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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m having a hard time understanding the impetus for the apparent switches.  I need the “why” question answered first.  In other words, why would switching Key and AsF make sense?  What’s the rationale? [/quote]

Key is now an option school, so it doesn't necessarily have a neighborhood preference.  ASFS is now a neighborhood school, but its [b]not as centrally located in the current boundaries.[/b]  So some people believe a switch makes the most sense, but there are a lot of reasons for why it doesn't make sense as well.  It doesn't solve any problems about seats in the area.  There are almost 1500 kids in the key zone and one school can not handle those kids.  I still think making both a neighborhood school would be best, but then you boot the immersion program out.  I don't understand why they had to remove the neighborhood preference from Key's option program to begin with.  It's part of why people moved to the area.[/quote]

It's not that it's not "centrally located", it's actually not in the boundary it serves at all!  It's located in the Taylor boundary.[/quote]

And maintaining the "status quo" actually requires a dramatic redraw of the boundary. Are you really going to send Rosslyn to Taylor? I don't even know if they have room. [/quote]

They will when half of Taylor goes to Jamestown, half of Jamestown goes to Discovery . . . and so on as everything gets pushed West where the seats at Reed are opening up.  Dramatic redraw is an understatement.  Those are going to be some insane boundaries.  I don't think Jamestown and Taylor have any idea how this impacts them.  They think this is all about everyone else swapping schools.  But, if things stay as they are, everyone will see a very different boundary map in the fall.  Then, EVERYONE will freak out.  [/quote]

I hope they at least show a mock up of the new boundaries as part of the status quo option, just to show what the decision actually is. [/quote]

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