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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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i think sunrise valley is a high probability
if the chunk of south lakes in one of those proposals goes to KAA. south lakes will go down to 80%. it makes sense to move them there [/quote]

Or send the island to Colvin Run/Cooper/Langley and they won't have to wait until 2030 to have the capacity-based argument to move at least part of Forestville into the Herndon pyramid.

Either eliminates the Westbriar island. [/quote]

i don’t see them doing that this round. i have listened to many meetings and reid has said from here it will be micro changes and they aren’t going to propose moving any areas that haven’t been considered already. they said they are too far in and can’t handle the fight if it happens. if they move westbriar to langley it would put it over capacity which is the main focus of this round of boundary changes (per reid). they would then have to cut neighborhoods out of langley which have not been proposed in any scenario so far. i dont see it happening [/quote]

She’s also said they have about a dozen open “hot spot” areas and it seems likely the Westbriar island is one of them.  Turning what was just an ES island to an ES-MS-HS island is a problem. [/quote]

no one at any meeting i went to complained about the westbriar island. at the marshall meeting she mentioned there were some islands people don’t really care about. it would be an easy move into sunrise valley and SLHS especially if SL gets moved into KAA and has 20% capacity. or they would say too bad to the wolf trap people who pushed back about westbriar being part of wolf trap. or stop pupil placements at langley. but i dont see them driving langley over 105% and then moving other people out in this round. reid and the SB are over this process. they dont want to open more cans of worms [/quote]
I imagine the only options they’ll consider is Wolftrap/Marshall families stay at Marshall or Kilmer/Marshall get an attendance island. I doubt they’ll try to throw anything else at the wall this late into the process. [/quote]

So, five more years of Westbriar kids getting bussed past Colvin Run on their way to Westbriar?  These people truly suck at their jobs.  [/quote]

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