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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the people championing for Kingsley Commons not to go to Timber Lane are likely the families north of 29(who petitioned to stay in McLean/not go to FCHS) since it will make the school more FARMs. If you put it into google maps Kingsley Commons is 5 min from both Graham Rd and Timber Lane. The neighborhood that is being moved to Graham Rd currently passes Graham Rd to get to Timber Lane. It’s understandable for that neighborhood to want to finally want to not be split into three elementary school and be at their neighborhood school. [/quote]

The folks north of Route 29 now at Longfellow/McLean have only asked to stay at those schools.  They haven't said anything on their web site or in their public comments at community meetings about whether Kingsley Commons goes to Timber Lane or another school, and both Scenarios 3 and 4 move that area to Timber Lane.

It's Pine Spring parents who lobbied for the boundary changes that resulted in turning Kingsley Commons into an attendance island in Scenario 4.  They wanted the single-family neighborhoods north of Kingsley Commons and south of Route 29 for Pine Spring.  And it now appears to be Shrevewood parents who are trying to avoid the reassignment of the low-income apartments now at Timber Lane that are north of Route 29 and west of Hollywood Road (SPAs 5013 and 4913) to Shrevewood.  These areas are separated by the rest of Timber Lane north of Route 29 by the King David Memorial Gardens.  If more areas south of Route 29 are moving to Timber Lane, it makes more sense to move this area to Shrevewood than Poplar Heights (SPA 5015), unless you want to create a 90% FARMS school at Timber Lane.

PP is right that Kingsley Commons is already a good distance to Graham Road and will be even further from Timber Lane, but it's not like they are going to get a new school at the old site that was once next door, and turning Kingsley Commons into a new attendance island, when it's not necessary, seems like a particularly bad idea.  At this point the best solution is likely adding SPAs 5006 and 5018 back to Timber Lane, as proposed in Scenario 3.  But we'll see.   [/quote]

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