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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two Tuckahoe units were slated to move too Nottingham.  One got switched to McKinley after Nottingham created a petition to keep people out of their school.  The families that came to McK never actually made in in the front doors at Nottingham.[/quote]

Nottingham did create a petition asking APS not to overcrowd it again right after moving 40% of its population to Discovery. Nottingham asked APS to balance enrollment and specifically pointed out how much capacity existed at Discovery and Jamestown. For some reason that I will never understand, APS would not send anyone to Discovery or Jamestown, and they made it a decision between sending kids to either Nottingham or McKinley. Unfortunately those were the only choices it would allow. Nottingham didn't have space and as it turned out - after an error was later discovered in APS's math - neither did McKinley. And that's how we are where we are today. Nottingham is at capacity again (but has multiple trailers), McKinley is over (but somehow only has one trailer?), and APS had to bring in preschool classes from all over the county to try to fill up Jamestown.

Some parents at McKinley are still bitter at Nottingham all these years later. Instead people really need to focus their effort on making sure staff does a much better job this time around and ACTUALLY BALANCES CAPACITY. But if you want to instead finger point at other schools and rehash something that happened 5 years ago, that's up to you.[/quote]

Thanks for this background, PP. So I guess McKinley parents would be happy if Nottingham was overcrowded instead of McKinley? [/quote]

Yes.  At least this one would.  Just being honest.  We've lived with it for way too many.  Time to pass the buck.  Don't care if I'm politically correct.  I'm fed up.  [/quote]

Wow.[/quote]

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