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And it still comes down to the close proximity of McK and Reed and Ashlawn make it really hard to draw a reasonable boundary for all there to be neighborhood schools. If McK wanted to stay put they needed to fight the charge to make Reed a neighborhood school. But that wasn't happening because a good chunk of McK is in Westover and they wanted a neighborhood school there.

I'd want to see boundaries/walk zones map with Tuckahoe being option and compare that to option 1's map, before concluding the same, if I were McKinley PTA. Remember if one is not overwhelmingly 'better' then it's just a game of playing politics.

If they move ATS to Tuckahoe rather than to McKinley, you can create a map that balances capacity and looks very similar to the proposal #1 map. The problem with that proposal isn't the boundaries so much as how it will negatively affect ATS. By moving it further from SA, you will reduce the number of students it pulls from SA schools (particularly low-income students), and you be basically prevent any further expansion of a very in-demand program because it will effectively max out Tuckahoe's capacity. By putting it at McKinley, you keep it more accessible to low-income students and allow for future growth of the program.[/quote]

I don't see APS successfully moving ATS to a location that is basically inaccessible for all of South Arlington and all high poverty communities in the County and getting away with it.  The ATS community would lose their shit, AEM would get in a line to see who could condemn it the most in terms of impact on the poor.

McKrazy was already not a great look but if she is seriously arguing that the best solution is to keep her precious school from moving so she's not personally inconvenienced and to hoard ATS as only an option for the wealthiest of the wealthy - that is an even more selfish, self serving, terrible look. I think that would really be the straw that broke the camels back in terms of the County. Alot of people who have previously played along would start getting super on board with blowing the whole system up  and support the future board member who wants to go all lottery. [/quote]

The vast majority of SA kids that attend ATS are the UMC white people who don’t want to go to their neighborhood school. ATS’s diversity stats come from mostly their VPI kids. The worst part of moving ATS to McKinley is that the expansion of ATS would actually further the segregation of SA schools. The NA kids that attend ATS often applied to escape their overcrowded schools. Now that they won’t be overcrowded, not as many kids will apply - except they could get a flood of applicants from the 200+ kid in the McKinley walk zone. I predict if they move ATS to McKinley and expand it to 800 kids (likely McKinley currently houses w trailers) it could be detrimental the the SA neighborhood schools. [/quote]

What if they expanded exclusively with more VPI students? 
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Or conduct a lottery that provides seats by the home neighborhood school proportionate to the FR/L rate?[/quote]

Right! K lottery should have a FR/L preference.[/quote]

Literally VPI[/quote]

IN ADDITION to the VPI kids. VPI preference for K and then additional preference for FR/L kids that didn't get into VPI the year before. [/quote]

Pretty sure APS was sued for a similar policy at HBW.[/quote]

I think you’re referring to the lawsuit brought about by a parent against ATS, which had a lottery with racial preference (not economic status policy). It went to the Supreme Court, and that ended the former ATS lottery policy, and led to the HB lottery being changed to a neighborhood seat allocation.

The VPI thing works, as long as every option school continues to have a couple VPI classrooms (they all do now). HB’s newly revised policy that separates out option and neighborhood schools and kids from private ES has led to a (modest) bump in diversity. I think the new location will make it more diverse over time, too. 
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HBW and ATS were sued together, for favoring minorities in the lottery. As the lawsuit made its way through the courts there were proposals to change the system from giving more weight to minorities to giving more weight to low income families, but the courts denied that as well. As I understand it.[/quote]

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