the Key/ASFS building switch...

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09/21/2018 15:19

Subject: Re:the Key/ASFS building switch...

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Anonymous

That's not what I was saying. ASFS was a neighborhood school/team hybrid and Key was a hybrid of sorts, too, being both an option and a neighborhood school. If you lived in the Key zone, you had guaranteed admittance to either school. I have seen comments that people are angry that they don't still have those guarantees, hence the "hogging" comment. The policy had to change, it was right for it to change, because kids should have equal opportunity to attend programs regardless of where they live. If they had made Key a purely neighborhood school last year, that would've meant moving immersion sooner. Is that what you are saying? They should've made the switch already? They can't both be option schools. To make ASFS the neighborhood school but keep Key countywide doesn't seem to make sense from a transportation perspective. They'd have to draw odd boundaries, increasing transportation costs, to make it work. If this were meeting some other objective, like balancing diversity, or maintaining access for Latino populations, it might make sense, but it doesn't appear to do either of those things. I suspect the one-time cost of moving the program is lower than the ongoing cost of keeping it where it is. I don't think they're doing this for sh**s and giggles.

Transportation costs for which set of students? Moving Key to ASFS will require an extra bus to bus the current 40 Key walkers to ASFS. Although moving ASFS to Key "appears" to create a bigger walk zone (because technically, all of Lyon Village should be able to walk), they won't move the Lyon Village PUs along Kirkwood from Taylor. Because if they did that, it would move almost 200 new students into ASFS which means moving out 200 of the "current community" which would be devastating and contradictory to Dr. Murphy's justification for the swap-- remember, this swap is all about keeping ASFS' current community together! So they get rid of 1-2 busses for the Planning Units right around Key, which means they save approximately one bus by this swap. The Rosslyn and Courthouse/Clarendon PUs will still have to be bussed because of Wilson, Clarendon Blvd and Lee Hwy. Just keep the schools where they are, or move the Key program and have two neighborhood schools. It's ridiculous for the taxpayers to pay for a swap when it does nothing to address the capacity issues in the area (made evident by APS' repeated statements that it will still need to move current ASFS PUs after the swap is done). Move or swap Immersion with a school that will allow Immersion to thrive, not die. And as much fun as we like to make of the ASFS' science lab-- a lot of money and time went into building that lab in that space. Whether it is the holy grail of science labs, I don't know, but it would be a shame to rip it all (or partly) out just to appease the "current" ASFS community. Leave it where it is--ASFS can pick a new focus when it moves or rebuild with their "community" but we, the taxpayers, should not have to foot the bill for this nonsensical plan of APS.