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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reed IS the next most viable option for a new ES in N Arlington and staff has talked about it on a number of occasions. The staff preschool will be moved. Despite any opposition from APS teachers who like the convenience, it will eventually move. Moreover, the surrounding neighborhood wants its neighborhood school back. Reed will reopen as an ES. It's just a matter of when. [/quote]

Is this just because is common sense...or do you know this for a fact (that it'll reopen).  Seems like from the last round of discussions there was zero real interest from the school board, despite community support for reopening it.[/quote]

No. The last round, the CIP 5 years ago, the neighborhood resisted reopening the school citing traffic concerns and the proximity of the nearby homes.

That's why we're building additions at Ashlawn and McKinley. And that's why a new ES was planned at the Kenmore site. Things never work out as originally planned so now we have Discovery, and Reed is still a preschool. The neighborhood around Reed woke up last year when they heard plans that H-B might move there. Those plans mobilized the neighborhood behind reopening Reed as an ES.

Because of space constraints and the highly unlikely scenario that ATS will move, Reed is the next logical choice for an ES. [/quote]

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