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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The option schools.[/quote]

You mean close the high performing schools that are full and super popular with waiting lists, while there are under enrolled elem schools that no one wants to go to (ahem Drew). lol, no. 
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The programs are super popular because middle class families don't want to send their children to the low-performing schools. Not everyone can access those programs and the busing is a drain on our resources. [/quote]

so again you really want to close the highest performing and most popular schools? we should be opening more of them, not less.

close the low performing neighborhood schools that no one wants to go to. [/quote]

AMAC has joined the conversation. The Mary Coup didn't work so now they'll go after the Title I schools. [/quote]

PP here. I don't even know what AMAC is (I assume montessori?), so I can assure you I'm not part of it. [/quote]

So then you’re like a clueless Northie who wants to keep your extra schools open? At the expense of a school like Drew?!??[/quote]

Explain why Drew has to stay open when it can't fill itself. Other than politics and optics. [/quote]

Because the SB is afraid to expand the Drew boundary.  [/quote]

It's not on Drew to "fill itself." The school board sets boundaries and the current boundares maintain segregation and inequities across the county. [/quote]

Oh puhlease [/quote]

The neighborhood surrounding Drew has been historically underinvested in for hundreds of years.  The whole county, not just the school board, needs to address this.[/quote]

The neighborhood surrounding Drew has barely any kids. [/quote]

587 kids in the Drew zone attend an APS elementary school.  (358 attend Drew.  229 attend another APS school.)  You call that "hardly any kids?"  I'll help you out with a list of schools that have fewer kids attending them: [b]Tuckahoe (429)[/b], Randolph (391), [b]Nottingham (382), Long Branch (387), Jamestown (436), Innovation (451)[/b], Hoffman Boston (483), [b]Glebe (535)[/b], [b]Discovery (495)[/b], Carlin Springs (486), [b]Barrett (507)[/b], Barcroft (432), [b]Ashlawn (530)[/b][b], [b]Arlington Science Focus (558)[/b], and [b]Fleet (536)[/b].  Bolded schools are in north Arlington but have fewer students than live in the Drew zone.    [/quote]

So 39% of the kids in Drew zone at an APS school have found a way to not go to Drew. I wonder how many more living in the zone are going to a private school instead of Drew. The point is, APS can redraw the boundaries but if families don't want to go there they will find another school. [/quote]

I think there is one more year left on ES that got in when those in Drew's neighborhood had guaranteed admission to Claremont and Hoffman Boston. I think that ended in 2020 so current 3rd graders no longer had guaranteed admission. I would like to see if if shifted. [/quote]

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