I opted into LL4 at Irving over the center at LB because we were zoned for WSHS. Now we will be zoned for LB for HS. I am so annoyed I sent my child to overcrowded Irving for the past two years. I thought I was preventing the school change between 8th and 9th, but now it’s going to happen. I wish I haven’t opted in to local level 4 at Irving.

Are they going to push Irving over capacity next year by keeping all the AAP kids at Irving? I know it isn’t a ton of kids, but I’m still confused!

Scenario 4 turns Thoreau into a monster with 1436 kids. And then, if they decide in another year or two that every middle school should have AAP, all the AAP kids from Thoreau at Jackson and Kilmer come flooding back into the pyramid, further driving up the enrollment. So either they won't be able to make that change to have AAP at every middle school for another five years, or they'll end up changing some boundaries repeatedly over the next five years.

Anonymous wrote:Question for all of you: I live in Sangster/Irving/West Springfield in the walk zone to Sangster. Scenario 4 has us moving to Lake Braddock for 7-12 to eliminate the split feeder.

I currently have an 8th grader at Irving. Does he have to switch to LBSS? Or can he pick which school to attend because it’s a secondary school and he’s not a rising 7th grader?

He wants to continue to WSHS. His older sibling is at WSHS and most of the friends he made in middle school will go as well. Since we already made the split from the elementary split feeder do we get to stay?

Is he taking German?

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at the western boundaries - it's pretty clear to me that they are making some moves in anticipation of the new (KAA) high school, namely:

1. Moving some from Centreville to Westfield so they can shift Floris/Coates/McNair to KAA

2. Moving some from Fairfax to Chantilly so they can move Oak Hill and maybe some of Lees Corner to KAA

3. Moving some from Fairfax to Oakton so they can move Crossfield to KAA

I'm not sure what the end goal is in moving Emerald Chase to South Lakes unless it's so that they can move Floris from South Lakes to KAA. It's silly though because Emerald Chase is very close to KAA.

Maybe but how does moving Floris, Coates, McNair, Oak Hill, Crossfield and even potentially part of Lees Corner square with KAA only having a future enrollment of 2000? Can you walk us through the numbers.

If you look at all of those school's profiles for the first five you mentioned, they get you to 500 per grade. Oak Hill and Crossfield have declining populations if you look at K - 6. I'm sure that will change in the next 10-15 years as the boomers move out and young families move in but for now, they have really small class sizes.

Looks like they're keeping the Floris split to South Lakes and adding Emerald Chase to South Lakes. In the Board minutes Merin had made it clear all of Floris should go to KAA.

Anonymous wrote:I don't want my child starting 9th grade at a new school it's going to be a disaster.

Agree. Which is why the school board should provide ample grandfathering and transportation for affected kids for the next few years. Complaints about this process would drop DRAMATICALLY if current kids were taken care of. No one wants their kids to lose their friends like this.

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Anonymous wrote:I will have a rising 10th and 12th grader next year. If they make either move to this new school I will be so upset. I don’t want my kids at two different high schools.

Suck it up, buttercup.

Shut it, Troll.

I don't want my child starting 9th grade at a new school it's going to be a disaster.

Anonymous wrote:I will have a rising 10th and 12th grader next year. If they make either move to this new school I will be so upset. I don’t want my kids at two different high schools.

Suck it up, buttercup.

Opening a new high school 10 1/2 months from now seems awfully aggressive. And don't we have an enormous teacher shortage? Finding 100 or so teachers for even 9th and 10th grades seems impossible. Maybe they start with 9th grade only at KAA?

Anonymous wrote:What's going on with transportation with the grandfathered kids? I feel like the board hasn't addressed that question.

When the School Board was discussing the policy revisions earlier year to expressly provide for grandfathering, they were talking as if no transportation would be provided for grandfathered kids. Some of them were claiming it should be treated the same way as any other pupil placement.

I think Melanie Meren pointed out that this doesn't align with the existing student transfer regulation, which sets forth specific and limited conditions for pupil placements that don't include "staying at my current school."

And with the Scenario 4 proposals scaling back some of the earlier proposals significantly, providing transportation might not be as much of a logistical challenge for the bus fleet as it would otherwise be.

So it still hasn't been definitively addressed, but some of the considerations may have changed.

Anonymous wrote:Question for all of you: I live in Sangster/Irving/West Springfield in the walk zone to Sangster. Scenario 4 has us moving to Lake Braddock for 7-12 to eliminate the split feeder.

I currently have an 8th grader at Irving. Does he have to switch to LBSS? Or can he pick which school to attend because it’s a secondary school and he’s not a rising 7th grader?

He wants to continue to WSHS. His older sibling is at WSHS and most of the friends he made in middle school will go as well. Since we already made the split from the elementary split feeder do we get to stay?

Many families with 7 and 8th graders are upset by this change due to this fact alone. Your child would have to go to LBSS and their sibling can stay WSHS.

I will have a rising 10th and 12th grader next year. If they make either move to this new school I will be so upset. I don’t want my kids at two different high schools.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, they are proposing to move part of the Town of Vienna to Marshall. I think that would be the first time part of the TOV didn't go to Madison since the mid-80s (part of TOV used to go to Oakton).

Marshall is a great school!

Very cruel to jerk around current freshman.