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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please get out to school board meetings and open office hours and let your voices be heard. The School Board needs to hear from the rest of Arlington that they are ok with option 1 otherwise the loud voices of McKinley/ATS/Key win.[/quote]

I find it hard to advocate for anything without really understanding the plan.  It feels like this plan is going to require one or two planning units here and there to move to each of the different schools.  How is that different from the boundary option?  I simply don't understand why this can't all be done at once (with planning units).  The numbers change, I get it.  But the numbers will change again every year and at some point you make decisions, so why not now?  It really does feel like they're trying to get McK parents on board by saying "Hey, most of the school will move to Reed" and I wonder if "most" is semantics.  (Hey, 51 percent is most.)  APS has done this kind of thing before...[/quote]

Because realistically, it's just too much to do it all at once. For this phase, the staff looked at three scenarios -- proposal 1, proposal 2, and no moves.  In a boundary process, we typically see at least 2-3 publicly-released proposals, and have been upwards of six for more extensive redrawings (as would happen here) -- and this doesn't include any scenarios the staff prepares and then rejects after analysis that the public never sees.  If the staff does the whole thing together, we're talking about them having to analyze three times as many boundary scenarios at the same time.  Any change they want to explore in handling one part of the county would require three times as much work, and would have to be analyzed not just through adjusting boundaries but also consideration of whether they should consider different locations with their own set of boundaries.  Doing it this way would be chaotic, input would be flying in so many different directions, the odds of errors would go up dramatically, and we could very well end up with a worse result because the staff wouldn't be able to invest as much time and resources into each aspect of the project.[/quote]

It's too much to do at once and they also need to start hiring for the new ES principal. 
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