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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The funny (not funny?) thing is that when APS eventually gets to the boundary part of this process so many people are going to feel just as screwed as the McKinley and Key parents, they just don’t know it yet. Moving the option programs is a bandaid on a gushing artery and whether options move or not, the real magic comes through the reassignment of planning units.  Nothing in this plan addresses the shortage of seats, and moving the option programs shifts the relative burden of the problem while doing nothing to solve it.  What a mess.  [/quote]

Yes - this is exactly the rationale; but you are missing the next point:  by shifting some things around, APS can address the capacity #s with future projects more readily because they already KNOW they can do additions at certain schools and not others; that they have more options for expansion or new schools in some areas rather than others (NE); and relieving the NE part of the artery at least some now  helps delay having to do something there that they know they are not prepared or able to do in the next 5 years.[/quote]

I think PP is right here. APS is touting the "the majority of McK moves to Reed" theme but I bet 2 planning units go here, 1 goes there, 5 go here, etc...then that has ripple effects so 2 planning units from Tuckahoe go here, 1 goes there, etc.  And that's when parents are going to be up in arms.  Because no one wants to be among a small group moved somewhere else.  It happened to us before.  It sucks.[/quote]

It does suck when it happens to you, but at some point APS needs to rip off the bandaid and make these wholesale changes or it’ll just keep being a mess.  There’s never going to be a time when they can move planning units in exactly the right numbers to make people happy and effect the changes the system needs. I say that as someone whose child might also be in a position of changing schools with only a small number of students.[/quote]

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This is what I keep putting in the surveys they send out.  Do it right for the long-term, and yes that might suck for some current families right this minute if you are in a small group of affected kids.  But they have to start making better, more strategic long-term decisions and not just appeasing current families.

I think most normal people will accept this and then hopefully the staff can endure and tune out the irrational people.[/quote]

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