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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t explain why they decided to not make a decision. Halley still has an attendance island. Are they too afraid to make a decision?[/quote]

They got a lot of push back. I think for some areas they’re waiting and hoping the temperature drops? I don’t see that happening but whatever. [/quote]Note they backpedaled on changes to the Bren Mar Park split feeder by sending it to Key/Lewis from Holmes/Edison and giving it back it’s 59 sixth graders at Edison.

This is because Beech Tree and Belvedere would have split fed into Poe and Holmes from Glasgow, with Beech Tree having a High School split feeder.

But do note Poe is going to become an AAP center for itself and Holmes, which might result in Glasgow Easing out without needing to lose in boundary students.

When Glasgow was replaced in 2009 or so, wasn’t it built to hold 1500 students?

Only asking because I don’t know that school very well or how many AAP students it holds that would transfer over to Poe.

I also think that Annandale Terrace, Braddock, or Columbia should hold AAP to form greater continuity at that level so that Canterbury Woods’ 5th grade AAP students don’t suddenly have to transfer over to Poe (if they have the capacity to do so).[/quote]

Glasgow has a large capacity.  They are effectively acknowledging that having 1700-1800 kids at a middle school is too many, regardless of the school’s capacity.

The fix is to move kids from
Glasgow to both Poe and Holmes.  It makes sense to also reassign the kids moving out of Glasgow to Poe to Falls Church and those moving to Holmes to Annandale.

It will get Glasgow down to a more manageable size, but it’s going to push up the poverty rates at both Glasgow and Justice.  It also means that the recent expansion of Justice to 2500 seats was at least partially unnecessary.  [/quote]

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