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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Attending tonight’s meeting, the Superintendent opened by addressing Hagel Circle and it looks like they’ll be making corrections to the maps to send the kids to their community school of Lorton Station vs Halley (current school) or Gunston (proposed school)[/quote]

Keep in mind, Lorton Station already has over 700 students. An additional 146 students would lead to overcrowding. Lorton Station is not their community school. Gunston was built at the time Hagel Circle was. That was the original elementary school for Hagel.

Better solution is keeping Gunston or having them go to Halley which both schools could easily handle that amount of students. [u]Keep in mind, there is a reason why Hagel Circle was zoned for Halley, it was a capacity issue. [/u][/quote]

Really?  That doesn't sound right.

The story at the time was that a wealthy school in the area (Not Halley, but a 3rd school) wanted some program like full day kindergarten or preK that was only available to poor schools back then, so they got the school board rep to move the Hagel Circle kids into their school for a year or two to get the special early childhood program.  Then as soon as the program was in place, the rich school worked with the same school board rep to move the Hagel Circle kids to an even farther away elementary school, Halley, because they didn't want the poor kids in their rich school, they only wanted that special program.  I think it was full day kindergarten, but I could be mistaken.  There wasn't enough room at Halley for the Hagel Circle kids, but some houses were rezoned out of Halley to make it happen.

Once they got the Hagel Circle kids out of their school, they got that school board rep to move the AAP center into their school to fill the now empty Hagel Circle slots.

The Hagel Circle kids got moved between 3 different schools in like 3 years, and ended up at the farthest school from their neighborhood, Halley, on the other side of 95.  It was around 2010-2011.

They were treated horribly by that community and FCPS that moved them around so the wealthier elementary could get that program.  There was a lot of buzz at the time about how the Hagel Circle kids were really taken advantage of.  I think it was one of the reasons why that school board rep lost her election.  It was really scandalous at the time, blatantly used and moved around a bunch of poor kids.  There might even be an old dcum thread about it.

Does someone who lived in that area at that time remember the full story?  If so, someone who lived there at the time should let Dr. Reid know about the historic mistreatment of the Hagel Circle kids, so that wrong can be remedied with this rezoning process by sending them to the closer elementary school.

This thread talks about it briefly:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1320/1192167.page#27518693[/quote]
I think you’re thinking about Virginia Run and Poplar Tree in western Fairfax.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1135463.page[/quote]

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