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I just think all this complaining is very much a spoiled North Arlington mindset -- "MY CHILD SHALL NOT BE INCONVENIENCED BY TRAILERS" -- when you are coming from schools that already have fleets of trailers in their fields.  Maybe you just don't want to leave your home schools, and that's fair.  I wouldn't want to either, probably.  But we're all in this together, and we can get through it as a community.

The new school is going to be really, really beautiful.[/quote]

I'm a current Mck parent too, and I don't think this is true at all. It is not about the trailers. It is about having 712 kids crammed into an elementary school built for 684. I get that other schools are over-capacity too, but why are they cramming additional kids into the schools that already have the largest enrollment in North Arlington (i.e, McK and Ashlawn-- both built for 684 kids). You have schools like Nottingham (488 capacity), Discovery (630 capacity), and Jamestown (597 capacity) that all have projected to have *under enrollment* for next year and already way smaller than McK.  Even with the extra classroom space that was built, McK and Ashlawn still need to share 1 gym, 1 library, 1 lunchroom, 1 playground, 1 field, etc. with 100+ more kids than any other elementary schools. That's what stinks about the over-enrollment, not the trailers.

I love McK- the parents are super nice, and very down to earth, and always have a positive attitude. But I also think that is why we got screwed. When everybody else fought to protect their smaller school, McK took everyone in with open arms. I think the School Administration is screwing us over with the over-enrollment because they know McK parents don't fight back the way the other neighborhoods do. People say that Nottingham, Discovery, and Jamestown get preferential treatment because they are in the most wealthy part of Arlington--- I actually don't think that is the reason. I think it is because they just fight back harder than the rest of us and APS doesn't have the balls to stand up to them.[/quote]

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