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I like it and think it is about time they do this. If parents don’t like it, they can go back to their neighborhood school. We will know when it is intolerable when the waitlist goes down.  My kid’s class has gotten three new kids so far this year, pushing them to 27. ATS doesn’t have to deal with that so they have a leg up just in that regard to overcrowding. I’ve really heard enough of their complaining. [/quote]

I'm not an ATS parent, but I just don't understand how they're going to grow the option programs permanently without additions or without relocating them into the newly built schools like Fleet and Reed. ATS and Campbell are in really small, very old buildings. If they are growing permanently, they'll need new facilities.

Is that what you want APS to be spending money on? Additions at option schools and growing the option programs? Seems like a pretty bad strategy to decrease the power of the option programs. You're increasing their lobby. Because people aren't going to leave ATS because of some trailers. [b]They'll complain, but they're not going to leave the school.[/b] And new parents will continue to apply. Option schools are the perfect fit for type-A Arlington parents. They provide a self-selecting community of highly motivated families. They'll just lobby and win the money for permanent expansions that could've been used for new neighborhood schools.   
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I don't know -- I think it makes sense, once you've established that every school possible should be expended to 700-750, that neighborhood schools expand via additions and option schools expand via trailers, and the schools with the longest waiting lists are the ones to have trailers longest.

Because look: APS is not going to build for the peak school populations. Trailers have to be part of how students are housed -- they're not a permanent solution, but they're part of the long-term solution. Option schools are a way of providing a valve -- they decrease or increase as needed. So they get the nonpermanent additions. If they need to stay big, eventually they can be moved into a large but shabby school that the neighborhood couldn't fill.

If the only thing option schools have going for them is the program, only people who want it for the program will apply. [/quote]

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