ASFS/Key Swap Off . . .

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Anonymous wrote:Roslyn has cafs and more on the way. There will be plenty of poor Hispanic kids around the school once queens court opens up.

The issue here is that the county has lots of poor Spanish speaking elementary kids, many many many more than could ever fit into an immersion school. What, 350 kids per school? There are more than 350 poor Spanish speaking kids within less than a block of Columbia pike. There are more than that (I believe) in barcroft apartments alone. Ismmersion isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems here.

I heard that the inhabitants of CAFs tend to not be Hispanic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, APAH doesn’t publish anything. Honestly it doesn’t really matter. Any school in that building will be socioeconomically diverse and the neighborhood seats are needed. Current Key families, who mostly draw from the old Key zone, Taylor, and Long Branch will fight moving because it’s super convenient for them. There’s no compelling reason the program has to be on Key.

They also don't want key to move because ... property values. Without immersion, key is basically Barrett.

Not true at all. There’s no neighborhood preference at key. Why would it moving have any effect on the property values or rent.
A neighborhood school at key would be basically a lot like asfs (since 90% of the school currently lives in the key/asfs boundary). Pretty diverse, kind of like glebe. I imagine that there may be more sed kids there since a lot of people won’t move with key, but there are a lot of English learners anyways so I’m not sure it’ll really change it that much.

It would have a higher FARMS rate than ASFS (23%). How high depends on how far immersion moves and how they draw the lines between two neighborhood schools at Key and ASFS (if that is what happens). I think 40-50% FARMS at new Key is a real possibility. Glebe, FWIW is at 15%, so not really a good comparison.

It’ll be fine— contrary to what they say at school board meetings, no one at asfs is afraid of poor people. Most people you talk to live in the neighborhood because of schools, specifically because of the diversity at asfs versus taylor.
They will likely draw some very gerrymandered looking boundaries if the FARMS rate for the current key zone is really 40-50%. New asfs according to aps would have been 5-10% FARMS if they drew a logical boundary (this was one of their arguments for the swap).

If both schools become neighborhood, they should definitely gerrymander to even out the FARMS rate between the two. Dumb not to when you have the opportunity at the outset.

I think the asfs neighborhood seems generally open to diversity. Is this also true of the Rosslyn crew that seems to be a driving force behind the swap? I don’t know the answer to the question, but I assume their attitude, whatever it may be, will impact how the boundaries are or are not gerrymandered.

The swap originated with Lyon Village (they wanted to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood) and were then joined by the Courthouse & Clarendon crew who also wanted to continue to go to the science school (and not be zoned to Longbranch). They eventually recruited the Rosslyn crew with the whole, you'll have the "longest bus ride" mantra if you don't swap the schools.

It will be interesting to see how these groups start turning on each other as boundaries are discussed. It, of course, would make sense to have diversity at both schools but the lobbying has already started to have all of Lyon Village go to the "new" school on Key Blvd, which would mean that many in Rosslyn would have to be bussed passed Key to ASFS, Taylor, etc. Remember all the bitterness in past threads about how, if a logical circle boundary was drawn around ASFS, it would create a new Taylor? And the implication that it was the walkers around ASFS pushing for this (which, of course, made no sense since if they had wanted to go to a non-diverse school, they would have just gone to Taylor)? Those posts were most likely coming from the Lyon Village crew who are worried that two neighborhood schools will split their neighborhood into the "Barrett" side and the ASFS side.

You are a liar with some kind of twisted agenda you are pushing.

Go take your fiction & drama elsewhere.

Okay, so where did the swap originate? Because according to APS staff, it was a very involved ASFS parent who originated the idea several years ago. Which, on its face makes some sense. APS has shown it's pretty persuadable and relies on community input to make decisions. And no one from Key would obviously want the swap. But there is undeniably at least a small group of parents at ASFS who was pushing the swap last spring (emails, lobbying at office hours, etc.). Of course, I do not put it past APS to lie (about who came up with the swap idea) but this ASFS/Key thread has definitely taken a different turn from all the other threads over the last year-- last year there were strong-swap supporters constantly on this site saying the swap was the best thing ever. Now that APS is having to walk back it's decision on the swap, though, everyone is now saying hey, we never wanted the swap. If it were truly the case that ASFS didn't want the swap, where was the outrage when the swap was announced? Or the lobbying along side Key to stop the swap?

APS staff told you that the motivation of those parents was to "move and lock down the science school in the neighborhood"? If so, then they really missed the entire point. Or maybe you are manufacturing their motivation based on your own misguided perceptions.

You shouldn't be so quick to form generalizations based off of handful of comments here and a handful of comments there. You're missing a lot of the pieces to this and it makes you look uninformed.

Are you a Key parent?

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There are plenty of people who support moving Key who are not ASFS parents (me included). For me, the support for moving Key is based on the data- there is a strong need for a neighborhood school where Key is, and it doesn't make sense to have the neighborhood school outside the school zone.
I think it is important to distinguish between 'pro-swap' and 'pro-Key move.' I am inclined to think both sites are needed as neighborhood schools, but ultimately I don't think an option school gets to dictate its location. I'm curious if anyone watched the School Board session last night where they introduced the 'instructional pathways' discussion. I think they are dropping some broad hints about potential major changes in the use of option schools.

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of people who support moving Key who are not ASFS parents (me included). For me, the support for moving Key is based on the data- there is a strong need for a neighborhood school where Key is, and it doesn't make sense to have the neighborhood school outside the school zone.
I think it is important to distinguish between 'pro-swap' and 'pro-Key move.' I am inclined to think both sites are needed as neighborhood schools, but ultimately I don't think an option school gets to dictate its location. I'm curious if anyone watched the School Board session last night where they introduced the 'instructional pathways' discussion. I think they are dropping some broad hints about potential major changes in the use of option schools.

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I think everyone at ASFS is pro-Key move (because that area does need the seats/two neighborhood schools), and a very small subset is pro-swap. The lines get blurred on this site, though, because no one knows whether the person posting is really pro-two neighborhood schools or pro-swap posing as a pro-two neighborhood school poster. I know that sounds silly to say (and to write!) but I do not think we will see ASFS come togther to embrace the idea of two neighborhood schools. Even though a majority of ASFS will go to the new school on Key together, there will still be some who want the ASFS program (and the teachers, and the lab, and the name) to move. And, of course, there will still be some lobbying to swap the schools even though the empiracal data (whether from a population perspective or what's-best-for Immersion perspective) makes it fairly obvious that Key should move somewhere other than ASFS.

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Anonymous wrote:Roslyn has cafs and more on the way. There will be plenty of poor Hispanic kids around the school once queens court opens up.

The issue here is that the county has lots of poor Spanish speaking elementary kids, many many many more than could ever fit into an immersion school. What, 350 kids per school? There are more than 350 poor Spanish speaking kids within less than a block of Columbia pike. There are more than that (I believe) in barcroft apartments alone. Ismmersion isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems here.

I heard that the inhabitants of CAFs tend to not be Hispanic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, APAH doesn’t publish anything. Honestly it doesn’t really matter. Any school in that building will be socioeconomically diverse and the neighborhood seats are needed. Current Key families, who mostly draw from the old Key zone, Taylor, and Long Branch will fight moving because it’s super convenient for them. There’s no compelling reason the program has to be on Key.

They also don't want key to move because ... property values. Without immersion, key is basically Barrett.

Not true at all. There’s no neighborhood preference at key. Why would it moving have any effect on the property values or rent.
A neighborhood school at key would be basically a lot like asfs (since 90% of the school currently lives in the key/asfs boundary). Pretty diverse, kind of like glebe. I imagine that there may be more sed kids there since a lot of people won’t move with key, but there are a lot of English learners anyways so I’m not sure it’ll really change it that much.

It would have a higher FARMS rate than ASFS (23%). How high depends on how far immersion moves and how they draw the lines between two neighborhood schools at Key and ASFS (if that is what happens). I think 40-50% FARMS at new Key is a real possibility. Glebe, FWIW is at 15%, so not really a good comparison.

It’ll be fine— contrary to what they say at school board meetings, no one at asfs is afraid of poor people. Most people you talk to live in the neighborhood because of schools, specifically because of the diversity at asfs versus taylor.
They will likely draw some very gerrymandered looking boundaries if the FARMS rate for the current key zone is really 40-50%. New asfs according to aps would have been 5-10% FARMS if they drew a logical boundary (this was one of their arguments for the swap).

If both schools become neighborhood, they should definitely gerrymander to even out the FARMS rate between the two. Dumb not to when you have the opportunity at the outset.

I think the asfs neighborhood seems generally open to diversity. Is this also true of the Rosslyn crew that seems to be a driving force behind the swap? I don’t know the answer to the question, but I assume their attitude, whatever it may be, will impact how the boundaries are or are not gerrymandered.

The swap originated with Lyon Village (they wanted to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood) and were then joined by the Courthouse & Clarendon crew who also wanted to continue to go to the science school (and not be zoned to Longbranch). They eventually recruited the Rosslyn crew with the whole, you'll have the "longest bus ride" mantra if you don't swap the schools.

It will be interesting to see how these groups start turning on each other as boundaries are discussed. It, of course, would make sense to have diversity at both schools but the lobbying has already started to have all of Lyon Village go to the "new" school on Key Blvd, which would mean that many in Rosslyn would have to be bussed passed Key to ASFS, Taylor, etc. Remember all the bitterness in past threads about how, if a logical circle boundary was drawn around ASFS, it would create a new Taylor? And the implication that it was the walkers around ASFS pushing for this (which, of course, made no sense since if they had wanted to go to a non-diverse school, they would have just gone to Taylor)? Those posts were most likely coming from the Lyon Village crew who are worried that two neighborhood schools will split their neighborhood into the "Barrett" side and the ASFS side.

You are a liar with some kind of twisted agenda you are pushing.

Go take your fiction & drama elsewhere.

Guess you missed the meeting at the LV Community House between LV and Courthouse about the swap? And the form letters supporting the swap that were circulated amongst their civic association members?

Yes, go back and read those two form letters (one supporting the swap & one supporting two neighborhood schools) you'd see that the goal wasn't "to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood".

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Anonymous wrote:Why was summer school immersion removed this year?

Where did you see this?

There have been a number of emails from Key. It’s also not in the catalog.

There is a wide range of speculation, but the most likely answer is that the current APS leadership does not value the immersion program. The abrupt way it was done suggests it was not something they thought through and some speculate it was vindictive in response to community push back over the swap.

Wow, we were considering immersion for our rising K-er (we are not in the ASFS zone, btw), but I'm really concerned about the future of the program.

Why was it discounted? It should have been the full price like APS summer school enrichment.

Why? Because rich white people want it to be full price?

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of people who support moving Key who are not ASFS parents (me included). For me, the support for moving Key is based on the data- there is a strong need for a neighborhood school where Key is, and it doesn't make sense to have the neighborhood school outside the school zone.
I think it is important to distinguish between 'pro-swap' and 'pro-Key move.' I am inclined to think both sites are needed as neighborhood schools, but ultimately I don't think an option school gets to dictate its location. I'm curious if anyone watched the School Board session last night where they introduced the 'instructional pathways' discussion. I think they are dropping some broad hints about potential major changes in the use of option schools.

Sorry to be that person, but I didn’t see it- can you summarize hat you took from the conversation?

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of people who support moving Key who are not ASFS parents (me included). For me, the support for moving Key is based on the data- there is a strong need for a neighborhood school where Key is, and it doesn't make sense to have the neighborhood school outside the school zone.
I think it is important to distinguish between 'pro-swap' and 'pro-Key move.' I am inclined to think both sites are needed as neighborhood schools, but ultimately I don't think an option school gets to dictate its location. I'm curious if anyone watched the School Board session last night where they introduced the 'instructional pathways' discussion. I think they are dropping some broad hints about potential major changes in the use of option schools.

Sorry to be that person, but I didn’t see it- can you summarize hat you took from the conversation?

I’ll start a separate thread, later when I’m not on a phone and summarize what I heard

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Anonymous wrote:Roslyn has cafs and more on the way. There will be plenty of poor Hispanic kids around the school once queens court opens up.

The issue here is that the county has lots of poor Spanish speaking elementary kids, many many many more than could ever fit into an immersion school. What, 350 kids per school? There are more than 350 poor Spanish speaking kids within less than a block of Columbia pike. There are more than that (I believe) in barcroft apartments alone. Ismmersion isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems here.

I heard that the inhabitants of CAFs tend to not be Hispanic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, APAH doesn’t publish anything. Honestly it doesn’t really matter. Any school in that building will be socioeconomically diverse and the neighborhood seats are needed. Current Key families, who mostly draw from the old Key zone, Taylor, and Long Branch will fight moving because it’s super convenient for them. There’s no compelling reason the program has to be on Key.

They also don't want key to move because ... property values. Without immersion, key is basically Barrett.

Not true at all. There’s no neighborhood preference at key. Why would it moving have any effect on the property values or rent.
A neighborhood school at key would be basically a lot like asfs (since 90% of the school currently lives in the key/asfs boundary). Pretty diverse, kind of like glebe. I imagine that there may be more sed kids there since a lot of people won’t move with key, but there are a lot of English learners anyways so I’m not sure it’ll really change it that much.

It would have a higher FARMS rate than ASFS (23%). How high depends on how far immersion moves and how they draw the lines between two neighborhood schools at Key and ASFS (if that is what happens). I think 40-50% FARMS at new Key is a real possibility. Glebe, FWIW is at 15%, so not really a good comparison.

It’ll be fine— contrary to what they say at school board meetings, no one at asfs is afraid of poor people. Most people you talk to live in the neighborhood because of schools, specifically because of the diversity at asfs versus taylor.
They will likely draw some very gerrymandered looking boundaries if the FARMS rate for the current key zone is really 40-50%. New asfs according to aps would have been 5-10% FARMS if they drew a logical boundary (this was one of their arguments for the swap).

If both schools become neighborhood, they should definitely gerrymander to even out the FARMS rate between the two. Dumb not to when you have the opportunity at the outset.

I think the asfs neighborhood seems generally open to diversity. Is this also true of the Rosslyn crew that seems to be a driving force behind the swap? I don’t know the answer to the question, but I assume their attitude, whatever it may be, will impact how the boundaries are or are not gerrymandered.

The swap originated with Lyon Village (they wanted to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood) and were then joined by the Courthouse & Clarendon crew who also wanted to continue to go to the science school (and not be zoned to Longbranch). They eventually recruited the Rosslyn crew with the whole, you'll have the "longest bus ride" mantra if you don't swap the schools.

It will be interesting to see how these groups start turning on each other as boundaries are discussed. It, of course, would make sense to have diversity at both schools but the lobbying has already started to have all of Lyon Village go to the "new" school on Key Blvd, which would mean that many in Rosslyn would have to be bussed passed Key to ASFS, Taylor, etc. Remember all the bitterness in past threads about how, if a logical circle boundary was drawn around ASFS, it would create a new Taylor? And the implication that it was the walkers around ASFS pushing for this (which, of course, made no sense since if they had wanted to go to a non-diverse school, they would have just gone to Taylor)? Those posts were most likely coming from the Lyon Village crew who are worried that two neighborhood schools will split their neighborhood into the "Barrett" side and the ASFS side.

You are a liar with some kind of twisted agenda you are pushing.

Go take your fiction & drama elsewhere.

Guess you missed the meeting at the LV Community House between LV and Courthouse about the swap? And the form letters supporting the swap that were circulated amongst their civic association members?

Yes, go back and read those two form letters (one supporting the swap & one supporting two neighborhood schools) you'd see that the goal wasn't "to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood".

And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

Yeah PTA drama was about Cherrydale students being zoned in and pushing out Rosslyn students. Nothing about swap just boundaries.

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

Yeah PTA drama was about Cherrydale students being zoned in and pushing out Rosslyn students. Nothing about swap just boundaries.

Except that was about the swap. ASFS is a neighborhood school and will eventually get new boundaries when Reed opens. Can’t redo boundaries at a neighborhood school and not include a walkzone. The only way to prevent that from happening is to swap schools now. The swap was a preemptive move to negate boundary changes.

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

Yeah PTA drama was about Cherrydale students being zoned in and pushing out Rosslyn students. Nothing about swap just boundaries.

Exactly. Pta drama was because parents were sick of pta taking positions that did not benefit current students at the school. Why was the pta sending out blasts encouraging people to right in letters asking for a walk zone? Why was it taking a position at all since there was no consensus at the school beyond wanting to maintain status quo?

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

Yeah PTA drama was about Cherrydale students being zoned in and pushing out Rosslyn students. Nothing about swap just boundaries.

Exactly. Pta drama was because parents were sick of pta taking positions that did not benefit current students at the school. Why was the pta sending out blasts encouraging people to right in letters asking for a walk zone? Why was it taking a position at all since there was no consensus at the school beyond wanting to maintain status quo?

The PTA never sent out letters asking folks to write letters supporting the walk zone--in fact, the former president's mantra was, everyone advocate however you best see fit because we cannot come to a consensus (which was logical given that the majority of the board, including the president, lived in the Key attendance zone and would never advocate for a walk zone).

The only time ASFS came close to a consensus was the year before, i..e, the year they were trying to get rid of the team model and change the option and transfer policy. Everyone who was paying attention realized that once Key became an option only school, ASFS' capacity would soar since approximately 1/3 of the students who live in the Key zone went to Key (but in the future will have to go to ASFS).

But please do not state that there was a consensus to maintain the status quo because that was impossible-- yes, it would be great to keep the Key boundary for ASFS-- the school/program stays intact and the same neighborhoods that have gone to ASFS would continue to go there. But now that Key is a full option, ASFS will not be able to handle ALL the new elementary school aged kids that live in the Key zone. Nor can APS have a "neighborhood" school that doesn't allow kids in the neighborhood to attend. The folks that were/are advocating hard for their positions understood this and knew change was coming.

Indeed, if everyone at ASFS wanted to maintain the status quo, then there wouldn't have been so much hate against the teachers and administration and the walkers who went to the SB meeting last year and advocated for keeping ASFS on Lincoln Street. And there would have been/would be huge support from ASFS for Key staying on Key. But that never happened, why? Because anyone who is paying attention knows that ASFS cannot handle its current attendance zone (with or without the walk zone) population, and the best chance that many of the current community have of "staying at" ASFS is to move ASFS closer to them.

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

Yeah PTA drama was about Cherrydale students being zoned in and pushing out Rosslyn students. Nothing about swap just boundaries.

Exactly. Pta drama was because parents were sick of pta taking positions that did not benefit current students at the school. Why was the pta sending out blasts encouraging people to right in letters asking for a walk zone? Why was it taking a position at all since there was no consensus at the school beyond wanting to maintain status quo?

The PTA never sent out letters asking folks to write letters supporting the walk zone--in fact, the former president's mantra was, everyone advocate however you best see fit because we cannot come to a consensus (which was logical given that the majority of the board, including the president, lived in the Key attendance zone and would never advocate for a walk zone).

The only time ASFS came close to a consensus was the year before, i..e, the year they were trying to get rid of the team model and change the option and transfer policy. Everyone who was paying attention realized that once Key became an option only school, ASFS' capacity would soar since approximately 1/3 of the students who live in the Key zone went to Key (but in the future will have to go to ASFS).

But please do not state that there was a consensus to maintain the status quo because that was impossible-- yes, it would be great to keep the Key boundary for ASFS-- the school/program stays intact and the same neighborhoods that have gone to ASFS would continue to go there. But now that Key is a full option, ASFS will not be able to handle ALL the new elementary school aged kids that live in the Key zone. Nor can APS have a "neighborhood" school that doesn't allow kids in the neighborhood to attend. The folks that were/are advocating hard for their positions understood this and knew change was coming.

Indeed, if everyone at ASFS wanted to maintain the status quo, then there wouldn't have been so much hate against the teachers and administration and the walkers who went to the SB meeting last year and advocated for keeping ASFS on Lincoln Street. And there would have been/would be huge support from ASFS for Key staying on Key. But that never happened, why? Because anyone who is paying attention knows that ASFS cannot handle its current attendance zone (with or without the walk zone) population, and the best chance that many of the current community have of "staying at" ASFS is to move ASFS closer to them.

While that was generally the former president's mantra, please check the email from June 3, 2017 - what is item #1?

There hasn't been consensus around status quo, but the majority certainly were leaning towards that, pending projection #s. Based on this most recent project, I'd guess most people now fully support two schools.

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And let’s not forget the ASFS PTA meeting and election. If no one supported the swap, what was that about?

What did that have to do with the swap?

Yeah PTA drama was about Cherrydale students being zoned in and pushing out Rosslyn students. Nothing about swap just boundaries.

Exactly. Pta drama was because parents were sick of pta taking positions that did not benefit current students at the school. Why was the pta sending out blasts encouraging people to right in letters asking for a walk zone? Why was it taking a position at all since there was no consensus at the school beyond wanting to maintain status quo?

The PTA never sent out letters asking folks to write letters supporting the walk zone--in fact, the former president's mantra was, everyone advocate however you best see fit because we cannot come to a consensus (which was logical given that the majority of the board, including the president, lived in the Key attendance zone and would never advocate for a walk zone).

The only time ASFS came close to a consensus was the year before, i..e, the year they were trying to get rid of the team model and change the option and transfer policy. Everyone who was paying attention realized that once Key became an option only school, ASFS' capacity would soar since approximately 1/3 of the students who live in the Key zone went to Key (but in the future will have to go to ASFS).

But please do not state that there was a consensus to maintain the status quo because that was impossible-- yes, it would be great to keep the Key boundary for ASFS-- the school/program stays intact and the same neighborhoods that have gone to ASFS would continue to go there. But now that Key is a full option, ASFS will not be able to handle ALL the new elementary school aged kids that live in the Key zone. Nor can APS have a "neighborhood" school that doesn't allow kids in the neighborhood to attend. The folks that were/are advocating hard for their positions understood this and knew change was coming.

Indeed, if everyone at ASFS wanted to maintain the status quo, then there wouldn't have been so much hate against the teachers and administration and the walkers who went to the SB meeting last year and advocated for keeping ASFS on Lincoln Street. And there would have been/would be huge support from ASFS for Key staying on Key. But that never happened, why? Because anyone who is paying attention knows that ASFS cannot handle its current attendance zone (with or without the walk zone) population, and the best chance that many of the current community have of "staying at" ASFS is to move ASFS closer to them.

While that was generally the former president's mantra, please check the email from June 3, 2017 - what is item #1?

There hasn't been consensus around status quo, but the majority certainly were leaning towards that, pending projection #s. Based on this most recent project, I'd guess most people now fully support two schools.

I stand corrected. I forgot about that email and it's a (sad) reminder how much changed over the course of one year, i.e., folks were united on opposing the option and transfer policy changes but once it passed, ASFS became much more divisive. Looking back over 2018, I think emotions on all sides got out of hand at various points but we all seem to be moving on and healing. At the end of the day, the new projections, the new construction coming on line (that hasn't even been included in the projections yet), and Amazon (to at least some small extent), make it clear that two neighborhood schools are needed. I know that's not what our Key neighbors and friends want to accept at this point, but the Key building must become a neighborhood school.