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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sorry, but the heavy congestion around reed is no different than other areas and not comparable to Carlin springs. . What makes Carlin springs crazy is that it is a winding road on a hill with poor visibility. It interesects with route 50, an eight lane commuter highway. And, Carlin springs already has 2 elementary schools and middle School.

The area around reed is nothing like Carlin springs, zero comparison. The traffic on Washington Blvd is already slowed because of pedestrians in westover and there is a library right there.

Sorry, that area is pastoral in comparison to Carlin springs and route 50.[/quote]

True, the two areas are not very alike.  Westover is much more walkable, regardless of what people say about congestion.  And Kenmore has the largest amount of APS-owned land available.  They were willing to consider an additional elementary school on the Wakefield site, which is smaller; but Glencarlyn -- like EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE COUNTY - claims the market on traffic problems.  I drive Carlin Springs frequently and at all times of day.  It has never been as bad as Columbia Pike and is actually more of an issue on the part of Carlin Springs SOUTH of the Pike.  AND there are things that can be done to improve traffic flow into/out of/and on the site.  The acreage of Kenmore is greater than Wakefield and does not even include Carlin Springs ES which has four acres unto itself and a front door accessed from a completely different road than Kenmore.

Carlin Springs ES is actually one of the most ideal locations for a choice program because it has zero walkability - and because of the extreme concentration of low and very low income 
students.  But it will never be touched because we have to keep the low-income Latino community together and segregated from everyone else.[/quote]

1. Are you aware that Carlin Springs south of the Pike is not even in  Arlington County?  Not sure what your point is there. 
2.  Many members of the Latino community are not asking to be segregated from everyone else.  They, like nearly everyone else in Arlington, are asking not to  have their children forcibly bused across the county further away from their homes and caregivers making it even harder for their families to be involved with the school.  They, like many in N. Arlington, want the ability to send their kids to neighborhood schools where they can interact with members of their community.  
3.    Let's say we did make Carlin Springs or Randolph an option school.  Where do you think all of the low income non-English speaking population  will go?   (and for the record--not everyone is Hispanic.  At Randolph it's something like 60% but there are scores of students from families that speak languages other than Spanish). Assuming we're still working under a neighborhood/choice model most of them will still be together and in another school.  What school has space?  How will this make things better for everyone?   What might help is adding more option and fewer neighborhood schools, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. 
4. FWIW--I generally agree wth you about Carlin Springs traffic----that's why I think it would have been a great place for a high school. [/quote]

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