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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a parent at one of the schools you mentioned and I would be in if I had anything all that exciting to say.  But the thing is, I don't really care that much.  The way I look at it, my planning unit will be moved somewhere (so with fellow neighborhood kids) and there will be general disruption for all the kids with boundary shifts and my kid (it will be my last kid who is impacted) will be fine wherever and will adapt.  This is not a scenario where only my child is plucked out of school and put in a brand new environment.  It will be fine.  I just can't get that worked up about it and can't relate at all to the people who are very worked up about it.

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OP here. In a lot of ways I agree with you. My youngest will be going into fourth grade when this all goes down so we're only looking at two years of change. We have enough of a heads up about it that if I know we're going to move, we can do more to encourage friendships with kids likely to be with us afterward (not to the exclusion of other friendships, of course). We will all survive the immediate school changes.

My real concerns are beyond that. I'm concerned that this process is so scattered and haphazard that the staff/SB will end up making bad decisions that muck everything up, and then in a few years when our kids really need APS to be focusing time and resources on other issues (like high school seats), they'll instead be back to elementary school boundaries, putting even more resources into trying to fix the mess created this time around. If we accept certain realities (e.g., there is an option school coming) and get to work on coming up with a proposal that the community largely agrees to get behind, maybe the SB will work with us on it to avoid the drama of a drawn-out battle.[/quote]

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