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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No I think the McKinley parents want some relief, not necessarily a "win".  I don't think they view this as some sort of fun game.  Why do you think they are just looking for a win?[/quote]

Exactly.  They have the only ES without a field, they've just spent a year and a half in a construction zone and the boundary refinements were so manipulated that their school is going to be close to 800 (like Oakridge, I know).  Each year, more and more kids move into the McK boundary and elderly houses are turning over as fast as Arl. Co. can submit permits.  They need relief.  This isn't about winning.  It's about using the resources that are right there![/quote]

Absolutely. I'm not a McKinley parent (I have a high schooler who went to a different elementary), but I think it's outrageous how the school board has been making McKinley take the brunt of the problems.  Every elementary school should have a field, and when there have been misjudgments as to the numbers, it truly stinks that they're not correcting them and are letting there be such huge inequities with McKinley far more crowded than most other schools.[/quote]

Same poster: I also think it's outrageous that the school board and county board won't work together on boundaries / affordable housing such that many South Arlington schools have a huge portion of FARMS students, which also gives them huge inequities compared to many other schools. I am hopeful that the realignment of boundaries that they've proposed for option schools (in a general fashion, with no specifics as to neighborhoods yet) will help with that, but they also need to figure out how to alleviate the neighborhood schools, ideally so that no school has more than maybe 35-40% FARMS population.[/quote]

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