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I would suggest educating yourself about the process more, perhaps attend some school board meetings, etc. Some of the kids you're talking about have been at Tuckahoe for a couple of years already. If you leave them at Tuckahoe, you're just shifting trailers from McKinley to Tuckahoe (because yes, even though numbers there have fallen, Tuckahoe and Nottingham still have trailers). If you move them to Discovery, then they're going from a couple of years in Tuckahoe to a couple of years in Discovery and then a couple of years in McKinley, which is way too much bouncing around.

Where are those kids going to go? No one is going to bus them past Tuckahoe and Nottingham to Discovery, so you'll just end up moving them from trailers at McKinley to trailers at one of those two schools. [/quote]

I feel like there must be some disconnect there.  I'm very involved in the process.  The planning unit moving from Tuckahoe to McKinley will move next year.  Those kids haven't gone anywhere, yet.  Even though McKinley is under construction right now, the projections for the next two years are way over the number of seats they will have.  Glebe is also sending students to McKinley next year.  The planning unit from Tuckahoe is right up against Lee Highway.  It's not like the students would be bussed to Oakridge.  The question is, why are they moving them from Tuckahoe trailers to McKinley trailers?  It doesn't solve anything?

Also, size matters.  Yes, Nottingham has trailers (who doesn't, really?), but they also have classes with less than 20 kids.  That means that lunches and recess are more manageable.  When you get above a certain size (the SB determined that's 725, BTW), there are impacts to how the school can function.  [/quote]

Okay Tuckahoe parent, how about answering my earlier question.  If you are really so concerned about McKinley's overpopulation, why were you arguing in favor of moving BOTH Tuckahoe units to McKinley several months ago even though that would have clearly pushed McKinley to be overcapacity?

You wanted to overpopulate McKinley just a little while ago, to the detriment of [b]all[/b] students at that school, for your own personal benefit (so 2 giant planning units could stay together).  I'm not really moved by your arguments now that McKinley's overpopulation is a deal breaker for you.  McKinley being overpopulated was your best case scenario last year.   STOP WHINING!  Grow up.  Stop using your white privilege to ask for everything to be switched around to just the way you want it.  Go to meetings and stop complaining and work to make whatever school you go to better.

Not a Discovery parent.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure there were Tuckahoe parents at every school board meeting.  [/quote]

Different poster, but I have no clue how this is relevant to pp's point.[/quote]

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