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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about we get rid of all these stupid option programs that make it impossible to plan for neighborhood needs and waste transportation money year after year? Sensible neighborhood boundaries with ability to request administrative transfers to underenrolled schools. Done - all problems solved. [/quote]

This only works if enough SA parents are willing to bus their kids to NA. I’m sure some would but I doubt it would be enough.

APS needs to do a better job of forecasting where students will live. Close schools that are underutilized. Sell that land, and buy and build schools where they are needed. [/quote]

Are you at all familiar with Arlington???
Do you have any idea how long it takes to build a new school?
And do we just keep selling and re-building elsewhere every time the populations shift?
Transportation costs a heckuva lot less than your proposal. There's no good reason Arlington can't just balance its enrollment and bus/otherwise transport (ie, public transit for secondary students) to wherever their schools are. You bring kids to the schools; not schools to the kids. Kids are mobile; schools are not.
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