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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what you guys are arguing about above, but I'm a PP on this thread and a Nauck resident. Some of us have kids at Drew already and others are ready to send our kids there. 80%+ low income with a b.s. boundary stretching all the way to the west Pike is going to scare UMC parents, no doubt. But 60% with a great new principal and a new curriculum is a different story. Give it a chance to succeed. There's a reason many of us chose to live where we did, and it's not because we can't afford North Arlington.[/quote]
Bursting bubble in 3..2..1...

60% isn’t going to get you there. Please take a look at Barcroft. And don’t start with a bunch of BS about the year round calendar. That’s just the excuse UMC liberals use. If they change the Calendar, they’ll just not go and not have an excuse ( see: Douglas Park)
Drew will have to be UNDER 55%.
I think low 50’s and you’ll have a shot, but if 6 out of 10 kids are getting free lunch? No. You will not get a ground swell.

You guys need to get shirts printed

#NOAPSOVER50

No Schools Over Fifty

Arlington can and should do better.[/quote]

Of all the postings on any DCUM thread, I agree with this more than anything.  You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT and I love the the "no schools over 50" campaign.  
I also agree with a PP about the need to SELL the new Drew, hype it up, bring in highly-valued staff from all of our other schools and get the community excited.  And I don't mean the Nauck community excited and the PUs being sent there a little less distressed about going.  I mean, get the entire south arlington community excited about and FOR Drew so that people who aren't even in contention for going wished they were.  Now, that's most likely not even possible; but these numbers are the first step to generating optimism and buy-in.  The Henry and Oakridge PUs are just going to be angry, upset, bitter, whatever because they don't want to leave their respective highly-valued schools with high achievement and good reputation and active community among neighbors and friends.  But so what if the current families move or choice out somehow?  Others will ultimately take their place as their kids age out or as they move out of the boundary.  The transition isn't going to be immediate - it will take time; but it will only happen if APS does it right.[/quote]

Yes, but keep in mind the backlash about "no schools over fifty" is as likely to come from AH advocates as it is from residents in attendance zones under 50 percent. 50 percent is the farms rate at Wakefield and about half of SA elementary students are disadvantaged. It's a good slogan but AH activist know quite well that it implies a cap on the disadvantaged student population, which, were it not for their efforts, would be in rapid decline, as opposed to holding steady and certainly growing in certain areas. The last thing you want is the scared of poor people NA parents allying with their buddies in the AH developer business. Those groups have to be courted, not antagonized. They run this town.[/quote]

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