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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole feedback process seems terrible. How do you verify that people providing input online actually live on the affected area or even on the county? Anyone could have sent the registration link to whoever.

Exactly who does Emerald Chase want to kick out of Franklin to make room for themselves? This is really ticking me off the more I think about it. [/quote]

Emerald Chase parent here. We don't want to kick anyone out of Franklin -- right now Franklin has more capacity than Carson, which is where we're currently zoned, and it's expected to drop significantly in capacity in the next few years while Carson is just going to get more and more crowded. What we ultimately really want to avoid is the worst-case scenario where we would be rezoned for elementary school and high school now and five years down the road would be rezoned AGAIN for middle school and thus possibly even for high school. These proposed maps are not considering projected capacity at ANY of the schools, and it's incredibly frustrating, especially when my neighborhood has been rezoned multiple times over the past several years. We're asking for Oak Hill - Franklin - Chantilly because both Franklin and Chantilly are expected to have decreasing capacity over the next few years and thus it seems the most stable to us -- and also because we love Oak Hill and the students that go there and we don't want to be split off from them, we want our kids to stay with their friends, and almost all of Oak Hill goes to Franklin and Chantilly.

I'm sorry that we drowned out people on Pigeonhole tonight. That wasn't our intention, we're frustrated that we don't even have a meeting scheduled at any of our own pyramids when we're looking at so many changes! I'm in touch with my neighbors, and I will ask everyone to not flood the upvotes at the coming meetings. 
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Your tone is much different than your neighborhood's earlier ambassadors, that basically told everyone else to suck it.

Your neighborhood does not have a meeting.

But neither do the Gambrill neighborhoods,  the Silverbrook neighborhood,  the Sangster island, or any of the other South County, WSHS or Lake Braddock neighborhoods getting rezoned.  This Robinson meeting was their opportunity to be heard. Flooding the region 4 meeting took away those neighborhoods chance to be heard.  If you sort by highest responses, the first region 4 comment does not occur until post #20.

Some of those Region 4 neighborhoods, specifically the Sangster Island and the Silverbrook neighborhood,  are quite small, with just a half dozen kids per grade getting rezoned by switching those 2 neighborhoods to schools farther away.

I hope that Thru sees the pattern at this meeting, and moves those inflated comments over to your pyramids feedback meeting so everyone can try to have their say in the process.[/quote]

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