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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you people talking about?  A few years ago APS moved [b]three[/b][i] schools for crying out loud (Key to ATS, ATS to McKinley, McKinley to Cardinal).  Planners faced down angry parents and gave the supine School Board one choice: these school moves or the apocalypse.  It was unnecessary and expensive.  They dug in their heels and no argument would dissuade them.  
Anyone who thinks that APS is overly captive to advocates is nuts. [/quote]

But those are really easy to sell moves.

McKinley to Cardinal was basically the same neighborhood, they just got to move into a brand new school.

The other two programs are option schools, and they really have a little argument about location, they can always go to their neighborhood school if proximity is the most important thing. So they just didn’t have leverage to fight back. Neighborhood schools are different matter entirely especially if you go from walking to busing [/quote]

As someone who lived through this, this is not true at all.  McKinley fought like holy hell to not get moved (and yes the biggest group pissed was Madison Manor and Dominion Hills people who were walkers to McKinely and were going to have to bus to Cardinal).  The Key people also went completely nuts.  ATS was fine, more or less.

APS had an interim super at the time.  I don't know why the School Board actually did something hard.  I remember being shocked at the time.  [/quote]

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