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Then no one can blame any neighborhood that fights tooth and nail losing 500-600 seats while being told APS will do nothing to relieve the resulting overcrowding. Anyone would do the same.[/quote]

You don't look at seats by neighborhood, but by the school system.

And families previously zoned for Key still have a neighborhood high school. Walking to school is great, but it's not reasonable to expect your kids to get to walk to school for all 13 years. [/quote]

Within the school system you have to look at seats by neighborhood for planning purposes. Especially when you need to stop rapidly increasing transportation costs.[/quote]

But overall, unless the option schools don't fill up (unlikely), boundary adjustments would take into account proximity. The option schools, assuming the general site is considered good for an option, aren't taking anything away from the system. They're looking at things to try to optimize walking to school. But there are no guarantees that [b]every[/b] child will be able to walk to school, not even if they can do so now. Just that [b]more[/b] could. Because not every family's first priority is proximity. And in some cases, I think there are other factors to consider when they make their decision. [/quote]

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