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[quote=Anonymous]If this is the Lois I am thinking of, she is a smart and objective thinker trying to solve a problem without letting her personal situation get in the way. I wish we had more school board members like that.

I don't live in Glen Carlyn, but my kid goes to Campbell so I am regularly in the area. Yes, there is open land there, because there are already schools there using the space. In fact, there are over 1500 students currently there. So, rather than have 4k students at WL, lets have 3800 at Kenmore. Let's back traffic up on to route 50, the already gridlocked major commuting route that will take most of the 66 traffic once it is a hot lane. And let's crowd K-12 literally on to one block, take away access to outdoor activities and let the poorest families in the county live through a construction zone. Look at the boundaries of where a Kenmore HS would likely be. The new school would take families from the area of the county with THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY IN THE COUNTY (thank you county board and developers for that). And, guess what, the county has an official policy to add thousands of more affordable housing units in that area! It would take from the central and west end of columbia pike, which is almost entirely committed affordable housing and market rate affordable housing. All of those kids currently go to kemore and WL.  Don't think for a second all those north arlington parents currently on the western boundary of WL and YT won't fight tooth and nail to keep their kids out of that new HS. And, thanks to the school board's latest WL boundary change, that would leave almost zero diversity at WL. The result, WL and YT are rich white schools. New school and Wakefield are title I schools.

Hello resegregation. [/quote]

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