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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t Campbell usually not have a waiting list? All of the schools the staff identified as their top five have building capacities (nevermind relocatables) at least a hundred seats larger than the current Campbell program so I don’t see how they can relocate it to another site without wasting seats that we really need.[/quote]

It didn't used to, but it has for the past four or five years or so now. I think it's gotten larger, but not by a couple hundred. Which is why I have no idea why Staff, who'd previously said that it could/should grow to around 600 are now saying that every option school has to be in a location that could accommodate up to 750. And I would be very surprised to learn that this was based on application data.[/quote]

I think this is because they've previously said the new standard for building an ES is to accommodate 725-750.  That being the case, if neighborhood schools have to be that big then choice schools should be that big too.[/quote]

Well, that might make sense if we were starting from scratch, but we're not. We are where we are. So if you use that rationale, that every school has to be able to grow to 750, then we should just sell off every neighborhood school that can't go up to 750, like Long Branch and Campbell, and consolidate the smaller schools into nearby larger schools. This would make APS money. They didn't build Discovery to 750, and it has limited growth potential because of sharing a campus. I guess we need to turn that into a community center? [/quote]

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