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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capstone is to bolster Yorktown and reduce transfer to WL. They need more seats at WL to accommodate flow from Wakefield. [/quote]

Yes, or many more W-L neighborhoods along the Yorktown border would likely have to be redistricted to Yorktown like Cherrydale, Waycroft Woodlawn, etc. Population growth is in South Arlington and not in the B
North. So makes sense to reduce transfers from Yorktown to W-L and encourage transfers from
Wakefield into W-L[/quote]

Would neighbors accept moving to Yorktown? [/quote]

I’m in Cherrydale, and live close enough to WL to hear the marching band practice and the PA system during athletic events at the stadium.  Hell yes I’d put up a fight if my neighborhood was redistricted to Yorktown so that some kids who live 3 miles away can be bused to WL.  If Arlington gets to that point, just get rid of zoned HS and make it all lottery.[/quote]

Another Cherrydale resident here-- my kids are out of high school now, but I felt exactly the same. This topic used to make very angry, lol. If kids can't go to the high school that is less than 4 blocks from their home, then forget about zoned schools and go to a county- wide lottery.[/quote]

I like the idea of a county wide lottery for high school. but it would never get enough support[/quote]

If schools went full lottery, the UMC and MC families would all to Fairfax. That’s what always happens. [/quote]

I am truly beginning to doubt that. There might be a modicum of departures, but not systemic evacuation of UMC to elsewhere. I've lived here 24 years, we are homeowners raising kids: I've heard lots of predictions of collapses in Arlington, whether from BRAC, financial crisis, sequestration, WFH. The population keeeps growing, the student population keeps growing, real estate keeps growing...there are myriad reasons. But never a collapse. People vastly underestimate the effect of the fact that only 20% of Arlington households have kids. If there is "flight," others will feel less crowding and competition for resources. That will attract families even more. The system equals out. [/quote]

I think there’s a lot of truth to what you’re saying re: the size of voting population who actually has kids.  With only 20 percent of households having kids and with housing prices so high that many buyers can go private, it’s just not on the County’s list of worries.[/quote]

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