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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are at Wolftrap and majority of Wolftrap students will go to Marshall and some will go to Madison since Wolftrap it's a split feeder. I don't see it as an issue.[/quote]

The majority of Wolftrap kids are zoned for Madison (63%), not Marshall (37%).   However, the split is not an issue for you because they'll go to Kilmer, and 85% of Kilmer is zoned for Marshall.  So your situation is different from someone at Stenwood whose kid goes to Thoreau, which only sends 10% of its students to Marshall.  Many of those kids pupil place to Madison to stay with their Thoreau friends, but PP said that she can't do that (presumably, she can't arrange for transportation).

In some parts of the county, split feeders are inevitable, but there's no reason other than inertia that the Kilmer/Marshall and Thoreau/Madison boundaries aren't aligned like Frost/Woodson, Cooper/Langley and Longfellow/McLean's are.    [/quote]

We are in the Wolftrap boundary Madison bound wishing our kids could go to Thoreau so that they could have more friends before going onto Madison.[/quote]

My sense is that the Kilmer students who go to Madison acclimate fairly quickly, because they all live in Vienna and know Thoreau kids from VYS and other activities.  It's not quite as easy for the Thoreau kids, who also live in Vienna, to get sent to Marshall in Falls Church.

But, again, the simplest fix is to align the Marshall boundaries with Kilmer's current boundaries (which would mean that all of Wolftrap goes to both Kilmer and Marshall), and align the Madison boundaries with Thoreau's current boundaries.  I would tell anyone in the Town who objects to getting reassigned to Marshall tough.  Some of them claim that the Town of Vienna has "always" gone to Madison, but part of the Town of Vienna used to be zoned for Oakton.   [/quote]

That fix isn't helpful.. the fix should be all town of Vienna go to Thoreau and then Madison- NOT Marshall (unless they pupil place).  Town of Vienna residents pay town of Vienna taxesin addition to Fairfax Cty so saying "tough" isn't the best answer.[/quote]

Madison and Marshall are both Fairfax County schools.  Neither is in, or operated by, the Town of Vienna, and Town of Vienna residents have no right to attend Madison.  The taxes they pay to the Town are completely irrelevant.

Because Kilmer and Thoreau are so close to each other, and have to draw a substantial number of their students from areas west of each school, there is no practical way to zone all Town residents to both Thoreau and Madison.  As long as Town residents persist with the notion that they are entitled to attend Madison, you'll be stuck with the current, odd split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau.  [/quote]

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