APS elementary planning initiative called off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

They won’t. Families from Rosslyn and Courthouse need to let go of Science Focus and start lobbying hard for some other neighborhood program at Key or else they are going to end up at Taylor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

No one at current ASFS wants the Key school. Most are happy to stay were they are. If the Cherrydale contingent painting that picture b/c they want to kick out the Rosslyn folk and take ASFS as their neighborhood school.

Seriously, it can wait a couple years for the transfers to roll out and for Reed to open and they do something that helps all No Arlington schools not just folks trying to wiggle out of Ashlawn/Glebe/Taylor.

I’m in favor of whatever fixes the ASFS problem the soonest. I’m really tired of all the incessant ASFS whining on all sides. Really. There are more important issues than just one school.

“There are more important issues than just one school,” so we should prioritizing addressing its needs over everyone else’s. Okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

It shouldn’t but there was a push to swap ASFS and Key to protect home values around Key if both ASFS and Key became neighborhood schools. I highly doubt that home values around Key would plummet if that had happened but nonetheless that was the big campaign when moving Key was on the table (of course, it was presented as “move ASFS to keep our community together” even though the whole community would have been together but just at the Key building).

[Anonymous]

NE NW WHATEVER
Oakridge is still chill. God bless those people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

They won’t. Families from Rosslyn and Courthouse need to let go of Science Focus and start lobbying hard for some other neighborhood program at Key or else they are going to end up at Taylor.

Moving key is going to look so bad. Disrupting a diverse student body and handing it to rich white families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

It shouldn’t but there was a push to swap ASFS and Key to protect home values around Key if both ASFS and Key became neighborhood schools. I highly doubt that home values around Key would plummet if that had happened but nonetheless that was the big campaign when moving Key was on the table (of course, it was presented as “move ASFS to keep our community together” even though the whole community would have been together but just at the Key building).

What are you talking about. No one at ASFS wanted the swap.

[Anonymous]

For as much criticism as I recall seeing here of people calling for the swap, I don’t remember seeing all that many people actually advocating for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

It shouldn’t but there was a push to swap ASFS and Key to protect home values around Key if both ASFS and Key became neighborhood schools. I highly doubt that home values around Key would plummet if that had happened but nonetheless that was the big campaign when moving Key was on the table (of course, it was presented as “move ASFS to keep our community together” even though the whole community would have been together but just at the Key building).

What are you talking about. No one at ASFS wanted the swap.

This exactly. No one gave two shits about the science lab or home values. It was about keeping Courthouse/Rosslyn/Clarendon/Lyon Village at a neighborhood school (as they have for over 20 years).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

It shouldn’t but there was a push to swap ASFS and Key to protect home values around Key if both ASFS and Key became neighborhood schools. I highly doubt that home values around Key would plummet if that had happened but nonetheless that was the big campaign when moving Key was on the table (of course, it was presented as “move ASFS to keep our community together” even though the whole community would have been together but just at the Key building).

What are you talking about. No one at ASFS wanted the swap.

This exactly. No one gave two shits about the science lab or home values. It was about keeping Courthouse/Rosslyn/Clarendon/Lyon Village at a neighborhood school (as they have for over 20 years).

Kind of feels like a story Cherrydale started telling to make them look bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

They won’t. Families from Rosslyn and Courthouse need to let go of Science Focus and start lobbying hard for some other neighborhood program at Key or else they are going to end up at Taylor.

Moving key is going to look so bad. Disrupting a diverse student body and handing it to rich white families.

So zoning out the 20% farms kids at asfs to a one hour bus ride to Taylor won’t? And I’m not exaggerating about the one hour bus ride— there’s a kid on my bus who gets picked up from Taylor forty minutes before the rest of us in Rosslyn (and the bus only has two stops) before dropping us all off at asfs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

They won’t. Families from Rosslyn and Courthouse need to let go of Science Focus and start lobbying hard for some other neighborhood program at Key or else they are going to end up at Taylor.

Moving key is going to look so bad. Disrupting a diverse student body and handing it to rich white families.

Not really. The school is no longer attractive to native Spanish speakers as property values around it have soared. It's having a lot of trouble getting native speakers. Like, 4 English speaking applicant to every native Spanish speaker, who are increasingly likely to be middle or upper middle class, if they lie in that area. Moving it to where there are actually low income Spanish speaking students who would benefit from a diverse school and UMC parental involvement and PTA muscle - namely, south Arlington, is overdue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

They won’t. Families from Rosslyn and Courthouse need to let go of Science Focus and start lobbying hard for some other neighborhood program at Key or else they are going to end up at Taylor.

Moving key is going to look so bad. Disrupting a diverse student body and handing it to rich white families.

So zoning out the 20% farms kids at asfs to a one hour bus ride to Taylor won’t? And I’m not exaggerating about the one hour bus ride— there’s a kid on my bus who gets picked up from Taylor forty minutes before the rest of us in Rosslyn (and the bus only has two stops) before dropping us all off at asfs.

Given that Taylor is currently 4% FARMS, isn't this exactly the kind of thing so many people advocate for to balance socioeconomic diversity in APS? The new ASFS would draw from current Glebe, Ashlawn and/or Long Branch, which have current FARMS rates of 18%, 19% and 35%, respectively, in addition to Taylor, so it's not like the move is likely to make ASFS suddenly 2% FARMS.

[Anonymous]

Nottingham will strongly favor drawing the 2021 boundaries now. So will Reed. Will keep either of them from turning into option schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nottingham will strongly favor drawing the 2021 boundaries now. So will Reed. Will keep either of them from turning into option schools.

Maybe we should stop assigning motives to things that haven't happened, hmm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Current ASFS don’t want change because they are still lobbying APS to kick Key out so they can move ASFS to Key in 2021.

Why would APS move ASFS to Key?

It shouldn’t but there was a push to swap ASFS and Key to protect home values around Key if both ASFS and Key became neighborhood schools. I highly doubt that home values around Key would plummet if that had happened but nonetheless that was the big campaign when moving Key was on the table (of course, it was presented as “move ASFS to keep our community together” even though the whole community would have been together but just at the Key building).

What are you talking about. No one at ASFS wanted the swap.

This exactly. No one gave two shits about the science lab or home values. It was about keeping Courthouse/Rosslyn/Clarendon/Lyon Village at a neighborhood school (as they have for over 20 years).

Create a Rosslyn island. Keep their community together and bus them to Reed. Straight shot right down I66.