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[quote=Anonymous][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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What is driving the love for Madison amongst Wolf Trap families?  Is it AP in some cases providing more college credits or receiving an IB diploma takes more effort than just AP courses?  Is it these families struggle with economic and ethnic diversity and would rather go to a less diverse or "more well off" school?  Is it sports oriented families that recognize Madison as the stronger school from that perspective?  As mentioned before, it is currently a fairly equal split between Marshall and Madison at Madison and the distance these neighborhoods are to Madison or Marshall are very similar / almost identical.  [/quote]

All of the above.

We have heard some of the families that spoke at the hearing two days ago for YEARS tell their kid he will play football at Madison, because that's the better football team (even tough they are zoned for Marshall.) Vienna people are kind of rabid about their sports.

We have heard the parents who didn't pay attention when they bought a house realize they want AP and not IB (though if they bothered they would realize IB has a lot of advantages and in FCPS is used just like AP - a la carte - with the added option of the diploma.)

And, sadly, they really don't like the brown people at Marshall. At the meeting I overheard one of the Wolftrap parents talk about how Marshall will go downhill so "we are better off sticking together". When the woman he was talking to asked what he was on about, he just wink-winked.[/quote]

Why is it that we only ever hear about skin color from the social justice warriors?  SJWs always equate going “downhill”  and concepts like that with skin color and it’s super disgusting.  They pretend that others are racist, but it’s really just an admission on their part. It’s part of their equity playbook[/quote]

Sounds like a made-up story.  Different people want to block these folks moving to Madison for their own reasons.  [/quote]

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