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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ATS is only adding ONE kindergarten class next year - 24 kids. They are not adding a class at all grades. That would allow a bit of overflow from the rest of the county until the following year when Fleet opens and all elementary school are redistricted.

ATS is a luxury. There is no guarantee in any of our schools that you get protected from trailers!  If you don’t like it, go back to your home school.
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Again, not an ATS parent, but I think the issue is: have they made it clear that this is for one year, with a promise to reassess next year and adjust appropriately? I know the idea would be a lot less upsetting to the option school parents if it were clear that they will be getting "bubble" classes only as long as the neighborhood schools are also overcrowded. That's fair and equitable. I think they're freaking out because there is at least one board member who's made statements to the effect that anyone who wants to be admitted to a lottery school should be (ATS could not, even with trailers, admit everybody who applies, that would be crazy and then the neighborhood schools would be left under-enrolled). At the same time, there are definitely people who are trying to use this to punish or undermine the option programs. This is a crazy way to go about that. If you don't want option schools, fight for that. Don't fight to make the kids enrolled there have a bad experience. Nobody should be fighting for this. It was terrible when that happened to McKinley, and Claremont and Key. It's terrible that we haven't acted faster for Henry and Oakridge (although, they have resisted the idea of boundary changes that could alleviate crowding instantly because, given the choice, they'd rather have their kids at their "good" but crowded school than at school with space and low test scores). [/quote]

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