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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t imagine they are actually going to close Nottingham. Once the wealthy Nottingham parents start fussing about it (and they already are), the school board will back down for sure. You don’t mess with the rich, white elementary schools in Arlington, do you?[/quote]

I guess you missed when they closed McKinley.[/quote]

True, but [b]they moved all of McKinley together to a brand new building at Cardinal.[/b] That’s different from what they are proposing here. [/quote]
Except for the neighborhoods that were rezoned to Ashlawn. [/quote]
Those zones could have stayed at Cardinal, except APS was trying to empty Notting and put those kids at Cardinal.  Those families were sent to Ashlawn because of APS's plan to close Nottingham, not because of the school move.[/quote]

What?  No Nottingham kids were impacted with Cardinal coming on line.  Nottingham was not touched during that boundary adjustment. Tuckahoe kids were moved.

What happened is too many Nottingham families went private during covid and didn't come back and now Nottingham has the least robust enrollment.  [/quote]

The Nottingham neighborhood has a lot of demographic turnover in the last few years. People are moving here specifically for the school. APS’s data and projections don’t seem to be accounting for that, and they are going to find themselves flat footed at the first economic downturn when people can’t swing $50k/year tuitions anymore. They were off by 20 kids at Nottingham for 2023 alone. Multiplied over the NW schools you go from underenrolled to over capacity just like that. [/quote]

Not this argument again!

When they redid boundaries for McK back before it moved, there was a Nottingham realtor with the same argument saying that anything other than overcrowding McK would make Nottingham too overcrowded in the future b/c demographics were changing.  So, they moved the Tuckahoe kids to McK, overcrowded it and left Nottingham with a small school........which I guess eventually backfired.[/quote]

Then adjust the boundaries! Have we not seen what happens when we close down elementary schools around here? It takes forever to get these sites up and running as neighborhood schools again, after dealing with all the special non educational interests that have taken it over in the meantime and remediating the lack of investment in necessary upgrades. In the meantime schools are overcrowded, like parents said they would be, and APS keeps pretending like we couldn’t see it coming.

Let’s try to govern this system rationally for once. More neighborhood schools, ditch the options, and arrange borders how they make sense based on something more than projected VHC births in 10 years. [/quote]

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