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Now they are telling us it isn't viable to change nothing.  And before anyone starts, I don't think she was referring to boundaries.  I think they are talking straight to Key and saying it has to become a neighborhood school.

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I agree with this.  I don't see it as nefarious, however.  I think that as they got into this process, they realized that there was no real viable way to keep Key as an option school, and be at all true to all their other stated goals.  It was flunking every test as an option school.  [/quote]

Then they need to be honest about this. It's disingenuous to continue to say in all of their descriptions of the process that one of two options to be considered by the board will he leaving everything where it is when in reality they've already decided that option isn't viable so the staff's reconfigured proposal is the one they will approve. We're not idiots, we can see the consistencies, and APS is basicaly gaslighting us by saying they don't exist.[/quote]

I'm not sure I totally follow your post, and what consistencies APS is saying doesn't exist- but that being said, here is what I think happened (and I have no inside information- I just pay way to close attention, and compulsively attend/watch meetings.)   The Staff started looking at the overcrowding in the Key neighborhood, and the forecasts of space in the NW when Reed comes on line.  They realized that they needed to move Key.  But they wanted to be careful, methodical, and data driven, so they didn't limit themselves to Key.   They floated this idea of looking at option locations to the school board at a work session in January.  The school board was nervous about the proposal (go back and watch it) and so they said come back with two proposals, one with moves and one without.  
The Staff will do as they are directed- but they didn't really ever think that not moving anything was an option.
They still don't think that, but they can't 'be honest' about that b/c the only one who can make that decision is the school board- and it hasn't come to them yet.

I also think at one point the Staff thought they might just be able to swap Key and ASFS- but it appears they have discarded that proposal.[/quote]

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