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

[Anonymous]

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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.

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students? Wow. In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students? Wow. In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.

What have you read about boundary changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students? Wow. In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.

What have you read about boundary changes?

There haven't been any proposed boundary changes yet. I assume PP was talking about demographics? Curious where you would find alternative info; mine is base in living in Rosslyn.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students? Wow. In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.

What have you read about boundary changes?

There haven't been any proposed boundary changes yet. I assume PP was talking about demographics? Curious where you would find alternative info; mine is base in living in Rosslyn.

As for demographics, the closer you get to ASFS, the less diverse you get. So if they are shifting and shrinking the boundary then diversity will fall. I can't imagine what else she "read" to dispute this.

[Anonymous]

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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

To do this they'll have to push some of the current Long Branch students to the new school at TJ. Long Branch is bursting and, unlike other schools, their tiny site does not allow them to add more trailers to handle over capacity. I realize having a trailer park at your school stinks but at least other schools have a place to put the trailers.

That was always the plan. There are planning units that are south of 50 currently zoned to Long Branch. They're going to get moved to the new school.

So two new schools, and re-zoning for all eight will happen within a year or two? Yeah no problem that's obviously not gonna happen.

Rezoning process for all ES's will happen in the Fall. It's not just the new TJ school and (future) Reed and fixing the Taylor/ASFS issue but also the move of Montessori out of Drew will impact boundaries further south. That's going to be quite the ordeal to watch!

Where is the new destination for the Montessori program?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

To do this they'll have to push some of the current Long Branch students to the new school at TJ. Long Branch is bursting and, unlike other schools, their tiny site does not allow them to add more trailers to handle over capacity. I realize having a trailer park at your school stinks but at least other schools have a place to put the trailers.

That was always the plan. There are planning units that are south of 50 currently zoned to Long Branch. They're going to get moved to the new school.

So two new schools, and re-zoning for all eight will happen within a year or two? Yeah no problem that's obviously not gonna happen.

Rezoning process for all ES's will happen in the Fall. It's not just the new TJ school and (future) Reed and fixing the Taylor/ASFS issue but also the move of Montessori out of Drew will impact boundaries further south. That's going to be quite the ordeal to watch!

Where is the new destination for the Montessori program?

It's moving into the old Henry building when that school community moves to the new building at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students? Wow. In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.

What have you read about boundary changes?

There haven't been any proposed boundary changes yet. I assume PP was talking about demographics? Curious where you would find alternative info; mine is base in living in Rosslyn.

As for demographics, the closer you get to ASFS, the less diverse you get. So if they are shifting and shrinking the boundary then diversity will fall. I can't imagine what else she "read" to dispute this.

I would think diversity, especially including Latino students, would increase. That would be a good thing in my view.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students? Wow. In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.

What have you read about boundary changes?

There haven't been any proposed boundary changes yet. I assume PP was talking about demographics? Curious where you would find alternative info; mine is base in living in Rosslyn.

As for demographics, the closer you get to ASFS, the less diverse you get. So if they are shifting and shrinking the boundary then diversity will fall. I can't imagine what else she "read" to dispute this.

I would think diversity, especially including Latino students, would increase. That would be a good thing in my view.

Why do you think it would increase? The highest concentration of Latino students is far from the school. They will likely be moved to another school when the boundaries change.

[Anonymous]

Is there a concentration of Latino students that could walk to ASFS? If they're going to have to be bused somewhere, it seems to me that it's more important to make their destination a school they want (because of the program or the concentration of students like them) they how they get there; a fifteen-minute bus ride isn't that different from a 20-minute bus ride, at least from the students' perspective. I realize it might be harder for parents to get to school, either to pick up from extended day or for other events at school.

[Anonymous]

The ASFS program should be moved to S. Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ASFS program should be moved to S. Arlington.

More likely it would be mirrored there. Is that sort of what was going on at Hoffman-Boston?