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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we're going to dissolve a school, why not dissolve ATS? If it's not really anything unique. Why dissolve any neighborhood school that has a ready community of walkers, particularly one in an area of growth in the county?[/quote]

Because it makes no sense whatsoever to dissolve ATS, a highly successful school that is, in fact, unique, and sits in a location that will have more than enough seats - neighborhood seats are not needed in that location.  Neighborhood seats are needed at Oakridge!!!! And if I see how the school board is thinking there may be too many seats around Reed with the opening of it, I truly have to wonder, why they did not slate a new elementary School for the Pentagon City area first. It was one of the recommendations of the working group... the only one they did not follow...[/quote]

EXACTLY! And now the worst thing is that the Westover people are now demanding that half of the existing building be torn down to protect their sledding hill. Seriously! There is an alternative proposal that for practically the same money could keep those preschool seats in the current building and get a new 750 seat elementary school behind the current building. This would allow APS to offer preschool to more kids. Maybe with the surplus of seats in NW Arlington, kids could go to preschool and then opt to stay at the new school? That would help with diversity.

But, no. Sledding hills come before kids and common sense.[/quote]

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