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Yes. Reed should be option. Obviously.  Easy, simple solution.  But that is never going to happen because Westover is hot bed of ACDC activism and no Arlington politician will cross them.[/quote]

They made the mistake of making promises to the neighborhood before building. Same thing at Fleet. Henry could have stayed where it was as a neighborhood school of around 500 kids, and they could have solved the capacity problem with a boundary change. They could have built a large option school at Fleet that could have housed one of the higher-demand ES option programs, like Immersion, at around 750 seats. The neighborhood didn't want a boundary change, or to deal with the buses of an option school, but they're getting both of those things anyway because Drew is opening as a neighborhood school, necessitating a boundary change, and Montessori is moving into the old Henry building. Bad past decisions are making good future decisions more difficult. Same thing with building too many neighborhood seats in the NW quadrant. Now somebody has to become option, but it's not going to be be the new school at Reed because of promises made and a vote already taken. Too late, so it has to be one of the other schools. [/quote]

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