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[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]

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.

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 [b] 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.[/b]

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 no one last night mention the absurdity of turning the Westbriar ES island into a ES/MS/HS island when BRAC clearly provided instructions to THRU on how to solve the Westbriar/Wolftrap neighborhoods?

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Someone brought it up at the Marshall meeting, and nobody seems bothered by it for some reason.

From an elementary school standpoint, it’s about 130 students, so that’s two decently full school buses and the travel time between Colvin Run, Westbriar, Wolftrap, and Sunrise Valley are somewhat negligible (surprisingly.) Most of the route is servicing a bunch of dead end roads that don’t interconnect.

What gets ridiculous is when it becomes a middle school island. Now it’s a bus of about 38 students— not a full bus, and there’s a gap of about 2 miles where no students are being picked up, whereas today, the route can include Wolftrap kids.  [/quote]

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