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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they do anticipate moving Expeditionary, I suspect Tuckahoe may not be as safe as everyone thinks. This was just an analysis, not a commitment to take all of those corner schools off the table. I think once they have the full application figures, they'll realize they can't move Expeditionary into a larger-capacity site because there will be too much risk of not being able to fill seats and wasting a site that easily accommodate relocatables that Expeditionary doesn't need, so it's not a good fit for Nottingham. Same reasoning applies to Carlin Springs and every other school identified as a top candidate in the first round of analysis.

Even though Tuckahoe is in that corner, the rationale for eliminating corner schools from the analysis doesn't really apply there because they do have a lot of options for Tuckahoe students between Nottingham, McKinley and Reed. Tuckahoe has a much better site for the current Expeditionary program, and then that quadrant (which has one of the higher population growth rates in the county) [b]doesn't lose as many potential seats for neighborhood growth [/b](which they'll need if they put an option school in the NW quadrant).[/quote]

This is what I don't understand about the rationale, and I haven't had the chance to watch the video of the work session to see if it was explained better than in the written analysis.  They seem to be operating under the presumption that smaller neighborhood schools will be fine because enough people will self select to the option schools.  What if they don't?  Then you have hugely massively overcrowded neighborhood schools with larger option schools sitting with vacant seats.  IMO, option schools are a nice to have in Arlington, but the vast majority of parents don't even attempt the lotteries which says to me that the priority is neighborhood seats.  
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The SB knows this is a flaw with the staff's rationale, they're not prepared to sign onto the analysis until they see the application and yield numbers for all of the programs. Option applications are due Monday and families have to accept/decline their spaces by May 21, so there will be time to change the analysis if the numbers just don't support this approach before the June 21 vote.

Thursday's analysis is far from a done deal, we're a long way from a final SB decision.[/quote]

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