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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option![/quote]

Why anyone in north Arlington  would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large. [/quote]

When the dust settles, the elementary schools, including options, will be even more economically segregated than now. It's going to be a really striking chart and I can't wait for arlnow to publish it.[/quote]

What do you think they should have done?[/quote]

I think if the 1% wants options they can get their nannies to drive a little farther south, that's what I think.[/quote]

But then what happens to all of the kids in South Arlington who want a neighborhood school or don't get into an option school, but there's a massive seat deficit because all of the option programs have been crammed in there? Are you going to make them get on buses north instead of letting them go to school in their own neighborhoods?[/quote]

Oakridge and Henry are really the only neighborhood schools in SA that are overcrowded. A lot of the boundary process is not just because of fleet being built. It's because UMC families with children have concentrated themselves in just two south Arlington neighborhood elementaries they deem good enough. Moving Campbell from arlingtons poorest part to its richest won't help that reality.[/quote]

You're right that the boundary process isn't just about Fleet being built, but you're wrong about the motivation being the socioeconomic housing patterns in south Arlington. The real driving force is the budget crisis and the fact that APS doesn't think it's going to get better any time soon. If you're going to have to move some boundaries, better to go all-in and cut a few million dollars in transportation costs.[/quote]

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