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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any indication of how much of Oakridge will be redistributed to the new Drew? And I haven't heard Hoffman-Boston mentioned much, is it assumed its boundary/enrollment will remain someone static? I realize it's sort of hemmed in by the highway, Country Club and the Cemetery. In hindsight, this was a pretty awful location to build an elementary school. [/quote]

Hoffmans location is tied to the history of racial segregation in Arlington County. My guess is that Oakridge will only give up arna valley and it's affordable housing to Drew, even though it's all walkable to Oakridge and in no way walkable to Drew. Oakridge will resemble a north Arlington elementary demographically and drew will look like carlin springs. The portio of Douglas park currently zoned for Henry is already organizing to fight being moved to Drew, it's on the civic Adam website.[/quote]

They can't send the kids who live within a 1-2 mile to Oakridge past kids who live almost a mile away to Drew, while keeping the kids at the outer edge of the walkzone at Oakridge. So the only way they can draw a boundary that takes kids out of Oakridge and into Drew is moving the PU's west of Gunston. Douglas Park can do what ever it wants, but I would think the neighborhood CA wouldn't be representing all the members of the CA by taking a position on which PU's belong in which school boundaries. Did you take a neighborhood vote? [/quote]

Randolph is the in Douglas Park neighborhood . Wouldn’t it make sense for that civic Association to keep all the neighborhood together? And isn’t part of the neighborhood zoned Hoffman Boston?[/quote]

Randolph is a 100 percent walkable school right now.  Likely none of the units currently zoned to Randolph will move, so Randolph families are less worried.  The minority of residents   with kids at Patrick Henry want to move to Fleet.  They are upset and so more vocal.

-DP resident [/quote]

At a recent meeting, there was a[b] Douglas Park parent and they asked something along the lines of: So if my kid can walk to Henry (Fleet), we can still go there? [/b]The APS folks explained that this might not be the case, and that this was the first of six steps to realign schools. That said, the large contingent of Oakridge parents there were concerned about being rezoned to Drew or Hoffman-Boston, and expressed the same sentiment: if we are willing to walk to Oakridge, can we stay? APS folks and another parent quickly pointed out that claiming you can "walk" to a place just to stay, then driving your kids and clogging up the roads defeated the whole purpose of this. It seems just as likely that Drew and probably Hoffman-Boston would get an influx of UMC families from both Oakridge and Henry. That would make both "better" in some people's eyes, but it's a leap of faith.[/quote]

This is ridiculous. It's an 8 (minimum) block walk and you have to cross Columbia Pike first. Anyone CAN walk anywhere. But that doesn't mean you are in a school's "effective" walk zone. It also doesn't mean you will definitely be moved. If you live in DP you are not in the effective walk zone to Fleet (not sure about Hoffman Boston). But if you are in the effective walk zone to Randolph, you will likely be moved there. [/quote]

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