APS elementary planning initiative called off

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

The county board has already nixed APS use of the Buck property other than for bus parking and storage for the foreseeable future. And even if they did agree to it, the buildings aren’t even properly equipped to house students, there are no classrooms and no money to renovate the buildings to create them.

Buck ain't happening folks ... wake up and smell the CIP

Trailers, lots of trailers in the Buck parking lot.

cray cray is back
absolutely, eat lunch at police impound lot too; great ideas

No kidding. Especially when you consider that this is being offered as a somehow better solution for Rosslyn than going to Taylor, which is about the same distance from Rosslyn as the Buck site.

Long Branch and Hoffman-Boston are certainly viable options for Rosslyn if people don't like Taylor for whatever reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

[Anonymous]

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.


The Courthouse/Clarendon/Rosslyn parents are currently advocating to kick out current administrative transfers (i.e. the kids who walk to ASFS) and prevent any new/future walkable students from attending ASFS all so they can avoid being rezoned to Long Branch, which is actually closer to many of them. Hence, the desperate pleas and name-calling on this board re: the Cherrydale parents.

I get it, they currently live in an area where APS told them they were guaranteed admission to ASFS. Now they are being told that their school zone may change. It sucks. Just like it sucks for everyone else who has kids who will get rezoned in 2019 or 2021. But to imply people are “cra cra” or racist or hate poor people because they want to walk to the neighborhood school that’s in their neighborhood is just mean-spirited. APS created this situation with its option schools and the old Team model. They screwed this up, not the Cherrydale or the Rosslyn or the Courthouse parents.

Boundaries will be redrawn. Some children will go to a different, but nonetheless, great school. In five years, most everyone on this board bitching about elementary boundaries will be in middle school. Life will go on and we will all survive.

[Anonymous]

The words “neighborhood” and “walkability” make me cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not an ASF parent, but walkable families deserve a walkable school. The status quo is plain stupid. Rosslyn busers can be bused elsewhere or go to key. Move along there is nothing to see here.

Buses anywhere? That’s ridiculous, why should they have to have a much longer bus ride than any current Taylor student?

And they can’t go to key, that was the decision that made this mess. Why don’t you keep up.

Why are they more entitled to a seat at ASFS than kids who can see it from their backyard?

The same reason Lyon village can’t just claim Key school — it’s in use and needed by another population of APS students. No different.

Except it is different - Key is an option/lottery only school now, and ASF is a neighborhood school. Rosslyn folks are close to several neighborhood schools. They should go wherever it makes the most sense for them to go. If it made sense for them to continue going to ASF, APS wouldn’t have needed to get rid of the team boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.

But why? What is wrong with either Taylor or Long Branch? I’m so baffled by this whole thing, it’s batshit even by APS standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.

But why? What is wrong with either Taylor or Long Branch? I’m so baffled by this whole thing, it’s batshit even by APS standards.

+1

What’s so bad about going to Taylor or Long Branch? Rosslyn parents cannot be this fanatic over ASFS, can they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

They paid the dues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

That should table it until 2021 so we won’t have to go thru this again in 2021. Even if they do it now, if they are rezoning neighboring schools it will come up.

+1

It doesn’t make sense to do this until other options (Key) open up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

They paid the dues?

Apparently the whole story is made up garbage, so don't bother trying to analyze it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.

But why? What is wrong with either Taylor or Long Branch? I’m so baffled by this whole thing, it’s batshit even by APS standards.

+1

What’s so bad about going to Taylor or Long Branch? Rosslyn parents cannot be this fanatic over ASFS, can they?

There is nothing wrong with those schools and if that is how things shake out that’s fine BUT if APS is going to open a new neighborhood school at Key then we shouldn’t move those PUs to another school next fall. That kills the best option — neighborhood school at Key which is a great solution and seemed very likely before everything was put on hold.

Cherrydale can wait a couple more years for a neighborhood school - it’s been this way for many years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.

But why? What is wrong with either Taylor or Long Branch? I’m so baffled by this whole thing, it’s batshit even by APS standards.

+1

What’s so bad about going to Taylor or Long Branch? Rosslyn parents cannot be this fanatic over ASFS, can they?

There is nothing wrong with those schools and if that is how things shake out that’s fine BUT if APS is going to open a new neighborhood school at Key then we shouldn’t move those PUs to another school next fall. That kills the best option — neighborhood school at Key which is a great solution and seemed very likely before everything was put on hold.

Cherrydale can wait a couple more years for a neighborhood school - it’s been this way for many years.

As an outsider to this, I think you'd be a lot more sympathetic if you didn't include the gratuitous dismissal of Cherrydale's interests here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.

But why? What is wrong with either Taylor or Long Branch? I’m so baffled by this whole thing, it’s batshit even by APS standards.

+1

What’s so bad about going to Taylor or Long Branch? Rosslyn parents cannot be this fanatic over ASFS, can they?

There is nothing wrong with those schools and if that is how things shake out that’s fine BUT if APS is going to open a new neighborhood school at Key then we shouldn’t move those PUs to another school next fall. That kills the best option — neighborhood school at Key which is a great solution and seemed very likely before everything was put on hold.

Cherrydale can wait a couple more years for a neighborhood school - it’s been this way for many years.

As an outsider to this, I think you'd be a lot more sympathetic if you didn't include the gratuitous dismissal of Cherrydale's interests here.

Who is looking for “sympathy”? What do feelings have to do with effective use of APS resources?

Anyway, we’d all like a walkable school. Nothing special about Cherrydale interests there. If other families can wait for that then so can they.

They can live with status quo for a little longer until we work out the best plan for the area. It’s stupid to rush boundary changes just to appease this small group of parents if it disrupts the overall solution in the end.

I want them to have a walkable school. More importantly, I want a comprehensive solution that puts the schools where we need them - and optimizes walkability/proximity for as many students as we can.