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Reed was built because there is a seat deficit in the county, along with a shortage of sites available to APS for building schools. They build where they can.[/quote]

But if that's the case, APS can't expect to reduce the number of kids that are bused, and boundaries are going to have to be strange. [/quote]
Unless they move an option school there to fill excess seats and free up more neighborhood seats in areas with seat deficits.[/quote]

Yes, but then you are still busing kids to the option school near the edge of the county. This is based on the assumption that large numbers of kids from other parts of the county will travel to a faraway option school. The data suggests that option schools draw heavily from nearby neighborhoods, so the problem of schools not being where they are needed isn't solved.[/quote]

The county promised those neighbors around Reed that there wouldn’t be a handful of buses. I have no idea how those conversations went and if that’s just being nice to a neighborhood request or a real issue. I mean 13 buses plus special education buses are a lot and isn’t workable at every school site no matter how easy it would be as a solution. How old is the road and narrow. Does the school have a parking lot? Does it share a lot of near by parking with other needs (businesses or another school).

I know this is one of the reasons my neighborhood school would never make it this far in the consideration for an option site. Fewest parking spaces in the county and very shared and limited street parking. Can only accommodate 4 buses at the school lot at a time. Logistically and honesty safety it would never work. Drivers from the school next door are already careless and frustrated with the way the buses who have to wait for a special ed bus or other buses to pull out and just have to sit and block the entire road. Lots of close calls with high school drivers or grazing cars.
I can’t imagine if nearly 10 more buses were added.[/quote]

Has APS transportation studied the difference in vehicle traffic at neighborhood schools versus option schools? I’m willing to bet the numbers are much closer than you think, since so many kids are individually driven to neighborhood schools versus a single bus bringing in 30 kids. People are always arguing certain sites can’t be option schools because of the traffic but neighborhood schools have a ton of traffic themselves. [/quote]

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