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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First they are going to look and see if their option schools are in the right place- of if the option schools need a neighborhood boundary.  (This Spring)  They have been very careful to say that this look will not include looking at which option schools should go where.  
 In doing so (my prediction) is that they will decide that Key should have a neighborhood boundary, and ASFS should be option.
They will then flip the schools.[/quote]

I have a hard time believing the Board would swap out all the students/staff/specific facilities of Key and ASFS. That's a much larger - and expensive - undertaking than what it seems on the surface. There's been years of discussion & planning to move the Montessori program into Patrick Henry. I haven't seen anywhere near that level of talk about Key.[/quote]
Why?  Montessori requires specific classroom configurations.  Does immersion require that?  Asfs is a run of the mill school, there isn't anything specific there other than the science lab and investigation station which wouldn't be movable anyways.  [/quote]

Ok, but Key has about 750+ students. It's already over capacity in a larger building. You want to move it to the smaller ASFS, which is built for 550 kids? [/quote]
They can control the size of the immersion program.  They can't control the size of the key neighborhood.  It makes sense to have the larger school building be the neighborhood school.  Otherwise you're saying a county wide program is more important than the needs of that neighborhood (rosslyn/courthouse/Clarendon).   The  key asfs zone is the part of the county that the county board actively eliminated parking in in order to promote a car free diet.   You get rid of key, none of the other north Arlington schools are walkable at all except for asfs.   Bussing those kids to discovery or even Taylor (which means parents without a car can't pick up from extended day), goes completely contrary to all the planning done for decades to make that area car free.  
Maybe immersion goes to Taylor.   Asfs absorbs the Taylor units near it, and units it can't accommodate go to Jamestown.  [/quote]

That makes sense. [/quote]

Which is why they'll never do it.  :lol: [/quote]

Hahaha. Exactly! 
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