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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs. [/quote]

Which school?[/quote]

Either way it sounds like they didn’t pick it for the pedagogy. If a option program isn’t strong enough to survive a 2 mile move, why are we putting so many resources into it? [/quote]

I don't think option schools are necessary more expensive. There may be more busing, but where we live there is no neighborhood school we can walk to anyways.[/quote]

We need extra buses to go to the extra schools though. 
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I wonder how many, though. How many ATS students live in the walk zones for other schools?  If there’s a neighborhood school two blocks from your house, your neighborhood vs option calculus may be different than if your kid is going to end up on a bus either way.[/quote]

Completely agree. I think this type of analysis is too hard for the county to do. (but certainly this type of complex analysis is done for college admissions and such). Same can probably be said for Key students living blocks away from Key. [/quote]

Why would it be too difficult for the county to do?  They have all the data, from there it’s not hard to do a rough calculation of how many students at each option school live in a school walk zone, how many would need to be bused somewhere, and an approximation of how many extra bus routes that would put into the system.

Also, keep in mind that one extra bus route isn’t the same as one extra bus.  The target is to have each bus do three routes (pick-up and drop-off), so let’s say eliminating option schools would reduce the number of elementary bus routes by 20. That doesn’t mean APS needs 20 fewer buses, because they still need to service the middle and high school routes those buses cover.  With staggering routes, that 20 route savings might only actually save them three buses.[/quote]

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