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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How in earth does anything any of these changes is going to reduce the number of farms kids at barcroft, Carlin springs and Randolph???? You don’t change the farms rate at barcroft by eliminating the space as a neighborhood School. All you are doing is shifting those same poor kids to other poor schools. The UMC in barcroft will largely leave if they can. Same thing with Carlin springs, do you really think those kids will go to ashlawn? Hell no. They will go to Randolph and Barrett and maybe some to Abingdon (and make Abingdon even less diverse).

And I think the SB is leaving Campbell well enough alone because it is already a neighborhood school when you look at who goes there. Sure, a handful of kids from north Arlington and a couple other areas in south Arlington will go there, but the overwhelming majority of the school is from local vpi and Carlin springs. I suspect Campbell will open up more vpi classrooms at Campbell if barcroft is changed to an option School. [/quote]
I think the thought is to pull a large chunk of Carlin springs into ashlawn (with a similar sized chunk of ashlawn going to asfs).  They could similarly pull a chunk of long branch into asfs and then based off of that have long branch’s boundary go deeper into south Arlington.  By extending boundaries south, it should increase diversity at those schools, but I might be wrong there.  Also putting immersion at Carlin springs would bring a lot of umc to that school— I imagine the farms rate would be close to that of key or Claremont.[/quote]

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