South Arlington elementary school boundary adjustments 2019

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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.

Thanks. I think I mixed it up with another forum, one that I heard was being frequented by APS teachers?

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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?

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?

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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?

"They" (APS) can do many things. The criteria they chose are just that - choices. Their criteria are self imposed, not laws of nature. And that's what will allow them to forget about how important walkability is in this case.

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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.

And it was not originally an elementary school. It was the African American high 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.

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.

If the focus is on actual walkability, why would those units be moved to Drew? And certain SB members and affordable housing advocates insist that low-income families need to be in their neighborhoods and their communities cannot be torn apart; that they need to go to the school they live closest to......

Oakridge keeps touting how much they value their "diversity." But we'll see how important it is when the more affluent people are "in danger" of being moved to Drew and the low-income families stay at Oakridge. Then it will be how the wealthy deserve to stay because they spent a lot of money to be in the Oakridge zone and their property values will drop.

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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?

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?

Randolph is a 100 percent walkable school right now. Likely none of the units currently zoned to Randolph will move, so Randolph families are less worried. The minority of residents with kids at Patrick Henry want to move to Fleet. They are upset and so more vocal.

-DP resident

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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?

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.

If the focus is on actual walkability, why would those units be moved to Drew? And certain SB members and affordable housing advocates insist that low-income families need to be in their neighborhoods and their communities cannot be torn apart; that they need to go to the school they live closest to......

Oakridge keeps touting how much they value their "diversity." But we'll see how important it is when the more affluent people are "in danger" of being moved to Drew and the low-income families stay at Oakridge. Then it will be how the wealthy deserve to stay because they spent a lot of money to be in the Oakridge zone and their property values will drop.

OMG, look at a map. The closest places to Oakridge are in the Arlington Ridge CA, and those are also the wealthiest. So no, they aren't going to put the kids who live within a few blocks of Oakridge on a bus to Drew. The Oakridge PUs closest to Drew are among the least affluent currently zoned to Oakrdige, and they are the ones who are likely to be moved. Because of proximity, and because somebody has to be moved out of Oakridge before it's 900 students. They may move some of the Oakridge PU's that are adjacent to Hoffman-Boston, too. Again, because proximity and because they need to even out enrollment since the new school for Pentagon City isn't going to be built for ten years, if ever.

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Just saw a post on Arlington Education Matters that the school board approved Kimberley Graves who is the current principal at Hoffman-Boston to be the new principal at Drew. I think this could be good for Drew. From what I have heard she was really instrumental in helping making Hoffman-Boston a strong school. Hopefully she can do the same for Drew.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Thanks. I think I mixed it up with another forum, one that I heard was being frequented by APS teachers?

Did you mean Arlington Education Matters? it is also a FB group.

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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?

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.

If the focus is on actual walkability, why would those units be moved to Drew? And certain SB members and affordable housing advocates insist that low-income families need to be in their neighborhoods and their communities cannot be torn apart; that they need to go to the school they live closest to......

Oakridge keeps touting how much they value their "diversity." But we'll see how important it is when the more affluent people are "in danger" of being moved to Drew and the low-income families stay at Oakridge. Then it will be how the wealthy deserve to stay because they spent a lot of money to be in the Oakridge zone and their property values will drop.

OMG, look at a map. The closest places to Oakridge are in the Arlington Ridge CA, and those are also the wealthiest. So no, they aren't going to put the kids who live within a few blocks of Oakridge on a bus to Drew. The Oakridge PUs closest to Drew are among the least affluent currently zoned to Oakrdige, and they are the ones who are likely to be moved. Because of proximity, and because somebody has to be moved out of Oakridge before it's 900 students. They may move some of the Oakridge PU's that are adjacent to Hoffman-Boston, too. Again, because proximity and because they need to even out enrollment since the new school for Pentagon City isn't going to be built for ten years, if ever.

I did, the actual walk zone map. Arl ridge is nearby, but No, but most of aurora highlands and all of crystal city already get bussed to Oakridge. The cost saving thing would be to change where the current busses go off wont happen in a million years. Instead they'll create new bus routes to take kids who walk a whole 3/4 of a mile to Drew because their parents won't whine as loud as others would.

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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?

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?

Randolph is a 100 percent walkable school right now. Likely none of the units currently zoned to Randolph will move, so Randolph families are less worried. The minority of residents with kids at Patrick Henry want to move to Fleet. They are upset and so more vocal.

-DP resident

At a recent meeting, there was a Douglas Park parent and they asked something along the lines of: So if my kid can walk to Henry (Fleet), we can still go there? The APS folks explained that this might not be the case, and that this was the first of six steps to realign schools. That said, the large contingent of Oakridge parents there were concerned about being rezoned to Drew or Hoffman-Boston, and expressed the same sentiment: if we are willing to walk to Oakridge, can we stay? APS folks and another parent quickly pointed out that claiming you can "walk" to a place just to stay, then driving your kids and clogging up the roads defeated the whole purpose of this. It seems just as likely that Drew and probably Hoffman-Boston would get an influx of UMC families from both Oakridge and Henry. That would make both "better" in some people's eyes, but it's a leap of faith.

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I can see why this is going to be so complicated. And if the new South Arlington elementary near Pentagon City is still years away, something has to be done now to alleviate overcrowding at Oakridge. My kids go to another another overcrowded school with its own issues, but nowhere in the county is the situation as dire as it is at Oakridge.

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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?

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?

Randolph is a 100 percent walkable school right now. Likely none of the units currently zoned to Randolph will move, so Randolph families are less worried. The minority of residents with kids at Patrick Henry want to move to Fleet. They are upset and so more vocal.

-DP resident

At a recent meeting, there was a Douglas Park parent and they asked something along the lines of: So if my kid can walk to Henry (Fleet), we can still go there? The APS folks explained that this might not be the case, and that this was the first of six steps to realign schools. That said, the large contingent of Oakridge parents there were concerned about being rezoned to Drew or Hoffman-Boston, and expressed the same sentiment: if we are willing to walk to Oakridge, can we stay? APS folks and another parent quickly pointed out that claiming you can "walk" to a place just to stay, then driving your kids and clogging up the roads defeated the whole purpose of this. It seems just as likely that Drew and probably Hoffman-Boston would get an influx of UMC families from both Oakridge and Henry. That would make both "better" in some people's eyes, but it's a leap of faith.

Totally agree with these observations. That said, arna valley and long branch creek are less than a half mile from Oakridge along flat neighborhood streets. Everyone walks. The portion of Douglas park is further away from Henry and columbia pike separates the two. My observation, commuting through that neighborhood by bike every morning, is that elementary students to are driven and bussed. No walkers at all. Fleet is even further from Douglas park than Henry is. But, that corner is full of tear downs and renovations. Those folks have money and will kick hard.

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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?

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?

Randolph is a 100 percent walkable school right now. Likely none of the units currently zoned to Randolph will move, so Randolph families are less worried. The minority of residents with kids at Patrick Henry want to move to Fleet. They are upset and so more vocal.

-DP resident

At a recent meeting, there was a Douglas Park parent and they asked something along the lines of: So if my kid can walk to Henry (Fleet), we can still go there? The APS folks explained that this might not be the case, and that this was the first of six steps to realign schools. That said, the large contingent of Oakridge parents there were concerned about being rezoned to Drew or Hoffman-Boston, and expressed the same sentiment: if we are willing to walk to Oakridge, can we stay? APS folks and another parent quickly pointed out that claiming you can "walk" to a place just to stay, then driving your kids and clogging up the roads defeated the whole purpose of this. It seems just as likely that Drew and probably Hoffman-Boston would get an influx of UMC families from both Oakridge and Henry. That would make both "better" in some people's eyes, but it's a leap of faith.

This is ridiculous. It's an 8 (minimum) block walk and you have to cross Columbia Pike first. Anyone CAN walk anywhere. But that doesn't mean you are in a school's "effective" walk zone. It also doesn't mean you will definitely be moved. If you live in DP you are not in the effective walk zone to Fleet (not sure about Hoffman Boston). But if you are in the effective walk zone to Randolph, you will likely be moved there.

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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?

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?

Randolph is a 100 percent walkable school right now. Likely none of the units currently zoned to Randolph will move, so Randolph families are less worried. The minority of residents with kids at Patrick Henry want to move to Fleet. They are upset and so more vocal.

-DP resident

At a recent meeting, there was a Douglas Park parent and they asked something along the lines of: So if my kid can walk to Henry (Fleet), we can still go there? The APS folks explained that this might not be the case, and that this was the first of six steps to realign schools. That said, the large contingent of Oakridge parents there were concerned about being rezoned to Drew or Hoffman-Boston, and expressed the same sentiment: if we are willing to walk to Oakridge, can we stay? APS folks and another parent quickly pointed out that claiming you can "walk" to a place just to stay, then driving your kids and clogging up the roads defeated the whole purpose of this. It seems just as likely that Drew and probably Hoffman-Boston would get an influx of UMC families from both Oakridge and Henry. That would make both "better" in some people's eyes, but it's a leap of faith.

The SB's feckless, cowardly behavior with regard to Arlington Forest/Wakefield situation has taught UMC parents that all they have to do is throw a tantrum. The SB will cave just to have it over with. It's a crock and these "liberals" should all take a long look in the mirror.