Specifically on-topic contributors to the Drew boundary issue only please -

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Did they leave Reid Goldstein off on purpose?

This petition is ridiculous.

Just incompetent

The summary argument about how large Fairlington is - over 1500 voters on each side - diminishes any strength their position might have had in regard to splitting a community. It's precisely the large civic associations and the large neighborhoods that are best for splitting because the smaller sections still have a large, cohesive community. It is nothing like splitting Douglas Park or Alcova Heights. Fairlington is in the league with Barcroft Apartments in this regard.

And nobody seems to look at the scenario for someone else's school. This argues that it goes against all those boundary considerations (alignment, contiguity) But look at the current proposal for Drew, for cryin' out loud. It ain't going to be perfect for everyone, if anyone. Doing the best we can overall for all KIDS - not their parents - is THE ONLY priority.

I hate the splitting of one elementary school into three middle schools. It is just too much. Either fix that or give people the option to transfer. When you split into three there is inevitable one tiny cohort getting peeled off from the rest. We can figure out how to not do that.

Amen to this!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Lord knows there’s *never* been a civic association in Arlington split between two or more elementary schools. How ever would you all survive?!?!?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago.

It wasn't a pact. It was a recommendation by the SAWG coinciding with the recommendation that some of Oakridge's PU move into Drew. Since Oakridge isn't moving into Drew the recommendation for PH to move as a whole isn't feasible.

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Henry parents did consider the possibility that they’d be moved to Drew. Hence the matching t-shirts.

Might be time to start another Drew thread. This one seems to have been overtaken by CH and Fairlington families.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

The school board didn’t promise them this. Columbia Heights and Nauck neighborhood boundaries boarder each other! It’s simply more logical for those planning units that boarder Nauck to go to Drew and I believe there are many in the Drew/Nauck community that agree with this- I obviously haven’t polled the whole neighborhood but it’s what I’ve heard from some acquaintances that live there.
On the other hand, there a large portion of the Fairlington planning unit that they are talking about splitting that can and do walk to Abingdon. There is a bridge with sidewalks that crosses 395 and kids walk everyday. They live 1/2 a mile from Abingdon but will be bused to Drew.
I’m just trying to see how CHs going to Drew isn’t more logical.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago.

It wasn't a pact. It was a recommendation by the SAWG coinciding with the recommendation that some of Oakridge's PU move into Drew. Since Oakridge isn't moving into Drew the recommendation for PH to move as a whole isn't feasible.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/www/412115d251-SB_Final_Update_11052015.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Lord knows there’s *never* been a civic association in Arlington split between two or more elementary schools. How ever would you all survive?!?!?

They're really two different neighborhoods, separated by 395. All his sudden cohesion is dubious.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago.

It wasn't a pact. It was a recommendation by the SAWG coinciding with the recommendation that some of Oakridge's PU move into Drew. Since Oakridge isn't moving into Drew the recommendation for PH to move as a whole isn't feasible.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/www/412115d251-SB_Final_Update_11052015.pdf

The point is what? It's a recommendation. Not a binding contract. The final (summary) report conveniently ignores a lot of other recommendations included in the full report, like the part about diversity that was discussed at many meetings.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

I live in North Fairlington and think sending South Fairlington to Drew is a good idea. I don't think the argument that the community needs to be kept together is very strong, half the kids I meet in the neighborhood go to Claremont anyway.

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I used to live in Fairlington. South Fairlington gets busing anyway. If they went to Drew and the weird peninsulas proposed for Drew were sent back to Abington, it would make a lot more sense. It would also address some of the SES issues at Drew with the current proposal. I also think Henry should not get a pass in this round. Send some of their non-walkers to Randolph or Drew.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago.

It wasn't a pact. It was a recommendation by the SAWG coinciding with the recommendation that some of Oakridge's PU move into Drew. Since Oakridge isn't moving into Drew the recommendation for PH to move as a whole isn't feasible.

Here we go again..... Henry graciously "agreed" and was duped. SAWG's recommendation was just that - a recommendation; and that recommendation did not stipulate the boundaries would not be touched. But thanks for giving the SB the permission they needed to accept the SAWG's recommendation. The rest of us, especially the 80% FRL students about to be concentrated at Drew, thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

No. You can believe that if you want, especially if you're outside that half mile and need to think the "the school's" solidarity with you was why they didn't object. They wanted a bigger school. They needed a bigger school. This was the only way they were going to get it. THAT's why they "didn't fight it." They may be unhappy that their boundary needs to be adjusted; but that was going to happen one day inevitably anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?

Is this serious or are you being facetious?

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable.

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away. Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood!

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood.

Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there.

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move. Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago.

It wasn't a pact. It was a recommendation by the SAWG coinciding with the recommendation that some of Oakridge's PU move into Drew. Since Oakridge isn't moving into Drew the recommendation for PH to move as a whole isn't feasible.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/www/412115d251-SB_Final_Update_11052015.pdf

Don't see the point of this link. It's a summary that DOES NOT mention ANYthing about Henry boundaries.