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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schools along Rte 50 inside the beltway's attendance boundaries are a clusterf_ck - I'm talking Graham Rd, Pine Spring, Beech Tree. And then there's Timberlane - a random school half zoned to McLean - in the middle of all that, and Shrevewood which is very overcrowded. Such a mess.[/quote]

Yes. I am sour on the whole "attendance island" situation, though. There were changes this summer based on eliminating attendance islands, that did nothing of the sort. The kids on the opposite side of Beech Tree will always be an island as long as they are zoned to a school across route 50. Either open another school on that side, zone them to a school on that side, or don't use that as a pretense to move kids on the opposite side of route 50.

To be clear, the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood was moved to BTES from SHES to theoretically eliminate an attendance island. IMO, it does nothing of the sort. I don't actually have an issue with being moved to BTES, but the logic for it did not make sense to me.[/quote]

There is technically no island at Beech Tree following the changes, just a gerrymandered boundary.  [/quote]

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