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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have young kids who are not yet in Elementary, school, it really doesn't matter. You will buy a house, and if it's currently zoned for Nottingham, it might be changed to Discovery or Tuckahoe by the time your kids get to school.

The reason it's a big deal for those of us who have kids there now is that we want to be able to walk to school and we don't want our kids and their friends split up. That's what I care about. The schools are basically the same. The education won't be any different, but my child will be switched for 5th grade, which is the last of the elem. years, and might be separated from his friends. It stinks, but it won't affect education.

[b]APS as a whole is another matter. I have no clue why a school system with space issues has option schools or HB Woodlawn. It's time for them all to go, and everyone can go to their neighborhood school. [/quote][/b]

We've built and renovated every recent too small, not just HB. Wakefield, W-L, Discovery, Stratford. All recently built or renovated with insufficient seats added.

Other than HB, none of the other option schools have been "built" small. They are either large and in large buildings (Immersion), or they are in smaller older buildings that haven't had additions and couldn't accommodate many more children than they already do even if they were made neighborhood rather than option seats. We have not built enough seats for the kids. Does not matter if they are option or neighborhood. Capacity cannot increase except through construction, and we don't have the land or the money to build what we need. So we have to put trailers at every school we have and sacrifice green space, and overtax the cafeterias and restrooms and communal spaces. But it's not the fault of option programs. And it won't be solved by doing away with them, because those kids are still in APS. [/quote]

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