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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Voluntary transfers are not an adequate solution when a school like Williamsburg - at 80% capacity - is allowed to decide that it only wants to take 10 transfers. Swanson is still left overcrowded and Williamsburg only made a symbolic gesture in taking a few extra kids. Why does APS allow this? So the richest middle school in the county is also the least crowded by a long shot? We are a Glebe family and, due to the voluntary transfers, what would be about a 50/50 split between Hamm and Swanson ends up being probably a 80/20 split with several kids left disappointed and on the wait list for transferring to Hamm. Just let them all transfer or none of them - or better yet, switch the PUs to Hamm so that some kids aren’t left behind.[/quote]

All of Glebe should probably go to Hamm.

That should’ve been an obvious boundary move when the Hamm boundaries were first drawn, but the APS planners didn’t think there would be room at the new school. Hamm’s pre-pandemic enrollment projections were much, much higher.

More Ashlawn and Barrett planning units should’ve moved to Swanson as planned last year (with Tuckahoe and Glebe neighborhoods moving from Swanson to Williamsburg and Hamm), even though that would unfortunately move some wealthy neighborhoods away from Kenmore.

Maybe increase the arts program slots at Kenmore. [/quote]

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