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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP barcroft poster. Neither neighborhood should be split up like a pie. [/quote]

It will be happening all over the county. [/quote]

Yeah, neighborhoods aren't all going to stay together, because of walk zones. I honestly am just guessing about how they'd split Barcroft. The neighborhood itself won't be split like a pie. Worst case, it would be divided in half. It would be the current attendance zone that really changes, but that's going to happen in any case because of Fleet opening and Drew becoming 100% neighborhood and cascading changes resulting from a boundary being drawn around ASFS for the first time in decades. There is no way that those changes alone don't result in the Barcroft boundary being blown apart.

As for seats, making both Drew and Claremont neighborhood schools gets you a net gain of neighborhood seats. And Fleet is a much bigger building than Henry was, so more real seats gained there, too. Plus [b]the likely scenario is that Arlington Forest south side kids will be shifted N of 50 and Glencarlyn to Ashlawn[/b] results in fewer seats occupied in South Arlington. The next new ES is supposed to be in South Arlington. [/quote]

S. Arlington parent here. Glencarlyn and Arlington Forest south are among the few middle class pockets in this area of the county. Pulling those families north would effectively increase the FARMs rates at the remaining S. Arlington neighborhood schools. No Bueno.[/quote]

Right, which is why they don't intend to leave neighborhood schools behind in those locations. THEY CANNOT CHANGE HOUSING OR GEOGRAPHY. This is the best they can do with what they have. If the community says no, then it's going to mean even more highly concentrated poverty in South Arlington schools. [/quote]

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