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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile everyone in 22205 is going to get screwed by Lander's decision to build the 1300 high school seats at WL-- because guess what Yorktown neighborhoods are going to be the first to get redistricted to WL when it grows to 4000 students? Westover and East Falls Church ones. The SALA moms on here are annoying, but they are totally correct that the Northside is going to implode into a big shitshow over who gets kicked out of Yorktown and moved to the WL ant farm in 2022. If you need a reason to vote AGAINST Lander, that should be your #1 reason.[/quote]

What option doesn't screw the people of 22205?

The 1,300 seat addition will most likely mean enlarging the WL boundaries.  Won't they just take back the boundaries that are being shifted now?  I don't think that impacted 22205 b/c the one PU (150X) that was under consideration stayed at WL.  [b]The Westover Apts. provide much of the diversity at Yorktown[/b], so I don't know that the board will mess with that.  APS claims the 1,300 seats will be to expand the IB program, but I don't buy it.

The Kenmore option comes with unknown boundaries.  People on here like to stir the pot making maps to get people riled op.  I could see the Kenmore HS boundaries going N of 50 (obviously), but maybe I don't know if it will even go much past Wilson b/c of density.  The boundaries are going to be smaller b/c it's a smaller school.  However, the map folks like to suck up all of Westover and put it at Kenmore.  So, how does that not screw Westover?  A realtor friend told me that homes zoned for Yortown sell higher than those for WL.  I don't have data, but I do trust her as this is her profession.  Won't rezoning from Yorktown to Kenmore affect property values, as well.

What's left?  Should 22205 be championing the Career Center option?[/quote]

I don't think that's correct. The Westover Apartments don't provide diversity at Yorktown, or at any school, because there are very few young children living in those mainly one bedroom apartments. The racial/economic diversity at Yorktown comes almost entirely from the Rosslyn-Courthouse area and the historically black neighborhood of Highview Park/Hall's Hill along Lee Highway.

I don't know what you're looking for, but I think it's a bit of hyperbole to think that you're going to be screwed, or more screwed than any of the rest of us. We're all getting lemons because of the failure to adequately address capacity in a timely manner, and because of the limited land and resources at APS's disposal. Not many of us are getting a better deal in all of this. And none of us are going to get the perfect situation. It's time to accept this, and try to make lemonade. 
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