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[quote=Anonymous]When I was in elementary school, Woodmont Elementary was closed and its students were absorbed by Taylor (at the time both were very underpopulated - can you image?) There was a lot of attention given to the process of combining the schools to make the transition easier, and I think it went just fine.

Also, in the past when Arlington has redistricted, they typically have allowed grandfathering, that is allowing younger siblings to attend the same school as their older siblings if they are still at the school. I also experienced this when our neighborhood was redistricted from W-L to Yorktown and my older sibling had graduated several years before I was to attend so I went off to Yorktown.

I think opening new neighborhood schools, particularly in N. Arlington, would alleviate the crowding problems and would be more palatable to a lot of people than moving kids around to other existing school districts. The truth is I think most families wouldn't mind getting switched from Jamestown to Taylor to Nottingham or vice versa, but when you start telling them they might have to send their kids to Glebe or Ashlawn or Barrett they get all worked up. New facilities that drew from the surrounding communities would probably be perceived as just fine, and in some cases, families might prefer the chance to send their kids to school in a new facility.[/quote]

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