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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m still not entirely sure what is happening with the Cody families at Long Branch. I have a feeling they were trotted out as warm bodies to fill Fleet and they will quietly be allowed to stay wherever they are.[/quote]

What are Cody families?[/quote]

Cody families are active duty and DoD civilians who use a school-age program in the same building as the day care on Ft Myer.  It has the same early start time the day care center/ preschool has (6am). It’s also heavily subsidized by the DoD so it provides dirt cheap child care for those lucky enough to get off the wait list and presumably then their younger siblings.

The families who attend Cody are separate from the active duty families who actually live in the Ft Myer housing. Unlike a lot of bigger military installations, very few families actually live on Ft Myer.

Going back years, kids who attend Cody and who also live in Arlington (anywhere, as long as it’s Arlington) were able to attend either Long Branch or Henry. This has created a loophole to “option” to one of those schools, even if they lived in a Drew or Barcroft zone (for instance).

I’m not sure if APS just “forgot” about this arrangement, but it created this group of kids they weren’t accounting for, but were providing 2 buses for. Not sure how that flew under the radar but there it is. [/quote]

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