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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no kids, but I have lived in the area for 30 and attended K-12 at a nearby district.

Can someone give me a brief rundown of what is going on with relocating/redistricting[/quote]

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Interesting.  SO why is this debate so heated?  Are people worried about their kids losing friends or possibly meeting some new ones of color? Lowering of academic expectations? Overcrowding?

One thing I do know (at least when I graduated in the mid 2000's).  Our immediate area had Langley, Mclean, Madison, George Mason, WL, Woodson, and Yorktown providing education up to, if not exceeding the standard of the local private schools (O'Connell, Potomac, PVI). I realize I am ignoring the under preforming Jeb Stuart/Justice, Falls Church and maybe to a lesser extent Marshall.  Although, I have heard Marshall is in much better shape than it was 15 years ago.   I know families have different beliefs and traditions, but purely on an academic standing, it felt like a I knew many kids who's parents wasted 30k a year in these private schools.  There were a few interestingly drawn boundaries back then that Im not sure still exist.  The most interesting was just Southwest of the City of Falls Church where you have a little neighborhood called Westwood Park.  It made no sense to send these kids to Mclean when Marshall, Falls Church, Stuart/Justice and even Mason ( I know different school district) were much closer.

Is there concern that these new plans may diminish the exceptional public school system Arlington, and most of Northern Virginia has?

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It seems like there is actually a lot of support for the proposal.  It's just that current Key families who don't want to move are going absolutely ballistic about the idea of moving, pretending they speak for all underprivileged children and spinning it as an attempt to kill the program. Completely ignoring that they are no longer located near a large concentration of Spanish speakers and can't fill their Spanish-dominant 50% and a move would, hopefully, make it more appealing.  In addition, the current McKinley families who are walkable to McKinley but would likely not be moving w/ most of the school to Reed are losing their minds about the "injustice" of it.  McKinley has (rightly) complained for years about their overcrowding.  It seems the McKinley families who will shift to Reed are happy, others not so much.  So, basically, it's all about self-interest from a relatively small number of people who will be somewhat inconvenienced.[/quote]

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