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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The option schools.[/quote]

You mean close the high performing schools that are full and super popular with waiting lists, while there are under enrolled elem schools that no one wants to go to (ahem Drew). lol, no. 
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The programs are super popular because middle class families don't want to send their children to the low-performing schools. Not everyone can access those programs and the busing is a drain on our resources. [/quote]

so again you really want to close the highest performing and most popular schools? we should be opening more of them, not less.

close the low performing neighborhood schools that no one wants to go to. [/quote]

AMAC has joined the conversation. The Mary Coup didn't work so now they'll go after the Title I schools. [/quote]

PP here. I don't even know what AMAC is (I assume montessori?), so I can assure you I'm not part of it. [/quote]

So then you’re like a clueless Northie who wants to keep your extra schools open? At the expense of a school like Drew?!??[/quote]

Explain why Drew has to stay open when it can't fill itself. Other than politics and optics. [/quote]

Because crowding is in south Arlington, particularly Oakridge/Hoffman Boston/Abingdon. APS "could" re-draw boundaries and send more kids to Drew. That fills Drew more and alleviates crowding in other schools. 
3 of our 5 elementary option schools are south of Route 50. Relocating or eliminating one of them would open more seats for crowded south Arlington. Closing Drew only exacerbates the problem. The problem isn't Drew - it's APS' failure to make best use of it.
Also, as one previous intelligent poster commented, smaller school sizes for high poverty schools are better for those students. No, I don't have the studies on hand to link or reference; but it's out there.[/quote]

+1 option schools in south Arlington don’t alleviate overcrowding. It takes up a neighborhood school that could better balance boundaries and demographics. [/quote]

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