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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ APS is pausing the 2023 Middle School Boundary Process and the Proposal to Relocate the Spanish Immersion Program until Fall 2024.” In email now. [/quote]

So will be radio silence until what, August 2024?  Is there no way to ask staff for updates?  What if you go to SB member office hours — can they procure status?

They’ve tipped their hand that a big change is coming, will they be transparent about the process!? Or this weird cancel and delay with nary a peep the new normal and we’ll have to fight to  make sure decisions aren’t made by a small group of self-interested parties  like a “vision board”. Change is coming, have an open discussion and demonstrate decisions are made that benefit the majority of APS and not just those with a few staffers in the hook. [/quote]

I think you just saw their "big change." It's a big nothingburger: establishing pathways (which mostly already exist) and determining where they each will go (again, with the high school pathways pretty much already in place and not changing). Based on their list of pathways, aligning boundaries will be an impossible mess.  I expect this "big change" to be a shift in some boundaries and reliance on students opting into the various pathways.

I predict: disastrous failure. The whole process - from community feedback, staff final recommendations, SB lack of direction and ignorant decisions.
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Yeah they are going to try the same thing they did for High schools, make programs and pathways that attract students to other schools.

If Gunston students wanted to go to WMS, would they get a bus of have to provide transportation? Could they be guaranteed transfer to YHS?  I think if the county let folks transfer from one MS to another, provide buses, and ensure they can stay with cohort in high school, that would balance a LOT of the North South imbalance without huge border changes. [/quote]

No, it wouldn't.[/quote]

Then Gunston overcrowding is not a crisis. [/quote]

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