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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] What I'm saying is, the Glebe community is TIGHT.  The planning committee for the auction had, like, 15 subcommittees under it.  Our auction's planning committee has maybe three?  There is a LOT of parental involvement in basically EVERYTHING and the school is a real community.  From what I have seen and heard, NOBODY at Glebe lusts after Nottingham or Discovery.[/quote]

This is what you get with a smaller school and this is why turning elementary schools into facilities for 700+ kids is a bad idea. The point to allowing transfers is that there are parents both in the planning units moving over to McKinley and parents who are in McKinley already who would probably voluntarily transfer out just to have their kids in a smaller elementary school. This is why I do not understand why APS is driving McKinley and Ashlawn over capacity when they are already two of the biggest elementary schools in Arlington. Having class in a trailer is not the issue. It is all the other downsides of such a large student body at the elementary level. Fall of 2016-- Discovery and Glebe will have under 600 kids, and Nottingham will have under 500 kids. All three will be under capacity. Meanwhile, McK will be at 700+ kids. How does that not impact school culture?[/quote]

Nah, I don't buy your premise.  Glebe currently has 580 kids and Nottingham has only 442, but from what I hear and observe Glebe is much tighter.  Smaller doesn't mean closer.  McKinley is about the same size as Glebe at 605 kids but again, Glebe has much more parental involvement, it's just a closer, more tight-knit community.  It has nothing to do with the size of the class, but I can see why you'd argue that because it appears to be your mission to mobilize DCUM to get APS to let the Tuckahoe and Glebe kids transfer to underenrolled schools.  Are you the Tuckahoe parent who posted here a month or two ago asking if such transfers were possible?

Also, try looking further than ONE YEAR into the future.  In two years Nottingham is expected to be at 104% capacity, and in three years it is expected to be at 109% capacity -- that's 44 students more that its building should hold compared to McKinley's 24.  Similarly, Glebe isn't projected to fall below 105% capacity through 2020.  Seems like those schools are doing their parts.  You can't solve the capacity problem one year at a time.  You're being even more shortsighted than APS has been, historically, and that's an accomplishment![/quote]

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