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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capstone is to bolster Yorktown and reduce transfer to WL. They need more seats at WL to accommodate flow from Wakefield. [/quote]

Yes, or many more W-L neighborhoods along the Yorktown border would likely have to be redistricted to Yorktown like Cherrydale, Waycroft Woodlawn, etc. Population growth is in South Arlington and not in the B
North. So makes sense to reduce transfers from Yorktown to W-L and encourage transfers from
Wakefield into W-L[/quote]

Would neighbors accept moving to Yorktown? [/quote]

:shock:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: 
Haven't laughed so hard in years![/quote]

Why is this funny? I thought the orange t shirts originated about WL Pu moving to YHS?[/quote]

Wrong directions:

The orange shirts were a group of parents who showed up at the High School boundary discussion, all wearing orange shirts (Arlington Forest Pool colors) and argued that their neighborhood needed to stay together at W&L b/c theoretically their kids biked to W&L- but could not bike to the wasteland that is Wakefield.[/quote]

Yes....the biking route to Wakefield being a straight shot down George Mason and probably less dangerous than their route to WL.  Not that that many were actually biking anyway.[/quote]

That neighborhood (Arlington Forest n of 50) likely would have been rezoned back to W-L anyways with the new additional seats at W-L and overcrowding at Wakefield. (The walk or bike ride to W-L is actually pretty safe since the pedestrian infrastructure is good around Ballston. George Mason and Glebe are the busiest intersections.)

Unfortunately [b]APS doesn’t take into account demographics when re zoning schools[/b]. So the school system has actually become more segregated over the years [/quote]

Correction: parents won't let APS use demographics to create socioeconomically diverse schools. APS has tried to incorporate socioeconomic diversity in the past and diversity is technically one of the "consideration" factors in its boundary policy. It is more accurate to state that APS refuses to prioritize socioeconomical diversity in order to avoid community pushback when establishing school boundaries.[/quote]

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