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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a Key parent, but I thought APS needs seats at Key because of all the new affordable housing the county just approved. So if most of Key doesn’t follow to ATS, doesn’t that still leave APS without enough seat in that area? The only way to remove that uncertainty is to leave every school where it is and draw boundaries. Broaden the walk zone to the full mile allowed under APS policy instead of 1/2 mile used today if you want to reduce bus costs. [/quote]

There are 271 kids from the ASFS zone at Key on the most recent transfer report. If every single one of those kids stays, that still “creates” 382 seats that weren’t there before because the building capacity is 653. [/quote]

+1 And if every single one of those kids drops out of Key because of a location move the board might want to consider what's wrong with an option program that so many people would choose ONLY because of location.

It is unfortunate that this realignment had to happen so soon after they dropped the neighborhood preference for Key.  If they'd had more time for the neighborhood-preferred families to age out there might be less histrionics because the school would be full of people who chose it more for the program NOT because it was close to home (to some degree since we know option enrollment does tend to be higher among people closer to the school).[/quote]

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