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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous[b]]I'm a McKinley parent[/b], and I think we are too nice sometimes. We made the mistake of trying to be cordial through the boundary change process, and as a result got railroaded by the freaking Nottingham parents who resorted to circulating nasty petitions to avoid taking on new planning units. Now they get to roll into the 2016/17 school year at 95% capacity, Discovery is at 90% capacity, and McKinley is going to be at 131% capacity.  (And even when the addition opens, McKinley will still be at 104% capacity.)  I thought it was kind of shady that APS did not include the Discovery and Nottingham numbers in their little capacity chart at the presentation to the McKinley PTA the other night-- they only included the Glebe, McK, and Tuckahoe numbers. Here's the link to the presentation they gave to McKinley PTA: http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/105/040516%20McKinley%20Construction%20Update%20V7.pdf

There were a number of Glebe and Tuckahoe parents in attendance, who seemed to be lobbying to delay the boundary move-- and I don't blame them. How you can have 684 kids in a school with no gym, no field, and about 20 parking spaces for half of a school year is beyond me.  And that assumes there are not other delays that push the date past December.

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McKinley parent, what is the end game? I have no dog in this fight (other than as an APS parent not at any of these schools, yet still frustrated about the lack of community spirit when it comes to these decisions). Would you be happy if they allowed transfers (and provided transportation) to the schools that are under 100% capacity? What if the SB allowed transfers for those who would want them? What if they determined the number of seats available at each grade level at the under capacity schools and held a lottery for those available seats? Surely there would be some parents who would elect to send their kids to a school farther away rather than enroll at a school that is wildly over capacity if that option were made available? [/quote]

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