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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who don’t understand the nuance of these neighborhoods don’t see the community both White oaks and Sangster parents are fighting for.  A man with a house on the dividing line made it clear - his neighborhood is walkable for students to visit friends etc but moving him to LBSS makes most of his school. community across the parkway and Lee chapel, eliminating the community aspect.  white oaks parents explained that their neighborhood is governed by 3 HOAS that would be split in strange ways, again eliminating the neighborhood community when the students go to different schools.

When these parents talk about community, it’s not the school it’s where their physical house is and the community they see daily, carpool with, walk to friends houses etc.  but moving these schools they would no longer be part of that because the natural boundaries are the parkway - and kids aren’t crossing that alone to go play w a friend [/quote]

I didn't understand that argument. There are no houses in that Sangster area that they're suggested moving in Scenario 4 where the dividing line is between houses. There's a house on Cottontail that's divided from its neighbors down the street in that scenario via Cherry Run Park. But the county usually uses natural boundaries like parks, woods and streams as dividing lines. The argument here is that kids would be able to play with their neighbors, but not other kids who go to their school because they couldn't walk to see them? Isn't that always the case, especially when it comes to middle and high schools? Are kids in that Sangster neighborhood walking up Keene Mill to hang out with their classmates from Daventry at the Plaza?

I understand that no one wants to leave their current school. I wish the county would look at less disruptive options, like their faulty CIP projections, why the number of transfers into "closed to transfers" WSHS has more than doubled in the past few years and residency checks. But FCPS isn't interested in doing any of that. [/quote]

Weren't some of the commenters talking about these issues in the Cardinal Forest areas or maybe even Keene Mill?[/quote]

There was someone from Cardinal Forest who said her child could walk to Cardinal Forest but is getting switched to Keene Mill and being bussed. 
There's just no way to move things around in West Springfield and avoid these things. We live in an area that is almost all residential and high density. 
I didn't think the Sangster families would be so against moving to LBSS, but I get that any move for kids is hard. I kind of wish those families could look at the big picture though. I think in the long run it's better to eliminate the split feeder and have the whole elementary move to middle and high school together at LBSS. 
Our high schools are so close together and kids are so connected with technology now, that they all hang out with kids from different schools anyway. My WSHS student has good friends at LBSS, Lewis, Edison, and SoCo. I mean all of these schools are within 15 minutes of our house! [/quote]

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