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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple of the schools hovering around 100 percent capacity, which feels crowded day to day, while one sits way under capacity is not a solution.[/quote]

No one wants to give up walking or commit to a long bus ride.

At capacity changes year to year.

They should colocate HBW middle school students at WMS, and expand the HBW high school enrollment at the Heights. [/quote]

I like that last suggestion.

Personally, I would rather my kids be at a school that's not packed to the seams and take a bus.  We are walkers for Swanson.  Walking has value but these kids are packed into that school all day every day and that has a much bigger impact on them.  I don't think I'm the only person who feels that way?  Maybe I am.  And yes, I understand I could choose a transfer.[/quote]
Isn't it better to have the option to transfer than to be forced to switch in a boundary shift?  I know lots of kids who transferred out of Swanson and they were very happy to have that option.[/quote]

Maybe but people want their neighbors to be zoned with them, and since most don’t want to give up walking you generally are alone in this choice. [/quote]
Nearly every rising 6th grader I know who was zoned for Swanson tried to transfer this year.  It was a large cohort and, if anyone felt alone, it was the kids who didn't get picked to transfer.[/quote]

That's really ironic because during the last boundary process, my recollection is APS wanted to move Swanson kids out, but Swanson parents lobbied for them to stay. Of course APS caved, and that's why Swanson is overcrowded now and Hamm and WMS are under enrolled.

And of course the kids of the loud parents who just HAD to stay at Swanson are now past middle school....[/quote]

Raises hand.  Yes, I was around for this one.  They tried to give some of the Swanson kids in Maidson Manor to Kenmore and those people flipped out.

Listening to the loud people never looks great in the rear view mirror.[/quote]

Are you kidding? [b]The Swanson kids are transferring to WMS not Kenmore.[/b]

And btw the loudest voices for Hamm are all elementary parents, because it’s OUR future. [/quote]

Exactly. And the N Arlington Kenmore kids were supposed to be rezoned to Swanson. [/quote]
My recollection is that they proposed moving the top part of the Swanson boundary to WMS, but that left either Kenmore or Swanson with a lot more low income/lower test score students.  There was a fight about which school got to keep the higher income neighborhoods in bounds.  So in the end the top of the Swanson boundary wasn't moved to avoid upsetting the demographic split between Kenmore and Swanson.  Neither school wants their test scores to drop with a boundary move because it will impact home values.[/quote]

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