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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One way Oakridge "dealt" with its overcrowding situation was by not complaining at all when APS re-zoned all of Pentagon City (multi-family residences, at least) to Hoffman-Boston during the most recent South Arlington ES zone shake up 2 autumns ago, taking them from 770 kids down to 531 (K-5).

Hoffman-Boston is 45% Free/Reduced Lunch. We know a few families with kids there. They say it's like a United Nations there - every race/ethnicity group is somewhere in the 20's in terms of percentage. They love the principal and seem to be having a good experience there. The one family we know who didn't like the place has college-aged kids now.

Oakridge is 21% FRL. We've heard nothing but strange stories about the current principal, but we know several families who've had a great experience there regardless.

A former Arlington-wide teacher of the year who used to work at Oakridge, now works at Hoffman-Boston, FWIW.[/quote]

Dude, they are in the walk zone and you were not. It wasn’t some big conspiracy. Also, if they didn’t zone you out, they wouldn’t have had room for the kids in the new affordable housing complex about to open, the one that’s closer to the school than you were, and that would’ve been bused to Drew instead, further exacerbating that school’s economic segregation. [/quote]

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