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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of parents, including myself, would be pushing harder for the CC site and solutions to the athletics concern if we had confidence that the farms rate at Wakefield would not shoot up even higher than it did in the last boundary change. Recall that the planning units along the western Pike area were added to Wakefield at the last minute. I, and many others, feel that the same type of switcharoo would happen here. And, wealthy areas at Arlington Ridge and Aurora Highlands would fight hard to exit the Wakefield zone.

Personally, I would support a high school at the Kenmore site over CC. I drive Carlin Springs everyday (because I live here) and totally understand the traffic mess - but that needs to be fixed and a new school would force the two counties to fix it. A site at Kenmore has the space and can draw easily from North Arlington to balance the demographics. I know that is somehow off the table, but that doesn't change my mind about it.
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The Arlington Heights neighborhood - and any others lobbying for a 4th HS at the Cc site should commit to a plan that equalizes the farms rate between that school and Wakefield. True colors would be on display.[/quote]

Yes! This. If you look at the proposed map, the walk zones and the areas that aren't grayed out suggest a balanced student body in terms of income and ethnicity, at around 20-30%, if I'm getting the numbers right when looking at the density map at the same time. Wakefield will still have Pentagon/Crystal City and Shirlington to keep it from being too lower income, but I don't think the numbers work out better for them.[/quote]

I actually think they could, it really depends.  TJ is not fairing well after the last boundary redraw with free lunch nearly the same as Kenmore (high!).   So I think that both Wakefield, and the new CC high school have reasons to want to balance diversity between them, and perhaps it would be possible to draw it down to 33% for both.  Wouldn't that be ideal and preferable to the status quo?  [/quote]

But why not equalize the FRL numbers across all schools?? Why is it just south of 50? [/quote]

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