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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The option schools.[/quote]

You mean close the high performing schools that are full and super popular with waiting lists, while there are under enrolled elem schools that no one wants to go to (ahem Drew). lol, no. 
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The programs are super popular because middle class families don't want to send their children to the low-performing schools. Not everyone can access those programs and the [b]busing is a drain on our resources[/b]. [/quote]

LOL

The argument is that underenrolled schools in north Arlington [i]because we built NEW schools up there to address all the people buying in 22207 and 22209 15-20 years ago to avoid south Arlington and now we have too much capacity[/i] is the drain on our resources. [/quote]

Busing students to choice schools costs a lot of money and not everyone has access to those schools.

Every school should be as rigorous as ATS claims because not everyone can get into ATS. If Drew is closed, that entire school population should get first choice to ATS or another option. [/quote]
I would love to see how much it costs to bus kids to option schools. I’m guessing it’s much  less than people assume. [/quote]

It’s not nearly as much as keeping an entire school building operating each year and paying the salaries of surplus staff. [/quote]

APS doesn't have all the money anymore. Our budget seasons are projected to be quite lean over the next few years. Transportation costs to bus kids across the county has to be in play as well as do we really need more Montessori seats? It may end up just as under enrolled as the last experiment, Innovation.[/quote]

You misunderstand me. I do not support growing the Montessori program at all. I also not support a neighborhood-only model. I DO support closing/consolidating schools in NW Arlington and moving Montessori to one of those buildings so that we don’t have to pay for the boondoggle of giving them the old Career Center building. [/quote]

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