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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a McKinley parent, but I really don't understand why McKinley was picked over Tuckahoe. Many Tuckahoe students would be rezoned to Reed anyway. Tuckahoe would fit into Reed better, and any overflow would go into under capacity Nottingham and Discovery. Tuckahoe has less walkers so less walkers would be turned into bus riders. Plus, who cares if they can't expand option schools there - they are option schools whose capacity can be controlled! While I completely agree some of the Save McKinley folks are going off the rails, they have raised valid points, especially about APS's flawed assumptions and data analysis. The problem is that they are being aggressive and undermining their own valid arguments. [/quote]

The staff has addressed this.  They said that for all of the challenges they previously anticipated drawing boundaries around Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery if they all stayed neighborhood, the boundaries would be even worse if they kept Reed/McKinley/Ashlawn all as neighborhood schools because there's simply no reasonable way to pull in enough students to fill those seats.  If they make McKinley optino instead, they can draw pretty reasonable boundaries for all the rest of those schools.[/quote]

But are those staff statements correct? I'm not a data person, but it sounds like McKinley's data person has created four alternative scenarios that do a better job balancing capacity and meeting APS's stated goals. [/quote]

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