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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]

They don't take anything away from the system as a whole, but they do take away flexibility from the individual areas to manage unexpected capacity increases. The fewer schools in a region (and especially if any of the schools can't take on trailers), the fewer additional seats that can be added via trailers to account for such an unexpected capacity increase. If we look at the Nottingham area, Tuckahoe and McKinley are already maxed out on trailers and Discovery can't take any trailers at all. The only reason people think there's going to be an abundance of extra seats in that area when Reed opens is because the staff is projecting that enrollment in that area will stay even or decrease over the next five years. The problem is that they've been saying this every year for ages, projecting that the next year's incoming kindergarten class will be meaningfully smaller than the ones before, and yet every year that turns out not to be the case and schools scramble in July to find more teachers. If they turn out to be wrong on their projections again and they make Nottingham an option school, all of those schools could potentially be worse than ever with very few options for managing it.[/quote]

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