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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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and they admitted they disregarded pre-k and didn't leave room for VPI classrooms. Their response is basically- take it up with APS, we didn't know we needed to do that. Well- that is a fatal flaw in your map- yet you are still touting it and suggesting you have a better solution.

They used the same information and same criteria that APS did. It wasn't until last week that staff said "oh wait, we want to account for VPI which is part of this decision." APS claimed not to be using demographics or other considerations since they weren't doing boundaries right now. The people who did this used APS's data and the goals that APS stated at the time to see if there were in fact other potential options to generate discussion. The staff fell in behind a single proposal almost immediately, and has changed their statements and goalposts repeatedly in order to make that seem like the only option.

And PP who quoted only part of the AEM poster was disingenuous. For those not on there, she said they stopped roughly at Rt 50 because those doing the work didn't feel they had enough information about the schools and communities in the southern half of the county to reasonably shuffle things too much. Again, parents with day jobs trying to see if they could offer up reasonable alternatives for staff and SB to consider rather than the one and only one that staff has stuck behind.

I understand that McKinley parents don’t have a sufficient grasp of the neighborhoods south of 50. Me neither. But that’s why we have professionals that do this for a living. You shouldn’t do a county-wide boundary process by splitting the county in half. The idea that this McKinley map can handle north arlington without any impact on the work that will be done in south arlington is absurd. It’s 26 square miles, and we have capacity issues in certain schools both north and south. Moves in one place impact other places, and there’s no magical line on 50 that diminishes those impacts.[/quote]

Here's the thing - any real consideration HAS to look at South Arlington. If Key stays option, they have too many kids in Rosslyn corridor. Long Branch's border has to move north to take some of them.  Which means Fleet's border has to move north to take some of Lyon Park.  If Fleet's border moves north, then that limits what can be done about demographics because the poverty is concentrated south and west. [b]50 isn't a magic line where Arlington stops. [/b]

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That's not what my realtor told me[/quote]

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