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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Waples Mills kids can make the commute to Oakton HS, why can't they go to Mosby Woods?  The schools are pretty close to each other.  Not saying it's ideal, but the proposal does seem to make sense.[/quote]

I also think that Mosby Woods isn't too far for Waples Mill base. After consulting the FCPS boundary map for Waples Mill, I used Zillow to pick a randomly chosen home that seemed farthest from Mosby Woods, and the distance from farthest-away homes seems to be about 6 miles. That is also the section that seems closest to the current AAP center for Waples Mill, Hunters Woods. The distance to Hunters Woods seems to be around 4 miles. So by switching to Mosby Woods instead of Hunters Woods a maximum of about 2 miles would be added; for other Waples Mill kids who live closer to 123 already, they would actually be traveling a shorter distance to Mosby Woods. I wouldn't think it would take 1 hour to go 6 miles, even in rush hour, on the roads involved?

For middle school, for the Waples Mill kids farthest away from Mosby Woods, the distance to Jackson would be on the order of 11 miles, and the distance to Carson would be on the order of 6 miles. So I could see a preference for Carson. However, if the goal is to keep the pyramid together, Mosby Woods base would also have to travel about 11 miles to get to Carson, versus only 5 miles to get to Jackson. So somebody would have to do the traveling.

Would a good compromise be for Mosby Woods and Waples Mill to go to Mosby Woods for ES and Carson for MS? As a Mosby Woods parent I'm not wedded to Jackson for MS since much of (most of?) Jackson will go to high schools other than Oakton anyway.

Let's reach a consensus and tell the school board that we figured it all out on DCUM![/quote]

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