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I heard the school board has put off studying any new boundary adjustments. The boundaries will not change anytime soon.

In SOUTH Arlington, or potentially WRT high schools.  Rezoning has already occurred for 7 schools in N Arlington and will take effect in the fall of 2015.

Wait, the middle and high school rezoning was to be decided Feb 2014. Has that been delayed or tabled?

I was at last week's Board meeting and the Board expressed no desire to change boundaries for high school so it won't happen. I wasn't clear if this change in direction came from their own reconsideration or was prompted by APS Facilities Planning recommendations.  One Board member actually mentioned how ugly the process would get and stated that they don't want to go there.  Adding capacity for high school is still a major priority.  APS facilities staff reported to the Board that a fourth, new comprehensive high school facility is not feasible (no available land large enough and cost-prohibitive). The Board had an interesting discussion on other ways to address high school overcrowding such as dual enrollment options using local college facilities and programs (kind of like School without Walls in DC - that's my understanding, no one mentioned this school!) and leasing existing County facilities for space for special programs, etc.  [/quote]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  Maybe people really will start to look at the under-enrolled South Arlington schools more favorably if the alternative is vastly overcrowded schools in North Arlington.

[/quote]N. Arlington school here (Jamestown). Our school isn't "vastly" overcrowded and there are no problems related to overcrowding. What are you going on about?[/quote]

Am guessing that this Jamestown parent is conveniently overlooking that the overcrowding doesn't exist because the school's 5th graders are in trailers ... Signed, Another Jamestown parent (albeit one with her eyes open)[/quote]

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