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[quote=Anonymous]You should be able to watch the Youtube video.  Google the APS SB meeting for 11/15.  I watched it, and there's no indication which way the SB will proceed.  APS posted the new option 4 only 2 hours before the meeting, and they did not provide capacity data that they had done previously for the 11/9 work session.  I was wondering if that data could be wrong like the FARMS data which had originally been reported for WL was wrong and they corrected in the new attached materials.   Also, it's super annoying that the updated 11/3 materials disappeared from the HS boundary website.  Fortunately, I had it downloaded on my phone.  there is a link for attached materials that correspond to the meeting dates but that only contains the first draft of the 11/9 materials not the updated ones.

Basically, a number of S. Arlington families came forward and said they wanted option 3 b/c it had the fewest FARMS kids going to Wakefield (all 4 options move very little FARMS kids out of WL).  A number of AF parents asked AF remain at WL.  1303 said they have only 15 kids who will go from Kenmore into a 1700 school at Yorktown and so they asked to be removed from consideration.  Maywood/Cherrydale parents from 2311 came in and asked they be removed so that would be options 3 or 4.  Kanninen was the one who had asked for option 4 b/c at the last planning session she saw that all 3 HSs would be at overcapacity in 2021 (never mind Yorktown would be in the 90s for most of the 2017-2020 years) and freaked out.  She even suggested at one point leaving the kids at WL so only they would have trailers.  (I'm from N. Arlington, and I was appalled by her statements).  Plus, she then asked if these options took into account spaces for IB transfers to WL.  Sorry selfish lady, you can't have it both ways.  Oh that reminds me, Nottingham PTA rep showed up.  She really took the cake.  It's obvious all they care about is their precious snowflakes.  She urged them to adopt 4 b/c her kids would end up in a crowded HS.  (Weren't they the ones who successfully kept McKinley students out of their school and are currently under capacity, while other nearby elementary schools are bursting).  There was a PU from Glen Carlyn, I forget which PU, that said they want to remain together, and to be removed from consideration for moving to Yorktown (I think that's where one of the options had them going).

I don't understand this.  If they are re-doing boundaries in 2020, why should the upcoming HS students all suffer disproportionately?  Yorktown is being extremely selfish.  I do not have any skin in this game as my kids won't enter HS for many years to come.[/quote]

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