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Nope, just inept planning. Spent too much time and money on Discovery, but let other problems fester with no solutions in sight or transparency with parents.  Everyone suffers.[/quote]

At best, it is incompetence.  I agree with you on Discovery.  They spent a long time making a decision and building a school that was too small to fit the increasing need for seats and then caved to the pressure from (loud, influential) parents to create boundaries that only benefited the few.  Next year, Discovery, Jamestown and Nottingham will all have capacity to absorb more students, but APS planning will not use those resources.  Instead, they will push through with plans they claim will help in 5 years without regard to what it does to schools in the present. [b] I'm not sure why they pretend that their numbers 5 years out are written in stone b/c they can't even get the projections right from year to year.[/b]  I would like to think it is just incompetence and that the SB would step in and do something, but the fact that nothing has changed makes me think it is all political.

http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/11/Capacity_Utilization_FallProjections16-25_Final_Revised_11172015.pdf
That's the projections, but now McKinley will have a capacity of 443 for at least the first sememster (but quite likely much longer), but a student population of 712.  [/quote]

Isn't that something? they've missed their projection numbers every year for the 10 years i've been dealing with them and they are always behind. 10 years ago I was at a projection meeting where I raised my concerns about how off the mark they were about their projection (they did not factor in the numbers from condos and the likes accurately) numbers for the following 5 years. All I got was a dumbed look, they had the audacity to ask me to send them an email about my findings, they were not going to do the work themselves.

On a different note, does anyone know the time line for the Wilson school? it looks there's some delays with that one as well. [/quote]

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