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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the NW hoarding seats. You don’t want to open Reed at 702?!  Why? We need all the seats right now. Schools outside of the NW are exploding. You don’t get to keep seats because you might be overcrowded again in the future.  All the elementaries are going to be overcrowded again in the near future.  We need 3 new elementaries. We cannot allow Westover to reserve some seats for the future.  You all have lost your minds with your privilege and your selfishness. Wow. [/quote]
As a north-of-Lee-Highway person, I have zero issue with Reed opening at 702.  I actually question whether it should open even that full, because it's really pushing effective capacity (as opposed to technical capacity).  But the notion that an area that's about 170 students over capacity right now without pre-k and about 210 with pre-k (I'm including Ashlawn with McKinley and Glebe to be generous) won't have an excess number of seats in a couple of years when they get 725 more is absolutely ridiculous.  Right now, the schools north of Lee Highway have 185 extra seats without pre-k, about 65 with, and those schools are projected to pick up more students over the next five years.

So you tell me, which area is likely to have more excess seats in five years, the one that's currently 170-210 over capacity but is going to get 725 new seats, or the one that's 65-185 under capacity but is getting no new seats?  You can really look at those numbers and say north of Lee Highway is the area that obviously should get an option school, giving it potentially a 400-500 seat deficit at that point?[/quote]

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