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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The split at wolftrap should not have been a priority as it was an almost even  split. But Kilmer needed help. [/quote]
Capacity at Kilmer can be resolved by sending existing Kilmer/Madison students to Thoreau. That is the only change needed to get them below 105%

Wolftrap/Marshall families’ dream of moving to Madison was put into peril when Westbriar/Madison families demanded to stay at Madison. If those students stay at Madison, they either

need to move to Thoreau, which pushes the school above 105% or they will stay at Kilmer and it will remain a split feeder (something like 4%)

Marshall families will not be happy if the result of this exercise leaves them with more split feeders in their pyramid than what they started with (only Madison schools are being fixed and Shrevewood is turning into a split feeder) and an attendance island for Kilmer/Marshall. [/quote]

Reid was asked multiple times "If the Westbriar families that Scenario 4 proposes to move to Marshall remain at Madison, will the Wolftrap families that Scenario 4 proposes to move to Madison still move to Madison?"

In each instance, she said yes.  In at least one instance, she interrupted someone asking the question to say yes.  She said she'd met with the principals of both Marshall (Litz) and Madison (Calvert) and the numbers still worked.

I don't see how they do a 180 turn without Reid forever losing credibility in the community.   At a minimum, she ought to schedule an in-person meeting at Wolftrap, apologize profusely in person, and explain why they might have since concluded they need to leave Wolftrap a split feeder, whether it's to avoid overcrowding Thoreau, avoid driving up the FARMS rate at Marshall, avoid making the existing attendance island at Westbriar worse, etc.

And even then more will start pupil placing to Madison, because they've had Madison and AP dangled right in front of their faces by FCPS and Reid.  
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Well good thing for her these meetings were not being recorded. Because the wolftrap students will have to be moved. I heard them say that too at the last meetings break out group. The  fcps rep said that will be the only big change the westbriar/wolftrap switch[/quote]

Who’s to say some parents weren’t recording and in any event Melanie Meren was there when Reid repeatedly told the Wolftrap families now at Marshall they’d still be moved to Madison.  If they reverse this I’d expect Meren to excoriate Reid at a future School Board meeting and for this to be the beginning of the end of Reid’s tenure as superintendent.  You can’t just show up, make false statements because you want to be everyone’s friend, and walk away unscathed. [/quote]
Frankly I’m appalled she made the comments in the first place, whether she sticks to them or not. The window for community feedback has not yet closed so they haven’t reviewed feedback from the boundary tool or from pyramid BRAC members.  [/quote]

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