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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At last night's SB meeting, they said they would grandfather all current students. (You can watch the meeting on-line.)

I'm not sure how the boundary redrawing will work though, since Taylor and Glebe are also overcapacity-- and you can't really shift the Glebe kids anywhere to create space for ASFS kids, because McKinley is also too crowded and that's where the Glebe kids would likely go. The only way this works is to put all boundaries on the table and [b]push all the way across North Arlington into Discovery and Nottingham (which are the two schools with space). [/b]My kids aren't at ASFS or Key, but I've been watching this unfold because I don't know how they can pull it off without pretty substantial boundary changes across the entirety of North Arlington. APS is such a cluster right now.[/quote]

[b]NO!!![/b] We certainly do not have space at Discovery. Anyone who tries to[b] navigate past all the cars up there each morning[/b] can tell you that. A move like this will cause property values north of Yorktown Blvd to plummet, further devastating the tax base.[/quote]

Maybe more of these parents need to make their kids walk or take the bus.  Discovery is projected to be at 94% of capacity.  If boundaries are shifted some will have to go to Discovery.[/quote]

I live in N. Arlington (not close to your precious Discovery), and I think that you represent the absolute worst of Arlington parents (including that PTA President at Nottingham that screwed over McKinley families).  You need to stop just thinking of yourselves.  The students should be evenly distributed as best as possible.  it shouldn't be that only some ES are severely overcrowded and others aren't.  Your anecdote about cars isn't that convincing either.  You can just look and see from APS data which ESs are the most overcrowded and which aren't.  As for property values, unless you've been living under a rock, the last SB work session showed just how many more schools are needed and the upcoming increase in students.  So i have news for you, all of the schools will be full.  Start to accept that now, or move/transfer to private.[/quote]

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