THANK YOU OPAL - WE WON - OPAL STAYS AT LIBERTY

Keep Lees Mill Rd. in Opal and
Opal in Liberty High School District

The Fauquier County School Board is currently looking at a LAST MINUTE redistricting option for high schools that draws a boundary right thru the neighborhood of Opal. If this option passes without changes, all children on Lees Mill Rd. from 29 to Opal Rd., including the Edgehill subdivision, would now have to go to Fauquier High School instead of Liberty. This would mean that children who have been together for elementary and middle school would now be split up for high school.

We feel the best thing for the children AND the community is to keep them together and that they should be districted for Liberty High School. Please help us by emailing or calling ALL School Board members, and specifically your representative in your district and let them know you want to keep Opal together! We need your support to get this changed or it's a done deal. Make your comments known ASAP as the Fauquier County School Board will be voting December 17th.

Just think if it happened to you. Wouldn't you want someone to stand up and support you? Please help support us!

Please touch on any or all of the following points when emailing the school board. Feel free to use these or cover them in your own words:

• Reunite Opal! Put Lees Mill Rd at 29 to Opal Rd. BACK in Liberty High School's district!
• Lees Mill Rd. from 29 (the Fauquier Motel) to Opal Rd. is part of Opal. Please note the elementary school district map. MM Pierce's district doesn't stop at Opal Rd., it includes ALL of Lees Mill to 29. Neighborhoods are important. Please follow the committee's criteria of keeping them together. Don't split up a neighborhood!
• Don't make children that have gone to elementary and high school together be split up for high school. The children that live along this affected section of Lees Mill have friends on the other side of Opal Road. They include children in English Meadows, the rest of Lees Mill Rd., Canterbury and Routts Hill Rd.
• Please do not base your decisions on an arbitrarily drawn line that is simply following the magisterial district line. Just because the questioned part of Lees Mill Rd. is now in Cedar Run District doesn't mean that it isn't still part of the Opal neighborhood.
• Reunite Opal! Put Lees Mill Rd at 29 to Opal Rd. BACK in Liberty High School's district!

School Board Members:

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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A letter summarizing these details was handed out to affected Lees Mill Road residents Sunday, December 9. 2007. A copy is available here.

Map showing section moved
from Liberty to Fauquier

Pink circle shows northern part of Opal neighboorhood plans SB-A and SB-B cut off from the rest of Opal

We support keeping all of Lees Mill Road in Opal and Opal in Liberty High School District just like M.M. Pierce includes all of Lees Mill Road in its district as shown in this Elementary School District Map.

Map showing M.M. Pierce includes Lees Mill Rd.

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