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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]

We were talking about the comments at the Madison/McLean meeting last night.  [b]There were a lot of Wolftrap parents saying they favored the elimination of the split feeder, which sends them all to Madison.[/b]  There was one parent asking whether his kid could attend Marshall if they are rezoned to Madison.

I don't doubt there are other Wolftrap families happy with Marshall, but they weren't speaking up last night to leave the boundary unchanged. [/quote]
They can join Lemon Road’s pouting party who were told in Scenarios 1-3 that their split feeder would be resolved. Keeping Wolftrap at Marshall resolves the attendance island at the MS and HS level, and while Madison might have some capacity, Thoreau would be at 107% with nearly 750 students per grade. [/quote]

They could still decide to reassign the Westbriar island to either Colvin Run or Sunrise Valley.  Moving all of Wolftrap to Madison turned that island, which previously had just been an ES island, into an ES/MS/HS island.  It's one thing to leave a current island alone.  It's another thing to create a new island, or make an existing island worse by turning it into an island for not just the ES, but also the MS and/or HS.  
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The problem isn’t just the island. It’s Thoreau MS, which they’re treating like a limitless catch all. It already has a program capacity bigger than most middle schools. Under scenario 4, they move Wolftrap, a piece of Vienna ES, and Fairfax Acres into Thoreau. That puts the school at 104%. If they were to move the Westbriar/Madison kids to Thoreau to close the Kilmer split feeder, it would be approximately 1482. That’s 741 middle schoolers per grade.

The alternative is to continue to send all of Westbriar to Kilmer as shown in Scenario 4, that’s about 23 kids per grade going to Madison while the rest of Kilmer goes to Marshall. A 4% split. Meanwhile you still have 5-7% of Thoureau going to Marshall.

So some opportunistic UMC people get what they want at Wolftrap while nothing in the Marshall pyramid is fixed. It’s just a dumping ground for split feeders. [/quote]

I thought the proposal to make Westbriar a 100% feeder to Kilmer/Marshall made perfect sense, apart from figuring out what to do with the island. [/quote]

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