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If you accept the idea that split feeders and attendance islands  should be avoided, the earlier proposal to move the Westbriar island to Wolftrap, move part of Wolftrap to Westbriar, and then have all of Westbriar go to Kilmer/Marshall and all of Wolftrap go to to Thoreau/Madison was logical.  But it all fell apart when people, especially those in the town of Vienna, made a big stink about moving to Marshall and how all of the TOV had to go to Madison.

Quite honestly, they were full of crap.  Part of the ToV went to Oakton at one point, but the mayor of ToV started asking for meetings with Reid and Meren.  So now they have made a one-sided change that pulls kids out of  Kilmer/Marshall based on Kilmer numbers they’ve already implicitly admitted were wrong, without moving anyone into Kilmer/Marshall, and further isolates the Westbriar island (it has just been a Westbriar island but now it will be an island at Kilmer and Marshall as well).

It’s incredibly sloppy. Really, they should abandon those changes for now until they make sure they are working with the right Kilmer numbers and not leaving that Westbriar island so stranded. It doesn’t reflect well on Meren or Frisch that they aren’t speaking up more here.[/quote]

Doesn't it make more sense to address the attendance island by moving them appropriately, rather than making drastic changes to several other neighborhoods just to prevent the island for one neighborhood? Whether or not you agree with the changes is one thing, but putting the cat back in the bag is going to be extremely unpopular now.

[b]I feel like everyone advocating on behalf of that attendance island doesn't actually live in that attendance island, but are instead using it as a justification to complain about the ToV and Wolftrap getting what they advocated for. That attendance island should get their families on the same page and get their voices heard to be on the future changes consideration list.[/b] [/quote]
There is a second issue at hand. It isn’t just about that community being isolated, as there has been little objection from them. The larger picture issue is transportation. I can’t recall all the numbers, but I think the island is around 130 elementary students, which translates into about 37 middle school students and 75 high school students. At the elementary school level, there is a large enough volume of kids to fill 2 buses, but at middle school and high school you wouldn’t quite fill 1 and 2 buses respectively. When it wasn’t an island, the Kilmer and Marshall buses could pick up Wolftrap kids along the way, but now they will travel more than 2 miles between bus stops to get to the attendance island while a second route services the same area for Thoreau and Madison. Maybe there aren’t any financial impacts to that, but it’s another downside to attendance islands that isn’t talked about. [/quote]

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