APS elementary planning initiative called off

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Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

Did you see the part of the meeting where Reed asked why the acceptance numbers were so uneven when our model is supposed to be 50-50? Good times.

This is so dumb. Look at the census. Put the Spanish Immersion schools where the Spanish speakers live FFS, and trotting out four native speakers who do live near Key doesn't prove anything other than those four families live near Key. The data is the data.

If the rich white families living around Key don't want to slum it over in South Arlington, there will be others to take their place!

This may be the right answer, but they need to get better data first to confirm it. After all, those Spanish-speaking families clustered along Columbia Pike near Carlin Springs are roughly a mile from Claremont as it is, and yet they're not applying to the program in droves. What about a move to Carlin Springs, still a mile away just in a different direction, would fundamentally change that?

Right, because a lot of working class Spanish speaking immigrant families do NOT want their kids speaking Spanish in school. I shared this before, but my MIL's first language is Spanish and she refused to teach any of her kids Spanish because she wanted them to be as American as possible. I think it would be easy to send out a survey asking folks what their first language or household language is and then asking them if they would be interested in Spanish immersion.

And if yes, what are the current barriers to applying? Is it also wanting a neighborhood school? Is it not understanding the program/application process? Is it concern their children won't learn English as well? Is it concerns about how they'll get their kids to school if their one family car breaks down and mass transit isn't going to get them there efficiently for extended day? One of the biggest mistakes we've all (the staff, the board and the community) have been making all along has been assuming we know how other people think and feel rather than asking them how they think and feel.

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Anonymous wrote:Will the SB be able to fix the Key/ASF/Taylor boundaries in Fall of 2018 Elementary Boundary Process? It would great to give ASF a boundary that actually surrounds it. The Taylor zone could extend nicely into Rosslyn if needed.

No, sorry, that’s not going to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

Did you see the part of the meeting where Reed asked why the acceptance numbers were so uneven when our model is supposed to be 50-50? Good times.

This is so dumb. Look at the census. Put the Spanish Immersion schools where the Spanish speakers live FFS, and trotting out four native speakers who do live near Key doesn't prove anything other than those four families live near Key. The data is the data.

If the rich white families living around Key don't want to slum it over in South Arlington, there will be others to take their place!

This may be the right answer, but they need to get better data first to confirm it. After all, those Spanish-speaking families clustered along Columbia Pike near Carlin Springs are roughly a mile from Claremont as it is, and yet they're not applying to the program in droves. What about a move to Carlin Springs, still a mile away just in a different direction, would fundamentally change that?

The vast majority of current students at Carlin Springs (much more so than Randolph and also t han Barcroft) are spanish-speakers that live very close (Although not walkabe) to Carlin Springs. It's a norm in that community to send their kids there. They would need to create new norms and make the lottery application process as easy and accessible as possible, but would require less of a shift than sending their kids on a bus to Claremont further from their homes.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

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Anonymous wrote:Any possibility any of this is related to the possibility that Amazon is choosing Arlington and the CB and SB are concerned about even MORE kids in APS?

Sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

It will in 2020 or 2021. Sorry that bothers you.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

It will in 2020 or 2021. Sorry that bothers you.

If I had to guess, I’d push that date out to 2026, which is also a more realistic Reed opening date.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

It will in 2020 or 2021. Sorry that bothers you.

Not unless they reopen the elementary planning process later. The whole point of this thread is that for now it's been called off, leaving no plan to make Key a neighborhood school and raising the question of what kinds of boundaries they will draw this fall to accommodate all of the neighborhood students who can no longer go to Key. Try to keep up.

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I'm glad. My youngest child's last year of elementary school is next year so we weren't going to have anyone effected by the change so I thought I didn't care at all.

I have to say, when I went in to pick him up early last week, I looked around at all of the personal touches and got sad thinking this would all have to go. There were memorial benches, plaques, murals, paintings---so many school improvements done specifically for this program. A lot of sweat and tears over the years. I became very nostalgic and sad for the administration and teachers who made it special.

Plus, my kids just had really great experiences at this school so I am really glad to hear that the program will continue in place for now---even if the boundary changes--the spirit of the school will remain.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

It will in 2020 or 2021. Sorry that bothers you.

NP, I fervently hope so... but right now and during the boundaries this fall, it does not. Can they leave everyone in ASFS another year + walk zone? Otherwise they get into the moving 2x issue for some of the units if they make Key neighborhood later.

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ASFS will include a walk zone (even if it is a small one), and just bus some of the Rosslyn kids to Longbranch or the Clarendon folks to Taylor or Glebe. Makes no sense for APS to keep bussing kids (including the ones from Lyon Village) to ASFS, and then bus all the kids around ASFS out of the neighborhood. No need to do two bus trips when the Rosslyn, etc. kids can just stay on a bus for the same amount of time/maybe a couple minutes longer. Much cheaper and more efficient from a transportation standpoint.

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Anonymous wrote:ASFS will include a walk zone (even if it is a small one), and just bus some of the Rosslyn kids to Longbranch or the Clarendon folks to Taylor or Glebe. Makes no sense for APS to keep bussing kids (including the ones from Lyon Village) to ASFS, and then bus all the kids around ASFS out of the neighborhood. No need to do two bus trips when the Rosslyn, etc. kids can just stay on a bus for the same amount of time/maybe a couple minutes longer. Much cheaper and more efficient from a transportation standpoint.

It makes no sense but APS hasn't shown much track record in doing what makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

It will in 2020 or 2021. Sorry that bothers you.

If I had to guess, I’d push that date out to 2026, which is also a more realistic Reed opening date.

It's great to say stuff like this on an anonymous forum but no one has said anything about Reed opening in 2026. No one has said anything other than it continuing to open in 2021.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the kids in Rosslyn go to Longbranch? That’s a straight shot up 50 and closer?

Kids in Rosslyn will go to ASFS or neighborhood Key. Does something bother you about this?

Hi, neighborhood Key doesn't exist. Try again.

It will in 2020 or 2021. Sorry that bothers you.

If I had to guess, I’d push that date out to 2026, which is also a more realistic Reed opening date.

It's great to say stuff like this on an anonymous forum but no one has said anything about Reed opening in 2026. No one has said anything other than it continuing to open in 2021.

Sent too soon. In fact the school talk release just included a paragraph that says:

The Superintendent added that APS may need to revisit the option of adjusting some elementary neighborhood and option school locations in the future when APS begins the community process to adjust boundaries and create a new attendance zone for the new elementary school at Reed that will open in September 2021.