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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all high schools should be aligned. There are a lot of moving parts. At some point there will be another high school built out west. There really should have been one built years ago. That will change boundaries and hopefully align pyramids better. Tysons and Springfield are areas where the county has designed higher density so boundaries will change in these areas too. I've long fought for no less than 30% of any school, elementary or middle, be a split feeder. If you are going to have a split feeder, the division needs to be as equal as possible.[/quote]

You could align Madison's boundaries with Thoreau's current boundaries, and Marshall's boundaries with Kilmer's current boundaries, and eliminate the MS/HS split feeders next year, if not this fall.

The only impediment is people in the Town of Vienna who like to complain, but are apparently prepared to want to until the stars are magically aligned (shifts in the western part of the county due to a new HS that will boot county kids out of Thoreau/Madison to either Oakton or South Lakes and their feeders, combined with growth in Tysons that might lead to overcrowding at Kilmer that isn't due to AAP or at Marshall) and then lobby for changes that would send all of the Town to Thoreau and all of Thoreau to Madison.   If that ever happens, it's probably at least a decade away.

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I think as long as the County considers eliminating split feeders that are a huge majority one school and a very small majority to another school or even multiple feeders, people will be happy. It just became a problem in Vienna when the AAP kids switched out of Kilmer. Kilmer also has these houses where Madison bound kids are split up for both years which doesn't help the problem.  There are schools in the western part of the county where only 5% of an elementary school goes onto a certain high school. There should be a better way to make split feeders work.

And yes, I will wait till the stars align before I agree to have my house shifted from Madison to Marshall, especially being that Marshall is not close to my house at all.[/quote]

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