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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an option school, it should be the most overcrowded.  No one is forcing students to go there.  It is a decision parents make when they apply.[/quote]

Why should ATS - or any other option school - be the most overcrowded?  I would think that the most overcrowding would result from unexpectedly large enrollments in a given year.  Option schools can control their enrollments, so it doesn't make sense that they would ever end up as the most overcrowded.  That wouldn't be an efficient way to operate.  Granted, this assumes that APS is balancing enrollments across all elementary schools, and we all agree APS is not doing a good job with that.

Option schools should certainly not be under-enrolled, and they should certainly do their share to take on extra students as needed (as should all schools).  But why should they bear that burden disproportionately?  Which is what you would be asking ATS to do if you went to five classes per grade.  I know that some other elementary schools have five or more classes per grade, but they are in larger buildings.

You seem to be under the impression that ATS is underutilized.  And as currently built, it's simply not.  It happens to be in a small building.  I do agree that a larger school could be built on the land, and/or that the school is a good candidate for an addition, but that's not what we are discussing here. (And, as an ATS parent, I would have absolutely no objection to putting an addition onto the school to accommodate significantly more kids.)  The school is already over capacity.  It already has the largest class sizes of any elementary school in the county, bar none.  So ATS is already feeling the capacity crunch just like most other elementary schools in the county.  I'm not sure why you think it is protected from this demographic problem.  [/quote]

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