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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

There’s not a park on cottontail. There is a swath of natural woods, but it’s not a significant space.

Kids from Sangster are walking up and down huntsman and Sydenstricker with their OHES and HVES base peers, some who actually went to Sangster with them in AAP. I’m unsure what Daventry has to do with this. They can safely bike to the many pools in this vicinity to go with friends. They go to the shopping center together and the lake. [/quote]

What I don't get is that these Sangster kids do not go to elementary school with their neighborhood friends (besides the AAP kids).  They do not go to the same ES as their walkable community, which nobody complains about, but then it's a big problem for MS and HS?[/quote]

Exactly this.[/quote]

These situations abound. In Vienna there’s a group of Westbriar parents complaining about getting moved from Madison to Marshall.  But all of Westbriar goes to Kilmer, and most of both Westbriar and Kilmer already go to Marshall.  It’s not about education and it’s clearly not about keeping kids together from ES to HS.  It’s about perceptions around real estate values and made-up woes about “tearing the town of Vienna” apart, as if you need a passport to enter the town of Vienna. [/quote]

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