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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Scenario 3 was better for that area of wolftrap. No more attendance island [/quote]

It's not a Wolftrap ES island.  It's a Westbriar ES island.

Moving that island to Wolftrap would have been the obvious solution and avoided the new problems they've created (they've turned the island into an ES/MS/HS island rather than just an ES island, and they're crowding Thoreau).

But it will be hard to put the genie back in the bottle once they've offered the Wolftrap families now at Marshall a one-way ticket out of IB to a wealthier school.  [/quote]

Scenario 3 moved that westbriar island into Wolftrap elementary. They just thought they could get into Colvin run but ended up where they started. [/quote]

Read the community notes. Wolftrap rejected the Westbriar island because they didn’t want to shift any of their students to Westbriar, which was required to make the scenario work.

If anyone in the Westbriar island is complaining about being at Marshall instead of Langley, they’re doing a terrible job, because nobody has said a peep about the island in these meetings.

It’s the people with eyeballs that are wondering why there’s now an attendance island sitting 2 miles away from the rest of its attendance zone at every school level. Maybe have transportation simulate some bus run times before proceeding. It doesn’t seem efficient to have a bunch of buses constantly crossing paths to pick up students. [/quote]

There could have been some adults in the room saying tough shit.  It would make sense to move the Westbriar island to Wolftrap and part of Wolftrap (Planning Area 2803, for those accessing the SPAs).

A related complaint was that Scenario 3 left the western most part of the Marshall boundary stranded from the rest of the Marshall boundary (even though it was contiguous with no attendance islands).  They could have addressed this by restoring SPA 2810 to Marshall (as does Scenario 4), but moving some Marshall-zoned areas at Wolftrap further west (SPAs 2801 and 2808 to Madison).  Keep in mind that reducing the overcrowding at Kilmer is a legitimate goal.

They didn't do this, so now they've got most Wolftrap families now at Marshall happy that they are moving to Madison, and an aggravated Westbriar attendance island.  PP hopes they'll just undo all the Madison/Marshall changes but that ignores the fact that they want to bring down the Kilmer enrollment. [/quote]

First paragraph should have been:

There could have been some adults in the room saying tough shit.  It would make sense to move the Westbriar island to Wolftrap and part of Wolftrap (Planning Area 2803, for those accessing the SPAs) to Westbriar. [/quote]

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