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Moving all of Wolftrap and greatly changing the makeup of Marshall was not a necessary move.  There are numerous neighborhoods impacted and all all buyers and renters in that area have known since moving in which schools they are assigned and that Tommy may loose some friends and make some new ones when he goes to middle school and high school.  [/quote]

If you look they are pulling 5 SPAs out of Marshall to Madison but 10 SPAs out of Kilmer to Thoreau.  So the bigger impact will be driving up the poverty rate at Kilmer and then making the Kilmer/Marshall pyramid substantially less attractive to UMC families.  Leaving one of the remaining wealthier areas as an isolated attendance island will also, over time, incentivize people in that area to go private, pupil place, and/or lobby for further boundary changes.

I think McElveen went to both Kilmer and Marshall.  Maybe he'll offer some amendments to undo some or all of these unnecessary changes. Or maybe Meren will pretend she hasn't been complicit in this nonsense and do that, although she'd been sending opposite signals recently (doesn't matter - she's utterly inconsistent). [/quote]

People should stop talking about that attendance island so much, it is exhausting when they are doing it on behalf of the people that live there, regardless of what those residents want, just to support whatever argument they are using to complain about the Marshall to Madison move.

I will say, as a parent who has supported the move out of Kilmer and into Thoreau - it is tough to hear people now saying the numbers shared with us were wrong. Say what you will about other motivators for the change, but we were told that Kilmer is at 118% capacity and 153% without modulars. I do not try to pretend that I would be able to know the incremental difference between 99% and 103%, but 118% and 153% were startling numbers that feel bad to a parent and made me want my kid to not go there. If those numbers aren't the real numbers, I don't know how to feel. [/quote]

Wolftrap mom, I'm sorry you don't like hearing that your getting moved to Madison is being accomplished by further isolating people who'd been asking for years not to be an attendance island at Westbriar, and ended up getting turned into an island not just at Westbriar, but also Kilmer and Marshall.  And, it was justified in part by pointing at numbers at Kilmer they've now admitted were fake. [/quote]

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