ASFS Boundary Change -- Any insight

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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

To make room for the kids who can actually walk to ASFS once it becomes a neighborhood school.Those students have been bused to Taylor for years while LV has been bused to ASFS. Makes no sense. Since many LV students have to be on a bus no matter what ES they attend why not bus them to Discovery or Jamestown where there's space.

[Anonymous]

"Much further"? It's Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Much further"? It's Arlington.

+100

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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

To make room for the kids who can actually walk to ASFS once it becomes a neighborhood school.Those students have been bused to Taylor for years while LV has been bused to ASFS. Makes no sense. Since many LV students have to be on a bus no matter what ES they attend why not bus them to Discovery or Jamestown where there's space.

Ah I see it's the Lyon Village hater who has been peeved that SF went her neighborhood school. Now she wants penance to make those LV students to drive past their former neighborhood school out to Taylor. I'm sorry you are still closer to Taylor than the LV folk so you may stil have to be bused -- LV will go to SF. Look at Ashlawn crazy boundary, just how it is.

Some of Rosslyn may go to Long Branch, but Clarendon and Cherrydale will end up at SF which includes lyon village.

[Anonymous]

Hi. I live in the part of LV that is zoned for ASFS, and I think we should be zoned for something else.

I also think that schools should not allow parent dropoffs under ordinary circumstances. You want a walkable neighborhood school? Fine. Walk there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

To make room for the kids who can actually walk to ASFS once it becomes a neighborhood school.Those students have been bused to Taylor for years while LV has been bused to ASFS. Makes no sense. Since many LV students have to be on a bus no matter what ES they attend why not bus them to Discovery or Jamestown where there's space.

Ah I see it's the Lyon Village hater who has been peeved that SF went her neighborhood school. Now she wants penance to make those LV students to drive past their former neighborhood school out to Taylor. I'm sorry you are still closer to Taylor than the LV folk so you may stil have to be bused -- LV will go to SF. Look at Ashlawn crazy boundary, just how it is.

Some of Rosslyn may go to Long Branch, but Clarendon and Cherrydale will end up at SF which includes lyon village.

11:07 here and not sure if you are calling me the LV hater but assume you are. I am not "peeved that SF went her neighborhood school" especially considering my DCs attended ASFS. I live 3 short blocks from ASFS so, no, I don't think my planning unit will be bused to Taylor once ASFS becomes a neighborhood school. Not even sure how to make sense of the last part of your final sentence.

Some people in LV are getting unhinged at the thought that they may not be able to attend ASFS.

[Anonymous]

I'm in Lyon Village. My kid is too old to be affected by this, but he went to Key, I'm sorry to be losing the Key assignment (though I definitely understand why), and I would be perfectly fine being zoned to Taylor. (I am a named guardian for younger children, so hypothetically I could have children going there, but I know I'm not really affected by this.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi. I live in the part of LV that is zoned for ASFS, and I think we should be zoned for something else.

I also think that schools should not allow parent dropoffs under ordinary circumstances. You want a walkable neighborhood school? Fine. Walk there.

I want to agree, but you'd need to define ordinary. I love that we live 4 hilly blocks from our school, but unless I'm working from home, we do drive to drop off. Why? Because it's inefficient for me to walk DS to school, turn around walk home, change into work clothes, and then drive past the school to go to work. The walkable part is good in that it means we live near the school and his classmates, walking is an option on days when we are home or when he's in 5th grade and can walk himself, it does allow us to sleep a bit later instead of catching an earlier bus. Unfortunately, the daily walk part isn't a good option for us despite being fairly close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

To make room for the kids who can actually walk to ASFS once it becomes a neighborhood school.Those students have been bused to Taylor for years while LV has been bused to ASFS. Makes no sense. Since many LV students have to be on a bus no matter what ES they attend why not bus them to Discovery or Jamestown where there's space.

Ah I see it's the Lyon Village hater who has been peeved that SF went her neighborhood school. Now she wants penance to make those LV students to drive past their former neighborhood school out to Taylor. I'm sorry you are still closer to Taylor than the LV folk so you may stil have to be bused -- LV will go to SF. Look at Ashlawn crazy boundary, just how it is.

Some of Rosslyn may go to Long Branch, but Clarendon and Cherrydale will end up at SF which includes lyon village.

I really hope this isn't true. My kid starts at Taylor this fall and has a lot of good friends from her preschool who will be there as well. I don't know why the poster above thinks that all of us in Cherrydale who are currently zoned for Taylor want to go to ASFS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi. I live in the part of LV that is zoned for ASFS, and I think we should be zoned for something else.

I also think that schools should not allow parent dropoffs under ordinary circumstances. You want a walkable neighborhood school? Fine. Walk there.

I want to agree, but you'd need to define ordinary. I love that we live 4 hilly blocks from our school, but unless I'm working from home, we do drive to drop off. Why? Because it's inefficient for me to walk DS to school, turn around walk home, change into work clothes, and then drive past the school to go to work. The walkable part is good in that it means we live near the school and his classmates, walking is an option on days when we are home or when he's in 5th grade and can walk himself, it does allow us to sleep a bit later instead of catching an earlier bus. Unfortunately, the daily walk part isn't a good option for us despite being fairly close.

Four! Hilly! Blocks!

I think APS is not going to solve its problems as long as people are unable to distinguish between "not the best thing for me" and "not a reasonable policy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi. I live in the part of LV that is zoned for ASFS, and I think we should be zoned for something else.

I also think that schools should not allow parent dropoffs under ordinary circumstances. You want a walkable neighborhood school? Fine. Walk there.

I want to agree, but you'd need to define ordinary. I love that we live 4 hilly blocks from our school, but unless I'm working from home, we do drive to drop off. Why? Because it's inefficient for me to walk DS to school, turn around walk home, change into work clothes, and then drive past the school to go to work. The walkable part is good in that it means we live near the school and his classmates, walking is an option on days when we are home or when he's in 5th grade and can walk himself, it does allow us to sleep a bit later instead of catching an earlier bus. Unfortunately, the daily walk part isn't a good option for us despite being fairly close.

Four! Hilly! Blocks!

I think APS is not going to solve its problems as long as people are unable to distinguish between "not the best thing for me" and "not a reasonable policy."

+1,000,000

Your convenience is of no concern to me, nor should it be to anyone making policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Much further"? It's Arlington.

+100

Do you drive? In traffic? Ever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Much further"? It's Arlington.

+100

Do you drive? In traffic? Ever?

Give me a break. Such a tired excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi. I live in the part of LV that is zoned for ASFS, and I think we should be zoned for something else.

I also think that schools should not allow parent dropoffs under ordinary circumstances. You want a walkable neighborhood school? Fine. Walk there.

I want to agree, but you'd need to define ordinary. I love that we live 4 hilly blocks from our school, but unless I'm working from home, we do drive to drop off. Why? Because it's inefficient for me to walk DS to school, turn around walk home, change into work clothes, and then drive past the school to go to work. The walkable part is good in that it means we live near the school and his classmates, walking is an option on days when we are home or when he's in 5th grade and can walk himself, it does allow us to sleep a bit later instead of catching an earlier bus. Unfortunately, the daily walk part isn't a good option for us despite being fairly close.

Four! Hilly! Blocks!

I think APS is not going to solve its problems as long as people are unable to distinguish between "not the best thing for me" and "not a reasonable policy."

+1,000,000

Your convenience is of no concern to me, nor should it be to anyone making policy.

I get it, I do. However, the no drop-off thing, besides the efficiency aspect for most working families is also completely unenforceable. Are they going to check license plates "Oops, sorry Larla. You live in the walk zone, so you can't get out of your car. Brayden over there, he lives a mile away so we'll let that car pull up and drop him off." Our school can't even enforce the no u-turn over the double yellow line in front of the school, how on earth can they reasonably sort out which cars can drop off and which can't.

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I get it, I do. However, the no drop-off thing, besides the efficiency aspect for most working families is also completely unenforceable. Are they going to check license plates "Oops, sorry Larla. You live in the walk zone, so you can't get out of your car. Brayden over there, he lives a mile away so we'll let that car pull up and drop him off." Our school can't even enforce the no u-turn over the double yellow line in front of the school, how on earth can they reasonably sort out which cars can drop off and which can't.

No. Brayden gets off a bus. And I'm sure the ACPD could use the fundraising from issuing citations to cars that stand in a no-standing zone or park in a no-parking zone. Or we could use the money to hire more crossing guards.

And if the school asked them to enforce the no U turns, would they really not enforce it?