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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is my suggestion for Emerald Chase:

1. Lobby to stay at Oak Hill along with the Franklin Farm/Navy Island kids being sent there.  There is room, I think according to the slides.
2. Go to Franklin along with the Navy Island.  Again, I think there is room.
3. Lobby to go to Oakton along with the Navy Island.  Chantilly is a non-starter.

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I disagree with this gambit. If you want to attend Oakton HS pony up the cash to buy a house in Oakton. I don’t want to be fighting five years from now to keep my Oakton address home zoned to Oakton HS to accommodate “zone stability” for the Emerald Chase vultures. [/quote]

Just because your town name is Oakton and the high school name is Oakton doesn't make it your community high school. Ask all the children all over FCPS who live much closer to one high school and go to a different one. The name doesn't matter, you can't use it as an excuse. [/quote]

This is the silliest post.

Of course, if you live in Oakton you should attend the Oakton neighborhood high school.  If you live in Lorton you should attend the Lorton neighborhood high school.  If you live in Falls Church, you should attend the Falls Church neighborhood high school.   It really is that simple.

At a minimum, students should be zoned for the high school that shares their home zip code, with all boundary tweaks limited to neighborhoods with zip codes outside of the immediate high school zip code.[/quote]

You realize there are more than 1 Falls Church “neighborhood” schools right? [/quote]

They all have different zip codes...

Falls Church high school  22042
Marshall High School 22043
Justice High School 22044
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Not to mention the southern portion of McLean HS is also Falls Church (22046)

Whoever is suggesting doing ANYTHING related to school boundaries based on zipcodes really has no clue. Zipcodes are based on logistical convenience for a POST OFFICE from which your particular mail carrier's route originates. They are different in size and scope than schools, not typically co-located, and are not necessarily based on any notion of neighborhood or convenience, even if there does tend to be SOME degree of overlap in some cases with schools, it's by happenstance moreso than by design.[/quote]

The zip codes are fairly compact, and would form a fairly dense compact frozen boundary around each high school.

Look at a map.

The high school boundaries in most areas are very convoluted.

The zip code boundaries are not.  They are dense and compact
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There are houses in Fairfax county that have Arlington zip codes. There are houses in Arlington that have zip codes in Fairfax County.  The zip codes do not align with census boundaries at all.  They are based on what is efficient for the post office.  [/quote]

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