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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not following the issue with breaking up Barcroft and turning it to an option school. 
Not all of Barcroft will go Randolph. 
Some will Choice into whatever program
Moves in, and the rest will be spilt amongst other schools.[/quote]

You can’t plan on a certain number of students choicing out, APS has to provide enough neighborhood seats for every child in the neighborhood, whether they transfer or not.[/quote]

Except with option schools, you can plan on at least the disadvantaged neighborhood population keeping their neighborhood seats. They come in through VPI. The displaced families would be the UMC ones. I would like to know just how many currently enrolled UMC kids there are living in actual Barcroft (not the current boundary, because that is likely to change). How many would definitely risk being shut out of their neighborhood school? With so many transfers, how many families could be affected? [/quote]

Both UMC and disadvantaged students would be displaced. We're talking high-poverty schools here, at 80% and 60%, respectively, for Carlin Springs and Barcroft. Even with VPI, option schools wouldn't keep all of the disadvantaged students at their schools.

Shifting Claremont's immersion to Carlin Springs makes sense, but I have qualms with moving Key to Barcroft. First, you'd essentially be bussing in N. Arlington students to displace S. Arlington ones. Second, with Carlin Springs, Campbell, and Barcroft all as option schools, there be only one neighborhood school for the western end of the Pike. Now contrast that with the NW quadrant. I don't want to see ATS move to Nottingham either, but that seems like the lesser evil here.
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