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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do they still think Irving/WSHS needs relief from overcrowding? There is no new development in that area - no new neighborhoods of tightly packed 3 bedroom TH’s being built that will attract many new families. Just older homes eventually, and very gradually, turning over from the original owners and empty nesters. And it’s common knowledge that birth rates started to fall in 2008 with the recession. Most of the 2007 kids turned 18 and graduated this year, then you’d have a few of the late birthday ones graduating at the end of this coming school year and then the graduating classes should start to drop in size.

They can’t shuffle kids out of Irving/WS to South County MS/HS and also keep the Hagel Circle island at SC. There isn’t enough room. The original proposal was to move Hagel Circle out of Halley/SC to Lorton Station/Hayfield. The current scenarios have it at Gunston/SC AND (they estimate) 35% of HV also at SC, AND a smaller number of students currently at Lake Braddock to South County. This also would almost certainly create another Title 1 school at Gunston, and with all the uncertainty around federal funding for education, that doesn’t seem to be the smartest move (Halley was never Title 1 so it’s not as though it’s just moving a designation from one school to another).

Anyone else out here in the hinterlands care to weigh in?[/quote]

Well according to the newly posted slides, the new HV split was an “error”. Just like this whole stupid thing is an error.[/quote]

The way they worded it, though, made it clear Thru didn’t think it was an error.

This whole thing is a mess. We’re in West Springfield and the KAA won’t impact us at all but I cannot for the life of me figure out how you don’t include that new school in these scenarios. Or postpone the review until they figure out what they’re doing with that school.

These people are truly incompetent.  [/quote]

It really is mind blowing.  The new high school is gonna have such a big cascading effect on boundaries.  To continue on with the current process is negligent. [/quote]

They feel like they can’t delay, because then changes happen in August 2027 - two months before sb elections.

They haven’t quite caught on to the fact that it doesn’t matter if it is 2026 or 2027. Voters won’t stand for these boundary changes, and they’ll be screwed election season either way.[/quote]

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