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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see so many comments about families not wanting these changes but there are MANY families that do . We are at Lemon Road and would welcome the proposed change to McLean HS with open arms. This change would keep our kids with the same friends group through HS, which would be a plus all around.[/quote]

If they eliminate the split feeder at Lemon Road so it feeds 100% to McLean, without also changing the Lemon Road boundaries, it means that some kids who live next door to Marshall on the "Marshall side" of Leesburg Pike would attend McLean.

I spoke with several people who live next to Marshall during the last round of community meetings. When they expressed unhappiness with this proposal, I asked if they'd rather stay at Lemon Road/Kilmer/Marshall, even if only 15-20% of Lemon Road fed to Kilmer/Marshall, and they said yes.  For them at least, the advantage of attending a school within walking distance outweighed the advantage of everyone attending the same MS/HS.  They also wanted to stay at Lemon Road and not get rezoned to a 100% Marshall feeder like Freedom Hill, which has capacity.  Maybe the Lemon Road families on the other side of Route 7 who live closer to McLean or about the same distance to both McLean and Marshall feel differently?

[b]FCPS's consultants aren't local, and don't seem to appreciate these nuances.  They just see their job as moving SPAs around to achieve a particular result, such as the elimination of a split feeder.  Sometimes that's fine with people, but it's often not the case, as the "heat map" comments show. [/b][i] [/quote]

+1. They don’t know that when “correcting” a split feeder, they’re actually splitting a neighborhood. They don’t realize traffic patterns, a HS may only be 1 mile further, but the time to get there is so much more due to traffic patterns at rush hour. [/quote]

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