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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pasting the comment from the other thread here:

"I had this thought last night too, looking at the data. I don't think you can take the whole neighborhood because it would create an island out of Columbia Forest (since there isn't room for it all to go to Barcroft) but maybe another unit or so would work. I don't have a sense of whether that would split up the neighborhood or create other issues though. It also helps with alignment since those units are Jefferson and would add to the otherwise small # of proposed Drew-Jefferson kids."

I think the single family homes of Columbia Forest is pretty much self-contained within boundaries of major roads.  The apartment buildings seem a bit separated from the rest - if I'm understanding the whole of the civic association correctly.  The problem is when you split off the apartments in that part of the County, you're essentially talking about all low-income going to low-income Drew.  Whereas with the Pentagon City situation, you're chopping off the apartment/condo portion of Oakridge; but it's higher income going to low-income Hoffman Boston.

It's clear that all the boundary factors cannot be met for every school.  A large island is not the same as a few isolated small PUs somewhere; so making an entire neighborhood an island should be prioritized for the sake of other factors (demographics) rather than abandoning socio-economic balance for the sake of cleaner maps.  If we have to relinquish a principle in the process, instead of everyone assuming we HAVE to follow alignment and contiguity, how about advocating we follow demographics and relinquish a little bit of one of the others instead?  Diversity has a better impact on a school than contiguity and subsequent homogeneity.
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The issue is Columbia Hills. They can't send that PU to Carlin Springs OR Barcroft OR Drew without increasing the fr/l rates at already high poverty schools. It has to go to Abingdon. I believe that PU is 36021. If you take the Claremont neighborhood to Drew, it leaves that PU a non-contiguous island zoned to Abingdon. That is the key. What other PUs can you move around but keep that one at Abingdon? [/quote]

36021 is currently proposed to remain at Abingdon. Are you thinking of a different one? There are a couple units in that area that are 100% fr/l or close to 100%.

What about taking only 36051 to Drew? It helps to bring down Abingdon's overall # of students but isn't a demographic burden to Drew. (I'm the same one who mentioned that above on this thread.) I don't know that area well so someone has to correct me if there are issues.[/quote]

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