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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True, Lee HS is not in Karen Corbett Sanders' district, but one elementary school in her Mount Vernon district (Saratoga) is part of the Lee HS pyramid. It's one glaring example of why district boundaries should be redrawn. Saratoga parents don't get to vote for the Lee District rep. even though their kids go to Lee HS. Saratoga lacks fair representation on the school board.[/quote]

I imagine a few other elementary schools in the West Springfield pyramid will likely be joining Saratoga at Lee in the future. I think that may lead to the change in boundaries in terms of representatives.[/quote]

There's no reason why Lee should have all Title I, high FARMS feeder schools (except for the Springfield Estates AAP center) and West Springfield have none. Major inequity there.

Saratoga, which is on the very far edge of the Lee HS boundary is propping up Lee HS. The school board doesn't want to let Saratoga into another district that makes better geographic sense for them because it would make Lee HS even worse. [/quote]

Why not move North Springfield from Annandale to Lee and move Mason Crest and part of Wakefield Forest to Annandale? [/quote]

Because Annandale is not overcrowded and can handle taking in more students.  The biggest issue is Stuart, Oakton, Marshall, and Woodson.

For example, you can fix the Woodson and Oakton issue fairly easily.  But to open capacity for those schools, they essentially need to open up capacity at Lake Braddock (Woodson) and Robinson (Oaktown). The only way they can do that is to push the boundaries, so some of Robinson feeds into South County, some of Lake Braddock feeds into West Springfield, and some of West Springfield feeds into Lee. You move more of South County to Hayfield to adjust for the increase in Robinson students.

Similarly, for Marshall, it's pretty easy. You move some of Tysons and Shrevewood to Mclean and Langley. For Stuart, you move the northern elementary feeder that sits next to Falls Church city to McLean, you move some of the lower feeders like Parklawn and Belvedere to Annandale.

On the western side of the county, a similarly shifting would need to take place for Centerville.

I think the amount of fit having about the shifts will be the most interesting. A lot of people who thought they were buying in certain places are going to be surprised.[/quote]

I can't see most of these changes happening. I don't think you have a handle on the current boundaries or enrollment projections, much less the appetite of the School Board to change boundaries until a school is seriously under capacity (example: South Lakes in 2008) or overcrowded (example: Annandale in 2011).

More modest changes are probably more likely, such as moving the Westbriar island zoned for Marshall to Langley, and moving a school like Mason Crest to Annandale.  [/quote]

Probably, but when people complaint about how wasteful the schools are and how inefficient things are being run, they are green lighting this ineffiency. [/quote]

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