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[quote=Anonymous]At the meeting, APS said that they only expected to need 1-2 trailers when the construction was finished (as opposed to the current six-plex units). There is a chart floating around that shows the number of projected trailers post-construction-- I will post a link if I can find it in an old email.  The issue with McKinley is that there will be so little field space after that addition is finished-- so even 1-2 trailers will take that green space away.  I think McKinley is unique compared to some of the other elementary schools, in that it is completely boxed in on all sides by residential housing. This is also why I don't understand the decision to build out McKinley in the first place, as opposed to some of the other schools, but that ship has obviously sailed.

Regarding the Tuckahoe planning units, we are friends with a family in that unit, and the issue is that the two units wanted to move together-- not that they wanted to move to McK specifically. They would have been fine both moving to Nottingham too, but the Nottingham parents circulated a petition opposing taking the additional students and got nasty with APS over it. So by the time the alternative came to McK for discussion, the choice was to take one planning unit or take them both. Also, my impression from the meeting is that some of the parents complaining were the units moving over from Glebe-- these parents have been jerked around a bit by APS, because they have been getting conflicting messages over the past two years about whether they really need to move to create space at Glebe.

In any event, if you look at the chart at the link below, Discovery (our newest, most beautiful elementary school) is projected to be undercapacity until the 2020-2021 school year. So why can't APS allow transfers, or consider reshifting the boundaries elsewhere to give some relief to McK and Ashlawn? I think they are just lazy and don't want to reopen the boundary process again. We should be complaining to the SB about this as McK and Ashlawn parents.  When you ask the APS staff, they just give you a lame excuse that everyone is going to be full again by 2021, so there is no point to shifting. However, that is almost the entirety of elementary school for a significant number of students.

http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/11/Capacity_Utilization_FallProjections16-25_Final_Revised_11172015.pdf[/quote]

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