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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait. Why does anyone think it's OK to move a choice program basically to border of Falls Church City.  A new one, OK, I guess.  Though I think if anyone should get a new optoin program is somewhere S. of 50. A current one? No way.[/quote]

Because when the Reed school opens there will be an excess of seats in that area of the county.  A lot of the current Tuckahoe PUs will shift to Reed.  Tuckahoe and Nottingham have a lot of overlap in attendance areas, so most of the remaining kids can easily shift to Nottingham.

It may not be ideal placement for an option school, but the seats will be there.[/quote]

I think the SB should be taking a poll of existing families at ATS and Key about how important the location is and who would send their kids to Tuckahoe [/quote]

The discussion isn't whether immersion would move to Tuckahoe, it's whether ATS would move to Tuckahoe most likely.  Then you'd have a few options.  One would be to have ASFS and Key switch locations, with the Rosslyn site turning into the neighborhood school and the current ASFS site becoming immersion.  Or, if there's enough of a need for neighborhood seats in the NW corner, then both of them become neighborhood schools and the ATS site is now freed up to become the new immersion site.

All of this is hypothetical right now until this process is done, but these are the scenarios that people are seeing play out.
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If both ASFS and Key become neighborhood, there will be excess capacity in the NE quadrant. Reed is going to pull in some Glebe PUs, Fleet will pull in Long Branch. The REAL crisis is going to be in the southern part of the county where they keep building and approving 2-3 bedroom family housing units. Where in the heck are the hundreds of kids at the soon-to-be-completed Frederick St development going to go to school?  [/quote]

what is your basis for saying there would be excess capacity in the NE quadrant?  Looking at APS's forecasts, this is where they need the seats.[/quote]

To add to this, there are additional developments in the works in the Key zone, both market rate and affordable housing. This one was just approved last week:

https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/board-commits-7-9-million-affordable-housing-loan-to-queens-court-south/
"The 249 new affordable units will include studio, one, two and three-bedroom units, and [b]more than half of them will be family sized[/b]." Assuming each family sized unit has 1+ kid, that's a lot of kids coming in all at once.

[b]If you chose an option school, that's great! You need to take the inconveniences that come with that. Your wishes are not more important than providing a neighborhood school in reasonable proximity to where people live.[/b] [/quote]

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