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[quote=Anonymous]Re Kadera and the Reed site- so we're directly affected by the new boundary for Reed and followed it all closely.  I understand why Kadera made the arguments she did against the school moves, and I understand the issues McK has had with APS- the overcrowding, the long renovation, etc.  I didn't love the manner in which she, on behalf of the McK PTA, suggested that specific other schools be made into option sites, but I understand why it was done.

But so I looked at her website/blog thing and read this:

"3. Busing to the new school at the Reed site: APS is asking for $390,000 to hire more bus drivers and attendants when a new elementary school opens at the Reed site next fall. This is a real head-scratcher: last year during the school moves process, APS argued that McKinley's student population should move to Reed because it was "so walkable" and that making this move would actually reduce transportation costs. So what happened?"

So as I understood it, McKinley specifically argued for sending as many of their students to Reed as possible, to the exclusion of walkable kids from other schools.  The boundary map proposed by the McK PTA suggested that even those kids who live in houses like 20 yards from the school door not attend (though APS rejected that in the end).  I don't know, my understanding was that APS viewed Reed as a walkable school based on the # of kids who COULD walk there.  But APS acceded to McK's demands, and now will continue to bus kids who could walk to Reed to Tuckahoe, and bus kids who used to walk to McK from Madison Manor to Reed.  Isn't that why the busing costs are higher then anticipated?

I don't know, this is probably super nitpicky and set me straight if I'm not understanding what happened.  But it just seemed very disingenuous coming from someone who was so involved in this process.[/quote]

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