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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Total number of students impacted is now down to a little under 1,700. Quite a comprehensive review!

Maybe they can consider offering transportation now.[/quote]

Where are you finding the new numbers?[/quote]

It is less than 1% of FCPS students.

Did they really need to create a 2 year half a million+ dollar debaucle to move less than 1700 students?

This could have been handled by the old policy 8130 that focused solely on capacity and emergency rezoning for things like flooded schools from pipes bursting and natural disasters. [/quote]

What sucks is for us it is not a necessary move and now our high school children are forced if we don't provide them transportation to change high schools so the elementary students can stay with ALL their classmates through high school.    [/quote]

Which high school is getting rezoned?[/quote]Are you in the Madison/Marshall Pyramid, Langley/McLean Pyramid, or West Potomac/Mount Vernon Pyramid?[/quote]

DP.  Part of Justice is also getting rezoned to Falls Church. That would eliminate the split feeder at Mason Crest.  But without transportation there would be kids at an IB school moved into an AP school. [/quote]I thought that recommendation was amended.[/quote]

There were three moves that came up late:  (1) eliminating the Mason Crest split feeder and sending the small fraction of Mason Crest kids (@20-25%) zoned to Glasgow/Justice to Poe/Falls Church; (2) moving part of Beech Tree from Glasgow/Justice to Poe/Falls Church; and (3) moving part of Belvedere to Holmes.  (2) and (3) would have created new split feeders at Beech Tree and Belvedere.  (3) originally left the Belvedere kids at Holmes, but that was changed to Annandale since so few Holmes kids would then have been going to Justice.

The Mason Crest families in Sleepy Hollow Woods and Columbia Pines seemed neutral or positive about moving, as this would align them with the rest of Mason Crest.  The Beech Tree families objected the most because most of Beech Tree would still feed to Justice, and most of Poe would still feed to Annandale.  The Belvedere families weren't as vocal as the Beech Tree families, but a few spoke out against moving out of Glasgow/Justice.

The "final final" Reid recommendations continue to eliminate the Mason Crest split feeder and move kids to Poe/Falls Church.  In essence, Mason Crest becomes to Poe as Bren Mar Park is to Holmes - the one ES feeder to a middle school that attends a different high school than everyone else at that middle school.  The proposals relating to Beech Tree and Belvedere are supposed to be revisited in another year. [/quote]

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