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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And all those kids would have to buses because they can't walk across the Pike. What makes more sense is to move Immersion to Carlin Springs, because it's just not walkable and never will be, and turn Claremont back into a neighborhood school. Really, there will be hundreds of kids in the Frederick Street development and they can't all be bused into Barcroft. They could be walkers to Claremont if it were a neighborhood school. [/quote]

Similar to Tuckahoe, CS could make sense if you look at it as a not very walkable school.  However, Carlin Springs is unique in the way that it provides a huge amount of wrap around support services to its low income population that would be lost if those kids were dispersed to other schools.  [/quote]

Tuckahoe is very attractive as an option school because it has close Metro Rail and frequent Metro Bus / Art along Lee highway.[/quote]

I'd say it'd be worth considering as a second option school of its kind, but not as a unique one. It's a b***h to get to you if live on the other side of the county. Fine when traffic is light but takes like 45 minutes in rush hour. Metro is unreliable.[/quote]

Something’s gotta give.  We have too many location restrictions already.[/quote]

Probably, but we should be honest with ourselves that the idea of moving an option school to Tuckahoe s popular in this thread because it's ATS we're talking about, probably the most in demand option school, and Tuckahoe is a wealthy area. I understand that the other option schools have location requirements - native speakers, natural environment, etc. But moving ATS to the northwest corner of the county is going to result in a less diverse school. It's just really hard to get to from the more modest neighborhoods. [/quote]

I’m pp and I agree.  I wish that the board would consider another option school, and I wonder why they aren’t.[/quote]

If nothing else, there isn't enough time to properly develop a new option school and open a lottery by the time they need to start moving boundaries.[/quote]

I saw somewhere that another option school just draws more UMC kids out of schools and makes those schools worse. Like Barcroft would lose even more students, when its got the lowest capacity already.

But if the county added another choice option in South Arlington, plenty of us would show up.[/quote]

The same effect would exist in South Arlington. No matter where the are located, choice schools will disproportionately draw from relatively more well-off families (because they're more likely to have the resources to accommodate the inconveniences of going to a choice school) and from families where parents are more actively engaged in their children's education. This will have the effect of drawing off a disproportionate number of the better-performing students from neighborhood schools in the region, and the overall performance of those neighborhood schools will drop for the students who remain.[/quote]

I agree mostly, but I do think location matters.

I think removing option/choice might lead to more UMC in South Arlington neighborhood schools, but it seems just as likely those families would use their resources to move to fairfax or wherever. The downside to that is that poor kids who go to option schools, of which there are plenty, aren't as able to move to a higher performing district. So absent an option school they go to the segregated neighborhood school, and the segregation increases.[/quote]

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