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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the concerns about staying "in the neighborhood" are kind of silly. The boundaries have to be drawn somewhere. We live on the very edge of the Glebe district--a mile from the school. Literally: the kids across the street go to Taylor. My son has lots of Glebe friends who live quite a distance away. He also has friends across the street who go to Taylor. Thems the breaks.

If the boundaries were redrawn, it's quite likely we could find ourselves in the Taylor district, or our neighbors could find themselves zoned for Glebe. Or maybe we would luck out and find ourselves smack in the middle of a school district so that every kid in any direction goes to the same school with my kid. Regardless, we will take much (if not all) of our immediate neighborhood with us. Likewise, if Nottingham's boundaries were redrawn, you AND many (even all) of your near neighbors are going with you. We aren't talking about a random lottery that sprinkles kids about the county.

We have no guarantee where our kids go to school, only that they have a school. The overcrowding (in North Arlington anyway) appears to have reached the point where we not only need to redraw boundaries, we likely need another elementary school or two. Even with a new school or two, boundaries will have to redrawn. Some people will have to go to different schools. It's really not that big of a deal.

The only other way is to use trailers, and even that's not the answer when the crowds get too big. There is a tipping point at which the school can no longer handle the extra kids in its cafeteria, library, gym, playground, no matter how many extra classrooms are created in the parking lot.[/quote]

I know where you live, PP!   :-)

I agree with this.  I don't think anyone is going to break up schools into small pieces, but something needs to change.  What irks me is that the county did not seem to realize this was going to happen when any person who has walked around N. Arlington in the past 5 years could see that there were tons of babies, toddlers, preschoolers coming into most neighborhoods.  On my own street (Glebe district), when we moved here 6 years ago, there was only 1 family with 1 child.  Now there are 13 kids from 3rd grade down to toddler.  Not all of them go to Glebe, but many of them do and some of the little ones will.  I don't really notice the problem at Glebe yet other than the trailers, but with each class getting bigger (there are 5 classe in 1st and 4 in K), it is certainly going to become more of an issue as the years go on.  [/quote]

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