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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone ( succinctly) explain what happened with the HS boundary last year?
I had heard that the numbers were wrong, but I never figured out the specifics.
Can anyone break it down?
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There were a few options that seemed to divide up the overcrowding pretty evenly among WL, Wakefield and Yorktown.  There was one option where the Western Pike was going to leave WL and go to Wakefield, but that was dead on arrival b/c it would send more poor kids to Wakefield with more than 40% FARMs.  Some people close to WL were also at risk of being moved over to Wakefield, but they mobilized and wore bright orange shirts (and seemed to piss off other parents) (I didn't care b/c I think every parent is entitled to advocate for their own kids).

At the final hour, Kaninen seems put off that the proposal which would pretty much split up the kids (only need about 200 sent to each school) would put a trailer at Yorktown in the final year.  So proposes a new option of a smaller group going to Yorktown (never mind this option would guarantee trailers at WL for 3 years and there were safety risks cited about on-going construction of the future Ed Center (at this point SB had not voted to cram those extra 1300 seats there (now 700 or so)).

Meanwhile, the meetings which are happening at a rapid pace have data which shows the projected FARMS rates for each option.  A few parents (including myself) look at them and see there's now way the numbers are correct (for example, they had FARMS rates at WL going up when the option had FARMS PUs moving out).  APS tries to fix this in late 2016.

At the last meeting, SB suddenly all votes for her proposal--sending the fewest UMC kids to YT.  A few months later, it comes out that they had calculated the projected enrollment wrong and YT will be overcrowded (HAH!).

It also comes out they f#cked up the McKinley numbers by more than 100 students (can't recall exact number) but it's significant but SB says they won't do anything about it even though it's totally APS admin's fault.[/quote]

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