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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should include Haycock. Given that Haycock is almost at 100% they could adjust boundaries with Haycock/Chesterbrook. It just didn't get enough votes? This is beyond stupid. Do they have any professionals?[/quote]

It wasn’t a matter of Board votes.  Staff recommended keeping Haycock out of a boundary study, except with respect to possibly AAP assignments (so example they could make Haycock the AAP center option for KG and send Franklin Sherman AAP kids to Churchill Road instead).

The Board will vote on the scope of the boundary study next month.  You can take it up with Elaine Tholen before then if you want.  [b]But the goal is to address overcrowding at KG, not the Haycock/Chesterbrook boundaries. [/b][/quote]

I know this and there's a huge chunk of students that live across Kirby that are zoned for KG instead of Haycock. If their objection to moving those kids out of KG is because Haycock might be closer to 100%, that's not OK. They can open the Haycock/Chesterbrook boundary in that case.

It does really seem to me that reasonable and rational boundaries weren't taken into consideration for the selection of schools. Parents voted for FS and Chesterbrook, bc they want their kids there. Do you see any other reasoning in the presentation for how staff selected schools to include? here's a link to the presentation: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CT5UU77DB47B/$file/Kent%20Gardens%20ES%20School%20Board%20Scope%20Presentation.pdf

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FCPS appears to be approaching it as a base school and AAP boundary situation when the elephant in the room is FLI.  Current in boundary French Immersion students could be getting Local Level iv at KG.  FS transfer data has 23 to CR and 77 to Haycock.
Transfer data has 33 into KG from Mclean pyramid schools.

Marshall pyramid ES might be sending more to KG FLI since the bare minimum is 30.  Actual higher than than Mclean or Langley pyramid schools?  37 other ES in multiple pyramids stretching from the far SE and SW corners of FX county   and all points in between have students transferring into FLI at KG.  
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They’ve acknowledged that feedback included adding a second French immersion program in FCPS. They’ve also said that would take years to develop.

Retaining the FLI program at KG while looking at boundaries and out-of-boundary placements is responsive to the community feedback. There are some both within and outside the KG area who want to kill FLI entirely or move the program at KG to another school.  There is no consensus, however, for doing so, nor is it necessary given the available capacity at other nearby schools to reduce the overcrowding at KG. [/quote]

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