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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]BRAC meeting notes are up. They don't include anything involving maps:

https://www.fcps.edu/september-24-2025-superintendents-boundary-review-advisory-committee-meeting[/quote]

So they want to increase the commuting time and distance for the McLean students who’d be moved (over 200 students)?  So much for transportation efficiency.

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If it helps, the analysis is for the unseen “scenario 4”, so this must be for the Spring Hill kids going to Langley. If Timber Lane were still on the chopping block, McLean would also appear in the biggest transportation decrease section because Timber Lane to FCHS is much shorter than it is to McLean. So a speculative congrats to them![/quote]

I’m not sure I read it that way.  Weren’t they just parsing discrete boundary changes out of all those previously proposed back in June and flagging the ones with the most impact?  Timber Lane to FC vs. McLean might not have made that cut.

It’s confusing because they used the term “Scenario 4,” but they left in the change that would move Chantilly kids to Oakton, and there’s been a lot of feedback to rescind that proposal.  [/quote]

Where are you seeing specific schools?

There is a chart that lists a spattering of high schools with miles, and one map showing the distance of a single Sangster street not slater for rezoning and its driving path to Sangster.

But I am not seeing anything about the schools you mention.[/quote]
Slide 12[/quote]

So the schools listed on those slides are schools that students are being moved from?[/quote]

Yes. [/quote]

Are they?

Because WSHS had neighborhoods marked to move more than 3 miles away, and WSHS is not included on slide 12.

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They are looking at the "delta" - the [i]change[/i] in commuting length and distance - not the absolute distance or length.  And then they are apparently using their judgment as to which combinations of decreased or increased distance [i]and[/i] time are the most significant.

They could have just screwed up and omitted WSHS when it should have been included, but were the WS areas that they were proposing to move to Lake Braddock or South County more than 3 miles closer to WS than to LBSS or SC?  [/quote]

Yes.

The Gambrill neighborhoods along Ridge Road, Ships Curve and Ridge Oaks Court are all around 5 miles to South County, and longer, 6 miles, to Lewis.

[b]Is this chart only showing the change in mileage between the old school vs the new school?[/b]

Then there are a lot more neighborhoods getting rezoned to farther schools.[/quote]

Yes.  That is what "delta" means in this context. [/quote]

Wait, is it distance from one school to the other school or the change in travel distance, meaning the change in distance from home to old school versus distance from home to new school?[/quote]

It can take me 45 minutes to go 8 miles to Reagan Airport depending on the day, time of day, weather...

1 mile can make a HUGE difference in driving time in this area, especially if you are going in the "wrong" direction or past a major traffic center like the mixing bowl, Tysons or and interchange involving 66 or 395.[/quote]

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