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It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to rearrange boundaries here in Herndon where Carson and all its glory is only about 4 miles from Herndon Middle where only 59% of students are passing math.  If you look at 7th grade only 28% are passing. There are 2 elementaries within 2-3 miles of another one with 85% poverty and the other with 15%. Blows my mind as to why this is okay.[/quote]

Because reality.  Carson has its reputation because it is a mega AAP center.  Most of the kids there are AAP.  And high level AAP, TJ finalist caliber at that.  It is also way overcrowded.  Not sure how throwing ESL into an overcrowded AAP,Center helps anything.  It’s not like ESL or underperforming kids are going into the Center or into classes with the AAP majority, which is the exceptional piece of Carson, and come out as TJ students 2 years later.

Second. Carson feeds over 80 kids each to 5 HSs (SLHS, Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield and TJ).  It’s feeder pattern is a disaster— probably the worst feeder pattern in the county.  You cannot throw another HS or 2 into the mix until you clean up the existing feeders.  And there doesn’t seem to be capacity at another MS to take a significant piece of the Carson AAP program.   Or the political will on the school board to do so.  I personally see nothing wrong with moving Franklin zoned Carson AAP kids back to Franklin.  And my kids are Franklin based Carson AAP. But my understanding is that Franklin lacks capacity to take them.  So to make that happen, they would have to push some non-AAP Franklin kids elsewhere And that would not go over well either.

The fact is, they need a new Western County SS- MS and HS, with AAP capacity. And then they need to start from scratch and completely re-zone. We have a great feeder pattern (Oak Hill/ Franklin w. Carson AAP/ Chantilly), and I still think this needs to happen. But in the meantime, pushing kids every which way to balance without re-zoning and adding on to Western County schools is no longer a solution. The feeders are too screwed up.  Adding Herndon to the mix would be a nightmare. In DD’s group of 8 MS friends, they went to 5 high schools, and no one went with more than one other kid. That isn’t good for anyone.

Western County needs a new HS and rezoning badly. But the school board wants nothing to do with that, and are expanding the schools, rather than building a new HS and rezoning. Until this happens, they need to stop making a bad feeder situation worse. [/quote]

Honestly, the school board needs to quit zoning kids out of pyramid and go to straight feeder patterns whenever possible.

There is zero reason to have an elementary feed into 2 or 3 middle schools, and a middle school feed into 4 or 5 high schools.
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You don't want to lose Carson's reputation? So, zone all impoverished to Herndon? That's unacceptable. Franklin AAP can stay at Franklin and Herndon neighborhoods just north of the Toll road can go to Carson. It's time to help![/quote]

Franklin isn’t an AAP Center. [/quote]

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