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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are some PUs moving schools 3 times during elementary school years?  How can they go from Nottingham-&gt;McK-&gt;Reed within 6 years?  Will the SB let that happen?[/quote]

The last of the elementary moves from when Discovery opened happened in fall 2015.  No one who was in elementary school then will still be in elementary school when the new boundaries go into effect in fall 2021.  No students are moving twice due to boundary changes.[/quote]
Yes, some of the posters here are families who will be moved twice.  Sorry, but that’s not a big deal, so what if you had to get used to a new school and don’t want to do it again.
Seriously grandfathering would make a lot of people happy I’m this case.  Just grandfather 3rd grade and up, and siblings.  There would be a whole lot less push back.
For the McKinley folks, if they grandfathered third grade and up (so current first graders and up) to reed, would you be happy?  [/quote]
Grandfathering, especially for that many years, would defeat the purpose of this exercise because school enrollment would be all over the place and out of APS's control.

Some families have 4 kids are in the elementary schools for over 15 years.  Should their planning units be exempt from moving more than once in the span of 15 years so that family doesn't have to experience two moves?[/quote]
You totally missed the point of my post.  The family with four kids doesn’t get moved, they stay put, but all their neighbors do.  They probably have a stronger opinion of where they go then their neighbors who don’t have kids in school do.  The planning unit they live in gets moved many times, because people who would have raised a stink don’t care (since they are grandfathered).  They did this for highschool a few years ago.  There’s maybe two years where things are out of whack, but the boundaries are a little more sensible.[/quote]

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