APS: I can't keep up! (ASFS)

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Anonymous wrote:The parents at ASFS are insufferable.

The speaker who said people need to look at the whole picture and realize that all schools are important, not just 1 or 2 and that if what you are focusing on it just 1 school, you are throwing the other 22 under the bus. LOVE

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Anonymous wrote:9:18 - I don't know anyone who has bought into Jamestown or Taylor hoping to get into ASFS. Jamestown and Taylor are very good in their own right, and I don't think much of the high property values are related to the potential to get into ASFS. (I do think it drives the property values around Key, but that is also driven by metro proximity and how close-in it is to DC.)

Clearly there is a big demand for a choice school with a science focus - perhaps they should build one (Reed?) and let ASFS revert back to a purely neighborhood school, albeit one with a nicer lab than most.

There are a huge number of Jamestown kids at ASF--always has been. I have to drive my kids to play dates because so many of their friends live in CCH.

This has started to change with the opening of Discovery and many now choosing the brand new school.

^^ the Taylor kids going to ASF live right next to the school. I would want to go there as well if it was just a block or 2 away without having to cross busy streets.

The neighborhood surrounding ASFS is still zoned for Taylor. The kids who aren't able to lottery in end up having to bus up to Taylor, instead of walk across the street to school. We need a neighborhood school, regardless of the curriculum.

They made it clear that this weird situation would be for one school year. The next year the boundaries get changed to address this.

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Anonymous wrote:9:18 - I don't know anyone who has bought into Jamestown or Taylor hoping to get into ASFS. Jamestown and Taylor are very good in their own right, and I don't think much of the high property values are related to the potential to get into ASFS. (I do think it drives the property values around Key, but that is also driven by metro proximity and how close-in it is to DC.)

Clearly there is a big demand for a choice school with a science focus - perhaps they should build one (Reed?) and let ASFS revert back to a purely neighborhood school, albeit one with a nicer lab than most.

There are a huge number of Jamestown kids at ASF--always has been. I have to drive my kids to play dates because so many of their friends live in CCH.

This has started to change with the opening of Discovery and many now choosing the brand new school.

^^ the Taylor kids going to ASF live right next to the school. I would want to go there as well if it was just a block or 2 away without having to cross busy streets.

The neighborhood surrounding ASFS is still zoned for Taylor. The kids who aren't able to lottery in end up having to bus up to Taylor, instead of walk across the street to school. We need a neighborhood school, regardless of the curriculum.

They made it clear that this weird situation would be for one school year. The next year the boundaries get changed to address this.

Cutting out all diversity. Good job, APS.

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Anonymous wrote:9:18 - I don't know anyone who has bought into Jamestown or Taylor hoping to get into ASFS. Jamestown and Taylor are very good in their own right, and I don't think much of the high property values are related to the potential to get into ASFS. (I do think it drives the property values around Key, but that is also driven by metro proximity and how close-in it is to DC.)

Clearly there is a big demand for a choice school with a science focus - perhaps they should build one (Reed?) and let ASFS revert back to a purely neighborhood school, albeit one with a nicer lab than most.

There are a huge number of Jamestown kids at ASF--always has been. I have to drive my kids to play dates because so many of their friends live in CCH.

This has started to change with the opening of Discovery and many now choosing the brand new school.

^^ the Taylor kids going to ASF live right next to the school. I would want to go there as well if it was just a block or 2 away without having to cross busy streets.

The neighborhood surrounding ASFS is still zoned for Taylor. The kids who aren't able to lottery in end up having to bus up to Taylor, instead of walk across the street to school. We need a neighborhood school, regardless of the curriculum.

They made it clear that this weird situation would be for one school year. The next year the boundaries get changed to address this.

Cutting out all diversity. Good job, APS.

You don't know that, Chicken Little.

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Anonymous wrote:9:18 - I don't know anyone who has bought into Jamestown or Taylor hoping to get into ASFS. Jamestown and Taylor are very good in their own right, and I don't think much of the high property values are related to the potential to get into ASFS. (I do think it drives the property values around Key, but that is also driven by metro proximity and how close-in it is to DC.)

Clearly there is a big demand for a choice school with a science focus - perhaps they should build one (Reed?) and let ASFS revert back to a purely neighborhood school, albeit one with a nicer lab than most.

There are a huge number of Jamestown kids at ASF--always has been. I have to drive my kids to play dates because so many of their friends live in CCH.

This has started to change with the opening of Discovery and many now choosing the brand new school.

^^ the Taylor kids going to ASF live right next to the school. I would want to go there as well if it was just a block or 2 away without having to cross busy streets.

The neighborhood surrounding ASFS is still zoned for Taylor. The kids who aren't able to lottery in end up having to bus up to Taylor, instead of walk across the street to school. We need a neighborhood school, regardless of the curriculum.

They made it clear that this weird situation would be for one school year. The next year the boundaries get changed to address this.

Cutting out all diversity. Good job, APS.

No, I don't think they'll cut out all diversity. But I do think other neighboring schools might see an increase. Maybe not a terrible thing.

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Has APS ever talked about expanding the language immersion program to different languages at new schools? ex Chinese

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Anonymous wrote:9:18 - I don't know anyone who has bought into Jamestown or Taylor hoping to get into ASFS. Jamestown and Taylor are very good in their own right, and I don't think much of the high property values are related to the potential to get into ASFS. (I do think it drives the property values around Key, but that is also driven by metro proximity and how close-in it is to DC.)

Clearly there is a big demand for a choice school with a science focus - perhaps they should build one (Reed?) and let ASFS revert back to a purely neighborhood school, albeit one with a nicer lab than most.

There are a huge number of Jamestown kids at ASF--always has been. I have to drive my kids to play dates because so many of their friends live in CCH.

This has started to change with the opening of Discovery and many now choosing the brand new school.

^^ the Taylor kids going to ASF live right next to the school. I would want to go there as well if it was just a block or 2 away without having to cross busy streets.

The neighborhood surrounding ASFS is still zoned for Taylor. The kids who aren't able to lottery in end up having to bus up to Taylor, instead of walk across the street to school. We need a neighborhood school, regardless of the curriculum.

They made it clear that this weird situation would be for one school year. The next year the boundaries get changed to address this.

The boundaries won't be changed by 2019. The last time they adjusted boundaries for fewer affected schools it took years and much gnashing of teeth.

Further, they do boundaries next year and then two years later when Reed school opens? Such poor planning...

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They will either include Reed in the boundary change (it would be phased) or they will make Reed an option school so it won't affect boundaries.

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I'm not clear what boundary changes you think might come with reed that would affect ASFS boundaries

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Anonymous wrote:The parents at ASFS are insufferable.

And disingenuous, at best. One of the speakers was at one of the information sessions I attended. Since I'm a white lady, I guess who was well dressed, I guess she thought she was in good company and let it fly. This lady was going on about the K-12 alignment and freaking out about an E/W split and the future K-12 vision. She was really angry that the anyone would even consider something other than a N/S split for attendance zones, and said there were already too many "Spanish" people in the Key zone, and that a N/S split was the right thing. The kicker: she has no current students at ASFS. But she does have a condo in Courthouse that will be worth a lot less if it's not zoned to ASFS. She could not care less about anything other than that, yet there she was, praising the diversity and worrying about the overcrowding that ASFS students will suffer. Lady, nope. Oh, the suffering. THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents at ASFS are insufferable.

And disingenuous, at best. One of the speakers was at one of the information sessions I attended. Since I'm a white lady, I guess who was well dressed, I guess she thought she was in good company and let it fly. This lady was going on about the K-12 alignment and freaking out about an E/W split and the future K-12 vision. She was really angry that the anyone would even consider something other than a N/S split for attendance zones, and said there were already too many "Spanish" people in the Key zone, and that a N/S split was the right thing. The kicker: she has no current students at ASFS. But she does have a condo in Courthouse that will be worth a lot less if it's not zoned to ASFS. She could not care less about anything other than that, yet there she was, praising the diversity and worrying about the overcrowding that ASFS students will suffer. Lady, nope. Oh, the suffering. THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

I have a neighbor like this. I'm also a white lady with a white husband/children and live in a nice house. Goodness the things that get said to me as if I will agree with them.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not clear what boundary changes you think might come with reed that would affect ASFS boundaries

The ASFS boundary change will impact Taylor, Ashlawn, probably Glebe and Long Branch. Taylor, Glebe adjoin the likely reed boundary.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents at ASFS are insufferable.

And disingenuous, at best. One of the speakers was at one of the information sessions I attended. Since I'm a white lady, I guess who was well dressed, I guess she thought she was in good company and let it fly. This lady was going on about the K-12 alignment and freaking out about an E/W split and the future K-12 vision. She was really angry that the anyone would even consider something other than a N/S split for attendance zones, and said there were already too many "Spanish" people in the Key zone, and that a N/S split was the right thing. The kicker: she has no current students at ASFS. But she does have a condo in Courthouse that will be worth a lot less if it's not zoned to ASFS. She could not care less about anything other than that, yet there she was, praising the diversity and worrying about the overcrowding that ASFS students will suffer. Lady, nope. Oh, the suffering. THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

I have a neighbor like this. I'm also a white lady with a white husband/children and live in a nice house. Goodness the things that get said to me as if I will agree with them.

The value of a condo in courthouse has NOTHING to do with school zoning. Something about this story doesn't add up. Why was she even at SB meeting if she had no kids in affected schools?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not clear what boundary changes you think might come with reed that would affect ASFS boundaries

The ASFS boundary change will impact Taylor, Ashlawn, probably Glebe and Long Branch. Taylor, Glebe adjoin the likely reed boundary.

ASFS is centered st a nexus for Glebe Taylor, and ashlawn. Reed will draw from Taylor McKinely Glebe and maybe even Ashlawn. Long branch or Taylor will likely take some of the over supply of students from East end of zone furtherst from school.

http://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ESZones_Lg.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not clear what boundary changes you think might come with reed that would affect ASFS boundaries

The ASFS boundary change will impact Taylor, Ashlawn, probably Glebe and Long Branch. Taylor, Glebe adjoin the likely reed boundary.

ASFS is centered st a nexus for Glebe Taylor, and ashlawn. Reed will draw from Taylor McKinely Glebe and maybe even Ashlawn. Long branch or Taylor will likely take some of the over supply of students from East end of zone furtherst from school.

http://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ESZones_Lg.pdf

I don't see how Reed, assuming its a neighborhood school, will draw from Taylor boundaries. I am in the Taylor planning unit that is about as close to Reed as you can get and it's still at least two miles away from Reed with Glebe in between.