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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems to me that putting the new high school at any of the Drew, Hoffman-Boston, or Henry sites and [b]moving the displaced elementary seats to Reed[/b] would be best in the long run. All of these choices have gives and takes, but if the objections to the Ed Center plan (which I share) are largely based on resistance to 3500 kids on one site sharing the same fields/pool, it seems that those concerns would be similar for using the Wakefield, Kenmore, or Gunston sites. Acknowledging the tiering system is meant to convey relative complexity and phased construction, isn't it best to think long term here and deal with a slightly more painful process to get a better and more sustainable outcome?

What am I missing? [/quote]

The problem with shifting the displaced ES seats to Reed is that 1) Reed is already needed to handle all the kids in that neighborhood that are overcrowding McKinley and 2) S. Arlington is also running out of ES space so they need more ES space in that part of the county.  Hoffman-Boston is relatively small so maybe they can combine that with the new Drew neighborhood school?  Regardless, you are back into the sequencing problem where you have to build an ES before you can even start on the HS seats and so it's hard to see how they could manage to get the HS seats online in time.  The MS sites get around that problem.[/quote]

Got it. You're right about South Arl, I believe Oakridge is also pretty overcrowded and some of their students are destined for the new Drew as well. My understanding from reading this board is that some of the North Arlington elementaries are under-capacity, specifically, Nottingham, Discovery, Barrett, Ashlawn, and Jamestown (even if not by very much). I have read enough to know that there would be a ginormus uproar over further adjustment to McKinley/Tuckahoe/whatever boundaries but if we could move past the individual families being rightly annoyed AF, perhaps there is room for more kids such than then Reed could take some more from South Arl and the rest could wind up at Drew. Also, I would expect that they are going to try to encourage more kids into the Montessori program when it moves to Henry. Currently it's only part of Drew and I think it's probably around 400 kids or so? Henry had 550 students or so, so there is room for more.

I get that the sequencing problem is a real challenge and the thoughts above tend to be on the margins. It just seems if there is a way to deal with it, the outcome will be better long-term. [/quote]

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