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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Barcroft is at about 70% and will be closer to 90% once Henry is moved and absorbs alcova heights.

There are lots of vacancies east of george Mason too, but glad to hear that the new places are opening at glebe. Now if only the food star development would happen. [/quote]

I think the food star development is still in the works. The developer was asking for public input about green space for it fairly recently.

Now... If Henry moves to the TJ  site, and Montessori moves to the old Henry... That will actually leave 2 endangered schools. Drew will likely be failing at that point, and Barcoft will have some huge issues being almost 100% poverty.
I don't even know what to think about that.
I guess I don't care as long as my kid can choice into a better situation. 
I guess there will be more space in the Montessori school...[/quote]

No, Drew will be near empty at that point (currently 3/5 to 4/5 Montessori), and will pull in kids from Oakridge and surrounding areas and have a brand new make up - [b]it will be a completely different Drew[/b].

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Yeah, they are going to tell all the Nauck families currently sending their kids to Hoffman-Boston -- because they consider it (a school that until recently was also a failing school)  [i]better[/i] than the Drew neighborhood program -- that they can't do that anymore. And then they are going to redo the Oakridge boundaries to pull all the kids from the apartments and old duplexes at Arna Valley into Drew. What will be different is that there will be fewer higher income families and fewer families who stick around for six years. The school will have a bigger percentage of transient renters and lower income families, and anyone with a clue will continue to find a choice program to send their kids to. This plan is totally irresponsible--if the School Board votes to move Montessori, they are voting to create a high-poverty, highly segregated school at Drew. I just can't believe anyone buys this "having a neighborhood school will be better" BS people have been spewing for years, when there is absolutely no plan for making the school better, and all the evidence points to the situation being worse. The elderly neighborhood folks have this vision that there will be a tight knit AA community formed around the school, which just does not reflect the demographics of the area anymore. And the Montessori folks could not care less what happens once they leave. But its politically convenient for both groups to support the fiction that this move is a good thing, and the School Board needs the support to make the rest of this capacity plan work. [/quote]

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