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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't attend, either.  But I can promise you that whatever solution they come up with will solve elementary crowding at the expense of crowding in the upper grades (which will be the exact same kids struggling with crowding now since kids get older every year), and take so long that the bubble will have moved on from elementary.

I know, I am not being helpful, but snarky.  At least I didn't make a dig at the perennial north v south Arlington debate.
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Actually, this forum has moved on to the MIDDLE school level.  That is what the Board is now concentrating on.  They even have thrown out the idea of building a new middle school at W-L where the APS administrative buildings are...[/quote]

Did you attend the forum?  If what you say is true, and the focus is on the middle school level, it seems that APS will focus on non-capital options to address elementary school overcrowding.  The list of non-capital options to address capacity are all over the place - more relocatables, creating team-schools, increasing class size, moving programs, year-round schools, changing admissions/transfer policies.  I know that Claremont's Montessori program will be transferred to Hoffman-Boston which is an under-enrolled school starting next fall and those families are devastated.  I live in southeast Arlington and have a child who will start K in 2015.  We would love to have the guaranteed Claremont Immersion option that my current neighborhood school has now but who knows?  I hate this uncertainty but I guess I'll find out soon enough...
[url]http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/110/F-1%20CIP%20Framework_01_23_14.pdf[/url][/quote]

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