From: Janet Clarke [mailto:janetsclarke]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:37 PM
To: cmhoa
Cc: Jwileycm1; vum1; 'Bob Lazaro'; gwagner; 'Thomas Priscilla'; 'C. J. Walker'; 'Rob Lohr'
Subject: Online Petition for Not Splitting the Town Up to Attend Two Different High Schools

 

Dear Scott,

 

As you are probably aware, the boundary determination process for which students will attend Loudoun Valley High School and which will attend HS-3 is currently in process. On March 13, 2007 LCPS staff will make a recommendation to the School Board, then the School Board will review that recommendation and hold two public input sessions before they, the School Board, makes their final decision. The first School Board public hearing will be held at Harmony Intermediate, March 29, 2007, at 6:30pm. The second, and last one, will be held April 9, 2007, at Loudoun Valley High School, at 6:30pm.

 

To date, several of the boundary options that have been posted on the school system website www.loudoun.k12.va.us, under the Planning and Legislative Department, reflect Catoctin Meadows being split off and sent to HS-3 rather then Loudoun Valley High School. With respect to our neighborhood, if the students here were sent to HS-3, they would not be able to walk or ride a bike to or from their high school if they chose to or needed to. Some of the current Loudoun Valley students in our neighborhood do just that, and say it really helps if they need to stay after school for an extracurricular activity or miss the bus and their parent can’t drive them to school. Also, being that there are only just over 400 high school students in the Town limits of Purcellville, with Catoctin Meadows having about 27 high school students when HS-3 opens, it does not make sense to either split the Town or single out Catoctin Meadows.

 

To that end, as residents of Catoctin Meadows, please post the below online petition on our HOA website and/or send a notice out to our neighborhood in regards to this request of support to keep our kids at Loudoun Valley High School.

 

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lvhsboundaries

 

 

Respectfully Catoctin Meadows Residents,

 

Janet Clarke                                       Jim Wiley                               Steve Varmecky

and Town of Purcellville                     and Town of Purcellville         and Town of Purcellville

Council Member                                 Council Member                     Council Member

130 East Main Street                          130 East Main Street              130 East Main Street 

Purcellville, VA 20132                       Purcellville, VA 20132           Purcellville, VA 20132

www.purcellvilleva.com                     www.purcellvilleva.com         www.purcellville.va.com