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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm waiting to hear the outrage about how Fairlington now has a petition to all stay together because THEY don't want to go to Drew. Where is the disdain? Did I come to the wrong board today?[/quote]

Is this serious or are you being facetious? [/quote]

It’s on change.org
Has about 270 signatures already[/quote]

I just saw it. Makes the Henry parents look downright reasonable. [/quote]

Gotta love the “don’t tear us apart” when everyone who lives there know the line between north and south fairlington is about as bad as north and south Arlington.  [/quote]

Fairlington is one neighborhood and Abingdon is located inside of that neighborhood. They are fighting for their children to go to the school that is literally in their neighborhood vs. being bussed past that school for another one a mile further away.  Henry wanted their school community to stay together when their school building is being moved to a different neighborhood. I see why they would like to stay there but it’s absolutely not less reasonable for parents to want their children to stay at the school IN their own neighborhood![/quote]

Fleet and Henry are in the same neighborhood. 
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Also fairlington and shirlington are two different civic associations so it is not the same neighborhood.[/quote]

Henry’s old boundary is not all the same neighborhood though. Splitting their old boundary by moving neighborhoods that are further from Fleet then another school isn’t literally dividing a neighborhood that has a school located inside of it!

Also, what does Shirlington have to do with any of this? Abingdon is in Fairlington and Fairlington families want to continue to go to there. [/quote]

No school wants to be split. That's apparent. And reasonable.

[b]Henry agreed to move 0.5 miles, with the specific understanding that this would not be used against it in future boundary disputes. Really. It was told that the boundaries would stay intact, that's the main reason the school didn't fight the move.[/b] Fairlington is literally divided by an Interstate. Also end-to-end Fairlington is bigger than from Rt 50 to the Columbia Heights units that want to stay at Fleet. So don't pretend that it's impossible or unreasonable that Fairlington could be divided. You can say you don't like it. That's fine. I don't blame you. No one likes it.[/quote]

I guess what I don't understand is what kind of devil's bargain was worked out with Henry parents and where were the rest of South Arlington when these discussions occurred? Why do parents at one elementary school have such an outsized effect on the rest of the school districts? Honestly, why would Henry parents honestly believe they wouldn't be considered for Drew when they're literally 7/10 a mile away? We need boundaries that look out for the schools' best interests, not one specific neighborhood over another, whatever that neighborhood happens to be. I really feel like the entire boundary redesign is being held hostage by a pact that Henry parents may or may not have made years ago. [/quote]

It wasn't a pact. It was a recommendation by the SAWG coinciding with the recommendation that some of Oakridge's PU move into Drew. Since Oakridge isn't moving into Drew the recommendation for PH to move as a whole isn't feasible. [/quote]

Here we go again.....  :roll: Henry graciously "agreed" and was duped.  SAWG's recommendation was just that - a recommendation; and that recommendation did not stipulate the boundaries would not be touched.  But thanks for giving the SB the permission they needed to accept the SAWG's recommendation.  The rest of us, especially the 80% FRL students about to be concentrated at Drew, thank you.[/quote]

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