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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And rather than saying "hey, here is a school that is creating this great environment for all of these kids, let's try to build on that and do MORE of that over the county" these a-holes criticize the school and ultimately will remove the diversity and ruin a good thing. You are shooting yourself in the foot. [/quote]

As a former ASFS parent I agree with you that diversity is one of the schools' strengths though it has become less SES diverse over time. How do you propose to replicate this in the county without either major boundary changes or busing?

The sad reality is that the team concept that created ASFS is broken and many ES are overcrowded.  Given these two facts, admission to ASFS has to change in one way or another. And if it's going to become a neighborhood school it should serve its actual neighborhood.[/quote]

I'm in Courthouse up by Lee Highway. If ASFS becomes local to the houses surrounding it (fairly logical), where are my kids supposed to go if I don't want bilingual education? There are no walkable schools. I don't actually care at this point because my last kid is in the upper grades and this won't affect us, but they should have stopped allowing transfers in from anywhere that wasn't right nearby (e.g., Jamestown kids go to Jamestown, and northern Taylor go to a Taylor). ASFS is a lovely neighborhood school, and it just needs some boundary adjustments and no more "teaming". The big mistake was made when ASFS/Key wasn't included in the boundary redraw exercise.[/quote]

No there was no capacity issue at key or ASFS until school board made this  abrupt and hawk decision to import a huge new population into the key school via lottery. And aluminate neighborhood preference. There wasn't a lot of excess capacity, so it would not of helped the overcrowded schools like Taylor, so it made sense to exclude it from the process. But now they are going to be importing and an almost an entire new elementary School population into the same two schools. So will have capacity crisis until they get around to redistricting.[/quote]

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