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You don't even understand how much overcrowding we have had in NW Arlington Elementary Schools.  [b]It is our turn to have breathing room [/b]for a few years while they build housing on Lee Highway and EFC. It is okay for Tuckahoe, Nottingham. McKinley and Reed to be under-enrolled for 5-10 years.  [b]These kids have been through so much [/b]and just look what will happen once they go to middle school.  Swanson is like a Zoo.  Don't send kids from across the county here [b]it just wouldn't be fair [/b]to Tuckahoe.[/quote]

Are you writing this with a straight face, or are you trying to make Tuckahoe look bad?  Our kids are at McKinley, and we hate the overcrowding and know that we got screwed in the last boundary adjustment, but I'd never claim that means we should sit way far below capacity for 5-10 years when other schools are still vastly overcrowded.  Get us to 95-105% would be ideal, but asking to consciously let a school sit way under enrolled counting on potential future real estate development that has been in discussion for years but hasn't happened when we know where kids now need seats?  Get real.  It's about balancing, say it with me now.

The crazy plans that you've sent out advocating for your families to make walkable units that would have to cross both Sycamore and Lee Highway are just that.  Crazy. Units that are safely walkable to other schools will never validly be walkable across major multi-lane roads.  Take APS staff out for that walk and see what they have to say about just how safe that would be.  Some of those same units were pushing hard to be zoned to Swanson so that they could use the trail. Now you think they'd rather cross multiple arteries rather than use the trail to get to Reed or McKinley? Come on.

Finally, the kids you are referencing won't even be impacting except for current K and 1st graders, who weren't at Tuckahoe back when it was vastly overcrowded.  So no current Tuckahoe child will have had to experience both the horrendous overcrowding that was there in the past and also be at Swanson or Williamsburg in a vastly overcrowded state.  Not one.  
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