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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The solution to a lot of this is to turn Reed in Westover back into an ES, which it was to begin with... There are too many kids in the Overlee/Madison Manor/Westover/Dominion Hills/Bluemont pocket of Arlington (22205)-- and more families moving in every year. It is the one place in N. Arl where homes are still (somewhat) affordable, at least compared to 22207.  Too late now, but frustrating that it was never seriously looked at five years ago when they knew this problem was coming. More frustrating for the McKinley families is the fact that the transfer decisions were made after the school plans were finished, even though everyone originally thought that the expansion would get rid of the trailers. If you've ever driven by McKinley (or looked on GoogleEarth), there is very little green space to begin with and now even less with trailers that are apparently going to be a permanent part of the school.[/quote]

Where would you move the programs currently operating in Reed?

[b]As for trailers, that's true for all of the elementary schools. No one's proposing to expand Nottingham or Tuckahoe to get rid of them, so why should McKinley be the exception[/b]?[/quote]

DP, but I'll argue with you on this one.  McKinley's addition is expanding it, with Ashlawn, into one of the two biggest elementaries in Arlington.  I think it's a much bigger deal for a school with 700 kids to be overcapacity than one with 500.  Elementary schools are supposed to be warm, comforting, friendly places for small kids, not giant, impersonal spaces like the buildings high schoolers are expected to deal with.  If you're going to build an elementary school out to 700, it shouldn't have to deal with trailers, too.  Nobody really WANTS their kid to go to a 700 kid elementary school (right?  I mean, if any of us had to choose, wouldn't we pick the smaller school for our kids?), so at least let them use their small remaining green space for fields and playgrounds instead of trailers.[/quote]

Bravo! [/quote]

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