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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting ATS at Reed only delays the problem b/c won't help when the area around Reed needs a school YET AGAIN b/c Discovery did nothing to help it and McKinley, Tuckahoe & Glebe will still have trailer parks.  [/quote]

But the current ATS location will pull current kids from McKinley and Glebe - a lot of them - alleviating the stress at McKinley and Glebe. Then some Tuckahoe kids would get moved to McKinley since it will be freed up. [/quote]

moving ATS to Reed to make ATS a neighborhood school is silly.  Those schools are just not that far apart.  A neighborhood school at Reed would pull kids out of Tuckahoe and McKinley primarily.  A neighborhood school at ATS would pull kids out of Ashlawn and McKinley primarily.  In 2020 Ashlawn is expected to be short about 100 seats and Tuckahoe short 50- http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/11/Capacity_Utilization_FallProjections16-25_Final_Revised_11172015.pdf

All in all not enough of a difference to justify the difficulty of moving a school.
I can see arguments on both sides of making Reed neighborhood and making it Choice.  (And I say this as someone who would almost certainly be in the Reed district if it was a neighborhood school.)[/quote]

I understand your logic but it is built on a capacity assessment that is likely faulty. Take Ashlawn for example. Do you see the massive development around Ashlawn of high-density housing that is in development right now?  Yes. Does this model take that development into consideration? I doubt it.[/quote]

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