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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if the county would just ditch the option schools, it would be so much easier to get this done.  I just don't understand the move first approach.[/quote]

Lisa Stengle made an interesting point at the SB meeting the other night about how option schools help manage capacity issues, just not in the way we usually think about them.  She said that if there were no option schools and every school was neighborhood, they would have severe boundary issues and difficulty filling schools in certain parts of the county because of how schools are distributed geographically.  One thing strategically-placed option schools allows them to do is open up space where schools are otherwise too close together to draw reasonable boundaries.  Think Carlin Springs/Campbell/Barcroft/Claremont/Randolph or McKinley/Ashlawn/Reed/Barrett/Glebe/Tuckahoe, where it would be nearly impossible to draw boundaries for some schools without drawing from other schools' walk zones.  Option schools do tend to draw disproportionately from surrounding schools so the impact on capacity in the area isn't as significant, and allows more reasonable boundaries to be drawn for the remaining neighborhood schools.

I'd always thought the argument that option schools help manage capacity was about pulling students from over-crowded schools to areas with excess capacity, and never bought into it because APS can't control where students come from (except for HB).  This was a totally different way of looking at it that I hadn't thought of before, and it makes a lot of sense.[/quote]

the locations of schools in arlington is really, really weird, but it's based on history, i guess,  and rich folk  wanting carefully tucked away schools up north.[/quote]

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