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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don’t think they’re going to carve up civic associations unless they absolutely have to in order to make the numbers work, even considering walk zones. Just conjecture on my part.[/quote]

This has to be one of the funniest posts I’ve ever read- yes, god forbid they break up the Civic Associations— even if that means disregarding obvious and natural walk zones!

How does the Lyon Village Civic Association survive being split between Taylor and ASFS? It must be total chaos and unbearable. Best send them all to the new Key school. [/quote]

+1.  APS uses planning units, not civic associations.  There are multiple civic associations in Arlington that are split between schools.[/quote]

Yes; though [b]very small associations shouldn't be split unless they absolutely need to be[/b].  Absolutely no reason at all a large civic association can't, or shouldn't, be divided.  [/quote]

Why? My kids have no idea what civic association we live in; it is a non issue to them. We live near the border of our CA, and they have more friends and more familiarity with the other CA neighborhood than the bulk of our own.[/quote]

WTF does the CA have to do with the schools? Answer: NOTHING.

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Because some CA are so small that sending the kids off to different schools which each then split into two different schools for the next level does have a significant impact on the # of kids in the cohort going to the next new school together, essentially making the kids start over socially by knowing hardly anyone in the midst of a bunch of other kids who all went to school together and know each other and are on sports teams together and live in the same neighborhood with each other.  I am not opposed to a school splitting off to two schools; but I don't think it's best to have the same kids split multiple times and if they start off being split from their neighborhood cohort, it's even more isolating.[/quote]

You are confusing CAs with Planning Units. CAs have nothing to do with where kids go to school, sport teams or boundaries. [/quote]
No, I am not confusing CAs with PUs.  Kids from the same school often get on the same sports teams.  So when the kids matriculate and split from their elementary cohort, they are joining other kids at middle school who live in other neighborhoods that went to school together and were on teams together, etc.

In the last boundary round, Columbia Heights kids were sent to three different elementary schools.  It is not that big of a neighborhood.  Gilliam Place was carved out into a new PU within Alcova heights and districted to a different school.  A north section of that same civic association was also directed to a different school.  Those small civic associations are split to different elementary schools and then one or two of those elementary schools split into different middle schools.

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So you’re saying that you don’t want your CA split into different PUs, or if they are split, the PUs should go to the same elementary school, right?  So in sum, PUs are what what folks should really focus on rather than what CA they belong to. I mean, if I’m on the border of a neighborhood, I would rather go to school with my actual neighbors, who might be in a different CA, but hopefully in the same PU.[/quote]

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