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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ATS should be moved to Randolph or Barcroft. If north Arlington parents really believe in the program, they can drive a little further, to a less privileged neighborhood. 
the current ATS campus can turn back to a neighborhood school. [/quote]

That makes sense. [/quote]

This would help provide seats where they are needed.  In one thread (maybe it was this one), someone commented on how weird McK & Ashlawn's boundaries are.  ATS is that reason.  If it were converted to neighborhood, it would relieve pressure at McK, Ashlawn, Glebe, Taylor & probably Barrett.  [/quote]

This makes NO SENSE.  Do you know anything about Randolph or Barcroft?

Randolph is the only APS elementary school where the entire boundary is walkable and it has 73% FRL.  If you put ATS there, you have now put 450+ more kids on a bus in a community that is at high risk.

Barcroft is the only APS elementary school that has a modified school year calendar and it has 59% FRL.  If you put ATS there, you lose the modified school year calendar and you again displace 450+ kids at high risk.

Even worse, this suggestion does not put "seats where they are needed".  It may put seats where they are needed in NA.  But it makes things far worse in SA where seats are needed by transferring 450+ available seats to NA and not thinking of the consequences and looking at the bigger picture.[/quote]

I suggested this and I live in SA. I do know that area and I do know what I'm talking  about
1) Barcroft is about to go to a traditional calendar. This will likely be the last year with the year round schedule.
2) Randolph is about to become a choice school anyway. 
3) those "high risk" populations need to be broken up. I know it's really great that they are all tucked away, and kept together and away your family, but it's actually not what's best for their education. They need to be integrated and exposed to more high achieving kids. 
Making Randolph IB will likely happen, but it wouldn't be bad to put ATS there. It might pursuade some of the middle class families to give it a chance. [/quote]

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