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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The staff needs to be willing to have an honest process with all options (but the four officially excluded) on the table. Their own analysis would identify at least two schools in NW that are better candidates for option sites than Nottingham, sites that would be better not just for the Nottingham community but for NW as a whole, but they've disregarded it because it's not the result they want, which is dishonest. If that's the way they wanted to go with it, they shouldn't have created that farce of an analysis and should have just put their proposal out on the table for us to discuss openly and honestly.

And really, anyone else watching this process who thinks they're safe from any big changes is a fool, because this is only the latest in a long line of decisions by the SB/staff where we've learned after the fact that they were hiding key information and considerations from the public at the time. How do you think the boundaries are going to work when Nottingham becomes an option school? Most of Tuckahoe isn't going to be at Tuckahoe anymore, the only way you can fill McKinley once Reed opens is to take all of Tuckahoe's planning units south of Lee Highway and southwest of 66, and then they'll still have to hook the McKinley zone around the Reed zone to fill it (and take Ashlawn north of Wilson). Tuckahoe will be majority former-Nottingham after the switch. Ashlawn's boundary is still going to be a long, snaking mess unless the SB decides to cross 50 and fill it with former Carlin Springs families instead (which I think is a strong possibility because they're otherwise going to have a tough time placing those families. Glebe is either going to have a bunch of trailers even after this, or some of their walking families on the eastern side will be bused to Taylor or ASFS. McKinley, and to a lesser extent Tuckahoe, are still going to have a disproportionate number of students because they are the only schools in the staff-designated NW other than Jamestown that can take trailers, and we know the staff has declared Jamestown untouchable.

I think a lot of people in NW (and the north generally) who believe themselves to be sitting pretty right now are going to be very surprised when the new boundary map comes out. I guarantee you the staff already has a draft of it, but they're going to withhold it until the last minute when they make their recommendation and it's too late to revisit the location selection because they don't want more objections to their plan. So look at your school and think about what the boundaries will have to be after this. Make sure you're good with them.
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This Nottingham parent has been posting the same thing for weeks now. Yawn. Apparently staff and SB agree.[/quote]

Yes, the staff and SB agree they are going to go ahead with this plan without fully disclosing the consequences of it (just like they did on multiple points with the Reed construction, just like they're doing to the current Henry community who were led to believe they would all move to Fleet together, just like they did with removing neighborhood preference from Key, just like they did with the boundary rezoning to McKinley). Why do you believe this process will be different and you will be unaffected?[/quote]

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