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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one starting to get highly annoyed that the SB is so focused on creating even more lottery options rather than facing the really difficult problem of finding real seats for neighborhood schools?[/quote]

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. They could do both. It's not a matter of either/or.

One benefit to option schools is that they have the potential to ease overcrowding at multiple schools, without forcing boundary changes. I think people who choose option schools are largely happy with them, even if it means their students are at schools further from home. Which means, those kids are not taking up seats at multiple neighborhood schools.

Specifically, I'm not sure that the idea of IB ES is going to be a super popular draw, so I'd think those schools with mostly fill up with kids who live nearby and whose families are choosing those schools because they're closer or less crowded than their zoned school, at least at first. I imagine that most Westover families worried about not having access to Reed are worried needlessly. I don't think there are hundreds of students who will suddenly want to bus to that school from very far away. If you look at the feeder schools for the proposed IB school at Reed, it includes all but one of the adjacent schools (McKinley, Nottingham, Tuckahoe, all included except Glebe). Many of the other feeder schools (Ashlawn, Discovery, Jamestown) are ones that families are currently happy with and who don't have crowding problems. And the schools that I could see families wanting to leave are pretty far away from Reed, which I think will be a deterrent for them. I think families who live nearby Reed will have no problem having access to that school, which has the potential to alleviate overcrowding at more than just one school.

In general, I think this is not a terrible way to make use of limited land and resources. In fact, it's the only creative and innovative thing I've seen come from staff in a very long while and I am pleasantly surprised. [/quote]

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