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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, there are some really nasty people on this site.

Randolph is close, but not next door to Barcroft. Geez, I can look at a map, including the walk zone maps APS just put out. APS maps show that elementary school kids cannot cross Columbia Pike or George Mason. So, how can kids who live north of Columbia Pike and west of George Mason WALK to Randolph.

And, how does sending lower income kids from one poor performing school, to another another (and higher FR/L) poor performing school help them????[/quote]

I think the better question is if you can somehow arrange options schools and boundaries so that only Randolph is a "bad" school instead of Carlin Spring, Randolph and Barcroft, is it worth it? That's 2 less schools of high poverty and one sacrificial lamb. So some kids are helped and some remain in the same (not great) situation. Yes, this is cynical, but I think it's part of the consideration. [/quote]

DP. I don't think it's cynical or making Randolph a "sacrificial lamb" to acknowledge that we don't have the ability to help all three through this particular process and helping two without helping the third is still better overall than maintaining the status quo. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.[/quote]

Making Carlin Springs an immersion option makes sense, since the current CS students can be absorbed into their "new" immersion school and get rezoned for a combination of Claremont and Ashlawn, both strong, low FARMs schools in their own right that can take on some ED students without tanking their own schools. You also help the arguably most "needy" school/students, as Carlin Springs is over 80% FARMs. 
 
That same situation, unfortunately, does not hold for Barcroft. If you make that school an immersion option, there are no good options for where to rezone the current Barcroft students. The planning units that could be picked up by Fleet (i.e. Alcova Heights) are primarily comprised of MC families, so Fleet just becomes even more "healthy" than it already will be. (It might also push Fleet way over capacity from the get-go. Many of the Alcova Heights families that transfer away from Barcroft will likely jump at the chance to go to Fleet.) The planning units that could get rezoned for Barrett (i.e. southern part of Arlington Forest and northern part of Barcroft) are also mostly MC. So yes, you might reduce the FARMs rate at Barrett, but then you're essentially breaking up a S. Arlington neighborhood school to improve a N. Arlington neighborhood school. And the southern/western PUs of Barcroft would get moved where? To Randolph (which is already at 74% FARMs), or Claremont (which is already going to be picking up FARMs students from the old Carlin Springs?

All this upheaval/musical chairs, and for what gain? You would basically make the new Randolph the old Carlin Springs, but even poorer, and/or the new Claremont the old Barcroft.[/quote]

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