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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way this is a done deal. [/quote]

No, but it will be on Feb 6.[/quote]

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal?  I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through.  I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.  [/quote]

Yes it will!  I wonder how many people realize that every school will be impacted by boundary changes.  Can't wait for the yelling when they realize.  [/quote]

Lisa Stengle said last night re: Abingdon that the same scenarios as 2018 were going to come back because it's overcrowded. I assume that means part of Fairlington to Drew?[/quote]

No. It means apartments south of columbia pike will go to an expanded Barcroft. It will make Barcroft like Carlin Springs. The CIP anticipates growth on the west end of the Pike, meaning move the kids to Barcroft. I heard it directly from a school board member.[/quote]

No, because that SB member doesn’t know their a** from their elbow. That’s not happening. Abingdon needs relief, not Barcroft. Some bus riders to  Abingdon are taking a bus to the half-empty and adjacent Drew. [/quote]

In my crystal ball (which is cloudy, to be sure), I see S Fairlington moving to Drew in 2021 and in the longer term some of kids closer to Columbia Pike moving to Barcroft. They need to actually build an addition first, though. [/quote]

Maybe, maybe not. They’ll only have money in the CIP for some things. They may need to spend some of it on expanding the ATS site for immersion. And they might expand/renovate Campbell, Barcroft, or Randolph. I think those were the 3 smaller, older schools that will be considered for renovation and expansion. I don’t know that Barcroft will be their first choice, or that they’d put an addition on only to bus poor kids across the Pike to a higher poverty ES. Doesn’t really make sense from a walkability or transportation standpoint, and certainly not from a demographic standpoint.

No matter what, there will be Abingdon kids moving, and Drew is the only adjacent school that is significantly under capacity and projected to remain so for the foreseeable future. [/quote]

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