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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, technicalities and formalities need to be followed.  They either did or did not comply with the procedural requirements.  It’s not enough to comply in spirit. [/quote]

It really comes down to whether or not it falls under the Boundary policy. If it does, obviously the rules were not followed. However, it appears that it really isn’t a boundary change. There are no lines being changed, just the location. I think there will be another push to move immersion further west when Reed opens, but this is legal and will be enough to buy time to redraw S Arlington. I also think there will be an effort to change some wording in the policy to prevent this from being used again in the future.[/quote]

exactly- this is about buying time.  This is kind of stated in the report too- they note that they have being beseiged all summer by ASFS parents with strongly held differing views about how to draw an appropriate boundary around ASFS.  They can't make the South Arlington boundary process about ASFS for two reasons- 1) they need to focus on South Arlington and 2) it ties their hands too much for when Reed comes on line.  
Also- they can't see a solution wherein Key stays where it is.  There is no practical way to draw a boundary around ASFS that would include the eastern rosslyn high FARMS units.  That's okay if they are going to Key- but they are not right now, (there are a lot more languages in those FARMS units that just Spanish), and they don't want to ship them to Taylor or Long Branch.   
They may end up with both ASFS and Key as neighborhood schools- but there is value in making clear that the Staff has no plans to leave Key where it is.  [/quote]

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