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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Work session tonight to discuss elementary boundaries.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ATBQW96A258D[/quote]

Are there any docs from this work session? I'm hopeless at navigating the APS site. [/quote]

Biggest Takeaway, was that they said that middle school boundary is not considered alignment with current elementary school boundaries, because they know the elementary schools are changing . This is the first time I’ve heard them actually say that. [/quote]

Why aren't they doing es and Ms boundaries at the same time? The SB is so frustrating sometimes. [/quote]

Because it's too many variables. Right now with the MS boundary process, one tweak over here can potential create a cascading effect that means 5 or 10 more tweaks over there to get everything in balance. If you do ES boundaries at the same time, that one MS tweak that causes 5 more MS tweaks might then produce three ES alignment issues that mean making a few more tweaks to the ES school boundaries, but then that creates some new issue relative to the MS boundaries and you have to make more changes there. You'd effectively create triple the potential moving parts between all of the MS moving parts, all of the ES moving parts, and then all of the places they intersect, than in the MS process alone. By doing the MS boundaries first, they have just that set of moving parts to work with now and then all of that becomes a constant rather than a variable in the ES process, making the ES process much more efficient. This is not a situation where economies of scale come into play.[/quote]

I buy that, but then why make alignment a criterion at all?[/quote]

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