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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm also a McK parent and I support the school going to Reed --it seems to make a lot of sense.  But since we've been burned by the school board before (hello, 800 students at McK) we just want to see some data showing how they came to these conclusions and who will go where.  We don't want Reed to be over capacity in two years because they miscalculated...and we also don't want it to turn out that they really plan to send a bunch of walkable Reed planning units elsewhere to fill capacity at Discovery, Nottingham and Tuckahoe.  
The biggest problem with the way they're doing this is the lack of transparency: they primed everyone for what was going to happen with all the previous studies and now they're saying oh, we're going to do the opposite!  Just show us what you've got, and then I at least will be on board.[/quote]
What do you think they primed you for and now are changing course on?  They’ve been clear for months that Key is moving but not to ASFS, so it has to go somewhere but they didn’t propose a site until now.[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I think what she means is that APS did a study of a bunch of school locations in 2018 and concluded at that time that McKinley was a poor location for an option school site. You can find that study on Engage. I think its under the Key-ASFS swap initiative. Based on those metrics, APS concluded Nottingham was the best location for an option school. (At the time, it seemed that Nattress was looking at leaving ATS where it is, but opening a new IB school at Nottingham.) That one Nottingham mom organized a petition and got someone in Don Beyer's office involved. Then APS just pulled everything off the table and said they would revisit. So what changed?  That's what people are asking. They want to make sure that this isn't behind the scenes politics. I agree with PP that if APS would explain what changed between 2018 and now, most people in Westover would be fine with the plan (all but a few neighbors immediately around McKinley anyway). But nobody wants Reed to open over-capacity. Starting at 725 student school at 702 kids doesn't seem like a great plan when they are still building new multi-family housing in Westover-- and that's not hypothetical, they are building it right now. [/quote]

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