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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See page 17 of the 2013 CIP here:
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/www/eb0c563b13-CIP2013-22_FINAL.pdf

This plan also had an addition being built at ATS to add capacity there.  I believe ATS killed that.[/quote]

I have this constant internal debate over whether ATS should be shut down because the parents there tend to be such assholes, or whether it should continue because it isolates so many of the assholes away from the rest of us.[/quote]

Except that ATS didn't kill that, that I know of.  They may have raised the usual questions about how the school would continue to function while under construction.  I'm sure McKinley raised the same questions.  The ATS principal started planning for the eventual addition.  The parent community beefed up their PTA bank account so that there'd be money to stock the extra classrooms and do things for the additional teachers and kids.  And then nothing happened.  The renovation got killed because the money was used elsewhere.  We've talked about it at PTA meetings over the last few months, and the principal is open to it, but the funds aren't there anymore.

We are fighting the school board's idea to put 10 additional trailers on the site.  (We already have 4.)  Just because there is technically room for them on the grounds doesn't mean there is room for 200 (!!!) more kids in the school.  We are already over capacity with 539 kids vs. our capacity of 465.  The first lunch shift starts at 10:20.  Our class sizes are already the largest in the county.  There's no way you could shove 200 more kids in there without an addition; the facilities just aren't that big.  The SB is not suggesting adding 200 more kids to any other school, so we are fighting it.  Can you honestly tell me that you wouldn't fight an effort to add 40% more kids to your school without any sort of infrastructure improvements?  I doubt it.

I'm sorry your kid didn't get into ATS, but I'm glad someone so bitter isn't part of our community.[/quote]

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