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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most MPSA students come from south Arlington. There is a need for seats in SA, the question is how many people would stick with it if moved across the county and would neighborhood schools have the space to handle those who didn’t?[/quote]

The MPSA parents are like a cult. They will stick with it wherever it is located.[/quote]
Samuel, but the North Arlington to South Arlington extended day pick up or 30 minute bus ride is a deterrent for a lot of people. [/quote]

It doesn’t deter all the South Arlington parents who choose ATS. [/quote]

30 minute bus rides are common for option school kids, IME.[/quote]

Kids are bused from North Highlands to Taylor past TWO elementary schools - almost 3 miles in a county 5 miles across.

30 minutes for options kids is nothing.[/quote]

great then we can close Taylor and they can go to the closer schools. [/quote]

Keep trying, it's going to be Nottingham unless you can scrounge up some more kids. Once the current 4th and 5th graders move on the numbers are really low.

K - 43
1 - 47
2 - 53
3 - 57
4 - 70
5 - 70
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sure  but it won't be low once we get all those taylor kids in there! [/quote]

Why do you have such a vendetta against that school? Did it hurt you?

Also I had no idea Nottingham had such few students!!! [/quote]

That has to be IG. [/quote]

PP here, I have no idea who IG is and I have nothing against Taylor itself. I do know the building is non functional though so it doesnt make sense to keep it open when it is very poorly designed and would require major renos to make it functional. I get you want to keep your kids' school open but it's not about you. [/quote]

Taylor was last renovated 20 years ago, and has AC, so it’s not a compete “hopeless” vestige of the 1950s or 60s. But it is due for a remodel. (People forget that many Arlington schools didn’t even have AC that long ago.)

APS has said they are not mothballing any school sites like they did in the 1980s. So even if Taylor closes and the school becomes a holding facility, which you may support, the building would still need upgrades. [/quote]

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