gone since the mid-80s.  And some of them look down on Marshall, so they don't want their kids going there. [/quote]

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