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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]What should be considered is dropping the idea that Graham Road needs to be in its attendance zone[/b]. Put everyone back where they were. Send SPA 5021 from Pine Spring to Timber Lane. Send SPA 5018 from Graham Road to Pine Spring. I don’t know if that will get them all under 105%, but it keeps all impacts within the FCHS pyramid. It screws over that one neighborhood that wants to go to elementary school together, though.[/quote]

Wow.  I don't live near that area--though I am a little familiar with it.
I remember when the community begged to keep the school at the old site.  Why?  Because it was truly a community school.

I was a Title I teacher.  Do you have any idea how difficult it can be for families to access a school that is outside their community?  Those are the communities who need a school close by.
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The alternate they’re proposing is moving the Title I kids across RT-29 to a school that’s even further than the new Graham Road site, FYI. [/quote]

You know, for all their emphasis on helping the poor and needy, FCPS really does not know what they are doing.  I guess they thought a pretty new school would solve the problems.

The problem is the home situation and the school system should do everything possible at the school to support the community.  This ain't it.[/quote]
I urge everyone to contact Karl Frisch at the at large board members so they’re paying attention to what the scenario is proposing.

At the FCHS meeting, Thru and Reid were only listening to the praise from the neighborhoods that are getting McLean and their community school at Graham Road. The comments concerning Kingsley Commons were largely swept aside. There were several speakers on the matter. [/quote]

They are well aware that Scenario 4 leaves Kingsley Commons as an attendance island.  It has absolutely been brought to their attention.

The most obvious solution is to bridge that island by reassigning some areas that Scenario 4 puts at Pine Spring.  It doesn’t change any MS/HS assignments.

Some of the objections about what FCPS is doing with these schools is coming from Shrevewood parents who don’t want some high FARMS areas north of Route 29 moved to their school. [/quote]

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