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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious whether the Westbriar recommendation will move forward. It makes sense to align the Kilmer boundaries to Marshall, but the additional cut out they’ve added practically turns Wolftrap into an attendance island. On top of that, adding those additional students (beyond those currently attending Madison) puts Thoreau at 104%. This might self correct slightly with AAP transfers to Jackson and Kilmer. If they wanted to utilize Madison’s expansion, wouldn’t it be a better move to get the Thoreau kids from Stenwood out of Marshall? Then Thoreau would only be a Madison/Oakton feeder, they wouldn’t overcrowd Thoreau, and the Stenwood kids wouldn’t be sent out of pyramid for two years. [/quote]

There are several recommendations for Westbriar.  The first is to move the current Westbriar atendance island to Wolftrap but keep it at Kilmer/Marshall.  The second is to reassign part of Wolftrap to Westbriar near Wolf Trails Park and keep it at Kilmer/Marshall.  The third is to carve out a chunk of Westbriar's main attendance area north of Old Courthouse Road (the "Tysons Green" area) and reassign it from Kilmer/Marshall to Thoreau/Madison.

I think you're focusing on the third proposal.  That's the one that makes the Wolftrap area almost, but not quite, a new attendance island.  This was not part of the slides originally presented by Thru to the BRAC but instead was featured in all three of the updated scenarios in the "interactive tool."  It seems to have been motivated by a desire to take advantage of the expansion of Madison a few years ago and address overcrowding at Kilmer, but moving kids out of Westbriar - which has been primarily a Kilmer/Marshall feeder for a long time AND is one of the AAP centers in the Marshall pyramid - seems like a bad idea.

I agree that, if they want to move kids from Kilmer/Madison to Thoreau/Madison, other areas would be better candidates.  You noted a few, and moving more of Woltrap (say the area south of Meadowlark Road and west of Beulah) might have been a possibility.  Moving the Tysons Green area seems like a bad idea.  [/quote]

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