What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?

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Not to mention that it’s not socioeconomically diverse compared to Key.

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Anonymous wrote:Key is two way immersion. That means native English and native Spanish. I think this idea will effectively end one of the immersion schools.

There is plenty of demand from parents who want their kids to learn Spanish. So APS will have no problem filling 2 schools when they are close to the native speakers. Time to get on the Bus.

Time for north arlingtonians to choose immersion. Not to “consider” it. Not to be “tempted by the gift of two languages.” But to actually choose it. Doubt that will happen more often following the whites’ recolonization of Key.

If you put the pieces of Key zone back together by adding kids who transfer to ASFS to the neighborhood kids at Key (using transfer report https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Transfer-Report-2016-17.pdf), this is what it looks like:

Asian 137 17.34%
Black 88 11.14%
Hispanic 220 27.85%
Other 70 8.86%
White 275 34.81%
Total 790

Disadvantaged?
N 473 59.87%
Y 317 40.13%

Are you really saying that isn't a diverse school?

Key is very diverse. ASFS is not.

New Key will look like old ASFS (diverse). New ASFS will look like Taylor (not).

Old ASFS is over 70 percent white and Asian with barely any Latinos.

I don't have the numbers, but if you are speaking racial diversity, it is very diverse - if your 70% number is correct, then half those kids are Asian, so it is only 35% white.

My numbers show 52 percent white and 22 percent Asian. Very few Latinos. About 10 percent African American.

http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/arlington-science-focus-school
46% white
26% Asian (mostly Mongolian?)
13% mixed
10% Black
5% Hispanic

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Anonymous wrote:Where will Key immersion be moved to?

Either Carlin Springs, ATS, or Barcroft.

Makes no sense. They are taking something that is working very well and have decided to ruin it. Who hates immersion so much?

Oh, please. Moving Key immersion to one of those sites won't ruin it. It would just make it less convenient for you because you couldn't walk there anymore.

Says the poster who walks.

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^ 23% economically challenged
28% English learners (ESOL?)

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Anonymous wrote:Where will Key immersion be moved to?

Either Carlin Springs, ATS, or Barcroft.

Makes no sense. They are taking something that is working very well and have decided to ruin it. Who hates immersion so much?

Oh, please. Moving Key immersion to one of those sites won't ruin it. It would just make it less convenient for you because you couldn't walk there anymore.

Says the poster who walks.

Who walks where? To our local neighborhood school?

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Key is 52 percent “Hispanic” (state’s term), 5 percent African American, and 34 percent white. Can’t tell about Asians. Maybe 4 percent.

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Anonymous wrote:Where will Key immersion be moved to?

Either Carlin Springs, ATS, or Barcroft.

Makes no sense. They are taking something that is working very well and have decided to ruin it. Who hates immersion so much?

Oh, please. Moving Key immersion to one of those sites won't ruin it. It would just make it less convenient for you because you couldn't walk there anymore.

Says the poster who walks.

Who walks where? To our local neighborhood school?

To school, I suppose. Don’t judge others for walking.

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine Key is having a collective heart attack right now. I do not see any realistic probability that it will remain in its current location.

Not as big as the ‘heart attack’ ASFS looked to be having (see, e.g., petition) when it looked like Key was going option without a building switch. But that’s in the past. Key was rope-a-doped, arguably.

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Anonymous wrote:Where will Key immersion be moved to?

Either Carlin Springs, ATS, or Barcroft.

Makes no sense. They are taking something that is working very well and have decided to ruin it. Who hates immersion so much?

Oh, please. Moving Key immersion to one of those sites won't ruin it. It would just make it less convenient for you because you couldn't walk there anymore.

Says the poster who walks.

Who walks where? To our local neighborhood school?

To school, I suppose. Don’t judge others for walking.

I'm not judging anyone for walking. I'm judging pp for saying it would ruin the school if it were no longer walking distance to *her*. The staff's analysis of where to put the option programs was well-considered, I think.

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine Key is having a collective heart attack right now. I do not see any realistic probability that it will remain in its current location.

Not as big as the ‘heart attack’ ASFS looked to be having (see, e.g., petition) when it looked like Key was going option without a building switch. But that’s in the past. Key was rope-a-doped, arguably.

They'll have the heart attack when the SB finally breaks it to them that the science lab won't move with them.

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Anonymous wrote:Where will Key immersion be moved to?

Either Carlin Springs, ATS, or Barcroft.

Makes no sense. They are taking something that is working very well and have decided to ruin it. Who hates immersion so much?

Oh, please. Moving Key immersion to one of those sites won't ruin it. It would just make it less convenient for you because you couldn't walk there anymore.

Says the poster who walks.

Who walks where? To our local neighborhood school?

To school, I suppose. Don’t judge others for walking.

I'm not judging anyone for walking. I'm judging pp for saying it would ruin the school if it were no longer walking distance to *her*. The staff's analysis of where to put the option programs was well-considered, I think.

Time will tell on that and the quality of the analysis — coming from a system that has failed to get much of anything right, such as enrollment projections — could be flawed. If the relocated Key cannot get a sufficient number of English speakers it will be a bad outcome.

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Anonymous wrote:Where will Key immersion be moved to?

Either Carlin Springs, ATS, or Barcroft.

Makes no sense. They are taking something that is working very well and have decided to ruin it. Who hates immersion so much?

Oh, please. Moving Key immersion to one of those sites won't ruin it. It would just make it less convenient for you because you couldn't walk there anymore.

Says the poster who walks.

Who walks where? To our local neighborhood school?

To school, I suppose. Don’t judge others for walking.

I'm not judging anyone for walking. I'm judging pp for saying it would ruin the school if it were no longer walking distance to *her*. The staff's analysis of where to put the option programs was well-considered, I think.

OK, but I don’t see anything from pp about walking. Your making an assumption based on how much you like walkability, maybe?.

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine Key is having a collective heart attack right now. I do not see any realistic probability that it will remain in its current location.

Not as big as the ‘heart attack’ ASFS looked to be having (see, e.g., petition) when it looked like Key was going option without a building switch. But that’s in the past. Key was rope-a-doped, arguably.

They'll have the heart attack when the SB finally breaks it to them that the science lab won't move with them.

Is there no longer going to be a science focus school? If there is going to be one, shouldn’t it be in south Arlington for purposes of equal opportunity?

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine Key is having a collective heart attack right now. I do not see any realistic probability that it will remain in its current location.

Not as big as the ‘heart attack’ ASFS looked to be having (see, e.g., petition) when it looked like Key was going option without a building switch. But that’s in the past. Key was rope-a-doped, arguably.

They'll have the heart attack when the SB finally breaks it to them that the science lab won't move with them.

Is there no longer going to be a science focus school? If there is going to be one, shouldn’t it be in south Arlington for purposes of equal opportunity?

There hasn’t been a science focus school as an option since they changed the transfer policy a year ago. It is a neighborhood school right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I would imagine Key is having a collective heart attack right now. I do not see any realistic probability that it will remain in its current location.

Not as big as the ‘heart attack’ ASFS looked to be having (see, e.g., petition) when it looked like Key was going option without a building switch. But that’s in the past. Key was rope-a-doped, arguably.

They'll have the heart attack when the SB finally breaks it to them that the science lab won't move with them.

Is there no longer going to be a science focus school? If there is going to be one, shouldn’t it be in south Arlington for purposes of equal opportunity?

There hasn’t been a science focus school as an option since they changed the transfer policy a year ago. It is a neighborhood school right now.

Oh. I thought it was called Arlington Science Focus. In any event, I think that Science Focus should be an option school situated in south Arlington so that underprivileged groups could have easier access to it. Those in north Arlington who still want Science Focus could take a bus.