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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happening to have excess seats in your neighborhood a la Jamestown or Discovery is not hoarding. No one in those neighborhoods or Tuckahoe is saying they shouldn’t fill to capacity.   Arguing against using empty seats (saying that you shouldn’t fill Reed) because you might need them later is hoarding. And that’s on Westover or whoever is pushing that argument from McKinley. Fill. All.  The. Seats. Including Drew and Jamestown and everywhere in between. [/quote]
I don’t think you understand how school capacity works in practice.  Capacity numbers assume that every classroom is filled exactly to capacity, which is not how it works in real life.  In real life, if you’re over about 94% capacity, there’s a good chance you’ll need trailers.  That’s fine if your school can take trailers, but not if you’re at a school like Reed or Fleet that APS has determined cannot take trailers.  The more sensible choice is to leave schools like Reed that can’t take trailers at no more than 93-94% capacity because they are effectively full at that point, and then push more students to schools like Tuckahoe and Nottingham that can take trailers.

-Nottingham parent who can deal with reality[/quote]

Reed can't take trailers? On that big field? Why not?[/quote]

Most likely a permitting issue with the county.  APS and the county having sharing agreements for all of the field space at the schools, and the county is entitled to a certain portion of non-school hour access to the fields, which they then rent to sports leagues andnother groups to raise revenue.  If APS puts trailers there, the county won’t have access to the space.  Therefore, the county won’t grant them a permit that would allow them to put trailers there.[/quote]

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