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[quote=Anonymous]The only reason ATS is now seen as a balanced enrollment is because APS forced (in the face of parent complaints) more vpi a few years ago. Prior to 2015 it had about a 15% free/reduced lunch population. I’m not sure where this giant track record of closing the opportunity gap comes from unless income isn’t a consideration. To keep being a diverse school ATS has to grow each grade by a classroom to accommodate the additional kids feeding into K thru that vpi pre-K program. They need 100 more seats to do this. ATS parents also complain loudly about their trailers. Do they not realize that without a move to McKinley they would permanently need more trailers? Their program just had a building refresh for ATS. If they force a no move you better believe parents all over will fight any building CIP money to accommodate growth with an addition. Very very very few neighborhood schools are operating without trailers.

Further if Lisa Stengle is telling us that when they gave the state the estimate of the number of McKinley kids who live in the Reed school walkzone the state said that’s enough to move accreditation. To me that means that no matter if school moves take place or not McKinley in essence moves to Reed with a slight majority of students or with the school moves taking 75% or more. APS made a walkzone already for Reed it moves so many McKinley students (whether McKinley stays a neighborhood site or not) that McKinley will be able to better retain their school community with the move. What shit storm next fall for that PTA if the moves don’t happen and all the parents who didn’t care either way wake up and see that they have in essence divided their current school population in half for APS through their ridiculous behavior and even more ridiculous alternative proposals that split up multiple schools  [/quote]

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