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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Nah, I don't buy your premise.  Glebe currently has 580 kids and Nottingham has only 442, but from what I hear and observe Glebe is much tighter.  Smaller doesn't mean closer.  McKinley is about the same size as Glebe at 605 kids but again, Glebe has much more parental involvement, it's just a closer, more tight-knit community.  It has nothing to do with the size of the class, but I can see why you'd argue that because it appears to be your mission to mobilize DCUM to get APS to let the Tuckahoe and Glebe kids transfer to underenrolled schools.  Are you the Tuckahoe parent who posted here a month or two ago asking if such transfers were possible?

Also, try looking further than ONE YEAR into the future.  In two years Nottingham is expected to be at 104% capacity, and in three years it is expected to be at 109% capacity -- that's 44 students more that its building should hold compared to McKinley's 24.  Similarly, Glebe isn't projected to fall below 105% capacity through 2020.  Seems like those schools are doing their parts.  You can't solve the capacity problem one year at a time.  You're being even more shortsighted than APS has been, historically, and that's an accomplishment![/quote]

PP- I'm not a Tuckahoe or Glebe parent. I'm a McKinley parent. But I've got current and upcoming kids in younger grades who are going to spend their entire elementary school experience in a 700+ kid school. Those of us with many years left at McK may have a different perspective than parents who only have a few more years left. And Discovery is under capacity until the 2020-21 school year, so obviously those past "rebalancing" numbers from APS weren't exactly accurate. Why not delay the boundary changes for a year to allow the McK construction to finish, and then over the course of the next 12 months, APS could also do a boundary refinement process to shift a few more kids up to Discovery. Now that the kids who will be entering APS in 2020/21 are actually ALIVE, maybe we could get some more accurate projections of what those numbers look like 5 years out. Right now, we're sacrificing the well-being of current students based on projections for hypothetical kids who haven't been born yet. Honestly, nobody knows what enrollment in ANY elementary school is going to look like more than 5 years out, especially with the County affordable housing discussions which will have a huge impact on ES enrollment. And yes, I do think McK parents who are still in it for the long-haul need to complain to the School Board because many of us were not in the APS system yet and not part of the PTA conversations when all these decisions were made two years ago.[/quote]

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