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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to clarify, MK’s own children were not going to be affected by the school moves. Her youngest is in MS now. I am also not sure that she was the person behind the maps. My memory is that it was a Key parent who created those maps that were circulated. Anyway, as a parent who was involved in my PTA at that time, I totally get why some at McKinley freaked. They were pretty blindsided, since previous rumblings had named just about every other school in the NW as potential targets. I think she did her best to represent her community in an evenhanded manner, since there was disagreement even within McKinley about how to respond. [/quote]

McKinley was only surprised because they didn’t pay attention.  In the prior round of the option location review, the criteria put forth by APS actually pointed to McKinley as one of the best locations for ATS, and it was a mystery to a lot of people why McKinley had been deemed exempt.  Of course, it came out later that the superintendents office had pre-determined that Nottingham should be the option site and then tried to fudge the data to make it stick, but did a poor job of it.  As APS started getting more data and analysis (like the initial results of the transportation study that only happened because school groups argued for it), it became that much clearer that McKinley was the better option.  When the school board and superintendent abruptly shut that whole process down, it should have been another warning sign that APS was going to come back with a new plan.

But McKinley thought they were sitting pretty, so they issued that statement about trusting the judgment of the school board and superintendents office, and checked out.  Not a great leadership moment.[/quote]

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