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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a "Save McKinley" proponent but why can't ATS stay right where it is? It's not in the IPP so why are we trying to move it to a bigger building, and why is it a "pro" under both proposals that 100 more kids could go there? I'm a South Arlington resident and I think ATS is bad for South Arlington.

And, ATS is a not a walkable school so keep it as an option but without moving Immersion or Campbell there. What's wrong with Immersion to Carlin Springs, full stop? Yes, there will be a somewhat wide swath of West Pike with no neighborhood school, but Campbell is functionally a neighborhood school for Glencarlyn anyway. Split up the non-Glencarlyn PUs between Abingdon and Ashlawn and do tons of outreach to that community to get them to apply to CS as Immersion. McK, Reed, and ASFS can take Ashlawn's long boundary and some of Glebe. [/quote]
That part of South Arlington is already facing a seating shortage, and you want to take away hundreds more seats while NW elementary schools sit with empty classrooms because they're so under capacity?  We're Discovery so that would be great for us, but even I can't pretend this isn't a terrible idea.[/quote]

[b]Plenty of room at Drew and Fleet. Move SF to Drew and some of CS's boundary to Ashlawn and see what happens. [/b]

In any event, neither proposal 1 or 2 address the seat shortage in that area anyway. The first doesn't affect it at all, and the second makes an option school into a neighborhood school in order to take on the population of a school with a substantially bigger enrollment (in a smaller, older, crappier building). [/quote]

So we're abandoning any pretense of sensible boundaries?[/quote]

SF to Drew, a Staff proposal that was previously made, is not sensible? Or is it Ashlawn's boundary moving 2 miles south instead of almost 2.5 miles east that is not sensible? [/quote]

Giving Ashlawn a new crazy boundary, that kicks out a ton of existing students and brings in new students to displace them, is not fair to Ashlawn. [/quote]

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