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[quote=Anonymous][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]

There are no pickups for Oakridge west of gunston. The whole of long branch creek and arna valley, save a tiny corner, is within the current Oakridge walk zone. It's all literally a cakewalk away. But it will almost surely get moved to Drew, even though it's not walkable there.

I don't live in Douglas park but you can see the civic assn website for yourself. The latest post encourages residents current living in the Henry zone to lobby APS to be sent to fleet, and gives advice on how to so. I would guess nobody on the civic assn sends their kids to Randolph.

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If the focus is on actual walkability, why would those units be moved to Drew?  And certain SB members and affordable housing advocates insist that low-income families need to be in their neighborhoods and their communities cannot be torn apart; that they need to go to the school they live closest to......

Oakridge keeps touting how much they value their "diversity."  But we'll see how important it is when the more affluent people are "in danger" of being moved to Drew and the low-income families stay at Oakridge.  Then it will be how the wealthy deserve to stay because they spent a lot of money to be in the Oakridge zone and their property values will drop.[/quote]

OMG, look at a map. The closest places to Oakridge are in the Arlington Ridge CA, and those are also the wealthiest. So no, they aren't going to put the kids who live within a few blocks of Oakridge on a bus to Drew. The Oakridge PUs closest to Drew are among the least affluent currently zoned to Oakrdige, and they are the ones who are likely to be moved. Because of proximity, and because somebody has to be moved out of Oakridge before it's 900 students. They may move some of the Oakridge PU's that are adjacent to Hoffman-Boston, too. Again, because proximity and because they need to even out enrollment since the new school for Pentagon City isn't going to be built for ten years, if ever. [/quote]

I did, the actual walk zone map. Arl ridge is nearby, but No, but most of aurora highlands and all of crystal city already get bussed to Oakridge. The cost saving thing would be to change where the current busses go off wont happen in a million years. Instead they'll create new bus routes to take kids who walk a whole 3/4 of a mile to Drew because their parents won't whine as loud as others would.[/quote]

Also worth noting that Douglas Park is the largest civic association in Arlington and is pretty geographically spread out and densely populated. It's natural that there are factions. It's only a small part of the neighborhood that's currently zoned to Henry.

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