A New Neighborhood School for West Seattle
The District Staff has recommended to the Board a short-term capacity management plan for West Seattle that calls for a fleet of portables and a new option school located (at least at first) at Boren.
The community is calling for a new neighborhood school located in West Seattle, not an option school.
The staff says that they prefer an option school because they can see that they are going to have to change the attendance area boundaries, but they are going to do it next year, not this year, and they only want to do it once. All of these boundaries, they explain, are seriously interconnected.
That sounds pretty reasonable, until you remember that West Seattle is on a peninsula and is completely dis-
The community is calling for a new neighborhood school located in West Seattle, not an option school.
The staff says that they prefer an option school because they can see that they are going to have to change the attendance area boundaries, but they are going to do it next year, not this year, and they only want to do it once. All of these boundaries, they explain, are seriously interconnected.
That sounds pretty reasonable, until you remember that West Seattle is on a peninsula and is completely dis-
