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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She was kind of right, though.  There aren't enough kids up in that Northern quadrant to fill the seats, leaving the schools up there underenrolled, while Glebe and McKinley and Ashlawn continue to be overenrolled.  I thought the point was that if you take away one of the neighborhood schools near McKinley, the new school at Reed wasn't ultimately going to solve the McKinley/Glebe/Ashlawn overcapacity problem because you would just be moving a full cup from one site to another, while Jamestown etc. remained underenrolled as per usual because not enough kids were getting bused up there (and never have been).

Like, she's not wrong about that.  And I understand people didn't want two neighborhood schools there near McKinley because they want capacity relief too.  In the end, though, Reed is going to be a smaller school than McKinley was, with no room for trailers like McKinley had (!), so the overage is going to have to go somewhere and you can bet it's not going to be Nottingham and Jamestown.

Not to go through all this again.  But she had a point and it wasn't "hey let's bring back de facto segregation" but more like "please don't oversubscribe my school again after severely, severely overscribing them repeatedly for the past 10 years."[/quote]

That ignores the fact that you can push planning units north - some of Discovery is moved to Jamestown, some of Glebe and Cardinal can go to Nottingham and Discovery, etc. McKinley sent tons of emails asking to be moved en masse instead of rezoning for this fall, so they kind of brought the overcrowding in 2021 on themselves. [/quote]

I mean, yeah the Board sure can in theory, but Jamestown has been undersubscribed for a decade or more so wrf actually?  Every time the Board played musical chairs with the extra kids and tried to redistribute enrollment, some of the northern schools were mysteriously left out of the game or let off the hook at the last minute, so am I ignoring that fact or just acknowledging reality?[/quote]

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