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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Taylor has to have a huge boundary now in order to keep it open. Looking at the map, there are so many parts of the Taylor zone that are actually closer to other schools. [/quote]

Glebe and Science Focus are both over capacity. Innovation has a lot of new housing coming online, including high rise CAF buildings, so they have been careful to leave space there. The realistic scenario for closing Taylor would mean most of those kids going to Jamestown or Discovery, which isn't any better. It's got to be Tuckahoe, Nottingham, Discovery or Jamestown. 
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Glebe is only over capacity because APS was trying to empty Nottingham.  There are kids at Glebe in the walk zone for Cardinal who could have been zoned there, and [b]kids at Cardinal in the walk zone for Nottingham who could have been zoned there.[/b]  It makes feeder patterns for Glebe hard because those kids, who should really be at Cardinal, don't track with classmates for middle or high school.  [/quote]

I don’t think this is true. The east end of the Nottingham zone is bus eligible. https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2023/08/ES_Nottingham_SY23_24.pdf

The issue is that Nottingham, Discovery, and Tuckahoe have overlapping zones and not enough kids to fill them. That’s why they did the Great Option Swap of 2021. [b]Imagine how much worse this would be if the building ATS is in was also a neighborhood school and there was no neighborhood school in Courthouse. [/b]

As for the weirdness of that spike on the west end of the Glebe zone, that happened because the McKinley people were losing their minds about some people being zoned to Ashlawn instead of Cardinal so they tried to leave them mostly together.

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It is notable to see people now openly saying this was the right thing to do.  Of course it was the right thing to do to close McKinley and turn it into ATS and create a neighborhood school in Courthouse.  Many people thought so at the time. Guess who didn't?  A loud and vocal minority led by School Board member Mary Kadera.  Somehow in an inexplicable turn of events, Kadera and her band lost this fight. There are people in the community who STILL complain about this.  They were wrong then and they have been proven wrong over time and they'll still say they are right.  What is anyone supposed to do with this kind of behavior.

The point is APS cannot win.  Many people in this community are so awful that APS has an extremely difficult time doing strategic and reasonable things.

And no I don't work for APS.[/quote]

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