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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my opinion, two main reasons... 
1) Madison Manor, Dominion Hills and the other neighborhoods around McK are very tight and like their walkable school. They want to still be able to walk to to school. APS has said that a majority will move to Reed, but the other 49% will get split between multiple schools. They can’t all go to Reed and Ashlawn. They don’t want their community split up to 3+ schools.

2) APS has done a piss poor job of planning regarding McK the past decade. They should have built Reed instead of the McK addition 5 years ago, but instead they built the addition and said it would be enough for the area. It was over budget, way over schedule and in the end McK was still overcrowded. So this school has had 5 (+\-) years with no field space, construction, and no playground for part of it. Once they built the addition, they got the districting totally wrong and when parents pointed out large errors they didn’t correct them. That is why McK and other APS think they can do a better job than staff, because historically they have done better. Now, without warning, APS says their school will become an option school. So the current families lived through the construction, overcrowding etc and now don’t get to enjoy the school. And APS says the reason McK is a good site is because it has an addition, but the addition was originally built to help the overcrowding neighborhood kids. But now the addition will be used to expand ATS. APS says the they can’t fill McK as a neighborhood school once Reed opens without funny boundaries. But they would be able to fill most of it with neighborhood kids and pre-k if they hadn’t built the addition. So it is like APS and the addition are screening them again. Without McK as a neighborhood school, all the surrounding schools will be at or over capacity within a year of Reed opening with continued growth projected.

I’m not a McK parent, but this is what I think.[/quote]

I really feel for current McKinley parents. They’ve gotten the short end many times, having had to deal with overcrowding, lack of play space, and seemingly endless construction. And now, they’re being told that most of their students will need to move to another school while others go elsewhere.

The thing is, the McKinley community is going to be broken up no matter what. They’ll probably lose all planning units north of I-66 to Reed, and others on the edges of its current boundaries could end up assigned to Tuckahoe, Ashlawn, or Glebe. Even the PTA’s suggested map would move several PUs, including ones with current walkers, to neighboring schools.

I totally get that the families immediately surrounding McKinley want to stay together. But maybe the better choice would be to lobby hard for them all to go to Reed, rather than stand in front of a moving train like they’re doing now.[/quote]

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