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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.

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. [/quote]

Objectively, the end result is a new attendance island that’s worse than any other HS island. The Lake Braddock and McLean islands left untouched are quite close to the main areas. The Fairfax island is not very close to Fairfax but it’s a big area. They’ve now created an attendance island for Marshall that is both far away from the rest of the GCM attendance area and fairly small.  Worst of both worlds.

The people there have complained about being bussed past Colvin Run on their way to Westbriar for years. They took a stab at getting moved to Colvin Run with the BRAC and got shot down. They didn’t have some muckety-muck politician like the mayor of Vienna to come in to plead their case with Reid, so Meren and Frisch ignored them. At some point they’ll regroup. [/quote]

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