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I don’t think that’s staff created. The posts here about walkers to Key or ASFS are just guesses, and early skirmishes in the boundary wars to come. The truth is that not everyone is going to be able to be zoned to their closest school. That’s life, the boundary has to be drawn somewhere. But APS staff thinks they can do a better job of it *if* they move the schools they have proposed. [b]Looking at the various community maps, I think they are correct.[/b]

Also, what I have heard is that building on Buck, for a school, is not going to happen. It’s only less expensive if they just retrofit the current buildings with very minimal updates, and a school would still have to share the site with the county for its uses (light industrial). Do you know any Arlington parents who’d find this acceptable for 3-5 graders? I don’t. Also, the county is not really interested in the site being used for a school, certainly not exclusively, nor is APS, given its proximity to existing schools. Upper/lower is not being considered at this time. [/quote]

I agree.  All these community proposals just prove staff's point that it's really hard if not impossible to draw reasonable boundaries w/out the moves.

I thought a while ago during all the facility debate it was mentioned that they couldn't build a school on the Buck property because of gas lines?  There was something about the site that made it not appropriate for school buildings.  It's like people kept saying build a school at Long Bridge Park instead of the aquatic center but you can't build a school there because it's contaminated land and under the flight path to DCA.

They do eventually need to build more schools but the opponents of the move are a bit ridiculous in floating new school building locations as a solution since it takes YEARS to get a new school built and changes have to be made this year to accommodate the opening of Reed.[/quote]

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