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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've looked at that spreadsheet for April 12.  Honestly, I'm not outraged.  They were very clear that they were identifying schools they thought would be better fits as option sites.  Everyone knew they were already thinking about what could go where.  They only said over and over that spanish immersion needed to be near native Spanish speakers.

And now we should give them credit.  They have CHANGED their thinking after listening to the principals and delving further into the transportation issues.  ASFS is no longer on the list to become an immersion school.  And I read the current analysis as leaning towards putting the second immersion in S. Arlington and leaving ATS where it is.[/quote]

The changed that part of the analysis, but not the whole thing. Not the part where they snuck back in the only supposedly data-based argument they could make for putting an option program at Nottingham, one that they already admitted was an error last time. They keep pushing for Nottingham even though all of their data and analysis argues otherwise. So many people said the Nottingham community was crazy for thinking the staff was targeting them, that they were making it up that the staff was disregarding the data and analysis in order to justify Nottingham as an option site, that clearly Nottingham must be a good candidate and if the final result is anything else it must be because the Nottingham community bribed people. But now we have it in a spreadsheet. That the data doesn't support the conclusion, but the staff has already decided they want to move ATS to Nottingham and they're going to make whatever unprincipled exceptions they need to make it happen. No wonder the staff was so willing to fix their errors on Nottingham the last time around, they knew it didn't matter either way.[/quote]

We all know they want to make a NW school an option school.  They don't want to draw those boundaries.  Unfortunately for them, none of the NW schools fit their criteria for moving the other option schools.  Rather than trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, they made it up.

Now, what do us NW parents do?  For one, I think we need to be on them to share these draft maps they are coming up with.  Just how do the boundaries work if you move Key to S. Arlington, leave ATS where it is and make their other recommended moves?  Are those boundaries really as crazy as they are making them out to be once Reed opens?

How can all of S. Arlington be served if so many of the option schools are there?

I will be interested to see if ATS is still singing its centrally located tune or if Nottingham somehow appeals to some on the squeaky wheels over there.  [/quote]

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