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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Region 5 goes from Loudoun county line out 50 to beltway.  Is anyone from 20171 on BRAC?  Don't think so.  KAA 8s in 20171.

Doesn't seem fair.[/quote]

Therein lies the problem. There is no one from 20171 representing our families on the BRAC. Instead they gave organizations that pretend to represent FCPS families extra seats, when we all know that they are JUST representing Great Falls and Oakton.[/quote]

Yes, the person who said they don't want their kids taken out of Chantilly is missing the point.  I agree the families in the area who attend Chantilly would be happy to stay there--it is close--but they would be happy to have a school that is even closer.

No one in the KAA area that I can find is on BRAC.

I googled the names.  I may not be 100% correct on locations as people may move, etc. and I could not find addresses for all of them.

Westfield reps live well on the south side of 50--no where near KAA.
Chantilly reps live  on the south end of Chantilly boundary,
Oakton reps do not live in this area either.  Appear to live near Oakton High School..
South Lakes reps appear to live in Reston which is not in Carson boundary--at least I don't think any live in Carson boundary.

There may be reps on BRAC from organizations who do live in this area, but I do not know of any.

So, are the decisions about KAA leaving out the opinions and wishes of those who most need and want it?

So, unless [/quote]

Very few students from Carson go to SLHS. It is the Fox Mill kids, which is around 80 kids, and some kids from Floris. It might be 160 kids from Carson that go to SLHS and I think that is pretty high.

The families we know at Chantilly want to stay at Chantilly but screwing over the entire area and trying to push a magnate school and not making KAA a neighborhood school is wrong. I would hope that there is serious push back on this idea. If they move the four schools whose base school is Carson, Fox Mill, Floris, McNair, and Coates you would have a good mix for KAA.

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Fox Mill has about 80 kids per grade.  All of Fox Mill feeds to Carson, and all of Fox Mill feeds to South Lakes.

But Fox Mill sends kids to Oak Hill for AAP and gets kids for JI.  On balance, the real number of in-bound Fox Mill kids at the school is closer to 70 per grade.  Multiply that by four and that is about 280 South Lakes kids zoned to Fox Mill/Carson.

It's harder to estimate the number from Floris since it's a split feeder but we know that Thru didn't propose to eliminate the split feeder, which means that at least 25% of Floris goes to Carson/South Lakes.  Floris has about 100 kids per grade and on average loses about 6 kids to other schools, so the real number of in-bound Floris kids at the school is closer to 106.  Muliplying that by .25 gets you about 26 kids, and multiplying that by four gets you an additional 104 South Lakes kids zoned to Floris/Carson.

This suggests moving the Fox Mill and Floris kids now at South Lakes to KAA would pull about 384 kids out of South Lakes before any adjustment was made for kids attending TJ or pupil placing.  [/quote]

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