Anonymous wrote:Send all the Drew students to other schools and use the Drew site for a fourth high school .

While not the worst idea, south Arlington can't absorb all those students. There isn't excess capacity at other elementary schools in the area- the excess capacity is in the far north.

Anonymous wrote:Send all the Drew students to other schools and use the Drew site for a fourth high school .

Or a middle school. Those are pretty overcrowded and require less to be considered "comprehensive".

Send all the Drew students to other schools and use the Drew site for a fourth high school .

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Anonymous wrote:Except that Fairlington is on the table. That was just a first proposal map. Fairlington needs to be zoned to Drew. It’s the only neighborhood left that will have kids that can or will be forced to attend Drew.

You realize Abingdon is inside Fairlington? You want kids in GV to have a neighborhood school (and force everyone to attend it) but people in Fairlington cant.


Insane argument

And Fairlington is also divided in half BY A HIGHWAY. It's not impossible that Fairlington could be zoned to two different schools. Lots of other neighborhoods get split up. The way APS does boundaries is stupid. And Drew should have stayed an option school.

Douglas Park (not split by a highway) goes to two different schools, Randolph and Drew. Randolph is actually in DP, yet part of DP goes to Drew. Fairlington needs to be moved to Drew

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Anonymous wrote:So when these PUs push back can we call them racist?

Call them whatever you want. Who cares? APS needs to get a backbone and just make boundaries that suit APS' needs and goals and the interests of the students.

I think it's pretty clear that making Drew very high FRL and Abingdon a lower (but still not low, frankly) FRL school is the situation that suits APS best. Is it best for the students? There will be some whose needs aren't met, but there is an argument to be made for having a community school with wrap around social services for families at Drew like they do at Carlin Springs. That's not going to be a popular argument with the "equity" lens we are supposedly using, but it's certainly expedient. I don't know what the right answer is.

Anonymous wrote:So when these PUs push back can we call them racist?

Call them whatever you want. Who cares? APS needs to get a backbone and just make boundaries that suit APS' needs and goals and the interests of the students.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the hate boners in here for Fairlington are borderline obsessive. Seek help

No, it’s the people who take any mention of Fairlington as a “hate boner” No one in this thread is even saying they should be moved!

NP. Ok, I'll say it. Fairlington can easily be split into two different schools. Far smaller neighborhoods have done it for years; a neighborhood the size of Fairlington can surely survive. And why should they be considered for splitting? Because Abingdon isn't big enough.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except that Fairlington is on the table. That was just a first proposal map. Fairlington needs to be zoned to Drew. It’s the only neighborhood left that will have kids that can or will be forced to attend Drew.

You realize Abingdon is inside Fairlington? You want kids in GV to have a neighborhood school (and force everyone to attend it) but people in Fairlington cant.


Insane argument

And Fairlington is also divided in half BY A HIGHWAY. It's not impossible that Fairlington could be zoned to two different schools. Lots of other neighborhoods get split up. The way APS does boundaries is stupid. And Drew should have stayed an option school.

Have you ever been to Fairlington or just looking at a map? That highway has a very pedestrian friendly bridge over it which puts many of those houses within walking/biking distance of Abingdon. Part of South Fairlington should technically be considered in the walk zone in terms of distance/not crossing any major roads. If anything, that pu should be split up. But then the leftover pu on the edge of the county would not likely be sent to another school.

Anonymous wrote:So when these PUs push back can we call them racist?

Fastest and easiest way to shut down any type of productive conversation, because how do you recover that or come back from it? It becomes a total non-starter.

So when these PUs push back can we call them racist?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except that Fairlington is on the table. That was just a first proposal map. Fairlington needs to be zoned to Drew. It’s the only neighborhood left that will have kids that can or will be forced to attend Drew.

You realize Abingdon is inside Fairlington? You want kids in GV to have a neighborhood school (and force everyone to attend it) but people in Fairlington cant.


Insane argument

And Fairlington is also divided in half BY A HIGHWAY. It's not impossible that Fairlington could be zoned to two different schools. Lots of other neighborhoods get split up. The way APS does boundaries is stupid. And Drew should have stayed an option school.

+1 boundaries have to be drawn somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Except that Fairlington is on the table. That was just a first proposal map. Fairlington needs to be zoned to Drew. It’s the only neighborhood left that will have kids that can or will be forced to attend Drew.

You realize Abingdon is inside Fairlington? You want kids in GV to have a neighborhood school (and force everyone to attend it) but people in Fairlington cant.


Insane argument

And Fairlington is also divided in half BY A HIGHWAY. It's not impossible that Fairlington could be zoned to two different schools. Lots of other neighborhoods get split up. The way APS does boundaries is stupid. And Drew should have stayed an option school.

Tbh like three posts above yours someone said Fairlington must be moved

Anonymous wrote:Some of the hate boners in here for Fairlington are borderline obsessive. Seek help

No, it’s the people who take any mention of Fairlington as a “hate boner” No one in this thread is even saying they should be moved!

Anonymous wrote:Except that Fairlington is on the table. That was just a first proposal map. Fairlington needs to be zoned to Drew. It’s the only neighborhood left that will have kids that can or will be forced to attend Drew.

You realize Abingdon is inside Fairlington? You want kids in GV to have a neighborhood school (and force everyone to attend it) but people in Fairlington cant.


Insane argument