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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe a dumb question but will MS boundaries be revised too?  We are in the Ashlawn tail and my older child will be in 6th for 21-22.  [/quote]

They should adjust middle s hook boundaries, but they haven’t committed yet.[/quote]

They just rezoned middle school for Hamm opening this year.  They’ll look at them again in a few years, probably for moves before the 2024-25 school year. [/quote]

That will result in a MESS if they don’t adjust for 2022. The new boundaries are going to result in small pockets of kids who will go to a different middle school than their peers at their new elementary school. Think how awful it would be for your planning units to get moved to a new ES and then your planning unit is the only one zoned to a different middle school. [/quote]

Ashlawn currently goes to Swanson and Kenmore. Then Swanson goes to W-L and Yorktown. Some kids in Boulevard Manor go from Kenmore to Yorktown currently and I imagine it’s a bit of a culture shock in addition to having their friends mixed up every few years. So yeah, it would suck, but it’s already happening all over the county. [/quote]

What I am talking about is if now you get a new planning unit with 30 kids (K-5). That unit is zoned to Gunston and Wakefield. In 6th grade, approximating 5 kids would be shunted off to Gunston while everyone else goes to Kenmore and Swanson. Now imagine there are tiny pockets like that at every school - that is a mess that can be avoided. It would be easier on those kids if they chose to realign them to either Kenmore or Swanson. No need for massive community meetings. Those will happen for elementary. After that process, they should do an administrative clean-up of middle school alignment without a big community engagement process.[/quote]

DP, but huh?  How do you have most of an elementary school go to Kenmore and Swanson except for one planning unit that goes to a Gunston when the Jefferson zone completely separates Gunston from Swanson and Kenmore?[/quote]

It is an example - pick any school you want that makes sense. Without some middle school adjustments, you will have tiny pockets of kids not going with their friends to middle school. It is an easy fix. Almost every elementary school is aligned to 1-2 middle schools (except I believe Abingdon which goes to 3). APS should keep that alignment and any of the planning units that get moved in to a new elementary should be realigned to the 1-2 feeder middle schools that elementary is aligned to.[/quote]
They will do this during the boundary process— other than asfs and Abingdon all schools go to only 1 or 2 schools.  Asfs was always split between 3 schools until this year where it’s split between 2.  They will only move units that don’t mess with alignment.  [/quote]

This is not true. They are starting with a clean slate on boundaries. They will not continue to be constrained by current MS alignment. That kind of constrained thinking is what got us to where we are now.[/quote]

When did they say they were removing alignment as one of the six boundary considerations?[/quote]

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