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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended the last meeting at Yorktown. Still smh at half the stuff I heard. One guy literally yelled out, "I don't care about any of this! The only thing that matters is that my daughter doesn't have to go to Washington-Lee with 4,000 kids!!" Another lady says, with a straight face, "You cannot open up Key to the entire county! We go to Science Focus, and we NEED that school to relieve our overcrowding! Have you seen what's happening at Taylor and SFS? We have to have 3 neighborhood schools!!"

"We have to have 3 neighborhood schools." Basically, I don't care about immersion. I don't really care about any of the children at Key. They only exist to relieve overcrowding at my kid's school. And the W-L guy? Basically told us if thousands of other kids in the county have to get stuffed into trailers and closets for his daughter to experience a pristine high school experience ...well, it is what it is.

Is anyone paying attention to the demographic trends? We live in Arlington. Outside of Discovery and maybe a couple others, every school is on track to be overcrowded. We all chose to live in a geographically small, fairly urban suburb that's continuing to grow. There won't be anywhere to ship all these "other" kids so "your" school is untouched by these facts. [/quote]

Uh...you actually think a 4000 HS is a good idea?  :shock:

And she probably didn't explain it well, but the team schools were formed to alleviate overcrowding 25+ years ago. If you remove one of the schools (Key) from the team, then the rest of the team needs to absorb those extra kids. Actually, not the rest of the team, just ASFS. And I'm sure the families who bought into the Key zone to go to Key will be unhappy if that changes. It affects all of the families in the community. IMO you are incorrectly reading between the words of what she said.

Sounds like we need more schools, not just more seats. Let's focus on that. 
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