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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Staff is doubling down on Proposal 1. They were respectful about the community created maps and explained why each one wouldn’t work.
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yep - that was loud and clear 
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I really hope so! But I won’t be convinced until the board actually votes. Surely there’s still time for some press stunts or matching t-shirts.

When they decided not to send S Fairlington to Drew, did staff change their minds? Or did the board overrule staff? It sounds like that will be rectified with the new boundaries, I can’t remember how it all went down.[/quote]

I think the SB was not willing to go there and Staff was willing to wait and see how bad the utilization discrepancies would be, knowing they’d get another bite at the apple this year. As it turns out, both Claremont (which draws a lot of kids from Abingdon) and Abingdon itself are bursting, and Drew is adjacent and under capacity, so something has to give. It’s not a reasonable position not to use the space we already have, given the budget constraints. I don’t know that it will be South Fairlington, but some non-walk zone Abingdon PUs will have to be reassigned. One of the community proposals for the no-move scenario actually showed a very reasonable Abingdon boundary that didn’t make any walkers bus riders and also didn’t assign the most disadvantaged PUs to Abingdon. Don’t have the data regarding number of students in those PUs, but it just might work. Hopefully, Staff will look into it further. 
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Yes, that is basically how I remember it too. It’s important to remember Abingdon consists of more than just Fairlington, and many of us, while acknowledging Abingdon may (and it did) become overcrowded, wanted to address it when ALL boundaries were being considered- not just some of the SA elementary schools.

I know there’s some people who just can’t wait until some of Abingdon’s PUs are reassigned to Drew,  but like PP mentioned, it very well could be other non-walk zone PUs, not necessarily South Fairlington. [/quote]

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