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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is alignment even a factor when we will have 2 new ES schools opening in the next few years?  Since those boundaries haven't been established yet, how do we even know which planning units will be outliers?

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I think alignment will focus more on the high school boundaries they already set, and those portions of the elementary school zones that aren't likely to change when those boundaries are done. Elementary boundaries that are harder to predict are likely to be given lesser consideration in this. If I'm remember correctly, that was part of why middle school alignment wasn't given as much consideration in drawing the high school boundaries, because the school board knew the middle school boundaries would be up next and there wasn't much value in aligning the high school boundaries with middle school boundaries that would be moot within a year.[/quote]

This is my understanding as well. "Alignment" for this process means MS to HS. I doubt we'll ever have perfect ES-MS-HS alignment, and I don't necessarily think we should because kids should have the opportunity to reinvent themselves and be forced, to some degree, to branch out of their comfort zones. I think what we should try to avoid is making a couple of PU's outliers at each stage along the way, because then you're placing a handful of students at a distinct social disadvantage. [/quote]

If only we can get the Board to see this.....[/quote]

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