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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Cardinal Forest rezoning happened at the last minute because Reid was trying to pull back the map 4 recommendations that moved and fixed that ridiculous Keene Mill island, Shannon Station, to the school they should be attending, White Oaks.

The only way she could avoid rezoning Shannon Station to White Oaks/Lake Braddock was to create a convoluted rezoning of them to Cardinal Forest, which then snowballed into the ridiculous rezoning of walkable Cardinal Forest neighborhoods to Keene Mill.

Shannon Station should have been rezoned to White Oaks and Lake Braddock.

Why Dr. Reid did not adopt that specific part of Map 4 sending Shannon Station to White Oaks and Lake Braddock is a complete mystery to everyone at WSHS.[/quote]

I generally agree with this, with the following caveat: Using the 1 mile walk standard for elementary school, there actually are a number of homes along Carrleigh that could be walkers to either CFES or KMES (a lot of the parts in SPA 7917 west of Greeley, including Carrleigh, most of Langbrook, and parts of Dabney).  In my opinion, the Cardinal Forest HOA and Charleston HOA homes on Carrleigh Forrester-to-Greeley are within 1 mile (and fairly equidistant to) both CFES and KMES, so it could make sense to move them to either school.  It certainly did not make sense to split up 7917 while sending CFES to 108 percent and KMES to 88 percent.

Under all of the boundary proposals to change KMES, the vast majority of the students could be walkers to KMES, to the point where they could probably use a single bus for their local non-walker students.  Rectifying a weird split-feeder attendance island to save money on transportation seems like a lost opportunity for FCPS and the school board to have an easy "win" in the boundary review process (which seem few and far between).  I have no idea what FCPS and the Board is going to do to "study" this change for a year.  [/quote]

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