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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now. [/quote]

That sounds like an awesome option, your child can spend an excessive amount of time traveling to and from school every day, and then be no where near his friends during non-school hours.[/quote]

Huh. Selling your house and buying another one, just for a different school, is totally reasonable, but a slightly longer bus ride isn't?[/quote]

I don't think selling your house and moving to a different community because you want your children in different schools and want to be part of that broader community so that your child will have an easier time seeing friends outside of school, you have an easier time getting to know the parents, it's easier for you to attend events at the school, is a ridiculous idea. The more fractured your community is (neighbors here, school there, etc.), the less connected people are likely to feel to any of them. Especially when your neighbors learn you decided to transfer your child to a different school because being with their children wasn't good enough for yours. That tends to alienate people.[/quote]

Look, if ***you*** also want to move, go for it. Loads of people send kids to other than neighborhood schools in Arlington -HB, immersion, Montessori, IB. Just don't pretend it's because you're the only one not going to the neighborhood school. After you move to yortktown, you neighbors will still be sending kids to W-L for ib or to HB, or back to Wakefield for that matter.[/quote]

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