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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immersion should go to Carlin Springs. ATS should either be eliminated or go to Nottingham. Ashlawn's boundary should come over and take some of the current Carlin Springs PUs, maybe even some of Barcroft's CAFs. ATS as a neighborhood school can help balance Barrett and relieve McKinley.[/quote]

ATS is a bad location for a neighborhood school, both because it’s not walkable given the roads, and because it’s too close to existing neighborhood seats (with Ashlawn and Reed and McKinley they don’t need another neighborhood school right here). Ashlawn’s tail will get scooped into ASFS or Key. [/quote]

PP here. I agree that ATS is not walkable, but isn't the basic deal with Arlington that seats are needed in the middle? Certainly every time line drawing comes up, people point out that seats aren't needed in upper NW, nor were they apparently needed in the far south per the last boundary process. Also, you're assuming that boundaries can't cross Rt 50 but from a demographic perspective, that's exactly what they should start doing. The only relief most of South Arlington is going to get is to break up the western Pike CAFs. Splitting up the Carlin Springs zone is a good start, but Barcroft and Barrett are pretty heavily concentrated too. Ashlawn can't fix it all by itself, so I think the ATS solution would help there too. Compared to (1) seats available and (2) better demographic balance, seems to me that maximizing walk zone is a pretty distant 3rd. [/quote]

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