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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually I live in S Arlington but ATS, Key, ASF are more accessible than Carlin Springs... mind blown [/quote]

That's why the second immersion school would stay over at ASFS and they'd maintain the east/west divide. Immersion at Carlin Springs wouldn't be one of your options. With two immersion schools, it makes zero sense to put one at ATS because neither school needs to be centrally located. ATS needs to house a program that's open to the entire county, so it's either going to stay ATS or they'll move the expeditionary program there. [/quote]

Why on earth would they move EL there? So they can do expeditions to McDonald's? [/quote]

That’s essentially my point, there’s no good argument for why a different option program would be a better fit for the ATS site than ATS, so it’s not going to move.[/quote]

But the option program at ATS can technically go anywhere. They need a neighborhood scjool closer to Ballston as that area is just going to continue to grow. [/quote]

The ATS site isn’t going to be a neighborhood school. It has almost walk zone, the estimate was that they’d still need something like 10 or 13 buses. And it has three other elementary schools within a one-mile radius, making it difficult to draw boundaries that don’t pull another school’s walk zone into ATS’s bus zone.

I would strongly recommended at least looking at the staff presentation to the board on this, even if you don’t read the analysis or watch henwork session. All of this as covered in detail. ATS was only site identified by the staff as one that truly needs to be an option site.[/quote]

You do realize they could put another option program there?  Just because it is an option site doesn’t mean it stays Arlington Traditional. [/quote]

Which one has a sufficiently compelling argument for placement at that site to override the costs of moving the ATS program? Silly to waste a central location on an immersion school when those will still be divided geographically. What does the ATS site give Expeditionary?[/quote]

The assumption is that people should go to option schools for the program, not the location. Moving immersion to ATS would allow both ASF and Key to take neighborhood kids and fix some of the weird lines in the middle of the county. If you can draw a border around ASF without having to take the bulk of Key, you can fix the Ashlawn boundary and pull kids from Taylor, Western Key zone, and Long Branch. It’s about optimizing neighborhood schools since they are the default educational experience and fitting option schools where you can.[/quote]

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