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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 50-60 are OHS bound rising 8th graders.  Has nothing to do with Madison.  These are OHS kids who are currently in 7th grade at LJ and apparently want to switch to TMS for 8th grade.  (??? siblings?  are you suggesting they all have siblings who are one year younger and would be rising 7th graders?)[/quote]

I was thinking they were some of the AAP Madison kids as well in that mix. Maybe I'm wrong. Where are you getting this information? How do you know none of them are AAP Oakton or Madison bound? Either way, I think it makes sense that when there is a boundary change, people consider switching [b]especially if it lines up with their future high school.[/quote][/b]

No...the gen ed kids transferring are leaving the bulk of their OHS peers at LJ, to go to a school where the grade below them will have about 150 OHS-bound kids.  The 50-60 will be the only OHS kids in 8th grade at TMS....and yet they are willing to leave LJ for one year.  Maybe they know kids from sports in the Vienna Oakton area who go to TMS.  Maybe they have had enough of the crowded halls and trailors at LJ.

The point about "time to move on" is that it's more productive to change what can be changed going forward than being stuck in the past.  [/quote]

I think what all this is leading to is an entire boundary change for the county. The boundary change will just make TMS more overcrowded and other schools very undercrowded and poorer. It will eventually result in a new high school and a complete boundary change for the county.[/quote]

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