South Arlington elementary school boundary adjustments 2019

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Anonymous wrote:Creating More cafs means less market rate housing, which means rent goes up and the middle class moves out.

The middle class used to be able to live in north Arlington. My boomer colleagues are puzzled that I wouldn’t just move and send my kid to ashlawn or long branch. That’s what they did in the 80’s.
Of course they will be selling their shitty little homes for a million dollars. Would that I could afford them, and the deferred maintainance they will inevitably demand.

Yes, that's because Arlington politics caters to the wealthy and the destitute. It's kinda funny -- back in the late 80s, the county manager issued a doom and gloom scenario that without affordable housing we'd just turn into a community of childless yuppies, like Clark Griswold's neighbors in Christmas Vacation. The proverbial soulless suburb. I think that's an anxiety or inferiority complex the county's betters has always had.

When I got here in 2005, that was the mindset, especially in regards to South Arlington. It was supposed to be all childless singles. All my neighbors in my condo complex off the Pike were single older women who worked for the government.

Oh, how wrong they were!

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Yep our neighborhood off the pike is now filled with children! I still think the enrollment numbers are way off. True Arlington has more people without kids or using the school system but the idea that no one with kids lives S of 50 or the Pike orbhas kids in a townhouse or condo is flat out incorrect.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep our neighborhood off the pike is now filled with children! I still think the enrollment numbers are way off. True Arlington has more people without kids or using the school system but the idea that no one with kids lives S of 50 or the Pike orbhas kids in a townhouse or condo is flat out incorrect.

You can just look at their heat maps of where the kids S of 50 are. Many in SFHs, but also lots in apartments and town homes and lots in AH, both CAFs and market rate. Maybe it's mostly DINKs in Clarendon, but it's not all the case here. So when is he County Board going to wise up? Either give APS more of the revenue share so they can keep up with rising enrollment, or put the brakes on some developments that are not by-right.

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If you look at the populations in planning units, the most densely kid-populated areas in the county are Buckingham and Barcroft apartments.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep our neighborhood off the pike is now filled with children! I still think the enrollment numbers are way off. True Arlington has more people without kids or using the school system but the idea that no one with kids lives S of 50 or the Pike orbhas kids in a townhouse or condo is flat out incorrect.

You can just look at their heat maps of where the kids S of 50 are. Many in SFHs, but also lots in apartments and town homes and lots in AH, both CAFs and market rate. Maybe it's mostly DINKs in Clarendon, but it's not all the case here. So when is he County Board going to wise up? Either give APS more of the revenue share so they can keep up with rising enrollment, or put the brakes on some developments that are not by-right.

It's pretty common these days for affordable units built in new construction to include family units, including in redevelopments where once there were none. For example, Queens Court in Rosslyn/courthouse.

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Is there any indication of how much of Oakridge will be redistributed to the new Drew? And I haven't heard Hoffman-Boston mentioned much, is it assumed its boundary/enrollment will remain someone static? I realize it's sort of hemmed in by the highway, Country Club and the Cemetery. In hindsight, this was a pretty awful location to build an elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any indication of how much of Oakridge will be redistributed to the new Drew? And I haven't heard Hoffman-Boston mentioned much, is it assumed its boundary/enrollment will remain someone static? I realize it's sort of hemmed in by the highway, Country Club and the Cemetery. In hindsight, this was a pretty awful location to build an elementary school.

Hoffmans location is tied to the history of racial segregation in Arlington County. My guess is that Oakridge will only give up arna valley and it's affordable housing to Drew, even though it's all walkable to Oakridge and in no way walkable to Drew. Oakridge will resemble a north Arlington elementary demographically and drew will look like carlin springs. The portio of Douglas park currently zoned for Henry is already organizing to fight being moved to Drew, it's on the civic Adam website.

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There is also a group of families in Nauck focused on building a strong, community neighborhood school. There was a post about it on Arlington Education Matters.

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Anonymous wrote:There is also a group of families in Nauck focused on building a strong, community neighborhood school. There was a post about it on Arlington Education Matters.

Can you link that forum? I keep hearing about it.

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Anonymous wrote:There is also a group of families in Nauck focused on building a strong, community neighborhood school. There was a post about it on Arlington Education Matters.

Can you link that forum? I keep hearing about it.

It is a FB Group, not very active yet, but they are trying to recruit members. The name is Drew Parent Community, it is a close group but you can request to join.

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It is insane that you can send in that walk zone survey anonymously and as many times as you want. What a flawed process.

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Anonymous wrote:It is insane that you can send in that walk zone survey anonymously and as many times as you want. What a flawed process.

They are just looking for areas for the walk zone work group to check out. It’s not a vote, so it doesn’t matter how many times an opinion is submitted. People are making fools of themselves and wasting time if they are submitting multiple times.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any indication of how much of Oakridge will be redistributed to the new Drew? And I haven't heard Hoffman-Boston mentioned much, is it assumed its boundary/enrollment will remain someone static? I realize it's sort of hemmed in by the highway, Country Club and the Cemetery. In hindsight, this was a pretty awful location to build an elementary school.

Hoffmans location is tied to the history of racial segregation in Arlington County. My guess is that Oakridge will only give up arna valley and it's affordable housing to Drew, even though it's all walkable to Oakridge and in no way walkable to Drew. Oakridge will resemble a north Arlington elementary demographically and drew will look like carlin springs. The portio of Douglas park currently zoned for Henry is already organizing to fight being moved to Drew, it's on the civic Adam website.

They can't send the kids who live within a 1-2 mile to Oakridge past kids who live almost a mile away to Drew, while keeping the kids at the outer edge of the walkzone at Oakridge. So the only way they can draw a boundary that takes kids out of Oakridge and into Drew is moving the PU's west of Gunston. Douglas Park can do what ever it wants, but I would think the neighborhood CA wouldn't be representing all the members of the CA by taking a position on which PU's belong in which school boundaries. Did you take a neighborhood vote?

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This is the Drew Parent Community facebook group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1999799057009236/?hc_location=ufi

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any indication of how much of Oakridge will be redistributed to the new Drew? And I haven't heard Hoffman-Boston mentioned much, is it assumed its boundary/enrollment will remain someone static? I realize it's sort of hemmed in by the highway, Country Club and the Cemetery. In hindsight, this was a pretty awful location to build an elementary school.

Hoffmans location is tied to the history of racial segregation in Arlington County. My guess is that Oakridge will only give up arna valley and it's affordable housing to Drew, even though it's all walkable to Oakridge and in no way walkable to Drew. Oakridge will resemble a north Arlington elementary demographically and drew will look like carlin springs. The portio of Douglas park currently zoned for Henry is already organizing to fight being moved to Drew, it's on the civic Adam website.

They can't send the kids who live within a 1-2 mile to Oakridge past kids who live almost a mile away to Drew, while keeping the kids at the outer edge of the walkzone at Oakridge. So the only way they can draw a boundary that takes kids out of Oakridge and into Drew is moving the PU's west of Gunston. Douglas Park can do what ever it wants, but I would think the neighborhood CA wouldn't be representing all the members of the CA by taking a position on which PU's belong in which school boundaries. Did you take a neighborhood vote?

There are no pickups for Oakridge west of gunston. The whole of long branch creek and arna valley, save a tiny corner, is within the current Oakridge walk zone. It's all literally a cakewalk away. But it will almost surely get moved to Drew, even though it's not walkable there.

I don't live in Douglas park but you can see the civic assn website for yourself. The latest post encourages residents current living in the Henry zone to lobby APS to be sent to fleet, and gives advice on how to so. I would guess nobody on the civic assn sends their kids to Randolph.