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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. So they put the maps up and this thread just died.
Really interesting. So... I’m guessing most posters aren’t actually living or know much first hand about south Arlington.
The asfs thread is ridiculous, but you can’t say they aren’t engaged.[/quote]

Guess we really are more chill than NA parents after all. On the other hand, I'll bet a lot of parents who are zoned to Henry or Oakridge now, or want to be, are furiously lobbying the school board about it as we speak. There's some shameful sh1t on the table. Sending Alcova to Fleet? The Berkeley Apts 
to Drew? Those kids can see Oakridge out their window. It's literally across the street.[/quote]

Zoning the Berkeley to Drew would probably sentence Drew to a farms rate over 60% in perpetuity, and anyone who cares about Drew or those kids in the Berkeley should speak up about it to the SB.

Nauck is still pretty poor and has several AH complexes of its own. Drew simply can't absorb the Berkeley without consequence. The Berkeley is going to have 250 units when the expansion is complete, 150 of them committed affordable. There are going to be at least that many children living there. They could easily comprise half the students at the new Drew.

I'm concerned the upcoming boundary scenarios will reference old data, for a Berkeley half the size it will eventually be. Keep your eyes out for that. Those kids can easily walk to Oakridge and would benefit greatly from attending a scho with a 20% farms rate and a large, active PTA.

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