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[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]

They want to know the locations by spring because they need to hire a new principal.  It makes a difference whether the principal will be at a school in the west or in the east because they will be building a community from entirely different schools and neighborhoods.  They want that principal to have a full year to build-up his/her team according to the needs of the expected school population.  If a school is going to be more diverse with a lot of English language learners and a lot of low-income students or special ed students, the staffing would be different than for a school of mostly upper to upper middle class English speakers with few special education needs and few, if any, English language learners.

Discovery and Hamm both had a full year to put their teams together.  In the case of Discovery, they had that time to put a PTA together, too, because they knew which schools they would be drawing enrollment from.  Especially when, according to Key's arguments, a lot of special programs and services are in place for their students, the more time APS and PTAs have to prepare for a move and a new neighborhood school in Key's wake, the better for the students.[/quote]

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