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Which long branch zones would be sent to the new school at jefferson? My kids aren't in school yet, but we are in ashton heights, down the street from long branch and across 50 from jefferson. I hear awesome things about Patrick Henry, and it would be great for the kids to go to school in a new building, but am I supposed to walk my kindergartner across a 6 lane highway with a toddler and baby in tow to get to elementary school? Even with the pedestrian bridge that sounds awful.[/quote]

If your biggest problem is that, for a couple of years, you are going to have to walk your kids over a pedestrian bridge, count your blessings.

Arlington is in a tough situation. [b]You need to figure out what you can live with, not what's ideal.[/b][/quote]

This. So much this.

Long Branch poster, they cannot expand LB, the lot is too small, and they can't use a trailer farm for the same reason, unless you don't care at all about kids having areas to play. So if there are too many kids, some have to be sent somewhere. If not being sent to the new Henry, your next closest school is Barrett, I think, in which case your kids would probably be getting on a bus to a school that is also projected to be over capacity soon. Not everybody is going to be able to walk to a small neighborhood school. Not in Arlington. [/quote]

OP, when the boundaries are being decided in a year or two, speak up at the community meetings if you value walking to Long Branch and want that as your school. But unless you live within a block or two of Long Branch, I wouldn't count on it being your neighborhood school once the new school opens.[/quote]

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