ASFS Boundary Change -- Any insight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

A few things.
1. Welcome to the world of massively overcrowded APS schools. McKinly and Oakridge feel your pain.
2. Key and ASFS change will not happen in a bubble. There will be redistricting and balancing all the way around. The ASFS families are acting as if this is a change that will affect only two schools, but it won't. There is going to be lots of shuffling, and hopefully a more equitable balance across the entire county, both north and south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

A few things.
1. Welcome to the world of massively overcrowded APS schools. McKinly and Oakridge feel your pain.
2. Key and ASFS change will not happen in a bubble. There will be redistricting and balancing all the way around. The ASFS families are acting as if this is a change that will affect only two schools, but it won't. There is going to be lots of shuffling, and hopefully a more equitable balance across the entire county, both north and south.

ASFS is *already* more crowded that Oakridge and McKinley. Only Claremont and Henry are more crowded.

[Anonymous]

Capacity #s:
http://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Capacity_Utilization_FallProjections17-26_Final_Web.pdf

[Anonymous]

Wah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

Changing the boundary will decrease diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

Changing the boundary will decrease diversity.

Will decrease diversity at ASFS and increase it at another Arlington ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

A few things.
1. Welcome to the world of massively overcrowded APS schools. McKinly and Oakridge feel your pain.
2. Key and ASFS change will not happen in a bubble. There will be redistricting and balancing all the way around. The ASFS families are acting as if this is a change that will affect only two schools, but it won't. There is going to be lots of shuffling, and hopefully a more equitable balance across the entire county, both north and south.

1) so because they screwed up before we give them a pass? And this will far exceed those disasters if redistricting is delayed -- why not do the change and redistricting at same time?

2) yes the key lottery change did happen in a bubble; they haven't touched the new boundaries. That's exactly the problem.

3) you betcha SF will be way less diverse after this, too bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

Changing the boundary will decrease diversity.

I don't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

Changing the boundary will decrease diversity.

I don't think so.

Yes it will - the more diverse portion of the population is on the outer fringes of the existing boundaries. If they readjust the boundaries to a closer walk zone around the school, it gets richer and whiter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

Changing the boundary will decrease diversity.

I don't think so.

Yes it will - the more diverse portion of the population is on the outer fringes of the existing boundaries. If they readjust the boundaries to a closer walk zone around the school, it gets richer and whiter.

The more diverse population part is in Courthouse and Rosslyn. They will probably still be in the neighborhood zone for ASFS, but not Key (as that will fall off as an automatic guaranteed option).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone coherently explain what it is that has some ASFS parents so concerned? I don't understand the petitions.

By abruptly removing boundary preference for key, the zoned population for ASFS the neighborhood school DOUBLES. Grandfathering means it will trickle in, but if boundary rezoning is delayed it will end up at 800+ kids.

Also they want a walk zone like any neighborhood school, and must wait for it despite being abruptly classified as neighborhood school

No idea why comprehensive plan for key and ASFS was not in place prior to lottery change for key.

Yeah. But that would increase diversity st ASFS, right?

Changing the boundary will decrease diversity.

I don't think so.

Yes it will - the more diverse portion of the population is on the outer fringes of the existing boundaries. If they readjust the boundaries to a closer walk zone around the school, it gets richer and whiter.

The more diverse population part is in Courthouse and Rosslyn. They will probably still be in the neighborhood zone for ASFS, but not Key (as that will fall off as an automatic guaranteed option).

Those are the kids who get busses now. If they move the boundaries to make it more walkable, they would drop off and increase the kids from Lyon Village and Cherrydale. More white, more $$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes it will - the more diverse portion of the population is on the outer fringes of the existing boundaries. If they readjust the boundaries to a closer walk zone around the school, it gets richer and whiter.

The more diverse population part is in Courthouse and Rosslyn. They will probably still be in the neighborhood zone for ASFS, but not Key (as that will fall off as an automatic guaranteed option).

Those are the kids who get busses now. If they move the boundaries to make it more walkable, they would drop off and increase the kids from Lyon Village and Cherrydale. More white, more $$.

The ASFS kids in Lyon Village also get a bus. If you add the western part of LV to the SF zone, couldn't you move the LV kids someplace else, given that they're on a bus anyway? Not sure who would take them -- "Affluent white kids! We got affluent white kids here! Gitcher white kids!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes it will - the more diverse portion of the population is on the outer fringes of the existing boundaries. If they readjust the boundaries to a closer walk zone around the school, it gets richer and whiter.

The more diverse population part is in Courthouse and Rosslyn. They will probably still be in the neighborhood zone for ASFS, but not Key (as that will fall off as an automatic guaranteed option).

Those are the kids who get busses now. If they move the boundaries to make it more walkable, they would drop off and increase the kids from Lyon Village and Cherrydale. More white, more $$.

The ASFS kids in Lyon Village also get a bus. If you add the western part of LV to the SF zone, couldn't you move the LV kids someplace else, given that they're on a bus anyway? Not sure who would take them -- "Affluent white kids! We got affluent white kids here! Gitcher white kids!"

That's insane science focus is the closest school why wood you buds them somewhere much further