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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What ultimately stopped me from lobbying for a 4th comprehensive was its location in the south and the fact that it would ultimately be made disproportionately of FARMs students.  W-L is a great site for bringing North and South together, and the Career Center is more centrally located in the same way.

But I agree that Kenmore has superior land available to it and the whole thing makes me angry.  But ... once a student population is around 45% FARMs, it's a bit doomed in terms of achievement, and that's the way a Kenmore High seemed, to me, likely to be zoned under this School Board's way of doing things.[/quote]

I believe the FRL proportions would be worse with the school at the Career Center.  Kenmore could take a boundary extending northward and eastward without capturing all of the most densely low-income neighborhoods on the west end of Columbia Pike (even with this SB - and I tend to not have any hope or optimism with this board on anything).  South of the Pike, or much of it, could stay at Wakefield along with the affluence of the Oakridge district, Shirlington, Douglas Park.

But the Career Center will take the wealthy Oakridge area, and the parts of the Pike that have caused Patrick henry to lose its Title I status (it is close to 30% FRL now rather than over 40%).   Taking the wealthiest parts of south Arlington, along with some strong MC neighborhoods north of 50, would decimate Wakefield.

There is more flexibility with boundaries with a fourth school located at Kenmore than there is with two schools located in the center of the County. (By that, I also mean flexibility in shifting the boundaries to all four schools as needed, because you can shift areas around clockwise).  One has to wonder if that's part of the real reason for so much pushback about the Kenmore site......Glencarlyn, north Arlington Forest......they don't want to lose their "walkability" to W-L.  Well, they can't give the same "lack of walkability" argument to a school in their backyard at Kenmore.[/quote]

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