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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no credible reason for moving Key.[/quote]

Other than every criteria for a neighborhood school developed by the board thus far in the process? The only reason not to have that building as neighborhood is inertia.[/quote]

The board didn’t create those criteria, the staff did. The board has sent them back to redo it with more considerations.[/quote]

There’s an area at the edge of the county with a rapidly growing population and no neighborhood school. We have a building in the neighborhood that hundreds of kids could walk to, but none of them are guaranteed admission, though as recently as a year ago they were. There are no schools nearby that these kids can go to instead. Additionally, this particular area has a lot of families that are transit dependent at all income levels. Those are the reasons for a neighborhood school, what are your reasons for it to remain option?[/quote]

They could switch it with ASFS if it’s that building that’s an issue. Beyond that, my real problem is not with Key or any other specific building, it’s that this is a fundamentally flawed process that isn’t going to solve problems, it would just move them around and maybe they would be lesser afterward, but they also might be worse. There is virtually no place in Arlington that can spare the neighborhood seats required for an option school, so the option schools necessarily overburden their neighbors while limiting flexibility to provide relief in to those neighborhoods. If we’re going to have option programs (and I do think we should), I think they need to revisit the hybrid model for those schools to allow them to spread across the county in a more balanced way. If they go through this process and make big changes, they won’t be able to justify the expense of developing a better plan any time soon.[/quote]

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