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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with this fro a PP...

“What I read implied that APS had misrepresented or miscalculated Reed's walkability because they are now spending $$$ to bus kids there. My immediate thought was, well of course the estimated transportation costs went up after they finalized the boundaries, because they probably assumed that all the kids who could walk to Reed would go there. And that someone intimately involved in the process would know that.”

I’m not even half as involved as this woman and I could tell you why Reed suddenly needs more buses.

By the way, the bus and cost implications of the Reed boundary were pointed out to APS repeatedly and also the traffic nightmare they created and it was more important to not upset anyone during a pandemic.

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This is why I won't vote for Mary.  She prioritized one school over what is better for the system as a whole.[/quote]

Assuming for the sake of argument that’s what she did, she was PTA for one school at that time. That was kind of her role to advocate for that school. That does not mean she won’t be looking out for all schools as a SB member. This is just silly.[/quote]

This came up on another thread so interesting to see it come up again.  I think it's interesting to see people assert that it's perfectly normal for a PTA president to advocate for something they know is not for the greater good.  Because that's their job.   If that's what we're all saying is appropriate and normal, PTAs should not be allowed to have such a large voice and sway in the boundary processes.

And we're supposed to now take on face value that really in REAL LIFE she can represent all schools.  It was just this other job where she argued in the self-interest of a portion of the student body
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The anti-Kadera people have not read the 6th grade math word problem that was worked out earlier around page 11 which shows that she actually was basically right to question APS's representations re busing costs that were given by APS as justification for moving McKinley.  APS told McKinley that it was the best choice to move because only 28% of its kids were walkable whereas 60% of Reed's kids would be walkable.  That means that APS represented it would have about 420 out of 700 kids at Reed be walkable, whereas it said McKinley only had about 224 out of 800 kids be walkable.  Even if you add what turned out to be ONLY 40 KIDS FROM TUCKAHOE that ultimately would bus to tuckahoe instead of walk to Reed that people are complaining about -- even if you add that back in to the Reed total that still gives you 380 walkable kids at Reed and 320 bused kids at Reed, whereas McKinley had ~ 224 walkable kids and 586 bused kids.  McKinley's supposed old 586 bused kids is so much more of a busing budget than Reed's supposed new 320 bused kids - why then should Reed require, in addition to the old McKinley budget which included the money for those 586 kids, ALSO an extra $380K for additional busing costs at Reed?  Nobody besides those Tuckahoe kids who were walkable ultimately got moved out of Reed, so those numbers shouldn't be off by that much if APS's original representations were right that Reed was very very walkable and McKinley wasn't, whoever Kadera argued for re the Reed move.

Kadera's point is not really wrong in questioning the validity of the school board's representations to McKinley in the first place, even if you account for that small number of Tuckahoe kids, and even if you add in some "frictional costs" as some earlier PP described.  It seems like there is something funky going on and it's not Kadera.

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