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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think the goal is to eliminate all split feeders. The goal is to eliminate the sliver splits.  The ones where only a few students split off - like 10%.  Those could be eliminated or expanded such that a higher percentage of a MS or ES class goes to the same school. [/quote]

What's frustrating is that Thru was hired and not given clear guidelines and priorities. If FCPS had told them "no split feeders, that's the first priority" or "no over capacity schools, that's the first priority" then the maps would make sense and we could guess what was going to happen next. [/quote]
They were given priorities. Top priority is removing attendance islands, which is the objective of Scenario 1. [b]Next priority is reducing split feeders, specifically in instances where the split is less than 20 (or is it 30)%[/b], so Scenario 2 is Scenario 1 plus split feeder mitigation. Third priority is capacity exceeding 105%, and Scenario 3 is Scenario 2 plus capacity shuffling.

Now, do they do this with any nuance or understanding of walk zones, community cohesion, or access across major roads and highways? No. But they technically do have priorities and have presented them as such. [/quote]

It seems so pointless, shuffling kids around when it makes no discernible difference whether 35 percent or 40 percent of a school feeds into another high school.[/quote]
It makes a bigger difference at the elementary level. Some schools are small. 20% of their grade splitting may mean only a dozen of them are moving on to join a 7th grade class of 500 students. [/quote]

Does that literally happen anywhere? That seems like an extreme example. [/quote]
Yes. Vienna ES and Lemon Road off the top of my head. Westgate probably sends less than 20 kids per grade to Longfellow. [/quote]

And most of those Vienna families want to stay at Madison, just like most of those Lemon Road and Westgate families want to stay at McLean.

And then when they propose to eliminate the Lemon Road split feeder by sending all the kids to McLean, the Lemon Road families who live next door to Marshall don’t want to move, either.

None of that should surprise anyone who paid attention to the prior surveys.  [/quote]
Majority of Vienna ES goes to Thoreau/Madison, it’s the small number that go onto Kilmer/Marshall. Thru wants the move the Kilmer/Marshall families to Freedom Hill while the families want the opposite, which is to stay at Vienna ES and go onto Thoreau/Madison.

Lemon Road and Westgate are more difficult because they’re halfway between both Marshall and McLean. I don’t think you can make them a straight feeder (although they’re trying) without walkers being moved. I think the better path is to make them more even splits. [/quote]

You’re right about Vienna ES.  I just remembered Thru was proposing a “fix” that the purported beneficiaries didn’t want.  I guess the fix was to move the small number of Marshall families to Freedom Hill, which feeds entirely to Marshall, whereas they want to stay at Vienna and, if moved at all, moved to Thoreau/Madison instead.  [/quote]

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