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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people in NW Arlington care which school MPSA takes over?  Assuming it won’t go into Discovery because the building is too new.[/quote]

Of course they care.  Nobody wants to lose "their" neighborhood school - and especially when it is supposed to be "walkable" even though they drive for drop-off and/or pickup anyway.[/quote]

I was just wondering because it’s not like you’re going from a good school to a bad school.[/quote]

DP.  While all of the schools are under capacity in that area, they are not so under capacity that the surrounding schools can simply absorb all of the students from one without he others becoming wildly overcrowded.  From a long-term planning standpoint, it’s not necessarily a good strategy to disrupt NW Arlington if you can avoid it because all of the schools are currently a manageable size so no one there is complaining about overcrowding.  This allows APS to ignore one corner of he county in planning future capacity expansions, which makes it a lot easier to spread resources in other areas to give them relief because they can focus on fewer, larger, more efficient projects.  If they close a NW school and re-introduce massive overcrowding there (remember, we’re not all that far removed from Nottingham and Tuckahoe being at 140% capacity), those neighborhoods will freak out and APS will have another large contingent demanding their share of a limited resource pool, which means they will have to spread resources further and in a less efficient manner.

APS is much better off if they can figure out a temporary solution for MPSA while conserving resources for a new elementary school in South Arlington. [/quote]

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