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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a McKinley parent, but I really don't understand why McKinley was picked over Tuckahoe. Many Tuckahoe students would be rezoned to Reed anyway. Tuckahoe would fit into Reed better, and any overflow would go into under capacity Nottingham and Discovery. Tuckahoe has less walkers so less walkers would be turned into bus riders. Plus, who cares if they can't expand option schools there - they are option schools whose capacity can be controlled! While I completely agree some of the Save McKinley folks are going off the rails, they have raised valid points, especially about APS's flawed assumptions and data analysis. The problem is that they are being aggressive and undermining their own valid arguments. [/quote]

Agreed[/quote]

McKinley is (somewhat) more accessible to the rest of the County for an option school than Tuckahoe.[/quote]

McKinley is very close to ATS and can handle the bus traffic. It can also handle the number of classrooms ATS will need to have in upper grades moving forward because they added a K class (this or last year?) so now the next grade up grows each year through 5th one year at a time. So while it is currently 590ish students it will be adding 3-4 classrooms (1st-5th) over the next 4 years bringing the total of kids up by 100. So a 700 kid school is needed. Even with trailers Tuckahoe can't handle that as they aren't zoned for additional trailers than the two out front. Other schools can with trailers but of the schools thrown out there McKinley is the best fit.[/quote]

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