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I would suggest educating yourself about the process more, perhaps attend some school board meetings, etc. Some of the kids you're talking about have been at Tuckahoe for a couple of years already. If you leave them at Tuckahoe, you're just shifting trailers from McKinley to Tuckahoe (because yes, even though numbers there have fallen, Tuckahoe and Nottingham still have trailers). If you move them to Discovery, then they're going from a couple of years in Tuckahoe to a couple of years in Discovery and then a couple of years in McKinley, which is way too much bouncing around.

Where are those kids going to go? No one is going to bus them past Tuckahoe and Nottingham to Discovery, so you'll just end up moving them from trailers at McKinley to trailers at one of those two schools. [/quote]

I feel like there must be some disconnect there.  I'm very involved in the process.  The planning unit moving from Tuckahoe to McKinley will move next year.  Those kids haven't gone anywhere, yet.  Even though McKinley is under construction right now, the projections for the next two years are way over the number of seats they will have.  Glebe is also sending students to McKinley next year.  The planning unit from Tuckahoe is right up against Lee Highway.  It's not like the students would be bussed to Oakridge.  The question is, why are they moving them from Tuckahoe trailers to McKinley trailers?  It doesn't solve anything?

Also, size matters.  Yes, Nottingham has trailers (who doesn't, really?), but they also have classes with less than 20 kids.  That means that lunches and recess are more manageable.  When you get above a certain size (the SB determined that's 725, BTW), there are impacts to how the school can function.  [/quote]

I don't understand your point. They're moving the kids from Tuckahoe to McKinley to finish the process of redistributing elementary kids. The more years they keep that process open, the more time and effort that will be focused on pointless arguing about it, and the school board has other things it needs to focus on as well (like the middle and high schools). Do you really think staying at Tuckahoe will be dramatically better? How so? As for Nottingham, some grades have less than 20 in a class, not every grades, because grade sizes are not consistent through the years. Also, the 725 number beyond which the school become too big isn't applicable to all schools, that number was developed in looking at the maximum size new schools should be. Many of the older schools couldn't even come close to managing 725, so simply looking at one school and seeing a small population than another doesn't tell you anything if you're not comparing it to actual capacity.[/quote]

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