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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone across the board is happy with scenario 4 except a small contingent of folks from NE Vienna, Wolf Trap Elementary, and Lemon Rd elementary.[/quote]

Wrong - Wolftrap elementary families by far favor scenario 4[/quote]

That was certainly my impression.  [/quote]

For parents with kids currently at Wolftrap attending the meeting than yes but for parents with kids attending or having attended Marshall with Wolftrap as their elementary school than no.  The second group would much rather stay with the Wolfrap / Kilmer / Marshall boundary.[/quote]
The intent of scenario 4 was to remove the split feeder at Wolftrap/Westbriar. My guess is that they’ll retain the original Marshall/Madison boundaries, and they’ll send Madison kids that were previously assigned to Kilmer to Thoreau to relieve Kilmer.

Did anyone talk about the fact the Thoreau three way split was not addressed at all? The Thoreau/Marshall kids should have priority into Madison over Kilmer/Marshall kids at Wolftrap. [/quote]

[b]Reid was fairly clear that she did not expect to change the proposal to send all of Wolftrap to Madison.  It came up repeatedly last night and the Wolftrap families wanted reassurances that, if the Madison families at Westbriar proposed to move to Marshall stayed at Madison, they would still get to move to Madison.  She provided those assurances and said she'd gotten together with the principals of both Madison and Marshall to go over the numbers.[/b]

Of course the School Board could decide to retain the current Marshall/Madison boundaries, but she'll have a lot of upset families if that's where they land.  There was no discussion of what they plan to do with the attendance island left at Westbriar-Kilmer-Marshall under Scenario 4, and they decide they aren't going to leave it as a stranded island out in western Vienna that could lead them to revisit Marshall, Madison, or other (potentially Langley or South Lakes) boundaries.

The three-way split at Thoreau was not discussed last night, as far as I'm aware.  There was a portion of the meeting where Reid took Q&A from people who attended in person and Gordon took Q&A from people attending virtually.     [/quote]
Did they look at the middle school numbers at all? Because the Kilmer and Thoreau split feeders will likely have to continue under the scenario described, but now even more imbalanced. [/quote]

They referred periodically last night to the fact that Kilmer is currently very overcrowded.  They don't seem to paying much attention to how crowded Thoreau may end up. 
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This was actually brought up at the “meetlet” a few weeks ago. A parent that was being reassigned to Thoreau wanted to know if they’d be prepared for the capacity influx, and Reid brushed it off that they have to pivot all the time. I’m not sure she realizes their plan is to dump 200 new students into an already large middle school. Thoreau will be the largest middle school behind Lake Braddock and Glasgow (a 3 year middle school.)[/quote]

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