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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are so far into stupid territory now, I feel like I lose brain cells every time I open this thread.[/quote]

This is why they need to draw those boundaries now, so we can all stop wasting our time with this insanity.[/quote]

No, that just gives us two rounds of stupid on ASFS. Now and in two years when they refine it before Reed opens.[/quote]

That's why the entire boundary needs to be done for 2019.  No reason to extend the pain.  [/quote]

That will mean the boundaries to be implemented for 2021 will be based on projections that are three years out of date at that point. They have been very explicit on this, any boundaries drawn now for 2021 will be checked again in 2020 to make sure they are still appropriate at that time. Again with the stupid. [/quote]

Just because you keep saying it doesn't make it so.  You hear the echo chamber?  Sounds loud to me.

Projections are fairly stable.  They might make a couple planning unit refinements here and there for 2021 to ASFS, but the big change will be in 2019.[/quote]

Projections are fine, but they can't project what the decision will be on moving options schools, which politically they want to make the decision close to implementation time so less time for backpedaling.  They can decide in 2018 to move Key to Nottingham in 2021, but that's 3 years of gnashing teeth and matched t-shirts at every school board meeting.  If they just table No Arlington, MAYBE move a few southern ASFS boundary PUs to LB if Fleet gives it breathing room, that's all they can do until the final decision on option locations is set.[/quote]

Key isn't moving to Nottingham, APS already said the only program that would work at Nottingham is ATS. Immersion already struggles to attract enough spanish-speaking students, moving it away from spanish-speaking families will only make it worse. Putting ATS north of Lee Highway is just as shitty an idea because whether they put it at Nottingham or Tuckahoe there will be hundreds of families who could just as easily walk to ATS as to their neighborhood school, they will flood ATS with applications and UMC SA families can kiss it goodbye.[/quote]

YES!  I don’t understand why more people weren’t seeing this.  Moving ATS to any NW school would only lessen economic diversity.  You cannot increase diversity with the existing lottery system.  
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