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But like you said, if there are children with disabilities who have challenges with walking, they should be the ones closest to egresses and bathrooms. Kids who don't have mobility challenges should be in the classrooms that may be further away from those two things. I guess I don't  know whether it's a battle worth fighting, but maybe the issue should at least be raised so that if there is some wiggle room now or in the future, they make that change. If I were a parent at your school I would be upset to learn that kids with challenges were being put in a precarious situation, presumably so that my child who doesn't face the same challenges has a better classroom. Would I like my kid to be the one in a windowless basement room? Of course not, but I'd understand why that would be the more fair thing to do.

Lastly, I will say that the idea of what crowding looks like is something we're all going to have to get used to. Fleet isn't going to do much. It's only adding 200 or so permanent seats. We have a deficit of hundreds more above that, and whether the kids are in option schools or neighborhood schools, the seat totals add up to the same, which is not enough. Fleet isn't going to be a magic bullet because of how fast the system is growing. It's great that they added 200 new seats, but there are two new housing projects in SA that are being built in places where there was no residential housing prior, and they estimate almost that many new kids just from those two projects alone. Most of our schools are going to remain overcrowded or at capacity, with kids in windowless closets and computer labs, or in trailers, for the foreseeable future, even if they do their best at spreading the kids around with this boundary change. They are very far behind in addressing seat deficits, and I think are still hoping this trend reverses. [/quote]

Fleet is adding 700 elementary seats to the system. It may only be adding 200 neighborhood seats to Henry, but the whole process is also creating hundreds of neighborhood seats at Drew. I don't think it makes sense to say that opening a new 700 seat school is only adding 200 seats. I agree with you about the challenges associated with the new housing projects. What a mess.  [/quote]

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