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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^I wasn't in the SAWG but I did go to the meetings about what was going to happen at Drew. The parent and PTA communities from Abingdon, Henry, Hoffman-Boston, Oakridge, and I think Randolph too were all participating from the start, because those schools could potentially send students to Drew. I frankly do not understand how there could have been any sort of commitment to draw from only Hoffman-Boston and Oakridge, because doing so doesn't make geographical or numeric sense. [/quote]

The focus was Oakridge.  It was always Oakridge because that is the school that had been the most crowded and significantly overcapacity and expected to grow to well over a thousand students by 2020-something.  That's one reason Oakridge kept arguing for a new school location in 22206 - they didn't want to "split up their community" and sure as heck didn't want to bus their kids to Drew.  If you went to the meetings, then you should have heard Oakridge's proposal and rationale that their K-5th graders couldn't cross 395 - even though they were offering to host preschoolers from the other side of 395 to come to them in order to fill the space of a new school until Oakridge's own numbers pushed them back out to their own side of 395.

The Hoffman Boston piece was merely the part of Nauck that is currently districted to HB - not Hoffman Boston in general.  HB is well under-capacity K-5 and the school is half filled with preschool classes.

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