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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d make Claremont a neighborhood school and move immersion to Drew. Immersion is a draw for many Fairlington/Shirlington families. [/quote]

Making Drew an option school isn’t politically viable right now. It was mostly option Montessori until a few years ago and there was a big push to make it a neighborhood school to right the wrong done generations ago via bussing. Making it option again would be insensitive/racist/inequitable/etc and would be a whole cluster. [/quote]

I understand that the community was wary of the Montessori program siphoning resources away from the neighborhood program.

I also get that it’s easy to quickly defend any changes to Drew as racist or harmful, but meanwhile APS is steadily building a new map of segregation and inequity. [b]Drew can’t sit at 80% occupied while other APS schools become over crowded, especially schools with high FARMs[/b]. [/quote]

Exactly this. And why APS didn't do it last time is a mystery. They also left Fleet underfilled, but it makes more sense to move Abingdon students to Drew because you can fill Fleet from lots of directions, and there are not a lot of ways to fill Drew. [/quote]

IMO it was sensible to leave Fleet under-filled.  First, they needed to (should have) fill Drew.  Second, the population in the Fleet boundary would continue to grow; so it would have been irresponsible to completely fill a 750 seat school on day one just to be overcrowded by year 2 or 3 or even 5.[/quote]

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