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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see the person who wants Reed as a neighborhood school to be NIMBY (assuming you mean that as an insult).  The reason McKinley was picked for the recent addition is they *actually* volunteered.  McKinley didn't launch a petition to keep people out.  They didn't start a campaign to make neighbors feel badly about not being welcome and were very gracious to the incoming families.  However, when McKinley reps repeatedly showed APS errors in their numbers and APS refused to change directions, they had reasons to get mad.  The opening of [b]Reed for the surround neighborhood is, not only logical, but one of the only ways to fix what went wrong.[/quote][/b]

Maybe. But it's going to built to 725 minimum and I don't think you can fill that school by taking 100 or so students each from the adjacent McKinley, Tuckahoe, Nottingham boundaries (and Nottingham isn't even overcrowded anymore) zones, right? So how do you justify a new school in that area? Or you think that school can be filled to 725 capacity right away? I don't think they're going to build a school just so that there can be five neighboring schools with 400-500 students each. Maybe by making it an option school with the attendance zone that includes McKinley, Tuckahoe, Nottingham it would mean that you get a new school nearby and for those who really, really want to be able to walk to school, they have that option. Or are you worried that the closest students would get crowded out by those who live further away? I guess I'm just not understanding how making the new school a zoned option school makes it less likely that overcrowding will be addressed at the schools that would be within that option's zone? Right? It's not like ASFS where the school is located within a neighborhood where walking students can't even opt in because students from Key zone are guaranteed spots first. [/quote]

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