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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swap in 2020. The rest of us can't take a whole additional year of these temper tantrums.[/quote]
Seriously!  I don’t even understand while aps felt the need to publish the memos that prompted this thread!  Let’s just accept this and move on, I’m really sick of neighborhoods being pitted against one another.  Though I guess in this case it’s different people in the same neighborhood.[/quote]

oh I'm really glad they published it.  It laid out a rational coherent explanation for why they are planning the swap.  It had a lot of information to counter the disinformation that I'm sure they knew was coming.  It provides a counter to the 'lyon village is rich and has to much sway with the staff' rhetoric we are hearing.  It showed transparency.  I actually can't imagine how it would be better if they hadn't published it.[/quote]

It's going to be nothing but a headache for the next three years-- the whole "this keeps most of the ASFS together" line that APS is feeding everyone is such a misnomer.  There are already more students currently attending ASFS than the Key building can hold after you take out the two classrooms needed to try and recreate the science lab. That doesn't include all the current Key folks who will stay at the current building (b/c they can walk/familiarity, etc.) regardless of which program is there.  More importantly,  the 200 Lyon Village kids who currently go to Taylor are within 1/2 mile with no major streets to cross-- APS cannot justify bussing those kids to Taylor when they can easily walk to the Key building.  So what does this mean?  It means that the "new" ASFS at the Key building will be nothing more than Lyon Village's neighborhood school -- and many of the fringe folks (who believe this swap was their savoir) will still be bussed to Taylor and Long Branch.  And why move the "whole program" before the boundary change-- all that is going to do is royally piss off the over 1/3 ASFS  population that has to move to the Key building in 2020 and then move to their new "neighborhood" school in 2021.  So again, great for Lyon Village but sucky for everyone else. [/quote]

Every elementary school is going to deal with some people being zoned out and others being zoned in over the next few years. You are not so special that you should be exempt. The swap reduces the number of students who will be rezoned out or in.[/quote]

Actually, no.  There are several elementary schools who will not have new boundaries drawn and several others who are being boundaried out to attend a brand new school.  This is a very different situation that what you describe.  But hey, who cares, Lyon Village is taken care of and that's all that matters.  We all know that.[/quote]

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