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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This process is about relieving overcrowding at Oakridge. What’s everyone’s take on that?[/quote]

That Oakridge got its preferred outcome being sent to Hoffman Boston rather than Drew.  But also that Oakridge wants to remain an Oakridge enclave on its side of 395.  During SAWG they fought hard for a school on their side of 395, even though the long-term numbers and timing just didn't align for them to get the new school built at a location in Pentagon or Crystal City.  Of course, it didn't help that there was no immediately available site to build that school on for a 2019 opening.  But their rationale didn't sell:  we can't send our kids across 395; but you can send your 4 year olds across 395 to our side for preschool until our numbers are high enough to completely fill both schools.  Really?

I'm sure Oakridge has been doing its share of advocacy this past year, too.  They've just chosen to do it quietly behind-the-scenes rather than open and in-your-face like Henry chose to do.

Quite frankly, I'm sick to death of the word "community" and everyone thinking theirs is is so close and strong and special and sacro-sanct; yet their great and strong community is apparently too fragile to survive a chunk of their kids going to a different school.  You'll still go to school with a lot of others in your neighborhood; you'll still see neighbors and classmates and non-classmates in your local parks and restaurants; you can still host social gatherings with neighbors whose kids attend the other school; you can still have your neighborhood potlucks and festivals.  In the meantime, you extend your perspective and your community to another part of Arlington - likely the one adjacent, though "separated" by a major road.[b]  I understand the angst about switching schools midstream; but I do not get why that is "tearing apart the community."  Your community merely extends or evolves into another great one[/b].[/quote]

+1 I'm sick to death of hearing about "tearing apart" communities.  It's elementary school.  The community changes every year with kids arriving and others leaving.  They will surviving moving to another school -- with a bunch of their neighbors.[/quote]

+2. Especially since it's not like this is an area where people grow up, marry someone they went to high school with and buy a house two blocks away from their parents, where people rarely leave and new people rarely come. It's an incredibly transient area where the communities are constantly changes.[/quote]

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