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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I'm going to say is that if you move to the Wakefield Forest area there is a good chance you'll get rezoned to Poe/Annandale in a few years.[/quote]

Not going to happen.  They just rezoned people from Wakefield Forest out of Poe/Annandale.  They're not going to move them back after all that.[/quote]

Your wishing this does not make it so.  The boundary shift was in 2012.  The relevant policy (Policy 8130.7) states "Adjustments shall be made without respect to magisterial districts or postal addresses and, [b]whenever possible[/b], shall not affect the same occupied dwellings any more often than once in [b]three years[/b]."

The SB's obligation is to all the kids, not just those in Wakefield Forest who think their property values might take a hit if moved or moved back to Annandale.

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Given that they just did a boundary adjustment right there, and the school board has bigger fish to fry than dealing with minor overcrowding at Frost and Woodson (like more serious overcrowding at McLean, Marshall, Oakton, Centreville, West Potomac, Carson, Hughes, Kilmer, Longfellow, Jackson, Glasgow), I still think it's not going to happen.  I guess we'll see.   [/quote]

It's not just the number of students, although Woodson is over-capacity now by more than many of the schools you asserted had "more serious overcrowding."  It's that Woodson is both over-crowded and adjacent to a school that was 400 students under-capacity last year, as well as the fact that Annandale is starting to flirt with accreditation issues and Poe was denied full accreditation.

It was a bad decision to pull so many single-family neighborhoods out of Poe/Annandale, largely engineered by Tessie Wilson on her way out as a School Board member, and now FCPS is going to have to deal with the consequences.    [/quote]

I'm not saying a redistricting shouldn't happen. I see the pros and cons. I'm just saying it is *not going to* happen. They have other priorities, as indicated by the CIP.  This isn't even on their radar right now. The only thing in the works that could affect this area would be the plan to open a center at Poe and remove the Annandale AAP kids from Frost. [/quote]

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