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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - I agree that rebalancing every year isn't possible. What I don't agree with is making changes now for benefit in the future if it is causing more problems in the short-term. If long-term was what mattered, they would be moving those units to McKinley in a few years, when their existing population decreases.

I would be shocked if construction finishes on time. It would be the first project that hasn't gone over in years.

Common sense would allow for grandfathering at both Glebe and Tuckahoe for older students, like APS did with Discovery.  Is that on the table?[/quote]

But every year that the school board lets this process drag on, it's another year of massive distraction with people petitioning for the board to reconsider the issue. If the public were willing to accept that the units were moving at a point in the future, perhaps that's something the board would consider. But the board knows that whoever doesn't like the decision (and there will always be someone, no matter how fair the decision) will fight it tooth and nail until it's done, and then they have to keep wasting their time on it. I'd rather than that focus on the middle schools and high schools, even though we still have nearly a dozen years left before all of ours are out of elementary, because for all those kids (including my own, I had one who spent most of his elementary years in a wildly overcrowded Nottingham) who had their elementary years negatively affected by overcrowding, I'd like them to get a break in middle and high school because the school board has finished with it by then.[/quote]

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