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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]no not really - all the swap does is move about half of the school together
the other half (who probably are unaware) will be going elsewhere once they actually do a swap and many of the current families who APS thinks they are pleasing will be gone on to middle school.  what a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.  to gain 50 seats (40 of which not really gained bc current walkers of Key will take those spots because we already know people like to walk to school) because we know loosing at least 50 create anything close in comparison to that current science lab; so net gain 10 seats for all this hassle.  and an incredibly white school to show for it.  that's what we need, another white rich NA school.  great idea APS!  [/quote]
So I’m 90% sure this person is a troll.  The lab can be made smaller.  Or they can just get rid of it— I’d rather see more worthwhile science enrichment time be spent in their regular classrooms than having an hour in a lab where they do meaningless activities like draw pictures about the weather.  
Pp is right that there are over 100 Taylor kids moving to asfs because they are in keys existing walk zone.  The key building has 100 more seats though, and zoning out 100 kids is in no way as bad as it would have been if the school stayed where it was.  There were 250 kids that needed to move to keep asfs where it is.  As other people have pointed out, a few units will have to leave but it’s not the 80% of the school that would have had to leave otherwise.
Also I’m not sure why people think that the existing key students wouldn’t stay with the program if it moves to the asfs building.  The key and asfs buildings are a little less than a mile away from each other.  You’re saying that immersion isn’t worth an extra two minute bus ride (since most kids at key are bus riders anyways), or an extra ten minute walk.  If people are saying they only picked the location because it was convenient, as a tax payer,[b] I’m not sure why we are spending money on it[/b].[/quote]

You are spending money as a taxpayer on a per pupil basis.  This is the same regardless of what type of seat.  Option seats are same cost as neighborhood seats.  Comments like this clearly show ignorance.  People don't even understand our program yet are quick to pass judgement on what should happen to it.  Our program at Key disproportionately benefits ELL children as they achieve higher academic success as a result of Immersion and our program requires 50/50 split and moving it to ASFS does not help this.  But no one cares about our community, that is very clear from APS's post after post about how great this is for ASFS kids.  What a sham![/quote]

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