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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, I suspect that the western end of the Pike does not need another neighborhood school unless Carlin Springs is made into an option school. All three surrounding schools are under capacity (Barcroft, Carlin Springs and Randolph). Perhaps they could move some of kids north of 50 zoned for ashlawn to Carlin Springs, and then zone the lower end of Carlin Springs and Abingdon to Campbell. I suspect that would never happen because the Ashlawn parents would revolt.

Also, if the goal is to make Campbell bigger, that won't happen. There is very little room for more trailers and the wetland features on the property prevent cost-effective expansion (too many federal permits). So, if it becomes a neighborhood school, it will remain teeny. [/quote]

Where will all the kids going to Carlin Springs be moved if it becomes an option school? The school is hundreds of seats bigger than Campbell, and beyond the kids in the Campbell walk zone, where do the other 250 kids get bused? And how can they plan to have such a small neighborhood school for an area so dense with kids? Those kids aren't going anywhere either. All the family-sized CAFs all around there mean there will NEVER be fewer students at any neighborhood school in this quadrant. So where do they go? The can't all fit at a 400 seat neighborhood school. Are they going to be forced from their larger newer school into a small old school with a field full of permanent trailers? I guess the message that they're considered "lesser-than" hasn't been communicated to them explicitly enough yet?[/quote]

I don’t think they will move anything to Carlin Springs. Staff wanting the ability to grow option programs is what was driving talking about Carlin Springs, but Campbell may have to be an exception to that and stay where it is.

Perhaps they just swap Key and ASFS and be done with this exercise. [/quote]

I really don't understand how Staff synthesized the feedback they've gotten. All the bitter complaining about the unfair small size of option schools has been mainly about HB, which is not being enlarged or moved to a bigger space in any scenario. There was also some complaining about ATS, and they do have an extensive waitlist that would indicate demand outstrips supply. Not sure how the other programs got dragged into this mess. The Immersions schools are already huge, and AFAIK, have gotten that way by taking their entire waitlists. But without the neighborhood preferences/guarantees, I think the Immersion programs won't grow at the rate they have been either. They may even shrink. And Campbell is definitely a niche school. I really can't see demand growing too much beyond its current size, because the program is not everyone's cup of tea. That could also change I suppose, but seems like a big gamble to plan around potentials rather than realities. What if they move option schools to bigger spaces and then they don't fill up? What then? [/quote]

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