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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:20 - You make some good points.  However, the moms of babies won't have kids comfortably in McK and Tuckahoe.  They will have kids in trailers on the parking lot b/c they already used up field space.  Heck, McK is already at that point.  The whole Taylor/ASFS/Key switch could be fixed with cascading boundary changes and a liberal transfer policy.  [/quote]

If Reed is opened as a 725 student choice ES, then it will voluntarily draw students from all over the county-- including the NW schools. And if current transfer trends hold, it will likely be overly represented by kids living in the NW area, since that is what is happening at choice schools right now (e.g., ATS has more kids from Glebe and Ashlawn; Campbell from Carlin Springs, etc.)-- check out the transfer report posted to the APS website if you don't believe me. I suspect a lot of the McKinley overflow would be taken care of by Reed even if it is a choice school, which is also why I don't think APS is bothering with the McK boundaries now (and my kids are at McK, so I understand how much the current situation sucks). McK is overenrolled by about 100 kids, not 725.

I favor the proposed change to ASFS, but moving the boundaries does not take care of the NE capacity problem. Taylor is overcapacity too. In an ideal world, you would just build additions onto both buildings (and probably also onto Nottingham) and leave Reed as a preschool. But we all know (or should know) that multiple additions costs more money than just renovating a single building. This is why Murphy wants to use Reed as an escape valve for overcrowding at multiple schools across the entire Northside (or Westside, under Natress's new proposal). You can't "cascade" the boundaries enough to make it work, simply for the fact that we're going to have too many seats concentrated in a small geographic area once Reed reopens as a 725 seat school, so close to McKinley. Look at the utilization chart on the More Seats website.

Lander is pulling a page right out of Trump's playbook- making promises that things will be oh so simple to fix with Reed if he just gets elected. (Nevermind that he has been in office for 8 years already.) It makes me ill to see how many people in Westover and EFC are eating it up.   [/quote]

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