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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At this point, now that we know there will be a surplus of seats in NW, I would vote to use the $50M for a school in Pentagon or Crystal City. This isn’t about “turns”. It is about where seats are needed. Then, Westover can keep their precious sledding hill, along with their crazy boundaries and bus rides.[/quote]

This is just bizarre. They're building in a place where they don't need seats it seems, if they're going to wind up with one school that's nearly completely empty. Could they adjust boundaries and fill all the current schools to max capacity? And not build at Westover yet? I'm not saying never build there, but maybe put a hold on construction until it's really necessary, five years and wait and see? Why are we building an extra school there? Transportation costs to bus the Westover kids to the existing four nearby schools are surely lower than building a brand new school. Maybe it's not ideal, but neither is spending upwards of $50 million to build a school where we don't need one. I get that they should've built a school there, based on where kids live. But they didn't, and now they don't yet need to. I think if they really feel like this is the right course of action, then they need to get buy-in from the Tuckahoe community and then they need to establish a NEW option program that the Tuckahoe community is on board with, that way the Tuckahoe kids don't all have to get on a bus either.

Also, Oakridge is going to get relief with the Drew boundary. That's what they've said ever since the SAWG. Obviously this makes Oakridge parents nervous and they'd prefer a new school in Pentagon City so that they aren't rezoned to Drew. But there are still not enough kids in Pentagon and Crystal City to justify a 700 seat ES there right now. 
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My hunch is that a small portion of Oakridge goes to Drew, but another chunk near pentagon City's goes to Hoffman. There would be room if the triangle of Douglas Park currently zoned for Hoffman is rezoned to Randolph, which is both walkable from there, and not currently at 100% capacity. Just conjecture.[/quote]

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