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[quote=Anonymous]I am a big fan of neighborhood schools, but the problem now facing APS is that Reed is less than a mile from McKinley--- which is about to open a 240+ seat addition-- and only 2 miles from Ashlawn, which also recently opened a 225 seat addition. If Reed is turned into a 725 student ES to relieve overcrowding, it means that three largest ES buildings in the County (Reed, McK, and Ashlwan) will be situated far in the western section of the county, in a triangle within 1-2 miles of each other. (Look at a map if you don't believe me.) Even with the projected NW Arlington overcrowding, there is no way to fill all three buildings with "neighborhood" kids-- there just aren't that many kids in 22205. People on this board who are throwing out the idea of redrawing boundaries need to take the time to look at the current ES boundary map against the utilization statistics by school and not just the aggregate numbers in the CIP.

If you want to open another "neighborhood" school in an existing building, it makes way more geographic sense to move ATS to Reed and open the ATS building as the neighborhood school to relieve ASF/Key (and maybe Taylor) of some students. It is much closer to where the worst of the NE overcrowding exists. This also relieves Ashlawn's over-crowding, and opens up space at McK for the Nottingham overcrowding once the walkable Ashlawn streets are moved back to Ashlawn. (There are a ton of kids walkable to both ATS and Ashlawn who attend McK now.) If Westover residents wanted a neighborhood ES, they should have fought against the McK addition and argued to put the money towards a Reed reno for the 2016/17 school year. It seems the only way to solve the NE crisis now is a choice school (which I personally hate) or a bunch of costly additions on other existing elementary school buildings so we create a bunch more 680+ student schools. I am sympathetic to what the Westover residents want, but they are just screwed by the NE projection numbers.

But let's not forget that we're all screwed equally when it comes to high school. Unless we want to start fighting over which neighborhood gets claim to which Starbucks for our kids to hang out in all day while they take on-line classes on their laptop.[/quote]

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