APS Elementary Location Working Group 4/12

[Anonymous]

The notion that the county would force an immersion school with a high-ish FARMS rate to move locations boggles my mind. What a repulsive thing to do. Key is a great community. Why should they be forced to move to a smaller, less accessible building? Seriously. If this is true, what are these pro-move people thinking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched the meeting the other night. The ASFS boosters seem to be on the verge of obnoxious to me. It was all about how great the school is and avoidingbtraffic in their precious neighborhood. At least the Key and Henry Fleet families advocated for the entire school populations and focused on diversity and keeping the school populations together. ASFS was all about the amazing science program that only they should get to have/ keep.

Since all neighborhood schools are becoming “STEM” schools can ASFS share its curriculum/approach with any other APS school who want it?

Alternatively, share the ATS and Campbell programs as well.

There is no initiative to make all neighborhood schools "STEM." There was an idea for a future vision of our system in which neighborhood schools would all be "STEAM" - but since nobody in Arlington will let any real change happen, that idea seems to have been dropped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The notion that the county would force an immersion school with a high-ish FARMS rate to move locations boggles my mind. What a repulsive thing to do. Key is a great community. Why should they be forced to move to a smaller, less accessible building? Seriously. If this is true, what are these pro-move people thinking?

Because APS has to decide whether the priority is sufficient neighborhood seats with lottery schools where there’s room or whether these lottery lucky-ticket programs get first preference.

[Anonymous]

Key was ASFS’s neighborhood school for years, and vice versa. Shared boundary. Those who chose ASFS said no thank you to immersion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The notion that the county would force an immersion school with a high-ish FARMS rate to move locations boggles my mind. What a repulsive thing to do. Key is a great community. Why should they be forced to move to a smaller, less accessible building? Seriously. If this is true, what are these pro-move people thinking?

Because APS has to decide whether the priority is sufficient neighborhood seats with lottery schools where there’s room or whether these lottery lucky-ticket programs get first preference.

So basically, someone got upset that Key has more green space than ASFS does and said, well, let’s take that for ourselves?

[Anonymous]

Yes, so long as the parent-paid science lab goes with it. If campbell has to move, can it take the parent-paid wetland (and student labor)?

[Anonymous]

If this senseless switch happens, ASF should — nay, must — leave the pricey lab stuff behind for the benefit of the Key students. It’s the morally right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, so long as the parent-paid science lab goes with it. If campbell has to move, can it take the parent-paid wetland (and student labor)?

If Nottingham becomes option I’m taking back all of the books I donated to teachers and libraries. I want my brick from the courtyard and I don’t care if someone breaks an ankle on the resulting hole. I want the .5% of each flexible seating chair that was paid for by my PTA donation dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The notion that the county would force an immersion school with a high-ish FARMS rate to move locations boggles my mind. What a repulsive thing to do. Key is a great community. Why should they be forced to move to a smaller, less accessible building? Seriously. If this is true, what are these pro-move people thinking?

Because APS has to decide whether the priority is sufficient neighborhood seats with lottery schools where there’s room or whether these lottery lucky-ticket programs get first preference.

So basically, someone got upset that Key has more green space than ASFS does and said, well, let’s take that for ourselves?

No. In a few years, very few kids from keys neighborhood will go to key. Most will go to wherever the neighborhood school is since key is county wide. If it’s county wide, it shouldn’t matter where it is. If it does matter where it is, then bring back neighborhood preference and the shared boundary with a non immersion neighborhood school.
I think they should seriously rethink the enrollments and transfers changes they made last year. They created this mess. Is Abingdon getting as screwed as the people zoned for Asfs are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The notion that the county would force an immersion school with a high-ish FARMS rate to move locations boggles my mind. What a repulsive thing to do. Key is a great community. Why should they be forced to move to a smaller, less accessible building? Seriously. If this is true, what are these pro-move people thinking?

Because APS has to decide whether the priority is sufficient neighborhood seats with lottery schools where there’s room or whether these lottery lucky-ticket programs get first preference.

So basically, someone got upset that Key has more green space than ASFS does and said, well, let’s take that for ourselves?

ASFS cannot take the whole Key boundary anymore with a neighborhood walk zone. There is no where else for kids in Rosslyn to go. Immersion is no longer tied to the neighborhood because there is no more preference, and there are thousands of housing units currently being building in the Rosslyn to Ballston corridor. This has nothing to do with green space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this senseless switch happens, ASF should — nay, must — leave the pricey lab stuff behind for the benefit of the Key students. It’s the morally right thing to do.

Leave the freaking lab there if it makes it better. Who cares?! Rosslyn and Courthouse need those seats at Key. Every argument made by Key supporters to stay at Key is actually an argument for a neighborhood school. It used to be one, but it is not anymore!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this senseless switch happens, ASF should — nay, must — leave the pricey lab stuff behind for the benefit of the Key students. It’s the morally right thing to do.

Honestly the only people talking about that lab are the cherrydale folks who want asfs to stay where it is. That and the asfs principal and let’s not forget the investigation station teacher. Let’s see if I send in any paper towel rolls next time she asks for them!
No one I’ve talked to from the key neighborhood (Courthouse/Clarendon/Rosslyn) gives two shots about the lab. We just want the majority of kids who attend asfs currently to keep attending school together. Like every other neighborhood out there we just want to keep our neighborhood school. It’s just unfortunate since cherrydale decided it was theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this senseless switch happens, ASF should — nay, must — leave the pricey lab stuff behind for the benefit of the Key students. It’s the morally right thing to do.

Leave the freaking lab there if it makes it better. Who cares?! Rosslyn and Courthouse need those seats at Key. Every argument made by Key supporters to stay at Key is actually an argument for a neighborhood school. It used to be one, but it is not anymore!

Key can’t fit into asfs.

[Anonymous]

Option schools need to go away l

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, so long as the parent-paid science lab goes with it. If campbell has to move, can it take the parent-paid wetland (and student labor)?

If Nottingham becomes option I’m taking back all of the books I donated to teachers and libraries. I want my brick from the courtyard and I don’t care if someone breaks an ankle on the resulting hole. I want the .5% of each flexible seating chair that was paid for by my PTA donation dollars.

I want to keep my bubble!