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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not true. McKinley is a school built for 684 kids. It will have 712 kids in it next year. Probably more the following year. There will still be trailers. Maybe not two six plexes like this year, but still some trailers. If you look at the More Seats for More Students website, this fact is confirmed in multiple presentations. In any event, I think you are missing the point of the posts above. It isn't about the trailers and nobody is saying that Tuckahoe and Glebe should stay overcrowded. People are saying that enrollment needs to be shifted to other N. Arlington schools like Jamestown and Discovery that are below capacity to achieve better enrollment balance.  Every school should at least be AT capacity before we start pushing any school OVER capacity.[/quote]

Right.  No one is asking for special treatment.  I'm not sure why that one mom is getting so worked up.  Parents are asking for balance, which is what McKinley had requested all along.  When numbers shifted in the past (like Ashlawn's higher enrollment), APS has adjusted boundary changes to help equalize overenrollment.  McKinley was going to send 2 planning units to Ashlawn in the original plan.

One more point regarding the fields, you need to understand that the fields won't magically be available in January.  You talk about November and December, but they would be used a lot Sept-November.  Then, after the construction equipment leaves, McKinley will be left with an unusable dirt pit.  According to the construction planners, fields can't be used for a year after construction, so we are looking at spring 2018.  [/quote]

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