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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If APS moves one of the option schools, which are the only sources of SES diversity in this segregated county, north of Lee Highway there is going to be a full scale revolution. That is absurd![/quote]

You are wrong. South Arlington parents have shown they will travel for a good program. THey want seats and a strong peer group. Being close to a school is an acceptable sacrifice. It’s a small county.[/quote]

But the whole point of moving programs is so that there are fewer drivers, fewer buses, and shorter bus routes. Moving any option school over to Tuckahoe defeats the principle. The walk zone for the current location of ATS is, according the APS staff, very small because of the busy intersections. If their own reason for taking at look at program locations is increasing walkers and shortening or lessening bus routes they shouldn't move a choice program away from that particular spot. And moving Key there only to move ATS to Tuckahoe is a lot of disruption for what gain? So that the Taylor transfer parents who paid for the ASFS lab can get a neighborhood school in ASFS? [/quote]

When Reed opens they don't think there will be enough kids to fill all the schools in that corner of the county. An option program induces demand for volunteers to travel over there.[/quote]

I understand that. But, it's because they didn't make a big picture plan before building an addition onto McKinley, building Discovery, and then to open a large new school so close by. Turning Tuckahoe into an option program is going to be a long-term solution to a short-term problem. It may not have an optimal walk zone ever, but they can certainly fill it by redoing boundaries and allowing transfers. They shouldn't make another permanent decision about option school locations, because once it's an option school, it will be really difficult to change it back. [/quote]

Option schools are all transfers, so making it an option school is incentivizing people to transfer. Why would people transfer there otherwise? I don't think busing is provided for administrative transfers to neighborhood schools, so parents would have to transport. [/quote]

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