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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.[/quote]

APS policy is that no child will have to move more than one time during a given school level (ES, MS, HS).  A family with multiple children spread across a large number of grades may end up moving more than once, but an individual child will not have to.  The Reed-related boundary changes won't happen until 2021.  By that point no student in the elementary system will have had to make a school move, since the 2021 fifth graders are currently in first grade.
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I didn't say students, I said families for exactly that reason. The disruption to families is a lesser concern than students, but it's still not a good thing.[/quote]

It's not ideal, sure.  APS is focused on educating our children and having sufficient seats for them. They aren't worried about parents having to make new friends.[/quote]

It's not just about making new friends, it's about how engaged parents feel with a community. If you'be been at a school for several years and are at all inclined toward engagement and volunteering, you're probably pretty involved and will stay that way until your youngest moves on to middle school. But if you suddenly move to a. Ew school with only a couple of years left for your younges you're going  be much much more likely to decide it's not worth it to start from scratch at a new place, so you're going to do other stuff. PTAs tend to suffer for a few years when you have big school changes like this, and while lots of families may not care if the fundraising drops off for a while, the staff does care when suddenly the PTA has to cut back on its classroom support because it can't raise enough money, when they struggle to find room parents for upper grades, etc. That concern isn't particular to any given school, but it should at least be acknowledged that when you dramatically change up a community too often, you hurt the schools.[/quote]

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