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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The amendment grandfathering all hide school and secondary students passed unanimously last night. I don’t think there was any talk on transportation and whether it would be provided or not. The concern was more over capacity for schools where grandfathered students choose to stay while newly inbound students choose the new school. [/quote]

There should not be a single student moved into a school that is getting rezoned due to capacity issues.

If this is their concern, then it is directly related to the Springfield school board rep's stated plans to rezone Hunt Valley out of West Springfield High School under the "too overcrowded" excuse,  and replace the Hunt Valley/West Springfield students with Lewis families from Rolling Valley.

This tracks with her repeated public statements against grandfathering for almosts 6 months now.  She has been making this exact argument against grandfathering at public zoom meetings (nothing in person, of course) and to any constituent that manages to get her on the phone or to answer an email.

WSHS and Hunt Valley families need to pivot to the at large reps for help, because the Springfield rep clearly does not have her constituent's best interests as a priority.[/quote]
Sandy Anderson was the one who raised the issue in the school board meeting, so I will grant you that.

The issue doesn’t currently apply to WSHS in the presented scenarios. It might impact Woodson, which is taking some students and losing some students in their exchange with Fairfax HS. It may apply to Westfield, which may pick up students from Centreville while shifting students to South Lakes (an IB school, so a fairly big transition.)

The most likely impact will be to McLean which is shedding two attendance islands while picking up a few Marshall neighborhoods. Marshall is an IB school, so those already committed to the program may stay, but a disproportionate number of families might jump at the opportunity to attend an AP school.

I don’t think there are any other capacity issues for more students moving in than moving out. Maybe at the elementary level like the Timber Lane/Pine Spring/Graham Road shuffle. Or the Sleepy Hollow/Bailey’s debacle. [/quote]

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